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Alpha Strike wrote:a movie's largest critics now singing its praises? Damn this is gotta be one hell of a movie to induce that sort of transformation.

You're suprised by the change of heart?

Of course it's ironic that people who condemned the movie based on un-finished material now seem to be praising it based on the opinions of others who have only seen a small sampling.

Most of us based how the movie would be on the look of the bots

Hey guys,

I've written about 1/2 of my review of the "event" so far. I haven't gotten to writing about the incredible scenes that we saw at the theatre. I'm falling asleep writing this since I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night and have been up since 7 this morning (Eastern). I have a long day of traveling tomorrow and will have plenty of time to finish writing my review then. I'm going to get some sleep tonight and promise that there'll be a review up on the site within 24 hours. New York kicked my ass. It's been a blast but I'm beat!

Ok, this I find very interesting ...

I asked, "Why is Optimus Prime a long nose Peter-built model rather than the classic flat-nose version?" Bay responded explaining that the flat-nose version would not allow Prime to realistically transform into the 28-foot tall robot they were looking for. The classic look gave Prime a height of only 23 feet, while the longer nose gives Prime more to work with when transforming. This height difference was a factor in keeping Megatron and Prime in the proper scale to each other.

Damn, if I'd known Bay wanted a TALL Optimus I would've sent him MY design! Its based on a Peterbilt VERY close to the movie's, (MINUS the flames!) and is surprisingly faithful to G1 OP. I actually went to a Peterbilt yard with my measuring tape, did the numbers, and mine came out at 36 feet, give or take about 2 feet.

Burn wrote:

Alpha Strike wrote:a movie's largest critics now singing its praises? Damn this is gotta be one hell of a movie to induce that sort of transformation.

You're suprised by the change of heart?

Of course it's ironic that people who condemned the movie based on un-finished material now seem to be praising it based on the opinions of others who have only seen a small sampling.

It wasn't a small sampling. It was about 25 minutes of film. 4 different scenes. Sure, there's a lot that we haven't seen but what I did see was absolutely incredible. I still think there were better ways to do the robot modes but what I saw tonight was mind blowing. I get it now. Now I understand what they were trying to tell us when they said "you need to wait until you see this in person, see a Transformer transform."

Greed wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:Lucky bastard, Lets hope some one snuck in a camera

You know someone did.

I'm still on the fence as whether or not I'll see this movie.

I would highly doubt it. It was mostly people in suits. Not the kind of people that would be sneaking in a camera.

Megatron_Wolf wrote:were the hell in new york was it shown? i live on long island and didnt hear anything. if id have known i wouldve gone. god damn it

It was invitation only and was not open to the public.

Good to know you've been swayed for the most part. Maybe it'll get a few others to rethink whether or not they'll see it. Regardless I'm glad you're not posting this till morning. Gives me a chance to sleep before reading a long review.

Nemesis_Apoc wrote:It must be related to this that I found at Tformers.com earlier.

http://seibertron.com/forums/viewtopic. ... 3ec2fbe2f8

Did anyone see this from the article:

Michael Bay also stated that it takes them something like 38 hours to render 1 frame of the film with the robots in it.

38 hours for 1 frame? There's either very few frames with robots in it or else Bay needs to get moving quickly if he wants to make deadline.

Seibertron wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:were the hell in new york was it shown? i live on long island and didnt hear anything. if id have known i wouldve gone. god damn it

It was invitation only and was not open to the public.

Well, I am very glad they invited you. I give Dreamworks or Paramount credit if they were the ones who offered you an invitation.