high res transformer shots

For those with machines not capable of watching said material below, here's a few screen-caps of the action. Let me first say that these pics are about 1/100th as cool as the trailer itself. I had reservations when I first heard about the movie, and then more when it was a Micheal Bay project. When Spielberg announced he was chiming in, things got better, but the trailers didn't do much. This newest one (posted on May 12th I believe) dispells all that. If the movie is 2 hrs of this stuff that's in the trailer, it will blow everything away in 2007. If not, well at least there's the 10 minutes of Spiderman 3 that was actually good.


**Dial-up WARNING**


Unknown desert Decepticon chasing army dudes:





Jet (Starscream??) landing in the city causing some havoc (this scene was WAY cool!):





Optimus Prime and some bad dude (Megatron??) colliding on the freeway, ala Matrix 2....unbelievable. Really. The scale was too cool for school:





Day shot of Prime. Wish he was the simple red and blue of yester-year, but oh well, I ain't complaining. At least they got the original guy to do his voice (same with the Megatron guy!!!):





How oh how could they screw this up based on what they just showed us?? I guess anything is possible. I hope they make it ultra-violent, Rated R, everything...the works.....don't dumb it down for the masses. Go ALL-OUT. They waited too long to make a GI Joe movie (impossible now), and they screwed up He-Man 2 decades ago. So other than CGI Smurfs or possibly Starblazers, this is Hollywood's last chance at a killer movie based on cartoons from my childhood that I actually watched.

Great shots, I have a few rebuttals to your comments about the pictures:


1. The first picture is of Scorpinok (Decepticon)

2. The second picture is Starscream (great shot)

3. Third picture is Optimus and Bonecrusher


Also, they didn't get the original voice actor to do Megatron, Hugo Weaving (Mr. Smith from the Matrix) is voicing him) and they are going for a PG-13 rating. Hope that helps



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"The apparent explanation for the departure from his gun form is that director Michael Bay does not want to include any sort of size changing in the transformations, with the writers describing it as cheating."


OK, I'm going to give Michael Bay some credit for this. The constant scale-changing is something that always bothered me about the Transformers, and I'm glad to see that finally addressed.

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Agreed, the most powerful Decepticon needed to be held by one of his disciples in order to cause ruckus



Excited to see me?



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These monstrosities bear absolutely no resemblance to the classic characters.

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They're certainly as close as they need to be. Why would you want a new movie to feature robots that transformed into '80s looking objects, anyway?


Let's be honest, the original cartoon had some glaring issues. Optimus Prime's disappearing trailer and Megatron transforming into a gun that had to be fired by his second in command are just a few.


This movie won't be perfect. It's Michael Bay so it will have it's fair share of cheesey, forced emotional moments.


This movie will be fun, however. I'm looking forward to seeing some cool robots that realistically transform into cars, trucks, tanks, jets and helicopters. That's really all I'm expecting.