Soundwave from "Transformers: The Fallen" film

[Doug]

MP3's, which would make combat ... interesting!

Or iTunes (evil) format, and have them assault enemies with DRM

 

[GloatingSwine]

Yeah, I know. I'm saying that they didn't stick to that mantra in the movie. What's the difference whether the transformers can do it or the magic block that makes more transformers can do it? It's still done.

Because the transformers are on screen a lot more often and transform a lot more often. Having them change size and apparent mass without anyone commenting on it would have been a noticable hole in the verisimilitude of the movie, and stopping to explain it would have required technobabble and silliness. Having the magic cube from outer space do it is a special effect.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

Because the transformers are on screen a lot more often and transform a lot more often. Having them change size and apparent mass without anyone commenting on it would have been a noticable hole in the verisimilitude of the movie, and stopping to explain it would have required technobabble and silliness. Having the magic cube from outer space do it is a special effect.

Dude.... we're talking about a Michael Bay movie. Everything is a special effect.

That said, if we're willing to accept that the "magic" cube that (and I emphasize this here) CREATES TRANSFORMERS can change from stadium size to handheld size (and be light enough that a teenager can carry it), would it really be such a leap to say that the beings that the magic cube creates will also have that ability?

At the end though, I suppose it doesn't matter much. Some folks liked the movie, others didn't. We're clearly in seperate camps, and I don't want to go out of my way to make you stop enjoying something. That'd be kind of a dick move even for me.

- J

 

[spyrewolf]

realistically they should have set the films in the 70's/80's when the toys were popular. this way they could have kept the vehicles and transformers closer to the original concepts, i dunno what they have done but this does not look like sound wave, the messed his face up, the only real recognizable ver is optimus prime.

Only popular in the 80s? I think Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Robots in Disguise, Transformers Armada/Energon/Cybertron, Alternators, Transformers Universe, and Transformers Animated would like to have a word with you. Those are just a few of the 90s and 2000s toylines.

.....um yeah, my point exactly, the flogged dead horse that was transformers at that point, basically after the 1st reboot (the one where optimus prime was killed and came back as a crazy zombie) sucked ....sooooo bad, beast wars popular..... really?, pfft noway, not like the popularity of the 70's/80's not even close, 1st gen is and still is the best version, even though the animation was rubbish, and stories were corny. the design of the transformers were soo much better than today

 

[spyrewolf]

Do like me, try to find something to enjoy in the current stuff or move on.

don't get me wrong i loved the film, i just think they should have stuck closer to the original source, i mean, megatron is a gun, i know its silly to see him turn into a hand gun, but at least make him a tank or something, soundwave should be somekind of sound emitting device, bumble bee should have been a small car, ....they don't have to be the same vehicles as the 80's one i guess, but least keep it close.