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Milky Moor posted:Wasn't Prime Arcee really well received? Hound looks pretty hardcore, if his toy is any indication. He's got a, uh, shitload of guns and stuff.  Three sets of pistols, a triple-minigun, and a knife. 
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Corek posted:It's like if Rob Liefeld designed a Transformers character. What does he transform into, a gun? 
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Feb 17, 2014 07:52
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The MSJ posted:Weird copyright law fact: Hasbro cannot use the word "transform" on their toy packaging, so Transformers "convert" instead.
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Mar 6, 2014 00:32
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I watched 'Armageddon' for the first time in like a decade last night, hooooooooooooly poo poo is that a movie. I didn't remember it being 2 and a half hours long, or being edited with cuts that last 1 second each. It's still an entertaining ride, but so much happens in its runtime that Armageddon makes any of the Transformers movies feel like a quiet meditation on the human condition by comparison. Like, Michael Bay shows an incredible amount of restraint in the Transformers movies compared to Armageddon, holy poo poo.
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Milky Moor posted:I feel like I've seen a very similar image to that Imax poster before, especially regarding the general design and stance of the Transformer depicted there. I'll be damned if I can place it, though.
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Mar 14, 2014 04:02
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I hope they did the smart thing and got Lance Henriksen to voice Lockdown, since he did in the cartoon and he was amazing.
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Mar 26, 2014 05:17
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A giant Transformer that literally eats planets? How could Michael Bay not feature it in one of the upcoming movies?
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Apr 18, 2014 06:45
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No Lance Henriksen for Lockdown ? A missed opportunity.
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May 10, 2014 05:56
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"It's a freaking space ship. Sweetie, hand me my alien gun." Is a legitimately funny line.
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May 31, 2014 06:26
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May 31, 2014 23:01
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The MSJ posted:They are not spoiling the Dinobot transformations yet, though, and Hasbro has already said that will happen.
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Jun 1, 2014 00:24
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There was an interview with him recently where he talked about car manufacturers banging at his door for the opportunity to have one of their cars be a Transformer in his movie, and how it was much, much harder to get car companies onboard for the first movie (which is why almost every car was a General Motors car). But he said the car companies all have the same demand: their Transformer can only be a good guy. He said that the only way he was able to talk Lamborghini into letting him use their car for Lockdown was by spinning it as "he's a mercenary, so he's technically not a bad guy". 
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Jun 5, 2014 00:01
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The MSJ posted:He is speaking a language capitalists understand.
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Jun 5, 2014 05:11
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Darth TNT posted:I've only had this for his Transformer movies. Car companies are weird about licensing stuff - in racing videogames, it's pretty rare to see licensed car games that have extensive damage models, because manufacturers don't like having their cars depicted as all smashed up. Some have gotten a bit more lenient in recent years, but the odds of seeing, say, FlatOut-levels of car damage in a Forza or Gran Tourismo game are real slim.
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Jun 5, 2014 12:48
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is only slightly disappointing because I was expecting dancing dinobots. CinemaSins is total unfunny spergfest garbage, but Honest Trailers can be pretty entertaining. Their "honest trailer" for Pacific Rim is spot-on and loving hilarious, and this is coming from someone who loved the movie.
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Jun 19, 2014 02:39
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Bloodnose, are the Dinobots given personalities (or even dialogue)? Or are they pretty much just rampaging metal beasts?
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Jun 22, 2014 16:17
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Bloodnose posted:The latter.
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Jun 23, 2014 01:14
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Gatts posted:You say this like it is a bad thing. I liked Bingbing Li.
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Jun 29, 2014 18:23
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Has CGI gotten more affordable over time? Computer technology prices always trend downward over time.
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The MSJ posted:VW did ease up a few years ago and okayed an officially-licensed Masterpiece Bumblebee toy. Bumblebee did turn into a VW in the World War II flashback in the latest movie.
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Aug 2, 2017 10:16
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Looks like he finally found LadiesMan217's glasses.
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UmOk posted:Talking about the transformer they wake at the flight museum. He has a Moses beard and staff and was a decepticon before being adopted by the Autobots. And he actually transports Sam to Egypt. I can’t believe I never made that connection.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:45
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Holy poo poo I just realized that Rambo 4 is a decade old.
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Mar 1, 2018 19:34
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The MSJ posted:You can't read a Marvel comic made with a weapons manufacturer but at least you can still buy a toy officially licensed by one. Reminds me of the time when CNN used a toy from the first Transformers movie to demonstrate how soldiers are protected against IEDs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAWP2uVd7M
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Apr 3, 2018 04:59
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Gatts posted:Is he to be F35? He was an F-22 in the first three movies.
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Apr 3, 2018 20:23
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Is the Bumblebee movie still supposedly gonna be R-rated? That sounded like bullshit but it would be hilarious. Hasbro would never allow it (although an R-rated Transformers espionage-thriller has the potential to be crazy in all the best ways).
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Apr 27, 2018 04:55
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I wonder if the prequel will acknowledge Bumblebee’s (totally awesome) Nazi-killing past, or if it’ll ignore it completely. “Beep boop I’m frightened of meaningful human contact, my only exposure to human culture has been curb-stomping fascists without remorse  “
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Jun 5, 2018 15:58
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mashed_penguin posted:I got to decapitate 7 robots working on it so that makes it the best transformers movie. Which 7? I mean I know the answer is “generic robot #577” but was it in any particular scenes?
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Dec 19, 2018 00:31
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Rhyno posted:I'm not sure if it originated elsewhere first but the Decepticon intros are incredibly similar to the driver intros in direct to dvd classic, Death Race 2. The latest Death Race that’s on Netflix does the same thing. Also the Decepticon intros bit was the best scene in TLK. Speaking of, the latest Death Race was shockingly coherent and *way* more gratuitously rated-R than I was expecting, and not just with violence and gore (although it had a lot of that, too). They also designed all new cars (unlike Death Race 2 and 3, which just re-used the cars from the first one), which was a nice touch.
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Dec 19, 2018 18:15
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No, Death Race: Beyond Anarchy, the third sequel to the Paul WS Anderson remake that had Jason Statham. I’ll defend the hell out of the remake, too. It had seriously excellent practical car carnage that went unmatched until Mad Max Fury Road. I mean, check this poo poo out: https://youtu.be/Lsy2voFnauA
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Dec 19, 2018 18:22
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Pussy Quipped posted:Has Bay ever explained why all of his Transformer movies seem to just wildly and inexplicably change aspect ratios, sometimes within the same scene? I don’t remember all of them doing it, just TLK.
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Dec 21, 2018 18:18
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Slutitution posted:It's really bad and noticeable in TDKR. It's hilarious how a jarring continuity error like that got passed Nolan. Yeah over time my brain just tuned it out in TLK. Like yeah if I kept my eye on the top edge of the screen it was mega-obvious, but with so much other random poo poo happening in the middle of the frame, my brain filtered it out.
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Dec 21, 2018 22:32
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The MSJ posted:Hahaha, check out there clever use of launching rockets in the background. Maybe I’m dumb but I don’t get it. 
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Dec 23, 2018 00:40
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The MSJ posted:The Last Knight set photo. I remember they made an action figure of Kroenen from 'Hellboy' in his Nazi regalia, complete with swastika. That didn't go over great.
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Dec 23, 2018 07:10
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The “befriend the humans” character in the original cartoon was Hound anyway.
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Donnerberg posted:I love it. It's like if Nolan and Burton made Batman movies at the same time. Aren't the DC movies pretty much doing that anyway? Between 'The Batman', the Jared Leto Joker movie (I know it's been canceled), the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie, and whatever's left of the DCEU, it seems like they're all over the map as well.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Still thinking about the time Optimus and the autobots pretended to leave/die so that the decepticons would invade and massacre an entire city just so Optimus could say “I told you so” If I remember right, that plot was ripped straight out of an episode of the original 80s cartoon. I mean I’m not trying to justify it, just that it’s accurate to the source material (and it’s funny that a kids cartoon would carry that kind of message).
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Captain Invictus posted:I love how optimus prime never transformed the same way twice I don’t think any characters did. As a toy collector the most entertaining part for me was that the movie people were given free reign to design whatever and use whatever alt mode they wanted, and then it got handed to the toy designers and told to “figure it out” and make it into a mass market toy that actually functioned. And they did it, and have continued to do it for 15 years straight.
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