Shia LeBeouf needs another house, or does Michael Bay want to find another woman to hire so he can molest her?

Guntram Shatterhand: Shia LeBeouf needs another house, or does Michael Bay want to find another woman to hire so he can molest her?

You say that like it can't be both...

The funding cut was a decision by the board.

Transformers is played out.

Where's my Gobots movie?

You know, if I found a gateway to the next world, I'd probably market it at $19.95 a pop, and make it out of pasteboard and plastic. I'd probably be pissed about the budget getting cut for the movie about it, though.

Considering the TF movies make a gazillion dollars, they'll "consider" doing them until they are unprofitable.

Yes! I love the Transformers movies! This made my day, these movies rock.

Big Beef Burrito: Transformers is played out.

Where's my Gobots movie?

Hanging out with the Robotech movie at a coffee shop, smoking menthols and talking about how the Inhumanioids and Visionaries: Knights of Magical Light are a bunch of farking sell-outs. But Robotech's got to go, it's got an audition in a few hours.

Candyland the Movie. I for one will see that. Saw the trailer for battleship. It has nothing to do with the game.

MDGeist: Yes! I love the Transformers movies! This made my day, these movies rock.

i predict 5 bites.

Jake Havechek: FX has been showing Transformers 3 on an endless loop for 4 days now.

Huh? It just came out on dvd/bluray.

I thought there already was a ouija board movie. Google tells me I'm thinking of Witchboard from 1986. I'm guessing it's probably not as good as I remember it.

FunkOut: A Ouija board movie? Are they remaking Witchboard?

Whoa, man.

MDGeist: Yes! I love the Transformers movies! This made my day, these movies rock.

Mr Bay, is that you?

palelizard: Big Beef Burrito: Transformers is played out.

Where's my Gobots movie?

Hanging out with the Robotech movie at a coffee shop, smoking menthols and talking about how the Inhumanoids and Visionaries: Knights of Magical Light are a bunch of farking sell-outs. But Robotech's got to go, it's got an audition in a few hours.

Gah! Thank you! I've been trying to put vague memories of that cartoon to a name for about 3 years now.

/no, I dunno why it took that long

Orgasmatron138: I thought there already was a ouija board movie. Google tells me I'm thinking of Witchboard from 1986. I'm guessing it's probably not as good as I remember it.

Yep. Witchboard. Decent movie. Turns out the board was.....

**************SPOILER ALERT**************

....evil.

domo_kun_sai: Candyland the Movie. I for one will see that. Saw the trailer for battleship. It has nothing to do with the game.

Does too.

Watch the trailer carefully. At one point, shells from the 'battleship' smack into the side of the alien craft and stick there, unable to fully penetrate....3 or 4 in a row...just like in the game.

/when you see it...
//gonna have to be the lamest movie ever
///Liam, what the hell?

Micronauts

FARK yeah..!

/loved me some Micronauts

They want to remake Clue?

Fark them. Fark them hard. The movie is perfect as is.

domo_kun_sai: Candyland the Movie. I for one will see that. Saw the trailer for battleship. It has nothing to do with the game.

Hey took me 4 times watching the trailer to figure out the things the "aliens" shot were the pegs

Big Beef Burrito: Transformers is played out.

Where's my Gobots Shogun Warriors movie?
FTF all.

Stretch Armstrong is a porno, right?

/seriously - I thought the article was from the Onion or something
//then I saw Battleship and came to the realization that it was all real

Before this thread turns into a shiat storm, I want to make a point.

The Transformers movies don't suck because they are mindless action movies about fighting robots. That would be awesome. They suck because they are NOT mindless action movies about fighting robots. They are 2.5 hours of this douche-bag.

alowishus: Before this thread turns into a shiat storm, I want to make a point.

The Transformers movies don't suck because they are mindless action movies about fighting robots. That would be awesome. They suck because they are NOT mindless action movies about fighting robots. They are 2.5 hours of this douche-bag.

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That, and the action is often indecipherable close-up shaky cam stuff. There's an art to doing that without losing the audience, and Bay doesn't have it.

madgonad: //then I saw Battleship and came to the realization that it was all real

Have you suffered the misfortune of having seen the Battleship trailer? Avoid it if you can.

I mean I know Liam Neeson, has done his fair share of bad movies, but damn.

There have only been 3? Sure seems like more.

domo_kun_sai: Candyland the Movie. I for one will see that. Saw the trailer for battleship. It has nothing to do with the game.

Watch again closely

The aliens put up a force field that not only makes everyone stay in a small area (board) but they jam all signals in and out. This will likely lead to the climactic moment of the movie. The main character will be standing on the bridge with many of his officers looking at him. He will probably have a ripped shirt and something on fire in the background. As the music swells he will slowly raise the intercom to his face and sternly say "fire B7"

There will also likely be multiple moments where someone bangs on a console and yells "they sunk our battleship!" Also lots of top down shots, lots.

There are tens of thousands of good writers in the world, and thousands in the USA -- I'm one of them! -- and several hundred in and around LA. The Transformers movies could be pretty darn good if Bay would just hand a script to any one of them a month or two before shooting. Each movie is progressively worse at telling the farking story. The effects are fancier and the scale is getting even larger, but who watched Dark of the Moon: did the girlfriend/new job/DC stuff take place over a few weeks or a few months? How the eff did they get from the Mall in DC to the outskirts of Chicago in just a few moments? I had dozens of questions like this watching that movie. The effects are as good as has been done, the battle scenes do their job, etc...but as every comedian knows, a punchline is only as good as its setup.

Deus ex machina, "god in the machine,": an outside element suddenly inserted to resolve a problem. In these movies, the machines are god: it's just scene of robot nonsense after scene of robot nonsense. If somehow someone were allowed to oversee the narrative structure, guess what: you'd have a 150-minute movie that people enjoyed watching. Even with Shia.

I kinda want to rewatch the movie and make notes...FedEx them to Bay and be like, hey, give me $50k and we'll fix this next damn movie. Because that's a plan that would work.

Shrugging Atlas: madgonad: //then I saw Battleship and came to the realization that it was all real

Have you suffered the misfortune of having seen the Battleship trailer? Avoid it if you can.

I mean I know Liam Neeson, has done his fair share of bad movies, but damn.

I know. I really feel for Liam. First, his wife dies and then he doesn't hook up with Claudia Schiffer.

alowishus: Before this thread turns into a shiat storm, I want to make a point.

The Transformers movies don't suck because they are mindless action movies about fighting robots. That would be awesome. They suck because they are NOT mindless action movies about fighting robots. They are 2.5 hours of this douche-bag.

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I just watched this last night with my kids, and I couldn't figure out what the problem was with the way they wrote this character. I thought at first that the robots were still considered Top Secret, so he couldn't talk about his time working with them. Coupled with an Ivy League degree, that would have to open doors.

Then I realized that everyone knew about the Autobots. So this really made no sense.

He's got some kind of medal from the President that he's clearly allowed to speak about, so just how secret is this?

They couldn't find some kind of make-work job for him? They couldn't make him a liaison? A consultant? Even just to make sure that he's got enough money so that he's not likely to sell what he knows to the highest bidder?

FunkOut: Make a Snakes and Ladders movie with giant snakes eating people.

Hungry hungry hippos terrorizing a neighbourhood.

A Mystery Date romantic comedy.

A game of Sorry! where people die.

Lose a game of Jenga? Down goes the Empire State Building.

Shrugging Atlas: madgonad: //then I saw Battleship and came to the realization that it was all real

Have you suffered the misfortune of having seen the Battleship trailer? Avoid it if you can.

I mean I know Liam Neeson, has done his fair share of bad movies, but damn.

He is always safe because of this.

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

PsyLord: Huh? It just came out on dvd/bluray.

It's a pretty easy mistake to make as they are all jumbled messes of shiny fx and awful acting.

WOO HOO! I was worried we weren't going to get a Transformers thread this week!

Big Beef Burrito: Transformers is played out.

Where's my Gobots movie?

Hasbro bought the Gobots parent company. Gobots are now relegated to being red-shirts in Transformer comics whenever they need a quick death but don't want to sacrifice one of the robots that actually matter.
Cy-Kill, in particular, gets murdered a bunch.

Eirik: alowishus: Before this thread turns into a shiat storm, I want to make a point.

The Transformers movies don't suck because they are mindless action movies about fighting robots. That would be awesome. They suck because they are NOT mindless action movies about fighting robots. They are 2.5 hours of this douche-bag.

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I just watched this last night with my kids, and I couldn't figure out what the problem was with the way they wrote this character. I thought at first that the robots were still considered Top Secret, so he couldn't talk about his time working with them. Coupled with an Ivy League degree, that would have to open doors.

Then I realized that everyone knew about the Autobots. So this really made no sense.

He's got some kind of medal from the President that he's clearly allowed to speak about, so just how secret is this?

They couldn't find some kind of make-work job for him? They couldn't make him a liaison? A consultant? Even just to make sure that he's got enough money so that he's not likely to sell what he knows to the highest bidder?

he spent a lot of time in the second one biatching/whining about wanting to be normal, so maybe they went along that story line

Der Poopflinger: Eirik: alowishus: Before this thread turns into a shiat storm, I want to make a point.


They couldn't find some kind of make-work job for him? They couldn't make him a liaison? A consultant? Even just to make sure that he's got enough money so that he's not likely to sell what he knows to the highest bidder?

he spent a lot of time in the second one biatching/whining about wanting to be normal, so maybe they went along that story line

I suppose so, but it still doesn't make much sense. He acts like he's not allowed to mention it, the closest he comes is when he's being interviewed for the job that he actually gets. (and if he's in the mail room, why does he later seem to have a desk?).

He's clearly desperate enough by that point to at least land a job based on his history (he mentions the medal incessantly) but he doesn't.

/Sorry, looking for logic in a transformers movie
//Annoyed they called The Sears Tower the Willis Tower, too.

anyone who made it through 3 without fast forwarding should get a medal.

/made it 45 minutes through the film before i just fast forwarded to the parts that actually looked interesting
//really wasnt that interesting, someone should edit that POS down to 90 minutes

palelizard: Big Beef Burrito: Transformers is played out.

Where's my Gobots movie?

Hanging out with the Robotech movie at a coffee shop, smoking menthols and talking about how the Inhumanioids and Visionaries: Knights of Magical Light are a bunch of farking sell-outs. But Robotech's got to go, it's got an audition in a few hours.

Thinking about it, I would watch both of those...

Tom Paulin: MDGeist: Yes! I love the Transformers movies! This made my day, these movies rock.

Mr Bay, is that you?

Can't be. Not enough 'splosions.

StoPPeRmobile: Shrugging Atlas: madgonad: //then I saw Battleship and came to the realization that it was all real

Have you suffered the misfortune of having seen the Battleship trailer? Avoid it if you can.

I mean I know Liam Neeson, has done his fair share of bad movies, but damn.

He is always safe because of this.

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

That was a good monologue, but the real moment he crossed over into complete badass territory was when he had the dude wired to the chair.

"I believe you, but it's not going to save you."

As for the 4th Transformers flick, if you stop buying tickets and renting the DVD's, they will stop making them. As long as they are an ATM for Paramount, the sequels are going to keep rolling out.