Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:I don't want to judge the movie by it's trailer, but after seeing Bumblebee, this trailer is making this movie feel like a step backwards towards michael bay territory.
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I REALLY want to like Rise of The Beasts though, the designs look amazing, and the CGI looks awesome!
Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
Glyph wrote: and I could barely tell that Primal had actually transformed in that rolling attack. /quote]
I was a bit let down by that too, it didn't feel like much of a transformation and you don't get a clear sense of the bot mode. Not the big splash the movie seems to be aiming for as a trailer finale.RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Is Cheetor is a little on the fat side, or is it just me?
Deadline Hollywood wrote:EXCLUSIVE: A slew have just boarded Paramount’s upcoming ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ including Peter Dinklage (as the voice of Scourge), Liza Koshy (as the voice of Arcee), John DiMaggio (as the voice of Stratosphere) and more https://t.co/UOLLPnkEFm
Deadline Hollywood wrote:Also joining the #TransformersRiseoftheBeasts cast is:
David Sobolov (as Rhinox/Battletrap)
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (as Nightbird)
Cristo Fernández (as Wheeljack)
Tobe Nwigwe (as Reek)
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-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
First-Aid wrote:Can we all take a moment to appreciate that, in ONE DAY, we got trailers for Transformers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? I'd call that a good day.
Rtron wrote:Is anyone else really disappointed that they turn into giant robotic beasts instead of proper animals? To me, it really gives me a feeling like if everyone in the 2007 movie turned into cybertronian stuff instead of actual vehicles.
Guillermo1790 wrote:without the movies, the Transformers lore in general wouldn´t be as big as it is.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Rtron wrote:Is anyone else really disappointed that they turn into giant robotic beasts instead of proper animals? To me, it really gives me a feeling like if everyone in the 2007 movie turned into cybertronian stuff instead of actual vehicles.
Not at all. The are in line with IDW and Generations where they are the same size as the other bots. Because if not, what tiny tiny beasty bots can do against giants?
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.'
william-james88 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Can we all take a moment to appreciate that, in ONE DAY, we got trailers for Transformers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? I'd call that a good day.
Yup, was a good day, but I was a bit let down by that Guardians trailer, it doesn't get me excited for the film.
-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
Sabrblade wrote:The funny thing about the Maximals being human-sized instead of giant-sized, that's only ever been the case in just the original Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons (and their comic/prose spin-offs from BotCon, Dreamwave, and IDW). Virtually everything else they have ever appeared in has depicted them as giant-sized. Same with the Predacons.
The Japanese Beast Wars cartoons, Car Robots/RID 2001, RobotMasters, IDW1, the Prime Wars Trilogy, the War For Cybertron Trilogy, etc.
Something else of note is that Bob Forward once said that the decision to make them small wasn't fully set in stone until the final scene of "The Agenda (Part III)". Before that, their size fluctuated throughout Seasons 1-2. An example he pointed out was a shot in "Code of Hero" where Dinobot overlooks the human valley being attacked by the Predacons while the sun sets in the background behind him. Forward said that, in that shot, Dinobot was animated as being 30 feet tall.Rtron wrote:Sabrblade wrote:The funny thing about the Maximals being human-sized instead of giant-sized, that's only ever been the case in just the original Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons (and their comic/prose spin-offs from BotCon, Dreamwave, and IDW). Virtually everything else they have ever appeared in has depicted them as giant-sized. Same with the Predacons.
The Japanese Beast Wars cartoons, Car Robots/RID 2001, RobotMasters, IDW1, the Prime Wars Trilogy, the War For Cybertron Trilogy, etc.
Well, all the more reason to make them "small" (though they averaged like 2 metres in height) again! I always liked them being "smaller" mainly because of the real animal angle, but also because of the energy saving thing, and because it made the G1 guys look more legendary and archaic in comparison. Like you were supposed to empathize with the beast warriors, and then look at the old guzzlers in awe. A bit like having a smartphone, then looking at one of those 50's supercomputers and all the work they required to operate.
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.'
Sabrblade wrote:Something else of note is that Bob Forward once said that the decision to make them small wasn't fully set in stone until the final scene of "The Agenda (Part III)". Before that, their size fluctuated throughout Seasons 1-2. An example he pointed out was a shot in "Code of Hero" where Dinobot overlooks the human valley being attacked by the Predacons while the sun sets in the background behind him. Forward said that, in that shot, Dinobot was animated as being 30 feet tall.Rtron wrote:Sabrblade wrote:The funny thing about the Maximals being human-sized instead of giant-sized, that's only ever been the case in just the original Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons (and their comic/prose spin-offs from BotCon, Dreamwave, and IDW). Virtually everything else they have ever appeared in has depicted them as giant-sized. Same with the Predacons.
The Japanese Beast Wars cartoons, Car Robots/RID 2001, RobotMasters, IDW1, the Prime Wars Trilogy, the War For Cybertron Trilogy, etc.
Well, all the more reason to make them "small" (though they averaged like 2 metres in height) again! I always liked them being "smaller" mainly because of the real animal angle, but also because of the energy saving thing, and because it made the G1 guys look more legendary and archaic in comparison. Like you were supposed to empathize with the beast warriors, and then look at the old guzzlers in awe. A bit like having a smartphone, then looking at one of those 50's supercomputers and all the work they required to operate.
ZeroWolf wrote:I'm glad they've kept the sizes relative (certainly makes life easier for Studio Series who try to keep bot modes in scale with each other). Plus it was kind of silly trying to disguise yourself as animals when disguises weren't needed. If I recall I think there was only one scene where disguising as an animal had any payoff and that was with Tigatron.
Come to think of it, animal scales didn't matter anyway in the beast wars cartoon, especially amongst the predacons.
Whifflefire wrote:Maximals and Predacons being small in the cartoon felt to me like an evolution of micromaster technology. The downsizing of Cybertronians had the benefit of saving energy as well as interacting with other species.
I'm assuming the ROTB Maximals will not be from the future, but contemporaries of the Autobots, so being the same size makes sense. I don't mind this at all, but I would have had them be closer to Arcee and Bumblebee in height. Seeing a cheetah dwarf a car is a bit jarring!
Ultimately, I'm less concerned about scale as I am about the quality of the film, but the trailer hints at a solid story and makes me very excited to see how they portray all of the bots. It's looking pretty good so far.
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