Think of this diary as a thread about music, movies, & television, and what people think the rest of us should check out. Recommendations for CDs, DVD & TV picks are welcome. I thought it would be a nice change of pace from arguing over Israel. Let's have all new shit to argue about!!!
However, I have to go very OT & talk about something I just heard about last tonight...
...I've mentioned the upcoming
Transformers Movie that's in production in previous diaries. For a lot of American males, the cartoon was a big part of our childhood.
About a month ago, I mentioned in a diary that fans were going nuts about changes that Director Michael Bay was making to the characters. Bumblebee has been changed from a yellow 60s VW Beetle to a yellow 2008 Chevrolet Camaro...
Well now the news is about Optimus Prime. This is what Prime looked like in the cartoon...
Well now he's going to look like this in the $100 million+ Hollywood Production....
Maybe Michael Bay is making a ZZ Top video? No wonder the guy gets made fun of on "Entourage". The robot version of Prime is probably still being worked on, but I have to believe it'll probably be just as bad. How fucking hard is it to find a flat nosed Mack truck & paint it red & blue? Flames? FLAMES???
This image was leaked to Aint It Cool News, but taken down after Paramount's lawyers called to complain. The reaction from fans has been heavy & hard in criticism. The official reason given for the changes is that they're going for "realistic physics" in the robots...
The reasons why they went with a huge long nose truck for OP (BTW, regarding the flames, there is a context for them like Orci pointed out). Bay said they did test with flat noses (FN) for scale purposes, and the FN would only be about 20 to 25 feet tall, so they went with the biggest truck they could find: the Peterbilt. We're talking 40 to 50 foot tall robots here. The physics for these robots have to be real...aka no magically disappearing parts. Also, OP is going to have much more red than what was shown in the supposedly "leaked" photo.
To which one poster over at AICN responded...
"The physics for these robots have to be real." What the fuck kind of retarded thinking is that. We're talking about huge robots from another planet that just so happen to "transform" into objects found here on Earth and "the physics for these robots have to be real"? Are you fucking kidding me? No they don't if you can suspend your disbelief about giant fucking robots from another planet that are able to "transform" into object found here on Earth then I'm pretty fucking certain you can suspend your disbelief if the physics don't seem real.