Transformers G3:Best Wars - Page 5

Sky Warrior Bob · 12-29-2006, 08:53 PM

Prime speaks, the Top 10...

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Kroze Gamegod · 12-29-2006, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Sky Warrior Bob

Prime speaks, the Top 10...

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"This world should learn from it's own mistakes, not ours." and "There's a thin line between being a hero and being a memory" are just plain kickass!
The line that got chosen still upsets me.
And "Its Prime Time!" is just horrible....

*Still wishes "When I get done with you Megatron, there won't be enough peices to make a handgun" got in there*

Krylo · 12-29-2006, 09:26 PM

...I don't know... seemed like he delivered every single one of those lines terribly. But then, that's just me.

Kroze Gamegod · 12-29-2006, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by krylo

...I don't know... seemed like he delivered every single one of those lines terribly. But then, that's just me.

Well, you also gotta think about how long it has been since he did Optimus Prime before...
He's quite rusty and you can hear it a bit.

Sky Warrior Bob · 12-29-2006, 09:45 PM

Terrible? I think that's a bit too far, but it is like the Cullen just read each one from a list, in a monotone version of the Prime voice. Which is likely what he did.

At Comic-Con he put a lot more into the Optimus phone call (where he called in as Optimus), and between that, and his voice work in the IGPX bumpers, I say he's still got it.

He's just not using it here.

If you want comparison, this thread has a number of the same sayings, but from the original G1 source.

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Mirai Gen · 12-30-2006, 05:40 AM

I'm sure that when he gets to doing the actual movie, he'll have some more emotion.

Or at least he had better.

Sky Warrior Bob · 12-30-2006, 07:41 AM

Not that I really can call myself a voice actor with the scant work I've done, but you tend to get better quality when you actually have a scene & parse it some motivation. Then you can add inflection & some emotion to your tone.

Cullen was given a bunch of lines, and he read them well enough, but without any real variation in his tone. Given the nature of what he was being asked to read, I couldn't really expect anything better.

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OctopusPrime · 12-31-2006, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

Yeah, Transformers: The Movie wasn't so hot in my book either. But that's mostly because half of the Autobots were killed by Unicron in the first ten minutes, Jazz and Bumblebee never showed up in the movie, Spike is now 35 and a father, Thundercracker and Skywarp were tossed off Astrotrain, Megatron turned into Galvatron, Optimus Prime was killed, and Ultra Magnus was introduced as the temporary "leader". All in all, it wasn't much Transformers, it was more like "Transformers: Beginning Of G2".

Which isn't to say it had it's benefits. Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime was pretty slick, and the fight with Prime/Megs was sweet too. I just wish the movie, instead of being a "Next Generation Intro", was just a really long really epic episode of Transformers. I'd even be cool with Prime dying, I just wish it wasn't in the first part of the movie.

But moving on, yeah, I'm with you - if it's better than the original Transformers movie, well, that's perfectly cool with me. Hell, if it does that, we might be treated to sequels. Bay certainly implied that.

Sorry, but I couldn't let this post slide by without commenting:
1. Half the Autobots were killed by Megatron's invasion party (and the consequent invasion of Autobot City/Metroplex), not Unicron. Point in fact, besides eating Lithone, Uni doesn't appear at all for the first solid chunk of the movie.

2. Jazz and Bumblebee DO show up. They don't do a whole lot (Jazz calls Unicron a "Gi-normus planet" and then gets gobbled up, and Bumblebee blows up a moon in Uni's face and then gets gobbled up), but they are present.

3. Despite claims to the contrarary, G2 didn't begin until LONG after the original series ended and it was literally just a repackaging of the original series, except it was "improved" with lots of really, really, really awful special effects cluttering up the screen. Also: The toys were mostly worse. Up until they actually used the term "Generation 2", it was all G1. Even all the awful, awful, Japanese series.

Yes, I am a huge Transformers nerd.

Mirai Gen · 12-31-2006, 04:45 PM

Well I'm obviously not so hot on the movie itself. Yeah, Jazz and Bumblebee show up for like, thirty seconds, but that's not exactly what I wanted out of Transformers: The Movie, anyway.

But weren't most of the Autobots killed at Autobot City part of the newly introduced crowd? The people who showed up between 1984 and 2005 off-camera?

Sky Warrior Bob · 12-31-2006, 05:07 PM

Mirai flubbed some of the facts, but as for his G2 comment, I'd say the after effects of the TF movie felt more like a 2nd Gen than the actual G2 did. One way or another, most of the original cast was wiped out. And on both sides we got new faces, as well as new leaders.

In G2, at its start we get just a lot of the old G1 faces with new paint jobs. So in comparison, post TF movie does feel like a new gen to me.

(Of course, it doesn't help that I pretty much didn't follow the TF line ever since the action master days, right up until Beast Wars. I was never a comic reader, as I couldn't really afford the habit & I hate jumping into stories mid-stream, so when G2 first came out, all I saw were the recycled molds.)

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12-29-2006, 09:45 PM	#45
Sky Warrior Bob bOB iZ brOkeN Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a nice place to visit... Posts: 3,755	Terrible? I think that's a bit too far, but it is like the Cullen just read each one from a list, in a monotone version of the Prime voice. Which is likely what he did. At Comic-Con he put a lot more into the Optimus phone call (where he called in as Optimus), and between that, and his voice work in the IGPX bumpers, I say he's still got it. He's just not using it here. If you want comparison, this thread has a number of the same sayings, but from the original G1 source. SWB __________________ :bmage: Because breakdancing is evil, and so am I, you will click on this link: The power of evil compels you... You are in error. No one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation. Yes I know the breakdancing BM link doesn't work, and I don't care. Last edited by Sky Warrior Bob; 12-29-2006 at 10:06 PM.

12-30-2006, 05:40 AM	#46
Mirai Gen We are Geth. Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 14,032	I'm sure that when he gets to doing the actual movie, he'll have some more emotion. Or at least he had better. __________________

12-30-2006, 07:41 AM	#47
Sky Warrior Bob bOB iZ brOkeN Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a nice place to visit... Posts: 3,755	Not that I really can call myself a voice actor with the scant work I've done, but you tend to get better quality when you actually have a scene & parse it some motivation. Then you can add inflection & some emotion to your tone. Cullen was given a bunch of lines, and he read them well enough, but without any real variation in his tone. Given the nature of what he was being asked to read, I couldn't really expect anything better. SWB SWB __________________ :bmage: Because breakdancing is evil, and so am I, you will click on this link: The power of evil compels you... You are in error. No one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation. Yes I know the breakdancing BM link doesn't work, and I don't care.

12-31-2006, 04:45 PM	#49
Mirai Gen We are Geth. Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 14,032	Well I'm obviously not so hot on the movie itself. Yeah, Jazz and Bumblebee show up for like, thirty seconds, but that's not exactly what I wanted out of Transformers: The Movie, anyway. But weren't most of the Autobots killed at Autobot City part of the newly introduced crowd? The people who showed up between 1984 and 2005 off-camera? __________________

12-31-2006, 05:07 PM	#50
Sky Warrior Bob bOB iZ brOkeN Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a nice place to visit... Posts: 3,755	Mirai flubbed some of the facts, but as for his G2 comment, I'd say the after effects of the TF movie felt more like a 2nd Gen than the actual G2 did. One way or another, most of the original cast was wiped out. And on both sides we got new faces, as well as new leaders. In G2, at its start we get just a lot of the old G1 faces with new paint jobs. So in comparison, post TF movie does feel like a new gen to me. (Of course, it doesn't help that I pretty much didn't follow the TF line ever since the action master days, right up until Beast Wars. I was never a comic reader, as I couldn't really afford the habit & I hate jumping into stories mid-stream, so when G2 first came out, all I saw were the recycled molds.) SWB __________________ :bmage: Because breakdancing is evil, and so am I, you will click on this link: The power of evil compels you... You are in error. No one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation. Yes I know the breakdancing BM link doesn't work, and I don't care.