Optimus, I love you
I just saw the latest trailer for the Transformers movie.
This shit looks ... fantastic. Seriously. Absolutely blow-you-out-of-the-building fantastic. As mouserobot once said, I want the Transformers to break everything, and then break Earth. This movie looks crazy-awesome in a balls-out action-adventure CGI orgy.
And ... first full shot of Optimus Prime. RAWK. And the transforming noise is used. THE TRANSFORMING NOISE IS USED, people.
This is the perfect vehicle for Michael Bay: no need to focus on human stories, no need for real plot, just an excuse to shoot hot cars and jets and shit BLOWING UP -- what Bay does best. (Case in point, "Bad Boys II.")
And then to think that Steven Spielberg's whispering in his ear about all the action sequences ... and man he's good at that. (Case in point, the gorgeous, battle-riffic opening sequence in "Revenge of the Sith," which general word says he storyboarded.)
The slow-motion shot of a scorpion-like Decepticon leaping from behind a cloud of sandstorm after some soldiers RUNNING AND SCREAMING while his whirring pincer takes shape -- quickly, even in slow-mo. YES.
Josh Duhamel yells something along the lines of "NonononononoNOOOOOOO!" and then cutting to a jet (Starscream?) roars in, transforms into a robot and skids, shredding cars and MORE SHIT BLOWING UP.
Yeah.
This will be an IMAX experience, and I think I'll need earplugs. Bring it on, giant robots.
If this movie does well, will Robotech be far behind it?
This shit looks ... fantastic. Seriously. Absolutely blow-you-out-of-the-building fantastic. As mouserobot once said, I want the Transformers to break everything, and then break Earth. This movie looks crazy-awesome in a balls-out action-adventure CGI orgy.
And ... first full shot of Optimus Prime. RAWK. And the transforming noise is used. THE TRANSFORMING NOISE IS USED, people.
This is the perfect vehicle for Michael Bay: no need to focus on human stories, no need for real plot, just an excuse to shoot hot cars and jets and shit BLOWING UP -- what Bay does best. (Case in point, "Bad Boys II.")
And then to think that Steven Spielberg's whispering in his ear about all the action sequences ... and man he's good at that. (Case in point, the gorgeous, battle-riffic opening sequence in "Revenge of the Sith," which general word says he storyboarded.)
The slow-motion shot of a scorpion-like Decepticon leaping from behind a cloud of sandstorm after some soldiers RUNNING AND SCREAMING while his whirring pincer takes shape -- quickly, even in slow-mo. YES.
Josh Duhamel yells something along the lines of "NonononononoNOOOOOOO!" and then cutting to a jet (Starscream?) roars in, transforms into a robot and skids, shredding cars and MORE SHIT BLOWING UP.
Yeah.
This will be an IMAX experience, and I think I'll need earplugs. Bring it on, giant robots.
If this movie does well, will Robotech be far behind it?