New Transformers Movie

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No, it isn't some lame direct-to-video BeastWars affair, but a genuine effort by Hasbro to resurrect the original transformer models in an all new, live-action form! Here's the link:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=283

This news makes the kid inside me *really* happy. Especially since they're planning on keeping the  transformers looking like they used to. Awesome! that is, if they kind find the right mix of cast, story, and special effects.

So: do you welcome this effort with open (but cautious) arms, or should the powers-that-be leave well-enough alone?

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Will it be aimed at kids or adults? It certainly sounds childish. As long as its not REally bodgy like Powerrangers i suppose i dont mind. I was always more of a fan of Ninjaturtles anyway, Which is also being remade by John woo.

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Hmm well as long as it has a cheesy metal sound track I will be happpy.

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HAvnt seen you around lateley

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This is disturbing if true as it means Hollywood has sunk so low that they might(will) never recover. I mean what next a TellaTubbys movie?

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Preschoolers arent that profitable. When i get a Space armamda, first place im bombarding is LA. I'll destroy hollywood once and for all.
OH WAIT, I know ill blast the fautline thus cutting it off from the mainland and creating a highly amusing Escape from LA like situation.

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New stuff sucks. And old stuff is boring! Good entertainment is a difficult balance, that so far only the 80's have pulled off.

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Childhood memories surface at an alarming rate... 

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It would be great if they did it well. It could just end up like Final Fantasy or even Pokemon (*shudders*). Even if they say they'll keep to the original designs they'll still 'modern' it up just to get the kids in the cinema.

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Originally posted by The Names Nick:
This is disturbing if true as it means Hollywood has sunk so low that they might(will) never recover. I mean what next a TellaTubbys movie?

If your outrage is aimed at the idea of a Transformers movie in principle, there already was a movie made based on the series. More than one, in fact. It was pretty good -- any movie with Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, James Garner, Robert Stack and Eric Idle as voice talent is golden. And the soundtrack!

The main difference between that movie and this one will be that the first was animated, and this will be live-action.

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I have that on tape. I bought it from a pirate along with willow

"Dare, Dare to be annnnnd you can survive.
 You hold the Future in your Haand
 Dare, Dare to keep Allll Youuurrr Dreams alive
 Its time to take a stand
 You can Win If You DARE"
 

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You scoundrel! I have it on DVD. 

And the two Stan Bush tracks ("Dare" and "The Touch" ) rank among favourite songs of all time (alright, laugh at me  ).

Anyway, the main problem with the movie was the fact that all the decent Transformers got replaced by the new generation ones. Optimus was easily better than Rodimus.

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Yeah, that soundtrack rocked. They'll probably replace it with hip-hop or Blink 182 crap in the remake.

EDIT- I dunno about that Cyberknight, I always liked the new generation transformers. I love the transformations in the movie though, much better animated than the series.

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After all is sadi and doen
You never walk
You never run
your a winniner

We love you Stan Bush \m/

And if he is not on the new film sound track I will be thouroughly disappointed
After all Stan Bush still does stuff for the BotCon's

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By the way, did anyone else notice the nurse in "Insane in the Mainframe" was called Nurse Ratchet? 

I still preferred the originals, especially the leads. Megatron was so much better than Galvatron (yes, I know they're the same person but he just wasn't the same), Optimus was a much more noble leader than Rodimus, and I missed Starscream. 

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I hope they make a new Go-bots movie.

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Originally posted by Australian Guy:
Preschoolers arent that profitable. When i get a Space armamda, first place im bombarding is LA. I'll destroy hollywood once and for all.
OH WAIT, I know ill blast the fautline thus cutting it off from the mainland and creating a highly amusing Escape from LA like situation.

actually, Kids these days carry alot of money, so after you`re done entertaining them you may consider robbin um

as for a transformers movie, not worth my eyesight, on the other hand, if they were making a Beast Wars Movie, that could be kool, it was the 1st series to really use computer Graphics wisely, it made alot more sense too, that is, if you could understand it

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Originally posted by CyberKnight:
And the two Stan Bush tracks ("Dare" and "The Touch" ) rank among favourite songs of all time (alright, laugh at me   ).

You've got the touch!
You've got the poweERRR!

I love that song as well. In an 80s kistchy kind of way.

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Beastwars was pretty good, dint like the direction it went tho.

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Has anyone seen that new show Transformers Armada on Cartoon Network, man that show is gay......  I thought Beastwars was ok, but the sequel show was kind of stupid (BUT oh my we've got these graphics that take us 16 months to make!)

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Wait... is this The Touch song the same one "sung" by Mark Whalberg in Boogie Nights?

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Originally posted by Satan:
  if they were making a Beast Wars Movie, that could be kool, it was the 1st series to really use computer Graphics wisely,

What about the original Reboot, it was hardly breathtaking but at the time it came out it was pretty special.

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Originally posted by boingo2000:
Wait... is this The Touch song the same one "sung" by Mark Whalberg in Boogie Nights?

Quote from somewhere on the internet about Boogie Nights:

"It's said the date is March 1983 when Dirk sings "The Touch". But the song wasn't created until 1985 for the 1986 movie "The Transformers:The Movie" by Stan Bush."

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Originally posted by winna:
Has anyone seen that new show Transformers Armada on Cartoon Network, man that show is gay......  I thought Beastwars was ok, but the sequel show was kind of stupid (BUT oh my we've got these graphics that take us 16 months to make!)

The thing that makes Armada suck is that it "Pokemon-izes" the Transformers series. Suddenly the most imperative subject on the Autobots' agenda is collecting tiny robots. What a stupid concept.

Transformers: Gotta catch 'em all!

Don't make me vomit -- too late. 

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I got one of the comics of Transformers: Armada and I was impressed by the artwork but the story sucked. The original movie was dark and mature (ie. lots of swearing and violence) whereas this, as LAN said, just seems like pokemon. anything which has 12 year old kids as the main characters has to suck.

Back onto the movie, the best thing about that music has to be the main theme tune! Cheese taken to the extreme!

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Lol
[Pervert]Gotta Rape em All,Gotta Rape em All YeeeeaaaaaHHHH. Gotta Rape em All,Gotta Rape em All YeeeeaAAAAHHHH[p]

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I'm glad the movie's based on the original Transformers with the cars and the kick-ass planes that the robots transform into. I wouldn't be interested if's based on the gay Beast Wars or Armada series. Old school rules!

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I stopped following Beatwars, when that White tiger and falcon came along. It was good before they tried to have a Ongoing story line.

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Megatron must be stopped not matter the cost
do dod do doooo
You've you the touch

Hmm that's a point will it be Megatron or Galvatron?

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Hopefully Megatron.  It does say the original lineup.

Oy. I've just realised I'm now a twenty-something (well, twenty-zero  ), and fit into the nostalgia bracket  .

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Im, proud to say im part of the ninjaturtle generation. I missed transformers.

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Originally posted by Australian Guy:
Im, proud to say im part of the ninjaturtle generation. I missed transformers.

Thankfully, my childhood gracefully straddled both shows, so I experienced both! I never watched Thundercats, but I did watch He-Man. Only sometimes, though.

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 http://www.he-man.org/  lol i was never able to gigure outwhat this was about.

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Thuder thuder thudercat's ho
oh the gayness but to an innocent child it was fun.

Hmm I wonder if it would be genration 0ne Meagatron (the gun) or getneration two  (the tank) and if it is the gun will it have the groin trigger just like the toy?

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Bumped because of the ill-fated other thread.

It's pretty much sacrelige that anyone's letting Michael Bay touch anything that has both White Lion and Orson Welles associated with it.  Michael Bay seriously needs to die.  In such a way that he represents an object lesson to other directors.  I need his death to make everyone in Hollywood take a long look in the mirror and tighten their belts.

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Why does Michael Bay
Get to keep on makin' movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked
Just a little bit more than I...missed...you!

Sorry.  I blame insomnia.

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I was born 1984, so I don't remember the original Transformers series. I do remember the others though; Thunder Cats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, Go Bots. God, those were the days. Beast Wars was my favourite Transformers reincarnations.

The idea of a LIVE action movie dose not get my interest, the cartoon movie does (I have never seen the original Transformers: The Movie... no not the friut  ), but not a live one, it just dosen't feel right, it was like the Garfield movie or the idea of an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie... I have heard rumours 

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I was born in 1984 as well and I remeber the Transformers. I had a Optomes Prime figurine, he was mint as man.

Funny story,
when I used to watch Beast Wars, I went to check out the web site online, typed in www.beastwars.com  and got directed to an beastiality site. I was a bit perplexed why women were haveing sex with animals, might of typed "beastwhores" by mistake, but I doubt it.

Also, this was on the school computers. lol. Ah memories.

I'll have to see a preview or some story line/character sketches before I pass judgement.

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Wow this is a big bump for this topic but here goes nothing!

Ok here's some links to the New Transformers Movie
 http://www.transformersmovie.com/
 http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=23800

Enjoy!

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Originally posted by canned eggs:
Bumped because of the ill-fated other thread.

Yeah, that was my thread from around the time I joined