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Michael Bay Update: 102 Days Left

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Postby Shadowman » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:37 pm

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Black Bumblebee wrote:102 days and we still don't know who the voice actors are...

...(panic!)....

There, that's out of my system now.


They could pull that off in a couple of months. Voice overs don't take nearly as much time as animation of filming.

Or perhaps they've already done the voices and want to leave us in suspense until the movie comes out. If that's the case, then I'll bet you anything that Frank will be there, speaking his freaky-deaky alien language.
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Postby Mr.RobotoAutoMan » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:57 pm

iam a bay fan (yes plz hate me all you want) and yes i "KIND" of agree with you TF fans (iam a movie-goer and this is the movie iam most anxious to see "BIG TIME"!!) he did change the characters by alot. but some of you got to understand that he tried to make it as realistic as possible instead of a having blocky characters.(maybe they could of re-designed the G1 characters makin them look even real)................iam new and i seem interesting in TF. seems pretty cool. i bought the TF-20an movie. liked it. and ive just ordered a chinese TF with all 98 episodes.
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Postby Stormrider » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:58 pm

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It seems like directors nowadays need to have a big ego to make a name for themselves in Hollywood. In 100 days, Bay will be done with Transformers and he'll turn his attention to another project.
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Postby Mr.RobotoAutoMan » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:59 pm

BAD BOYS 3!!! *drools*
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Postby zoso504 » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:05 pm

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Re: Michael Bay Update: 102 Days Left

Postby AbsumZer0 » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:39 pm

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Hotrod wrote: We are still writing the robot voices. They talk about just 20 minutes of action at the end - yeah right. This is by far the most action I have ever put into a movie - I have 12 huge set pieces.


Awww yeah. The dialogue and characterization of the Transformers is so important that they haven't even written it yet! Take that all you haters who've been saying the robots are just going to be generic monsters whose personalities are irrelevant to the plot!


I'm sure part of the dialogue is dependent on who they get to do the voices. If there's a big star amongst the cast, then I guarantee you that character will have more dialogue than if someone who isn't a household name gets the part. The voice acting isn't completed until the last few months of a movie. This doesn't surprise me at all.


Even when an animated film character's dialogue is dependent upon the celebrity voice-actor they don't write a script, animate the film, and then afterwards decide who they're going to cast to do the voices and write the dialogue. The script is written with the voice actor in mind and then it's animated.

I know the voiceovers are usually done late in post-production but it's not the recording that has me skeptical, it's that the dialogue is still being written. This is the first time I've ever heard of that being done. I know that this isn't going to be a character-driven film as most animated films are but filming a movie and then writing the lines for the star characters just doesn't boost my confidence in the film's quality.
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Postby Robinson » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:47 pm

I'm sure most lines are written, but they are doing character specific rewrites.
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Postby Burn » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:24 pm

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zoso504 wrote:If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.


Well someone's a friendly and happy little camper today. ;;)

Anyway, i'm suprised no one's brought up the fact that Bay says they're still re-writing dialogue days after the two writers said they're done.

Funny that. Maybe it was Shia in disguise ...
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Postby Shadowman » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:35 pm

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zoso504 wrote:If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.


Saying things like these to the Mods isn't a very good idea if you really enjoy being on this site.

Just a heads-up.
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Postby Burn » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:01 pm

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zoso504 wrote:If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.


Saying things like these to the Mods isn't a very good idea if you really enjoy being on this site.

Just a heads-up.


Wouldn't it be more advisable for him to keep his head down? :P
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Postby tile_mcgillus » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:03 pm

I personally enjoyed Bay's perspective. I respect his honesty. Gangsta.

I think he is a giant flaming wad of everything that is wrong with cinema and if he came up to my face I would tell him. He would say something to the effect of me not working in the industry for 25 years and being a pathetic loser.

I guess we would have to agree to disagree.
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Postby Down_Shift » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:23 pm

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Burn wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
zoso504 wrote:If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.


Saying things like these to the Mods isn't a very good idea if you really enjoy being on this site.

Just a heads-up.


Wouldn't it be more advisable for him to keep his head down? :P


Ya, I once saw Muffin connect with a missle dropkick off the top of a school bus. The poor guys head landed in a near by kiddie pool. Man was it hilarious.
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Postby zoso504 » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:06 pm

I guess I forgot to put the ":P" at the end of my statement. In regards to Bay, he should act more professional to the people who have made this movie possible, that is, to the fans who have kept the brand going on this long for the movie to even happen this late in the franchise's history. Sure, we're probably dickwads but he doesn't have to say it. And, uh, go Team Venture!
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Postby Burn » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:23 am

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Actually the insults were aimed at only certain members of the fandom, members who have done nothing but bitch and whine about what they've seen of the movie, members who have gone so far as to insult the guy, members who have even said they wanted him to die.

But it was most certaintly NOT directed at the entire fan base, just a small selection of them.
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Postby Ramses » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:26 am

unfortunatly, the aditude, the movie's direction and eveyrthing else is a bi-product of hollywood; it's one of thouse "Don't hate the player, hate the game" moments where we as fans need to sometimes step back and look at the big picture: if it was anyone else doing this movie or anything else put in or out, it would still generate the same kind of heat.

Hollywood in general see's this movie as a movie that everyone will go see, not just the fan, the fan's are seen sadly last, unless your a huge rabbid fanbace (not saying Transformers has, but i'm sure we'll be outgeeked by fans of Harry Potter or LOTR's.) so we are just seen (sadly, and forgive me but...) we are just seen as the Lowest common denominator, not fit to be made a movie for, why? because in hollywood's mind: the franchise hassnt been established enough. The fans may like it, but to the general public, it wont. And yes, i'm refering to the Uggs Boots wearing, Gotee wearing, those retarted looking star tatoo having, Acrodomie and Finch/AMerican Eagle/Aroposle wearing, Hunvey/big ass truck riders and users, MTV/American Idol/Myspace zombies. Thats who they want to make the movie to, unfortunatly, if the fans have any imput, it will be nulled because we dont represent the public and they are going to throw everything at the wall for SOMETHING to work so the general public may garner intrest.

Now there is a positive to all this: sequels, especialy to franchies like this, usualy end up caving in and lissening to it's fans heirafter. It's weird how it comes about, maybe hollywood finaly see's the success of the movie and now the general public has a knollege of whats going on, and now even they have a bigger voice and eventualy giving imput as well.
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Postby Exodus27 » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:34 am

Has anyone else in Australia noticed that we have an opening day of Friday June 29th for the movie according to Greater Union Cinemas?
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Postby Bartrim » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:19 pm

Exodus27 wrote:Has anyone else in Australia noticed that we have an opening day of Friday June 29th for the movie according to Greater Union Cinemas?
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Yeah mate. Azura posted that as news a couple of weeks ago
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Postby Exodus27 » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:24 pm

Yeah mate. Azura posted that as news a couple of weeks ago


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Postby Phategod1 » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:12 pm

tile_mcgillus wrote:I personally enjoyed Bay's perspective. I respect his honesty. Gangsta.

I think he is a giant flaming wad of everything that is wrong with cinema and if he came up to my face I would tell him. He would say something to the effect of me not working in the industry for 25 years and being a pathetic loser.

I guess we would have to agree to disagree.


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Postby NightFall » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:26 am

Bay is rewriting after the O.G writers quit...a little odd? Did I read that right, should or is it odd?
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