Michael Bay did not rape my childhood. He just gave it steroids.

[kalquessa]

Many people have already reviewed the Transformers movie, and I really have nothing new to say about it, but I'm putting in my two cents because I have a new icon that needs showing off. So where to begin

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[prester_scott]

Sadly, Chris Collins, the voice of Starscream, died in 1994.

I'm told that Frank Welker, the original voice of Megatron, did audition for the movie, but his voice had changed too much and he couldn't pull it off anymore.

Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime) also played Ironhide in the TV show but obviously not in the movie.

[prester_scott]

A.K.A. Chris Latta. Also voiced Cobra Commander.

[kalquessa]

Aw, that's too bad about Collins. I'm not sure anyone else could contrive to make a giant robot sound petulant and somehow make it work.

I hadn't known that about Peter Cullen voicing both Prime and Ironhide, but thinking back I can hear the similarities. Good old Ironhide. I always thought of him as the Apostle Peter of Transformers.

[persephone_kore]

This sounds oddly fascinating. Is there any good way to explain it to someone who only has a very basic idea what Transformers is about?

[jehbii]

Optimus Prime has and always will win me over. This movie had me with Prime. It was no contest.

[rwarner]

I'm a Transformers Gen 1 purist (my friends say snob), I don't recognize anything after the whole "Return of Optimus Prime" deal of the original show as true Transformers, so while I didn't hate the movie like I had been expecting to, I also don't think of it as true Transformers. For that I have the old school Transformers: The Movie. As for this one...it was a Michael Bay movie with big transforming robots. That isn't a bad thing - the only Michael Bay movie I've disliked was Pearl Harbor. I do question if Spielberg actually had any input into the movie besides cold hard cash, because I didn't see any influence that I could attribute to him at all. I did like the use of Peter Cullen, and of course the line during the Megatron-Prime battle that was lifted right from the classic, "One shall stand, one shall fall."

I guess my end feeling about it is...I don't know how I feel. I'm thinking it needs a second viewing before I form a more solid opinion either way.

[not_a_monk]

Technically Prime has had a number of second in command "lieutenants", Ironhide, Jazz, Prowl, some have even thrown Ratchet in the hat

[kalquessa]

You used the word "symbology" just to annoy me, didn't you?

To be honest, I wasn't really paying very much attention to the morality play or the themes or whatever because I was busy watching giant robots blow things up.

(We've got belt buckles and shoe laces and piece of gum, build a nuclear reactor for crying out loud!)

Well, There You Go..

[thomas_a_kempis]

The Family Expert has weighed in; we'll have to get the DVD and run some replays, accompanied by beverages and smokes :)

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