Yahoo Posts Article On Orson Welles and His Work on Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Bouncy X wrote:cool article but it seems to imply they altered his voice because he was sick. when the fact is i'm pretty sure it would have been altered even if he was in good health. they wanted Unicron to have a cool deep voice so it would have been altered no matter his health or even who they woulda hired.

i'm nitpicky about these things yeah....lol but other than that its a cool article. so it made 6 million? that explains why it disappeared from theaters within a week here..lol its interesting though cuz when i first saw this movie i didnt like it at all...it didnt help that the while 90% of the autobots got wiped out the only decepticon to truly die was my favorite character, Starscream. but yeah so i didnt like it but then a year later it played on a saturday morning and i recorded it and loved it....i guess being 10yrs old made me more appreciative than when i was 9...lol and i still have that vhs tape, i didnt have enough room and ended up having to switch tapes so the last 30mins are on a second tape. and so i was missing about 10seconds worth of the sequence where Hot Rod and Kup are in jail. and to further push this into nostalgia, i'd watch the movie a lot over the years before finally finding it in stores and the commercials were all for my little pony and potato head kids and GI joe and of course transformers. ah yes, memories....lol

KoH4711 wrote:Welles was a genius, pure and simple, and I really wonder what he would have contributed in terms of ideas if his health had been better. His voice overs could make anything more legit just by themselves... watch the Nostradamus flick, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, and you'll see what I mean.

And if any fellow Seibertronians are looking for a good flick to check out, they mention two great ones in this article, besides Citizen Kane. Touch of Evil is great, even though the make-up to make Charlton Heston is a little distracting. But The Third Man is perhaps one of the greatest film noirs ever made. The most amazing part is, with the tremendous cast, Welles STILL manages to steal it with his performance, including one some of the best lines in film history.

(Sorry to kind of go off, but it's rare I have a chance to prattle on about film noir and Orson Welles movies, which this article gives me a chance to do.)

KoH4711 wrote:

YouFearGalvatron wrote:No issues with me man.

I remember seeing "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow" when I was younger, very, very entertaining stuff.

But yeah, Welles=Genius. No doubt about it.

There's a part of that I remember to this day: Talk about a prediction Nostradamus made about a giant quake in California, and man becoming man-eater, complete with creepy artwork. That, and Welles talking about the third World War, I had nightmares about that. Probably didn't help I saw it when I was REAL little, but still... =p

KoH4711 wrote:Welles was a genius, pure and simple, and I really wonder what he would have contributed in terms of ideas if his health had been better. His voice overs could make anything more legit just by themselves... watch the Nostradamus flick, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, and you'll see what I mean.

And if any fellow Seibertronians are looking for a good flick to check out, they mention two great ones in this article, besides Citizen Kane. Touch of Evil is great, even though the make-up to make Charlton Heston is a little distracting. But The Third Man is perhaps one of the greatest film noirs ever made. The most amazing part is, with the tremendous cast, Welles STILL manages to steal it with his performance, including one some of the best lines in film history.

(Sorry to kind of go off, but it's rare I have a chance to prattle on about film noir and Orson Welles movies, which this article gives me a chance to do.)

Autobot032 wrote:

KoH4711 wrote:

YouFearGalvatron wrote:No issues with me man.

I remember seeing "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow" when I was younger, very, very entertaining stuff.

But yeah, Welles=Genius. No doubt about it.

There's a part of that I remember to this day: Talk about a prediction Nostradamus made about a giant quake in California, and man becoming man-eater, complete with creepy artwork. That, and Welles talking about the third World War, I had nightmares about that. Probably didn't help I saw it when I was REAL little, but still... =p

Hey, same here. Say what you want, but Nostradamus wasn't far off in his predictions.