Transformers - 2007 movie (MERGED)

doubledown

It's just been confirmed by Paramount that Peter Cullen wil be doing the voice of Optimus Prime in the forthcoming film.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23937

Pigman II

I saw an episode of "Beast Wars" today for the first time. I had no idea how bad transformers *could* be until now!

Very worried about this film

monkeyfudge

Pigman II wrote:

I saw an episode of "Beast Wars" today for the first time. I had no idea how bad transformers *could* be until now!

Very worried about this film

There was one series of Beast Wars which was actually really dark and very good. It was set on Cybertron which was completley rulled over by Megatron.

madrab

Pigman II wrote:

I saw an episode of "Beast Wars" today for the first time. I had no idea how bad transformers *could* be until now!

Very worried about this film

same can be said about the takara series & the energon series

The_g-man

It's great to hear Peter Cullen is in, but it would be fantastic to know if Frank Welker is in too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Welker
Voice of at least half the decepticons.

sprinkles

doubledown wrote:

It's just been confirmed by Paramount that Peter Cullen wil be doing the voice of Optimus Prime in the forthcoming film.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23937

The first good thing I've heard about his movie. Perhaps I'll go to see it with my eyes closed..

lostexpectation

monkeyfudge wrote:

The most political it ever got was with the Republic of Carbombya which was a rouge arab state that was paying Trypticon barrels of oil so that he would steal world famous monuments from around the world.

It was in pretty poor taste.. ha.

ohmygod, it couldn't get any worse then that?? LOL, god knows what ya kids are watching

Carbombya is designed as a pastiche of Middle Eastern tensions that existed in the 1980s. Its name is a play on the term car bomb and Fakkadi's name is intended to invoke that of Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi. Residents of the country are heard swearing on the lives of their mother's camels, and so forth, in a stereotypical manner.

This did not go over well with longtime voice-over actor Casey Kasem, himself of Lebanese descent (and Druze heritage), who was supposed to provide Teletraan I's voice in "Thief in the Night," which was primarily set in Carbombya. He called for a change in the portrayal of Arab characters--and when no changes were made, he quit the show.

constitutionus

by the way, thought you lads would like to know its just been confirmed that peter cullen , the original voice of optimus prime, is doing the voice of prime in the movie. have to admit this is great news to me, at the very least it'll sound right

no word on frank welker but the buzz seems to be positive so fingers crossed

Vokes

We know, 8 posts back up

Would be fantastic if they get Frank Welker on board.

And then all we would need is for the guy who voiced Jazz + Orson Welles to do voices from beyond the grave

crybaby

transformers should be kept to animation because like every single other bloody comic book / animation series film in the past 10 years it will just be another disappointment

projectmayhem

crybaby wrote:

transformers should be kept to animation because like every single other bloody comic book / animation series film in the past 10 years it will just be another disappointment

spiderman
superman
x-men

they're not all disappointing tbh

monkeyfudge

Too bad the guy who voiced Starscream is dead as well these days... he was also the original voice for Moe Syzlak.

But someone did a very good copy of his Cobra Commander voice in a recent episode of Robot Chicken.

Pigman II

monkeyfudge wrote:

Too bad the guy who voiced Starscream is dead as well these days... he was also the original voice for Moe Syzlak.

Chris Latta. He was also the original Monty Burns.

sprinkles

rumours that the constructicons are tanks.... makes sense :rolleyes:

sutty

Theres only one constructicon in it. Thats Bone Machine. However he is a army mine detecter or something such

constitutionus

im no good at these links things but theres some footage on youtube concerning the film. its taken from "access hollywood" and features shia leging it from a decep whos scared the feck out of him (pre CGI so you just see him legging it and aload of cars flying out of the way of a pursueing decep) also the end of it shows some concept footage of the TFs themselves in a blink and you'll miss it clip. root it out its not bad (and shia looks really good as spike, alot older than i thought he'd be:D )

edit* jesus i never thought i could edit this, damn site went down again! if you wanna see the footage go to the youtube.com site and put "new transformers movie footage" in the search function. that should give you the access hollywood clip. also when finished put "transformers on mtv" in the search function and it'll give you another clip from mtv (duh) this one mainly concentrates on the human characters and gives you some tit bits on the more military aspects of the film. enjoy!:)

dricko

check this out.

http://www.transformersthemovie.com/video/cgitest.mov

projectmayhem

dricko wrote:

check this out.

http://www.transformersthemovie.com/video/cgitest.mov

fan-made cgi movie done by 3dbasphemy, not a screen test

projectmayhem

press thingy wrote:

Giant Freakin' Robots are coming.

It's here. Finally -- the word we've been waiting for. The announcement of ALL the TRANSFORMERS appearing in the film.

On Friday, 8/18, at 11am, the screenwriters - Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman - will announce the character names via a live webchat on Yahoo.

For fans, this is our chance to interact with the screenwriters, ask them questions via text and hear their answers live!

A live chat. With the writers. Of TRANSFORMERS. 'Nuff said.

On Friday morning, go to www.TransformersMovie.com for the link to Webcast!

See you online, everyone. Roll out.

nothing on the site yet. guess i have to wait for the americans to wake up

BlitzKrieg

and i'll just wait for you to name them all off here.

constitutionus

STILL nothing yet. damn yanks, cant just give a press release

RAIN

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24211

Pics from movie includig full frontel of bumblebee !!! how you like them apples ??!!!!

projectmayhem

Autobots
# Optimus Prime
# Bumblebee
# Jazz
# Ratchet
# Ironhide

Decepticons

Megatron
Starscream
Brawl
Bonecrusher
Skorpinok
Frenzy
Blackout
Barricade

Zapp Brannigan

Starscreeeeeeeeeam!!!

sprinkles

RAIN wrote:

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24211

Pics from movie includig full frontel of bumblebee !!! how you like them apples ??!!!!

Where's the pic?

TerrorFirmer

Decepticons are class but the autobots have the gayest names ever..."bumblebee", "jazz"??

Vokes

Blasphemy!

There shall be no slagging of Jazz - coolest Autobot, period


Err, but who are Blackout & Barricade? Can't remember them from the cartoon, or has my memory failed me.

monkeyfudge

Bumblebee is still a better name than Goldbug which is what he was called after he was rebuit due to being destroyed by Deaths Head.

sprinkles

constitutionus wrote:

STILL nothing yet. damn yanks, cant just give a press release

Love the sig.

Vokes

Wait....but wasn't Bumblebee rebuilt as Goldbug in the Return of Optimus Prime when he had his ass kicked because of the Hate Spores..?

constitutionus

difference between the comic and cartoon man. in comics BB got his ass handed to em by DH and was rebuilt (at least in the uk one, god help us he got blown up by GI JOE in the US :rolleyes: )

Theres a major ****storm going down now on the other board over the new design of starscream. i suggest you check out seibertron.com to see the images but be warned the damn things take ages (and ive got broadband!)

i'll admit i looked at this movie pretty much the same way i looked at beast wars and energon. its transformers but not as we know it. at least from the interviews the basic spirit of the characters are the same as the ones in the eighties and the fact cullen is voicing prime helps no end. lets be honest its a 140 million film, they'll want it to look as stylish as they can. i for one dont mind the more alien look, i think it fits with the concept of silicon based alien lifeforms,it'd be too much of a streatch to have em look exactly like blokes in fancy armour. by the way check out the character "blackout" though he's called incinerator in the pics. hes the damnest cool figure ive seen in ages and if memory serves hes the one attacking the military in the MTV clip.

some people have been bitching that were only getting 5 autobots but having read the IDW infiltraton comic a low cast number means we get more story. i mean think about it whens the last time jazz got some serious screen time? im really looking forward to this film now. in fact the only thing im worried about is PR overkill. bay and co said they didnt want to do a king kong and give away everything before the film hits the theaters so i hope they keep some characters under wraps

BlitzKrieg

soundwave?

constitutionus

not in the film. apparently they were gonna make him some kind of music device that when transformed was about 4 foot tall and the people in hasbro freaked so they turned that character into frenzy.

projectmayhem

constitutionus wrote:

not in the film. apparently they were gonna make him some kind of music device that when transformed was about 4 foot tall and the people in hasbro freaked so they turned that character into frenzy.

must be the ipod then *shakes fist*

Zapp Brannigan

constitutionus wrote:

not in the film. apparently they were gonna make him some kind of music device that when transformed was about 4 foot tall and the people in hasbro freaked so they turned that character into frenzy.

I remember reading somewhere that Soundwave was gonna be an iPod. Kinda glad they changed him out of the film tbh.

BlitzKrieg

I really didnt care what he transformed into...I liked him for two things.

1. He had those three smaller transformers in him (ratchet was the dog, cant remember the other two) the way he shoots them out of himself as tape cassettes.

2. His voice and by the books voice and character. It so matched the information/epionage role he played.

If they had kept those two features I wouldnt have minded if he transformed into something bigger and more appropiate to his size.

i'm trying to think of something big enough that would detach parts that can turn into a mini transformer...all i keep thinking of though is devastator.

constitutionus

weird that they made him frenzy though, when you think about it rumble got way more screen time (not to mention being a fairly good character, little punk was willing to take anyone on )

pity about soundwave, woulda been cool to see him being attacked by the army who think a lone transformer is easy then having him pop out cassette after cassete of transformers. the guys a walking one mech army! still the whole walkman thing doest work these days. ah well maybe in the sequel

monkeyfudge

BlitzKrieg wrote:

1. He had those three smaller transformers in him (ratchet was the dog, cant remember the other two) the way he shoots them out of himself as tape cassettes.

That was Ravage and he was a panther or some such.

Ratbat was always a favourite cassette tape of mine.

sprinkles

The toys look terrible. Prime looks awful. Why change something that's not broken.

And starscream....FFS. What are they doing. Are they trying to p*ss me off. Bay should be shot.

BossArky

As already mentioned, it is a pity that the person who did the voice of Starscream from the animated movie is dead. I can still hear him in my head, as I used to have the book and cassette version of the movie. Some freaky sounds on cassette used to mess with my young mind.

i.e the sound of the space and the Ultra Magus/Galvatron transforming.

Cannot wait for this movie, what a trip down memory lane this thread has been for the past 30 mins. That trailer on the US military base does make the whole film look a bit dodgy.... a recruitment / PR exercise for the military.

I used to have some toy of Starscream, by far the coolest of either Autobots or Deceptecons.

The Autobots are going to get a serious a$$ kicking without Hotrod unfortunately.

Zapp Brannigan

Hotrod was gay!!

BossArky

Slurms wrote:

Hotrod was gay!!

No way, he was the first robot to wear flares!

constitutionus

xanthor wrote:

It may have something to do with a 'Name save' in order to keep the rights to a name, Hasbro have to use a characters name on a regular basis.

There is a Rumble toy comming out next year as part of the Alternators line, (Honda Civic for those of you who are bothered - and it looks like it will be released here) so, Hasbro already have the rights to the name Rumble secured for a while...


Plus Frenzy was premdominantly blue, like Soundwave.


..........and before anyone chimes in and points out that the blue one was RUMBLE in the cartoon...... in the toy line, Frenzy was the blue one.

be interesting to see if he keeps his power. if memory serves frenzy was meant to be able to emit sonic waves which could either just deafen you or level walls depending on the need. be cool to see if all the characters have little things like that (jazz: sound and light show, ironhide: funky fluids ala liquid nitrogen, tar/glue, self igniting liquids) with so few autobots there should be occasion to spotlight it:D )

Zapp Brannigan

BossArky wrote:

No way, he was the first robot to wear flares!

And this makes him not gay, how?

BossArky

It makes him not gay in the same way that your inane statement made him gay in the first place.

Zapp Brannigan

BossArky wrote:

It makes him not gay in the same way that your inane statement made him gay in the first place.

Don't you try using logic with me!

monkeyfudge

Hot Rod is pretty gay alright.

The only female Transformer showed an interest in Hot Rod and he did nothing about it and Springer end up taking her away.

Hot Rod much rather hang around with an older man named Kup.

6th

monkeyfudge wrote:

That was Ravage and he was a panther or some such.

Ratbat was always a favourite cassette tape of mine.

I always liked the tape twins Rumble & Frenzy.

BlitzKrieg

monkeyfudge wrote:

Hot Rod is pretty gay alright.

The only female Transformer showed an interest in Hot Rod and he did nothing about it and Springer end up taking her away.

Hot Rod much rather hang around with an older man named Kup.

i thought he was a bit of a peadophile...he kept hanging around with that little kid. Taking him for rides etc (god knows what the gearbox is for a transformer)

monkeyfudge

Starscream was definitely a big queen as well.

"Megatron! You total bitch!"