The Energon Pub

srry double post

Of course, since many of the designs are complete trash in certain areas you can barely tell what they're emoting. I see no reason why they couldn't do that with Alternator-like designs. Do they even need to emote like Humans?

That Starscream design is absolutely fantastic. I always liked Energon Screamer and this is a like action version of that, pretty much. He would have been huge but I don't care. It's much better than being an ape, the pro-movie crowd always seem to take certain things as being sacred like height or movability, but completely ignore other things.

ultra tron wrote:It's too much like the cartoon.

the Movie designs made them look like alien robots, not metal people that are big.

The movie designs they ran with are better.

I really don't like the way all these kind of comments are read off a script, probably one provided to them by Nelson or Don Murphy or some asshat from TFW2005. There are a lot of "hater" comments like that too, and that also annoys me, but this even more so since it happens more often.

I don't know why so many people have a problem with the way TFs looked until now. We always knew they were cartoons, but cartoons, unless set in a stylised fantasy land, and comics, are meant to represent something that can happen in real life, just at a lower level of detail. This is why nearly all the defenses for the movie designs are rubbish, there has to be some way to create realistic G1-styled bots or else we wouldn't have been able to make the link to realism in our heads as kids or even adults, and the series would have seemed to silly to be a success.

But it was a success. And as far as I'm concerned, it's one of the biggest things that made TFs a success. This movie was a success for very different reasons and won't be as well loved in a few years time.

Will this specific movie be as well loved in the future, maybe not, however will this form of the franchise will survive and flourish, because it has bough out so many sleeper fans from their slumber, this series of movies is just going to get better, many toys are already considered some of the best mainline figures ever, and from what I hear from my nameless friend in California it is definitely going to get better now that the staging is already set.
And as for the movie designs, allow me to clarify my opinion: while I think that the current movie designs are cool enough on their own, it did take a little while getting use to these designs as transformers, I decided to embrace them because I do not believed that traditional would work without cheesing up an already cheesy concept for a live action film, but who knows if they had fixed up the alternator style to be more detailed and a little less skinny and plain, they might of worked. And as for the "we don't know what aliens look like argument" who cares the fact is we don't know what robot aliens look like so who's to say we cant have ones that are normal box robots or super complex exoskeletons or even something inbetween, because in Bay's mind this is how he saw the transformers how ever some people may see it differently, people are different and have different fears and dreams driving them so for all we know Bay might be afraid of bugs and sharp points, hence the inspiration for the Decepticons.
O.k. srry for the rant I just had to get it out, and I still love Screamer's movie design.

TheMuffin wrote:You're funnier than Carlos Mencia at the very least.

I once passed a kidney stone that was funnier than Carlos Mencia.