Official Script Discussion

[CFlash]

i rest my case

So the cartoon was a commercial to get kids to buy the comic? Hmm. I never thought of that.

 

[xwolverine2]

So the cartoon was a commercial to get kids to buy the comic? Hmm. I never thought of that.

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Spoiler

what?

 

[Hotwire]

xw2, I think you made the comic book point in a different thread, and he just doesn't get it.

 

[TigerClaw]

Having product placement in a movie is not really a bad thing. By seeing things we recognize in real life in the movie, It helps us be more emersed in the film itself since its based our reality.

 

[Hotwire]

Having product placement in a movie is not really a bad thing. By seeing things we recognize in real life in the movie, It helps us be more emersed in the film itself since its based our reality.

Finally!!!!! Somebody else gets it!!! xw2 and I can rest now.

 

[zer00]

Having product placement in a movie is not really a bad thing. By seeing things we recognize in real life in the movie, It helps us be more emersed in the film itself since its based our reality.

Or can just take you right out of it. Which is why it's so frowned upon

 

[Substance D]

superman 2 had the biggest one in history...........zod or w/e crashing through the billboard

what about you've got mail?

 

[Hotwire]

I was floating around the transformersmovie.com message boards and found a really good point on the Starscream design. Check it out.

I'll play the contrarian. I want my starscream to be menacing, if that's how they envision him. Modernizing the old school version would be a compromised failure. If they are going to make him a wicked elitist SOB who hates all things earth, then I say alienize him to the extreme.

I can see "him" despising the adaptation of human-like faces and hands. Can't you? It makes sense in the designs-no hands-no discernable mouth or nose. Why would you adopt the characteristics of neanderthal flesh ants? YOU ARE A DECEPTICON. MEGATRON COMPROMISES THE RACE WITH HIS HYPOCRICY.

NUFF SAID. JOIN MY CAUSE.

 

[xwolverine2]

xw2, I think you made the comic book point in a different thread, and he just doesn't get it.

woops...

still right though...

what about you've got mail?

you know.... i found the billboard to be funny... not aol or w/e it was

Or can just take you right out of it. Which is why it's so frowned upon

did the m&ms take you out of E.T?

 

[Hotwire]

did the m&ms take you out of E.T?

They were Reese's Pieces.

 

[xwolverine2]

They were Reese's Pieces.

W/E!

obviously...they didnt bother me since i couldnt remember the actual name

 

[Hotwire]

W/E!

obviously...they didnt bother me since i couldnt remember the actual name

Just giving you a hard time, xw2. You know I'm just messing with you, right?

 

[vampireslayer97]

what about you've got mail?

Any film that promotes AOHELL must die!!!

I think you guys need to see Josie and the Pussycats, cause that had the biggest product placement ever. It was all sort of a gag though, cause the whole plot was about brainwashing youth to buy crap we don't need.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Its interesting that

Spoiler

Megatron ends up being the creator of the modern civilization as we know it.

I thought it was really chessy like something from "armeggedon"

"not even bacteria will be able to grow"

 

[bsquad]

i understand product placement but making a 360 and ipod turn into a transformer is completley lame and makes no sense, even in a world of alien robots.
its only in the film for product placement.
the thing with bays films, the product placement has the subtlety of a brick.

it actually does make sense. the energon can turn technology into transformers, which apparently Megatron is looking to use it for.with the amount of tech we use in everyday life can you imagine how screwed we would be if that thing went off. I have to say something about standing in line with a game system only to have it become a robot and freak out is a bit creepy.

Spoiler

plus I was thinking, the energon went off an effected a few blocks right? that means there is a good chance that more car transformers were born as well., for all we know they coudl exchange the xbox gag for a chance to show new transformers of the automobile caliber being born

 

[zer00]

I thought it was really chessy like something from "armeggedon"

"not even bacteria will be able to grow"

Actually it's from ID4. Taken almost exactly from ID4

 

[Substance D]

Any film that promotes AOHELL must die!!!

I think you guys need to see Josie and the Pussycats, cause that had the biggest product placement ever. It was all sort of a gag though, cause the whole plot was about brainwashing youth to buy crap we don't need.

nah, product placement only works if it's a movie people actually see.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Actually it's from ID4. Taken almost exactly from ID4

now that I think about it Men In black did the exact same thing by backwards engineering alien technology and making products from it.

An example would be velcro lol. They got funding from the revenue I think

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

yeah, it bothered me too, but i'm not gonna ***** about it because it's not g1.

Look, I'm not b****ing about major changes to the mythos yet again (Oh I have a huge beef against anything that has come after the G1 series.) but I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach thinking about it sometimes.

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

now that I think about it Men In black did the exact same thing by backwards engineering alien technology and making products from it.

An example would be velcro lol. They got funding from the revenue I think

What about Roswell? Or Kecksburg?

 

[Substance D]

Look, I'm not b****ing about major changes to the mythos yet again (Oh I have a huge beef against anything that has come after the G1 series.) but I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach thinking about it sometimes.

oh, don't take it personally i wasn't attacking u i was talking about people in general.

 

[xwolverine2]

Look, I'm not b****ing about major changes to the mythos yet again (Oh I have a huge beef against anything that has come after the G1 series.) but I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach thinking about it sometimes.

see a phsychiatrist

 

[roach]

i understand product placement but making a 360 and ipod turn into a transformer is completley lame and makes no sense, even in a world of alien robots.
its only in the film for product placement.
the thing with bays films, the product placement has the subtlety of a brick.

yet you have no problem with a tapedeck and cassettes, a boombox or a Microscope transforming??????

 

[crazywill722]

Could someone PM me and I'll give you my e-mail addy so you can send me the script? It's been removed from the sites it was on.

 

[Spark]

What? It's not like it's some magical superweapon they convieniently created just in the nick of time to defeat this strange alien threat, it's just a powerful high heat, explosive. I dunno, how do you protect yourself from 6000 degree heat? Just because you know about something doesn't mean you have the means to defend against it. And their regeneration is due to nanomachines replicating themselves. I picture it kinda being when you burn a wound to stop the bleeding (sorry, brain fart, can't remember the technical term).

Anyways, I'm sure the Transformers know about the high energy weapons they use, but that doesn't mean their immune to them. Same thing with the sabots, how do you protect against 6000 heat?

That wasn't what I was talking about. If the heat interferes with their regeneration system then surely they'd be basing there's own weapons around this technology to use on eachother. Except Bumblebee merely sticks his legs back on when they're shot off (by a Decepticon), even though they don't work properly at first.

Bonecrusher basically melts under attack from human sabot rounds (assuming depleted uranium) yet Optimus sustains a "brutal" weapon based attack from two Decepticons and lives to fight the uber-powerful Megatron.

Like I said, it's just a cliched way to give humans an unrealistic "edge". Like water in SIGNS or the virus in ID4. Typical popcorn stuff.