by Sabrblade » Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:16 pm
- Motto: "Can't do a job halfway. What's worth doing is worth doing well, I say."
- Weapon: Saber Blade
On the one hand, you got Transformers: The Movie -- Beautifully animated (both for its time and, to an extent, in this day and age), has an awesomely 80's soundtrack and score, and responsible for scarring a generation of children by graphically murdering large swaths of beloved childhood icons within its first twenty minutes, including one of the most beloved icons of them all, who is then replaced first by an inept leader and then by the reckless punk whose bumbling interference inadvertently aided in said beloved icon's death, and introduced concepts and plot points that, while becoming staples of the brand for years to come, were ill-defined and barely touched upon beyond the most elementary of descriptions and characteristics, resulting in what is at best a glamorously gorgeous feature-length toy commercial and at worst as poorly-written cash-grab ignorant of its characters' iconography and which performed abysmally both at the box office and with critics alike.
And on the other hand, you got Beast Wars -- An Emmy award-winning animated series that saved a dying, decrepit toy brand from the brink of death with its at-the-time cutting edge CGI animation that, while today looks woefully outdated compared to most modern CG television works, was at the top of its game in its day and age with its impressive but imperfect display of CG television at its finest, and which was combined with masterful writing and storytelling that, while being made up with little actual planning as its writers went along, masked its toy commercial status behind an elegant blend of seriousness, wit, drama, charm, comedy, characterization, and development, with only its most blatant shortcomings stemming from either the limitations of CGI, executive meddling from Hasbro that forced certain plots to be halted/rushed/unexplained, and which the writers had to work around so as to not let their product suffer as much as it could have.
Well, at least they both had top-notch voice acting.
"When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Like Shajaki said, it could be better, but we're definitely not doing bad figure-wise. Hasbro possibly will be celebrating Beast Wars when the 86 movie thing is over.
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