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News Credits: 665 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:10 pm

A new TV spot for the Transformers movie has surfaced on Superherohype.com and on Youtube. You can see the new footage, and here Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, you can view the spot on Superherohype here and on youtube here.

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:12 pm

Coooooooooooooooooooooool.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:12 pm

prime showing emotion is wierd.

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:12 pm

That was awesome

News Credits: 4 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:13 pm

I just saw this too. Pretty cool. Prime's mouth will take a little getting used too though.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:14 pm

Interesting

Might just be the audio, or it might be what they have for the spot, but if that's Cullen doing Prime, he doesn't like what I remember from the G1 series (what little I remember). Then again, the scene's too short to tell with absolute certainty.

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:15 pm

Watching Primes hands pop out was pretty cool

It feels weird hearing a voice come out of these guys.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:16 pm

Holy balls.

A little bit of Prime with mouth action there. That'll make some folk unhappy. It's a really nice rendering job, though. I wasn't expecting them to be that, well, 'animated' when they're just talking. Too used to seeing them in low-to-middling budget cartoons, I guess

Starscream's little powerslide looked exceptionally well done, too. It does look like it's there, as in an actual prop. Seriously. Whoa.

-Nick

News Credits: 1 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:16 pm

WHAT IS WITH THAT MOUTH ON PRIME?!?!?!?!?!

That, and -- I hate Jon Voigt. I swear. What are they doing? That stupid donkey face on Prime doesn't look good. Come on. And boxy robots would have looked cheesy? Please. The RID/Primal face could and would have looked a lot better here. This looks like something out of the TMNT movie.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:17 pm

I don't like the way Optimus had that little mouth that moved, instead of his faceplate...

News Credits: 15 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:18 pm

Prime has lips!

I think it sounds a little strange because of compresion, Cullen is a bit older and it may be be playing back at the right speed.

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:20 pm

holy **** that was awesome.

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:21 pm

I HATE prime's mouth and nose! FUGLY!

News Credits: 3 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:21 pm

See what I mean?

-Nick

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:21 pm

*ignore*

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:23 pm

Prime didn't really sound like his G1 self to me. However, this was just a little bit less than a second of audio. I bet it'll be better in the entire movie.

News Credits: 150 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:28 pm

Why does Optimus Prime remind me of Scotty Pippen?

News Credits: 26 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:28 pm

In a word

Prime

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:28 pm

I didn't notice the mouth. I was too fixated on the voice, I guess. Oops. Still, I believe it works because it fits with the rest of his face very nicely.

Edit:

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:Prime didn't really sound like his G1 self to me.

It is not suppose to.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:29 pm

I remember Prime's voice being really deep in The Rebirth, compared to earlier seasons. Maybe that's what he's going for, if only to emphasise the character's age and size.

My favourite performance of his though will always be from waaay back in MTMTE, less deep and showing a pretty fierce temper a couple of times. I would pay serious cash (in addition to the $25 I've already donated to the Hasbro kids' hospital) to see and hear Prime losing it over some 'con. Bonecrusher, perhaps?

-Nick

News Credits: 1 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:29 pm

Upon closer investigation, you can see a lot of small plates and pieces moving around on Prime's face to show a range of emotion. Personally, I think he's animated in that overly-smooth CGI style which screams of being artificial. That's beside the point, though, which is that if this much emotion can be achieved with overlapping panels and whatnot, it would have been EASY for them to use more humanoid faces on the Transformers. They just made a radically different design decision, and I stand by my opinion that it was NOT a good one.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:33 pm

Dude... that... was freaking awesome.

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:33 pm

i'm with the rest of you guys, i just won't be able to get over primes mouth. flat out, it looks horrible but what else is new? just another one of the countless screw ups and wrong decisions.

Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:35 pm

of course prime sounds different hello 20 yrs have passed dudes older voice isgoing to get gravely. doe's cullen drink or smoke ?

News Credits: 2 · Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:36 pm

I'm down. The Baseball Stadium shot was F!cked up, man. I really can't wait to see the full Shot of Prime transforming. It'll be a helluva movie, that's for sure...