Lastjustice wrote:Oilspill wrote:These designs are so much better than Bayformers. IMHO of course.
*rolls eyes* yeah because both designs were totally for live action movies. Apples and oranges man, I want to smack everyone who makes it a point toss that comment in there aside the head for being so thick to compare the two.(including the article.)
The G1ish/IDW style designs look fine...in a video game(or a comic or character for that matter.). Two different medias so different designs look better in one thing than another. Alot of comic costumes translate badly too(like why Xmen went with the black leather for wolverine). I think blockimus prime would looked horribly out of place like space jam characters against real people and settings. (when I played the first movie game and put on the G1 skin thats exactly what I thought like whoa that doesnt belong at all.)
It's one thing you didn't care for the live action designs but you have weight in the factors why stuff arrived at the point it did. Between them sticking to roughly same mass, scale and using parts of whatever they turned into. (G1 and other series didn't give a crap about any semblance of realism, and their designs often reflected it.) I enjoy both designs for their respective roles. I'm rather sick of hearing people bash the movie verse at every turn whether has anything to do with the current thing or not.
Roll your eyes all you want, an opinion is an opinion man. I get what you are saying wih apples and oranges, I don't think G1 asthetics would work in a live action flick either, BUT you can't deny that the Bayformers could have been done better than they were. Take optimus (flames aside) I thought he was well designed, same basic color scheme, recognizable G1 influence i.e. The mouth plate, windows on the chest, blue ear fins etc. Now for the opposing side of the design argument, take Starscream. Even though I don't mind the design (And starscream is my fave btw), I think more attention could have been paid to not making him look like a dorito chip with chicken legs. Don't give me the "chicken legs make it realistic for landing on buildings etc etc, Megatron was doing just fine in ROTF flying and landing on buidlings and pyramids with tank treds lol. As for the color scheme, I am ok with screamer not being red white and blue,...I buy the argument that he would not fit in with real planes colored like that....but how do the tattoos make him any less conspicuous? Bottom line, Bay has made it VERY clear that he doesn't even like transformers, and could care less about paying respect to the source material. I believe in the commentary for ROTF he even makes mention about telling the writers to out in farting robots with penis guns to ge tcheap laughs from little kids. The lesson to be learned here is this, you like the movie designs, some people don't. I am somewhere in the middle. Either way, there is no need to be condescending to the posters here. Just because you
you have a unique perspective to the idea of G1 designs not working in a live action film doesn't mean that other people "just don't understand". We get it,...we simply don't agree with you. Good day sir!
