Good video. Here's the referenced NYT article on watching West Side Story with Bay
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 July 2014 04:53 (nine years ago) link
That is a good video
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 11:34 (nine years ago) link
Iirc I've only ever seen the first of these, but I did read the comic and watch the cartoon and play with the toys and ... why would a giant robot even want to turn into a fucking car? What's the advantage?
a) because the toys came first and it was two toys in one and b) so they could disguise themselves on earth
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
Ebert again
This isn't a film so much as a toy tie-in. Children holding a Transformer toy in their hand can invest it with wonder and magic, imagining it doing brave deeds and remaining always their friend. I knew a little boy once who lost his blue toy truck at the movies, and cried as if his heart would break. Such a child might regard "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with fear and dismay.
― cardamon, Sunday, 6 July 2014 11:37 (nine years ago) link
I didn't even like the first one. monolithic pacing, wince-inducing one-liners, and too much delay in getting to the *real* destruction.
I admit I do enjoy reading the plot summaries on Wikipedia, more entertaining to digest it in bite-sized format in my Bay-less brain
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 July 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
I get the toy stuff, I just mean within the mythology of the movies etc. If you're a giant indestructible robot, why would you want to pretend to be a VW beetle? Disguise yourself on earth *from what*? Can't the bad robots tell which cars - or which, you know, giant robot dinosaur - is actually more than meets the eye.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 July 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/entertainment/new-transformers-movies-feat/index.html
;_;
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
I'm honestly surprised he didn't try something like this earlier
http://io9.gizmodo.com/according-to-the-last-knight-transformers-have-been-on-1795053150
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
hokay
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 10 May 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
still say the original was dire....one of the few times I fell asleep in the theatre at a 7 fucking pm showing
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 June 2017 05:36 (six years ago) link
eh, I have only seen the first one and it was such a trainwreck (except M.Fox maybe :) that I never bothered with the rest although I was so ready for nostalgia !that said, my mega robots nostalgia found a much better recipient with "Pacific Rim".I wish they would finally make that "Robotech" movie, though.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 23 June 2017 08:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2017/03/02/the-live-action-robotech-movie-still-lives-on/#314496267307
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 23 June 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link