Transformers: Age of Extinction

Originally posted by Kazenji
I'd be up for a reboot of the franchise in a couple of years

the IDW comics have better stories written in them.

After we get UNICRON, sure.

Knowing Bay, Unicron would be the size of the moon.

In defense of that, it would be immensely expensive to make him his true size, which rivals that of Cyberton and has been compared to Jupiter or larger.

why would it be immensely expensive?

Because they'd have to CG it. And the more CG you use, the more expensive it is.

They have to CG pretty much everything in the movies already though....

Originally posted by Robtard

lol

Since people don't like these human characters, why not make a GIJOE VS Transformers movie?

Originally posted by ares834
They have to CG pretty much everything in the movies already though....

the size of an object that needs to be digitally created doesn't matter... that's what scale tools in the programs are for. The intricacy is what matters. I don't know anything about Unicron, but unless he turns into something that has TONS of intricate moving parts, it wouldn't take the artists any more time to create him than any of the other bots... and therefore, wouldn't add any significant cost.

Originally posted by Slowpoke
Since people don't like these human characters, why not make a GIJOE VS Transformers movie?

Originally posted by marwash22
this.

the size of an object that needs to be digitally created doesn't matter... that's what scale tools in the programs are for. The intricacy is what matters. I don't know anything about Unicron, but unless he turns into something that has TONS of intricate moving parts, it wouldn't take the artists any more time to create him than any of the other bots... and therefore, wouldn't add any significant cost.

You see how many details go into the normal sized transformers. Now Unicron is the size of a planet and is a planet in his alt-mode. The sheer scope of that transformation is staggering. Even his transformation in the original movie took a minute or more and was probably the most complicated one done back then.

remember how they did the allspark transformation in the first movie? With something that size, i doubt they'd zoom in the entire time the thing is transforming. They can start zoomed in, then pan out for the rest of the minute-long transformation.

they could also use composite footage from a bunch of other bot transformations they already have made from previous movies.

The All-Spark was larger than all the transformers yeah, but it wasn't even the size of a building. Remember when they tried to bring Cybertron to Earth? Well pretend they got the whole thing there, and then the entirety of the planet transformed. Even panned out, Unicron is massive and would have more parts than probably every other transformer combined a few times over. And there's no composite they could use.

YouTube video

i think you're making too much of it, and the clip you posted does't help your case concerning the transformation's intricacy... it doesn't appear to be comprised of all the gears etc. that the autobots are comprised of. Also, in the clip you posted, they did exactly what i said they could do... start zoomed in, then pan out for the remainder of the transformation.

Your overall point is valid, but exaggerated. The character can be done without extreme cost.

Originally posted by Slowpoke
Since people don't like these human characters, why not make a GIJOE VS Transformers movie?

its been rumored, but Bay'll prolly do it though

This was previewed with Captain America, looks epic, pretty cool Mark is in it and not that stupid boy.

Looks like shit. I won't be watching

God damn I can't wait to see this.

Originally posted by Kazenji
I'd be up for a reboot of the franchise in a couple of years

the IDW comics have better stories written in them.

A picture book with no words drawn by a lifelong deaf, mute and blind person cold tell a better story than what we've seen from the, Transformers movies. I can give the first movie a pass but there's no argument that can be made which justifies the result of the second and third .

From the trailer I don't expect this movie to be much different than the last two. The transformers are hunted by the worlds governments as a threat and repeatedly told to leave or surrender themselves for reverse engineering until they're needed to stop the bad robots. Its not the scenario I have the problem with, it's the execution. You can recycle and re-tell the same scenario an endless amount of times without being monotonous as long as you keep It relevant and fresh. From what changes I've seen an heard about seem promising, though