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Old 2009.06.02, 01:11 PM   #61
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It was never the brand names that bugged me that much, the use of concept cars was a touch much. I drive down the road and every car I see is a concept. It works in Speed Racer as that is set in a fantasy world, but the idea here is this is a real world that we relate to. Sure Mission City is made up, but it still isn't set in the future.

For Bumblebee I read that they started with a Pontiac GTO and hacked it down to the floorpan. Then built up the body with fiberglass for the film car. I have no idea about how or what they had to do for the Sideswipe Stingray concept.

Then you have the logic of taking a one off show piece and do stunt work with it. Yea, run that million dollar show piece through a wall, no problem. So we are back to that fiberglass shell over a cobbled up nightmare chassis. For what, toys we want to buy?

http://jalopnik.com/5151539/transfor...unning-footage
This link is a montage of clips showing the different Autobots.
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Old 2009.06.02, 10:59 PM   #62
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Personally I think I'm liking the Camaro less and less.
I still think it's stupid that you can get 426 HP for only $34k
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Old 2009.06.04, 08:09 PM   #63
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Maybe GM will get some revenue from the new movie and use that to replenish from going bankrupt. HAHAHAA
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Old 2009.06.05, 03:51 AM   #64
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There will be no GM Transformers ads like the first film had. The only tie in ads are M&Ms and LG phones, and maybe Burger King will start soon.

A look at the bussness end of this.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/06...s-money_2.html

The only thing about the new Camaro and the Challanger for that fact. Both those cars are heavier than the Mustang. No matter how much horsepower it has, you still have that extra weight to deal with. The only real strong point is the outside styling. One other thing is I am a 6 foot tall guy, and the Camaro anyone over 5'7" has there head up against the headliner.
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Old 2009.06.05, 07:25 PM   #65
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I gotta agree with you guys here. Its not like the cencept sales will go up after the movie because given those prices the buyers are diehard fans who can care less if their new car is a TF character. IMO if this movie promoted more production cars they could've really bumped real sales. Kids see some 15-20k $ cars and bug their parents to buy them that particular one over a toyota or a honda.

Btw Hammer, you ever get on MSN?
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Old 2009.06.06, 12:53 PM   #66
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No, have not messed with MSN in a while now.
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Old 2009.06.11, 03:16 PM   #67
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Wheelie meets Mikaela's torch. He seems to be a cross between Jerry Lewis and Moe Howard.
http://www.traileraddict.com/clip/tr...mers-2/wheelie
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Old 2009.06.19, 04:43 AM   #68
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I tried to hold back posting TV spots, as we are up to our eyeballs in them as is. This one seems to have me floored with Sideswipe in action against Sideways.

Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Ksv...ature=channel/
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Old 2009.06.28, 01:13 PM   #69
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I have not seen the film yet, but I am going Monday to see it. It did 201 million over the five day opening, just behind The Dark Knight by 2 million. A local car dealership had these out front, I think they need to be made as Mini Z bodies soon though. I call them Bumblebee and Cliffjumper.

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Old 2009.06.28, 01:37 PM   #70
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we saw it yesterday!

this movie is not for young children. it is not the same family friendly film the last one was unfortunately. there is much more vulgure language, etc.

there were some obvious gag moments that were cheap and played to the lowest form of entertainment. i did not care for the general treatment the twins characters got much at all and i'm not alone in thinking they are blatantly negative sterotyping. they were pure comic releif. think jajar binks.... they went for cheap laughs in my opinion vs. true funny moments in the last film.

all that being said, it was worth the cost of admission and i want to see it again to pick up on more details that i know i missed.
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Watched it last night too.

STRONG language warning, as arch has said. It has a very healthy portion of profanity, dished out by almost every speaking character -- I'm actually not impressed with that given that the first movie had no need of it at all.

I personally feel there was more eyecandy and less plot in this one (IMO there were some sizable gaps in logic) but overall I think it was a decent package.

I'm also with arch in that some of the comic relief moments weren't done particularly well though. Felt like the producers decided that nothing else would be able to lighten the mood, which may have been the case... but if it were the case I probably would've omitted the particular cuts altogether.
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exactly my point, the 1st one did not need that stuff, and the 2nd would have been far better had the story been strong enough to not need it as well. it just comes off cheaply to me that they had to resort to using it with the hope of keeping interest, keeping the edge. in the end, it takes away from the movie more than it gives in my opinion. i wanted a sequel i could watch at home with the whole family and i don't feel this is that movie.
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I am really disappointed by these reviews. I was really looking forward to the sequel ever since I saw the first one. Now, I'm not sure. It might result to waiting for DVD release.
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I saw it on Thrusday.

It does have very strong language.
It was as good as I was expecting.
Can't say it really exceeded my expectations though.
The action was good.
The story was ok.
Though I think it should've been called the Megan Fox Love Story rather than Transformers.

Someone I know told me that right before I saw it and I thought, "Why not call it the Shia Love Story?" But as I was watching the movie I realized, "Yeah, this really is more of a Megan Fox Love Story..." It's ALMOST like the focus of the movie was about Her, How HOT she is, and her relationship with Shia... Luckly the Transformers Theme managed to stay the main point. Barely.

The Descepticon chick was the weirdest thing EVER...

And Scorponock is the BEST SONG EVER! A FREAKING MASTERPIECE!
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I caught the 12:45 showing yesterday, I tried to avoid the hardcore types that try to spoil it for everyone else. Over half was kids eight years old or younger, and most of those are girls. Some of the material was difficult in that crowd. The first movie pushed that somewhat, with "happy time" and the lubrication jokes. Now we had Wheelie doing the Austin Powers Mini Me bit.

I liked the forest fight the best, I mainly wanted the action stuff. I did get to read the novel before seeing the movie. There are a few details from that to fill the voids in the film, and a few things changed around. An example Mudflap gets sucked up into Devastator, in the book it was Skids that got sucked up. An example of a backstory on how Alice the Pretender got her name. In the book it transscanned an animatronic at Disneyland. The film didn't go into that.
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