[dktorode]

Message from Micheal Bay to...well...everyone

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Hey everyone,

In Japan today. After a month and half seven days a week most days going till midnight me and my crew have just about finished Transformers. I have never seen such a level of dedication from every crew member in a movie before.

Even today after the press in Japan and right before the premiere tonight, I have to sneak out to a digital house to approve the last few effect shots.

It has been a long hard road, but really fun one to travel. What you will notice that is strikingly different than Transformers 1, is the level of animation detail. The robot characters (42 in all), you really can feel empathy for them. What is also very different is the sheer scale of the movie. We have been very tight holding back much of the best imagery in commercials and trailers.

The way to see this movie is on IMAX. Never before has there been 4k rendered character animation shot on full IMAX 70 mm film. This is a first and the results are stunning. You will see Optimus Prime in a few shots where he is actually perfectly to scale on the IMAX 50 foot tall screens.

For IMAX, I created a slightly longer cut with more robot fighting. Four scenes were shot on IMAX cameras so the screen will fill the full IMAX screen for these scenes.

Haters beware.

Michael

wishes to GOD we had a IMAX in my city

This post has been edited by dktorode: 09 June 2009 - 10:32 AM

[Traveller]

Now THAT looks like it would be worth a trip into town.

[caladanbrood]

My cinema-working friend has seen this already, and apparently it is actually very good

[stone monkey]

I very much doubt that it what you could call a good film. Michael Bay is incapable of directing such an animal... It'll be lots of shit blowing up at sunset, fetishistic levels of US patriotism, fantastically dumb plotting and acting that barely passes muster as such... The usual Michael Bay nonsense; diverting for the time that it's running, but ultimately of no value.

[caladanbrood]

Alright then. Fun, not good

[Tiste Simeon]

IT FREAKING ROCKED!!!

Seriously, I loved it. Just got back from the midnight showing I was very impressed. Far more stuff happening in it than the first one, and Megan Fox has got hotter!

[aquamarinesea]

i liked the movie!

[Coco with marshmallows]

NON SPOILER REVIEW TO FOLLOW:

I really enjoyed it.

about a 7/10 or so in my book.

Pros:
Megan Fox is hot.
Big explosions.
Megan Fox is hot.
Silly plot - seriously, switch the mind off and enjoy.
Frank Welker does some voice work!
Megan Fox is hot.
Big ass robot smackdown all over the fricking place.
Oh, and Megan Fox is hot.

Cons:
Sags in the middle - when it tries to shoehorn in the ploy funnily enough
Couple of pointless comedy characters that pissed me off a little.
Occasionally REALLY cheesy bits.
Lost the wow factor - seriously, one of the big things about the first film was the thought - holy **** its a live action Transformers film!
rather like the Jurassic park sequels, the wow factor isn't there anymore. at least, not as much.

so yeah, overall a solid seven or so out of ten.

and p.s. - Megan Fox is hot.

[caladanbrood]

I heard that Megan Fox is quite hot. Did you notice that coco?

[Aptorian]

I'm going in to see it Monday.

There's a cinema where you can get to see the first one and the new revenge of the fallen after each other and you only need to pay 100 kr. It's going to be AWESOME

[Coco with marshmallows]

caladanbrood, on Jun 19 2009, 11:54 PM, said:

I heard that Megan Fox is quite hot. Did you notice that coco?

no, can't say that i did to be honest......



Megan Fox is hot

[Illuyankas]

I heard that some critics were giving it bad reviews because of how the humans were being overshadowed by the robots.

STUPID CRITICS THAT IS THE POINT

At least it guarantees it to be better than the first movie.

[Tiste Simeon]

Illuyankas, on Jun 20 2009, 12:45 PM, said:

I heard that some critics were giving it bad reviews because of how the humans were being overshadowed by the robots.

STUPID CRITICS THAT IS THE POINT

At least it guarantees it to be better than the first movie.

Well countering that criticism is easy. None of the robots were as hot as Megan Fox...

[Aptorian]

Cocoreturns, on Jun 20 2009, 11:46 AM, said:

caladanbrood, on Jun 19 2009, 11:54 PM, said:

I heard that Megan Fox is quite hot. Did you notice that coco?

no, can't say that i did to be honest......

Megan Fox is hot

Hey, Coco... you realise that she is a mutant, right?

[Illuyankas]

...she has other body parts?

[frookenhauer]

Eerily similar to Cat Deeleys bent nose...She's still hot though, but the thumb frightens me. And I found her to be hotter in the first movie. Bit too slutty in revenge for my liking.

The movie was okay. I'd give it a five, there were intense amounts of cheese and utterly unnecessary bits, but to balance that was some intense action and war scenes.

Spoiler

Super hot terminator style transformer was smokingly hot.

[Macros]

total dogshit.
]
The Wachowski brothers can breath a further sigh of relief. Now three massive franchises have been ruined by totally shit sequels.
Matrix - Pirates and now transformers.

Shit dialogue, sillyness, plot holes, sillyness, abysmal attempts at comedically humanising the autobots (yes I'm looking at YOU twins, fuck they annoyed me). Totally uneeded ancient piratey decepticon, sillyness, shit dialogue, plot holes, sickening amount of stupidity, shit dialogue, shitty attempts at comedy to lighten the load, comedy being used as a vehicle to carry the silly saggy shitty plot and storyline. A Badkinding creation of new bad guy. what the FUCK, did they get him invovled, seriously, it was that bad.

Pro's- Megan fox is smokin hot


but yeah, basically, If you don't want to ruin your childhood memories and a good film that was transformers, don't see this piece of crap. Go see that film about paint drying, its more entertaining

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Macros, on Jun 21 2009, 08:41 AM, said:

total dogshit.
]
The Wachowski brothers can breath a further sigh of relief. Now three massive franchises have been ruined by totally shit sequels.
Matrix - Pirates and now transformers.

Shit dialogue, sillyness, plot holes, sillyness, abysmal attempts at comedically humanising the autobots (yes I'm looking at YOU twins, fuck they annoyed me). Totally uneeded ancient piratey decepticon, sillyness, shit dialogue, plot holes, sickening amount of stupidity, shit dialogue, shitty attempts at comedy to lighten the load, comedy being used as a vehicle to carry the silly saggy shitty plot and storyline. A Badkinding creation of new bad guy. what the FUCK, did they get him invovled, seriously, it was that bad.

Pro's- Megan fox is smokin hot


but yeah, basically, If you don't want to ruin your childhood memories and a good film that was transformers, don't see this piece of crap. Go see that film about paint drying, its more entertaining

worse than terminator?

[Aptorian]

The movie was AWESOME!

Non spoilerific comments.

To get the negative out of the way, the opening is horrible and it completely over exposes the robots and bases the whole premise on a shit idea, a Transformer Corps hunting Decepticons with the US Army, that introduction should have been reworked. The Ending, which seemed to be an hour long and take for ever, was an awful mess of different ideas that were drawn out and used suspense of disbelief all the way through to make the whole thing work.

That said, holy crap the film was amazing. It's just a very well made parcel of funny characters, gigantic robots and over the top scenes. I cannot remember watching a movie in a cinema where people were "Oooohh'ing" and "Aaaahh'ing" and laughing so hard as they were in this one, perhaps with the exception of Austin Powers 2.

I think peoples main problem with the last one, besides the plot (which really hasn't improved), was the lack of robots and proper robot battles. Trust me when I tell you there's almost too many crazy robots and too many robot fights in this one. It's just all over place! Tiny creepy/funny robots, HUGE MOTHFUCKING AWESOME robots, space robots, alien robots, big and small, they're just all over the place. Optimus Prime has one particular fight scene that is so awesome I'm still in awe.

That may however also be one the films problems because while there are lots of titanic robot fighting happening, it's mostly just something in the background and seen from human perspectives, as the film is still mostly about the humans and how they act when thrown into giant robot fights. Megatron isn't used properly, the new evil guy doesn't get enough exposure at all, you only really get to see the Decepticons being awesome. It seems all the way through the film the decepticons are levels above the Autobots in versatility and skills. Which is a shame.

But god damn the film is funny and awesome. Just watch it for what it is, a big silly excuse for an adventure with lots of laughs and giant splodey stuff going on.

Spoiler stuff:

Spoiler

Good Stuff:

I loved the Old Black Bird Decepticon, while the English accent was weird, it was just a very funny, very cool transformer and as Macros mentioned above, a sort of Pirates of the Caribbean type quirky personality. The part where it farted and a parachute came out was hilarious.

Sound-wave and its small robots was, like, the coolest thing EVER! All the way through their scenes I was squealing with nerd glee.

Devastator, holy crap that thing was cool. It was completely underutilised, but damn it was cool. It was a bit unbelievable that the Twin Robot didn't just get turned to kindling when eaten, but holy crap the suction effect was sweet. Too bad we didn't get to see Devastator battle some other huge robot.

Sams Parents where hilarious. That whole college trip was so funny I nearly pee'd myself.

Bad Stuff:

So many plot holes:

Why are decepticons able to hide when they're always extruding high levels of a specialised type of radiation (which we hear in the first one)

Why didn't Sam turn over the piece of Allspark immediately?

Why doesn't the Allspark make everything else it comes by come alive when it activated all the kitchen appliances so easily? For example that whole plane hangar in the NASA complex could have been awesome.

Why are all robots made with the allspark immediately turned into warlike, angry little death machines? And why didn't they just shoot the crap out of Sam.

Where the hell did the Primes and the Fallen suddenly come from? It was such a sudden introduction, with so little foundation afterwards that it didn't really work. What was up with the robots being grown? Etc.

How on fucking earth could it take so fucking long from getting the secret robot thingy dust thing to reaching Optimus? Good thing the teleporting Decepticon wasn't just there to steal it or fucking Bumble Bee didn't just fucking drive Sam over there.

How come all the decepticons were fucking awesome but the Autobots could hardly muster a proper team? Where were the giant Autobots?

There's more points but I can add them later

[Macros]

Aptorian, you are wrong.
And I don't mean like oops I majored in philosophy wrong, I mean like shit I invested my retirement fund in Enron wrong.

This film was fail on every level, WORSE than T3(havent seen t4 yet).

Every bit where they tried to be funny pissed me off.
The "funny" robots were in a word, retarded. The old decepticon was in a word, retarded.
The only remotely funny bit was the mum scene, the rest made me want to shoot myself in the face after massacring the people in the cinema giggling or approving of the film