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Sneak Preview Of Transformers The Movie

Yesterday, I attended the 20 minute long worldwideexclusivesneakpreviewofneverseenbeforefootage for Transformers the movie which will be arriving at the end of June 2007 (for trailers click here).

I went up to the reception counter and they asked me my name – to which I went ummmmmm. Luckily Deborah from UIP recognized me and said “He’s cowboy caleb lah”. And then because security was tight, they stamped my wrist with an Autobot brand.

Before going in, everybody had to surrender their mobile phones because Paramount didn’t want anybody leaking out information about the movie. So the bleating Singaporeans and I meekly formed a queue and dropped our phones into labeled envelopes before entering the cinema hall.

Once we were in, some dude did a quick speech and explained how the movie wasn’t exactly finished and was still in production. So some scenes would have uncompleted robots with no arms or legs.

Ok here was what I saw:

Scene 1:
An unidentified helicopter lands on a US military base in some Arab desert. It then proceeds to transform into a Deception (evil robot) and kill everybody.

Scene 2:
Bumblebee, a good Autobot pretends to be a car and gets bought by a geek named Sam Witwicky. He then proceeds to help Sam to get laid with the girl of his dreams by playing different songs on the radio.

Scene 3:
Sam and the hot girl bring Optimus Prime and his posse of Autbots to his home where they trash the garden. Evil government agents arrive to arrest Sam for suspected sexual relations contact with the robots.

Scene 4:
Scorponok (an evil Decepticon that transforms into a scorpion) attacks US soldiers and in the process destroys a Arab village. The soldiers call in an airstrike which fails to even dent Scorponok’s armour.

Conclusion: If you aren’t already familiar with the Transformers, you will enjoy this movie. The adrenaline from watching the robots transform from vehicle to robot mode is breath-taking.

Unfortunately, the movie violates what most fanboys already know about the Transformers. Nothing seems to be canon. Bumblebee is supposed to be a yellow volkswagon, but in the movie he is a yellow muscle car. And every single transformer look like they came out of the Lego Bionicle factory.

But hey, I still think it’s going to be an awesome movie!

why never get decepticon stamp instead?

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that’s what i didnt like…they looked like bionicle toys. :P

even with the random episodes i caught in between my JEM and MY LITTLE PONY sessions, i also dont think they did it any justice by whoring and pimping the bots up.

Must update the bots in order to attract the youth of the 21st century mah!! It’s so tak glam to watch a container truck transform into a robot lor. Like, HELLO?! Container truck?!

Must zhng zhng zhng!

OMG you were there too? I was with the grooup that came in at the very last minute… hehe.

Volkswagen didn’t license the Beetle image for the movie, so no more Bug, instead Camaro.

It’s a Michael Bay movie based on a cartoon meant to sell toys to children. I think it’s best to go in without any expectations.

Besides, there is a “real” Transformers movie. It was made in 1986 and it was the greatest thing ever.

Michael Bay definitely doesn’t have the Touch.

Regardless of how badly this movie rapes the original cartoon, though, I’ll probably be watching it anyway. Hell, it’s not like the original cartoon was particularly fantastic; when I watched the first season on DVD some of the thoughts running through my mind were “How did I ever enjoy this tripe?” and “What on earth was I smoking back then?” as well as “For that matter, what on earth was Hasbro smoking back then?” Still, I have great childhood memories of Transformers and some of the current generation cartoons and comics are still excellent excellent excellent.

Megan Fox is prob the hot gal u r tokin abt ;)

Awesome! I think it will be great movie to watch!

fuyohhhh … u making me excited here!

I am. So. Jealous.