Brakethrough wrote:Renne wrote:Spark Light wrote:Dinobots would be awesome in the movie. **** the people who want to enforce a bad sense of "Realism" on this,
SIGH.
Agreed.
What do you mean "Agreed"? There wasn't even an argument there, just a lump of patronising, pessimistic, fan-hating, know-it-all bullshit compressed into a single word. SIGH isn't a good enough reason to count out a huge and much loved part of the TF Mythos.
Again, **** realism.
Realism should be how you do things, how you present them, not what you're doing or presenting.Heroes is ridiculously unrealistic - it succeeds not by appealing on a scientific or even well developed fantasy basis, but by appealing to our sense that deep down, we feel that some of these things MUST be possible.
Dinobots obviously appeal to something rather different - but the idea is the same - as long as it's a captivating and amazing enough idea that's well executed, and presented in a way that flows with the world it's inserted into, it will work.
Scorponok was cool and so would Grimlock be. There's no difference between the two, except that giant dinosaurs make more sense than giant scorpions. The same goes for mass-shifting - you shouldn't leave it out just because it's "Unrealistic", you should just do it in a way that makes sense within the context of the universe. I despise the people that want to strip all the elements of what gave TFs their identity over other Transforming robots. A giant robot turning into a tape deck worked because it was
cool It wouldn't be as cool nowadays, but it'd still be pretty cool since 95% of people still know what a tape deck is(like the IDW comics, have him crash in the 80s, IMO, TFs may have been better set in that era to begin with). It appeals of a sense of fear that everyday items could suddenly become monstrous things.
You're all talking **** - none of you have seen or made a Mass-shifting live action Transformer, or a Dinobot produced to the same level of detail as the movie Transformers. How is Grimlock any less ridiculous than Godzilla, or more appropriately, Mecha Godzilla?
You can't prove or provide real hard evidence for ANY of what you're saying, same deal with the movie designs not being more like TFs used to look like(change isn't always good).
There is just so much "Mundane" bullshit, I can't stand it any more. I want Dinobots. I want Mass-shifting. Maybe you think you don't, but I know that if you saw it done in a way that was cool and made sense, you would.
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:58 am
..oh wait, it was Frenzy. I think Hollywood has given me my fill of irritating weaka$$ characters.