Isabel Lucas in TF2, huh? As Alice? Who's this Alice character? I don't remember reading about a character by that name... or maybe I just need to be online more often to keep up with things?

 

I'm curious about this too. I mean, I like almost everything related to TFs. I think every incarnation from G2 to Beast Machines to the current Animated brought something to the franchise, but apparently, that means I don't like TFs at all?

On a more serious note, can someone explain to me why I keep reading these threads? They're like brain posion.

 

Gods I hope they hired for a cat fight in the film because it would be nice if at least one fight wasn't all blurry shakey gritty cam and close up pointless busy bits. Then again they likely hired her to kill Starscream because she has stick with a nail in it or something.

Anyone though expecting anything than more of the same needs their mental health checked on. Bay has never grown as a director so don't expect him to wake up one morning before filming to be hit with what he does wrong as a director. Even if he was magically infused with talent beyound things going boom the people with money invested in the film aren't going to let him change the cash cow. They are just going to run the franchise into the ground on the third film like so many other franchises.

Guess we might as well have someone cute since we are likely to get flooded with a human cast again because you know everyone loves the secondary characters more than the characters the name of the film says. At least she's not a pile of walking scrap like the robots in the movie.

 

Hmm wonder how Alice will fit into the story. As long as she's not a hacker it's all good.
Can't wait for the second movie, the first one was great, in fact I'm more excited for the movies than I am Animated.

 

Why yes... yes we would.  

Also, I don't know what you people are expecting. It's a Michael Bay movie. You're going to get what you expect, and since the first piece of mind-numbing garbage made so much money, he probably isn't going to stray too far from the formula. We just need to watch it for what it is when it comes out, and stop complaining beforehand.

 

Riiiiight...Take Fast and the Furious. First one was different. No plot. All eye candy and boobs. All adrenaline. But even the dumb american movie goers got tired of all that crap with the 2nd one. Now its a DVD bench warmer. I can't believe someone is defending Hollywood's business model of churning out the same crap with the same storylines. I initially thought they underestimated US intelligence but now I think that the US as a whole has degenerated to the lowest common denominator.

 

Deceptikitty speaks the truth. Why people are complaining is beyond me. You get what you pay for and what you're paying for is a Michael Bay flick. There isn't going to be much deviation from his norm.

Just enjoy the flick for what it is, and realize it could be worse. Who knows, they might still surprise us yet as we still don't know what exactly any of the human characters will be doing.

Also, like someone else mentioned, it isn't safe to criticize the movie on these boards, since the minute you do, you're branded as a hater, so just go along and love everything MB, DM, SS, Paramount, etc. is throwing at us....it's saves us all from reading rants from BOTH sides.

 

1. I'm assuming no Megan Fox this time around, no? Is this Alice the new love interest to Spike (I still refuse to call him Sam)?

2. Let me see the robots take center stage this time, homie!

 

I 'd hit it.

 

Didn't Transformers just hit the DVD billion mark?

Yeah, must be an awful flick.

 

iron man is still going to be better than tf1 and 2 combined, urgh.

 

I don't have a problem with people citizing the movie. As much as I personally enjoyed it, I have a few complaints of my own. What I have a problem with is all the ranting that it needs to be a perfect translation of an 80s cartoon in order to be good. That Starcream needs to have a winy voice, and there can be no humans ever (even though the movie takes place on Earth). I love G1 too, but if I saw those robot designs in CGI and on the big screen, I'd be too busy laughing to take the movie seriously. It just doesn't work the way some fanboys want it to, for many, many reasons.

And just to clarify since I can't really translate my tone with text. I'm not meaning any disrespect to anyone's opinion. You're welcome to love or hate the movie as much as you want. But please, try to understand, this film is not G1, and not everyone's first exposure to the wonderful world of Transformers was with G1.

Thank you for your time.

 

Dude, completely understand what you're saying. You're one of the few who can take people criticizing the movie without taking it personally. It just seems that people are allowed to bash on other who dislike certain aspects of the movie.

I think it's just better to realize that considering this is a MB/DM flick, it could be worse and enjoy the films for what they are, even if they don't do the TF's justice. That's what I did for the first one, and enjoyed it, even the really aweful parts, just because you have to, otherwise, you'll drive yourself crazy.

If these movies aren't "Transformers" to certain people, we have Animated, which has given the Transformers themselves more characterization and a much more cohesive story in a kids show aimed at children than G1 ever did, or a big budget MB Hollywood flick can ever hope to achieve.

 

Are people still complaining that the movie isn't G1 enough? Of all the complains from the first movie, I would think that one is irrelevant and hardly used now that we know what we're getting...and most have accepted the Transformer related changes.

I see the no more humans complaints being more of "oh more human casting news and not hearing ANYTHING about the Transformers that sucks". Of course we're gonna have humans, but in the minds of many, EVERY minor human role cast that is front-paged just makes the sequel...well not a sequel, but more of the original that most don't want to see. (Though the we're gonna get same old same old regardless so lets not fool ourselves here).

IMO know we're gotta get the same shit from Bay. First, cause it worked in the original. Second, Bay is no visionary director and the one sequel he ever did (Bad Boys 2) was a carbon copy of the first. In a morbid kind-of-way, I'm gonna enjoy hearing all the bitching when it comes to scene where Sam's parents move him into the dorm and they give him some new version of the "Sam's happy time" speech.

 

I don't really care. I mean she might be in the movie for like 2 seconds. I don't see why some people are getting riled up about humans in the movie already.

 

Arnie was right. We are destined to destroy ourselves with such self-loathing of our race in fiction.

 

 

Why are you guys getting so angry with her... she looks cute to me. And imho, cute girls and kickass robots (ps. and story) make a good movie  

 

Oh darn, Iron Man makes all the films from summer '07 look like crap.

Since Hollywood loves to just copy each other while still attempting to one up each other maybe some of Iron Man can rub off on other films so that we get clear effects shots. A bit too much to ask for the timing on the humor in the movie, but hey I guess one step at the time.

 

Comparing Iron Man to the Transformers movies is an insult to Iron Man.  

 

Alright, more camera fodder. Now the real question, what Decepticon is going to kidnap her?