tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10506214.post232082505988644690..comments2024-01-23T13:41:41.463-05:00Comments on The Forager Blog: Movie Chat: The TransformersJon Hastingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01030406521787423155noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10506214.post-58562133967406519592008-10-26T23:33:00.000-04:002008-10-26T23:33:00.000-04:00I drawn the nicest transformers characters in sing...I drawn the nicest transformers characters in singapore.I wish you can come and see my drawings and put in the movie!And i am now 10 years old.I love drawing new characters of tranformers!(ult_r@live.com).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10506214.post-64388917762395926632008-04-08T00:08:00.000-04:002008-04-08T00:08:00.000-04:00I cant believe the adding was missed to the clip o...I cant believe the adding was missed to the clip of the cop car transformer when it first started chasing the boy and not smashing the concrete pillar at that split second because the intensity of that clip was perfect in my opinion and would have made the movie many millions more if it had been added.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10506214.post-58796198343079125162008-04-07T23:18:00.000-04:002008-04-07T23:18:00.000-04:00I think it was a great movie but there was one cli...I think it was a great movie but there was one clip that if done correctly would have gross the movie millions more because the intensity at that split second would have been 10 fold.The clip iam talking about was when the cop car turned into the transformer and started running after the boy if the transformer would have smashed the concrete pillar it would have been perfect and made millions more.It would have been just as perfect as the clip of the 2 transformers fighting on the freeway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10506214.post-43549968875622845582007-12-09T11:27:00.000-05:002007-12-09T11:27:00.000-05:00Jon: I think the difference is: Sam Raimi threw ev...Jon: I think the difference is: <BR/><BR/>Sam Raimi threw everything into the pot.<BR/><BR/>Michael Bay threw everything into the pot, and then <I>deep-fried the pot</I>.<BR/><BR/>I still can't believe that Orson Welles' last role was as Unicron. As much as I want to be all contrarian and post-modernist about "what is art" and all, it's still super depressing to think about. But I guess if you have to play a cartoon robot, that's the one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10506214.post-16728969748499341462007-12-09T08:12:00.000-05:002007-12-09T08:12:00.000-05:00Nick - All good points. I don't like to dogpile o...Nick - All good points. I don't like to dogpile on Bay, if only because I prefer his attitude towards this kind of movie than those of a lot of other big budget filmmakers.<BR/><BR/>James - Agreed re: Phantom Menace. The dog, well: yeh - it's goofy, but I think Bay does a better job of throwing everything into the pot than, say, Sam Raimi did in Spider-Man 3.Jon Hastingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01030406521787423155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10506214.post-34725956733108316652007-12-03T19:28:00.000-05:002007-12-03T19:28:00.000-05:00I completely agree about the pace of the action se...I completely agree about the pace of the action sequences. It reminds me a little bit of the climax of "The Phantom Menace": there's a point of diminishing returns with regard to on-screen speediness. If you cannot follow what the characters are doing, then all that money you're spending to wow them is going to waste.<BR/><BR/>also: <I>why have the dog with a rhinestone collar and a cast?</I> For some reason that really annoyed me. I imagine Michael Bay saying, "Hey guys, I guess I should give the hero a pet... Hmm... okay, a dog, people like dogs... um, but it cannot be a manly dog... um... I know! I'll make it a wacky little dog! (sees concept art) No! No, damn it! 300% wackier! Do it again!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10506214.post-27063692096004402422007-12-01T13:39:00.000-05:002007-12-01T13:39:00.000-05:00Let's further distinguish the charm of SMALL SOLDI...Let's further distinguish the charm of SMALL SOLDIERS from that of TRANSFORMERS:<BR/><BR/>Like GREMLINS and the 'BURBS, SMALL SOLDIERS is a suburban horror story - Dante's specialty. The notion of "abnormal" invading "ubernormal" is Dante's bag. <BR/><BR/>Because TRANSFORMERS is set in LA it doesn't really benefit from this juxtaposition. When you're making a movie like this, but setting it in a metropolis, the mayhem needs a very particular tone in order to seem like, well, mayhem...as opposed to an urban invasion movie, which is what TRANSFORMERS more accurately serves up. The jokes in Dante's New York set GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH, for example, find witty ways to invade a metropolis. I know gremlins and small soldiers are tiny invaders and TRANSFORMERS are big, but still, where there's a will, there's a way...maybe setting TRANSFORMERS in Red Rock or somewhere that has more space? <BR/><BR/>Another differentiating factor: the best gag in SMALL SOLDIERS is that the creepy bad guy alien toys are the good guys and the soldiers are bad. Adding to this twist, surviving actors from THE DIRTY DOZEN and Tommy Lee Jones voice the warmongering soldiers and the SPINAL TAP guys do the aliens. TRANSFORMERS just doesn't operate on this level. It's a series of inoffensive uninventive set pieces. It's charmless. <BR/><BR/>Like The Forager, I have fond memories of TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE. <BR/><BR/>I was more into GI JOE and STAR WARS toys, because you could collect masses of characters for the price of one Transformer toy, but I watched the cartoon pretty religiously. The scale of the movie was awesome and really upped the stakes. Multiple major character deaths, Ultra Magnus (voiced by Robert Stack)cursed and inventive new character types emerged: The Quintessons, Sharkticons and Junkions, as well as Orson Welles' Unicron character--obviously inspired by Marvel's Galactus, but who cares--made this a movie experience rather than a TV episode extension. <BR/><BR/>Just the notion of the Junkions (lead by Eric Idle, this robots are live on a scrap heap junk planet and speak entirely in TV phrases picked up from satellite transmissions) has more wit that Bay's entire movie. Even the Junkion joke about the "universal greeting" ~ is fresh and unexpected, like a nod to zany 50s road movies or something...<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I'd rather watch THE IRON GIANT a DANTE movie or, hell, even *BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED before checking out TRANSFORMERS again.Bracciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05082951833947343434noreply@blogger.com