2018-06-05, 04:20 | Link #1 |
Sleepy Lurker
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Bumblebee (2018)
First movie of the live-action Transformers franchise (actually, a spinoff thereof) that won't be helmed by Michael Bay (who's been trying to pass the cooling potato to someone else for a while now...but keeps getting dragged back into the director's seat by the studios). Supposed to take place in California, 1987 and will star Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie, a 18-yo mechanic who finds a seemingly broken-down Bumblebee in a junkyard and brings him back home for repairs. Poster:
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2018-06-05, 07:03 | Link #2 |
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The trailer looks good so far since as it doesn't have any Michael Bay tropes like slo-mo, explosions, unnecessary fanservice and dumb plot. Looks like a good movie about a girl and her robot.
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2018-06-05, 07:14 | Link #3 |
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From the trailer alone, the movie seem to have a lot more heart compared to the Bayformers sequels. As expected from the director of Kubo and the Two Strings. Here's hoping the movie is actually good and audience will appreciate it. Kinda hoping that this movie will be the start of the Transformers reboot project.
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2018-06-05, 18:47 | Link #4 |
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My guard is still up when it comes to any live action Transformers movie at this point. But if nothing else the trailer looked solid. Not blowing me away good, but actually seems like it could be a decent movie. Something that honestly was harder to say about most of the Michael Bay Transformers movies.
If it turns out to be good I'll likely check it out.
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I'm actually one of those (few) people who respect Transformers (2007) and Michael Bay for what they have done to push and advance the VFX technology. Hollywood VFX have never seen that much breakthrough ever since Jurassic Park. Note that before TF1, the most complex CGI character that ILM had done was General Grievous from Star Wars III. To go from Grievous to transforming Optimus Prime is no small feat.
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Bay also was not fond of the idea of Megatron transforming into a handgun to be fired by Starscream or another Decepticon. He basically argued, "imagine Darth Vader transforming into a light saber and being wielded by a stormtrooper - ain't that silly". To make up for that, Megatron received cannon arms instead. Quote:
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2018-09-26, 22:05 | Link #11 |
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I'm a bit frightened. This is both looking like a good movie and a good Transformers film. What is happening!?
Honestly, the transformers look better. This is starting to look like a Transformers movie that I can hope does well rather than groan at if it does well.
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2019-01-04, 00:38 | Link #12 |
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Bumblebee Puts the Transformers Franchise Back on Track:
"The new Transformers prequel spin-off Bumblebee, from Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight working off a script by writer Christina Hodson — she's working on two upcoming DC movies, Birds of Prey and Batgirl — is exactly what Transformers should always have been. Hodson has said that she wanted the film to be a very simple story about a girl and her car, recalling what Spielberg said over a decade ago. And that's what it is. Bumblebee is centred on the titular mute yellow robot that can turn into a car, in this case a Volkswagen Beetle, and his human friend, in this case a nearly 18-year-old named Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld, from The Edge of Seventeen). Sure, Bumblebee has elements that are seemingly requisite of Transformers movies. There's John Cena as Agent Burns, part of the US military that is duped by two evil robot aliens — known as the Decepticons — Shatter (Angela Bassett, from Black Panther) and Dropkick (Justin Theroux, from The Leftovers) into helping them hunt down the noble Bumblebee. The film is set in the late ‘80s, which is why no one yet knows the good robots from the bad. And there's even a world-ending plot of sorts, one that can only be stopped by Transformers going at each other in the end. But all that is mostly in the background, and Bumblebee succeeds by keeping the focus on the human-machine bond." See: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/entertainme...railer-1972201 ============================= How Bumblebee's Post-Credits Scene Retcons Michael Bay's Transformers: "Ultimately, Bumblebee's post-credits scene is about setting up more Transformers movies in the vein of what Travis Knight has achieved in his critical smash, something it teases in an effective way. The Michael Bay era is unavoidably over, and so minimal lip- service is only to be expected. Simply put, canon is not the key concern (but this is nevertheless surely the start of a much bigger retcon)." See: https://screenrant.com/bumblebee-pos...ormers-retcon/ Last edited by AnimeFan188; 2019-01-04 at 01:01. |
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