Iraq War in New Transformers Movie

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Iraq War in New Transformers Movie

Post by Zeiram999 » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:58 am

I just wanted to know if anybody else felt that placing themes of the Iraq war in the New Michael Bay Transformers adaptation is a bit tacky and hokey?

For instance, I used to be in the military myself and I went to Iraq for a couple of months, I even got to drive a truck around and take a look at all the cool weaponry and tanks and sh*t. For one thing, its cool to place politically-laced anecdotes and themes into a modern-day movie based on an anime series, since anime has a lot of military themes in it already. I just think its a bit crazy that they add contemporary themes and serious issues mentioned amidst the foreground of the interplay of the story (for instance a deceptacon emerging from the fasade of a MH-Pave III desert camoflauged chopper). I feel this is just wrong, and that they should stick mainly to the original back story.

For one, I think timely-ness is cool and all and it provides an emotional connection for the audience to respond to the characters, but I mean COME-ON people! This is The Transformers we're talking about. It simply does not mix.

At one time I even heard Hollywood was teaming with Peter Jackson to make a EVA movie and that The Wachowski Brothers are in fact making a Speed Racer film. I just hope that James Cameron does justice to his Battle Angel/Alita film coming out summer 2009 or something and that its cool rather than stinks. I think its neat that they're making Shia Labouf (I can't spell) one of the main characters, thats cool I suppose.

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Post by Minion » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:39 am

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Post by OmniStrata » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:04 am

It's war, it figures
that WON'T stop me from hearing Hugo Weaving turn Megatron GODLIKE
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Re: Iraq War in New Transformers Movie

Post by Scintilla » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:08 pm

Zeiram999 wrote:At one time I even heard Hollywood was teaming with Peter Jackson to make a EVA movie...
It's true, but don't forget that the people at GAiNAX also have a hand in it. Unfortunately, the project's been on hold for a while now, with no new news on it in at least a year.
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Post by Lyrs » Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:48 pm

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Post by Super Shanko » Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:17 am

OmniStrata wrote:It's war, it figures
that WON'T stop me from hearing Hugo Weaving turn Megatron GODLIKE
OMG! He's doing Megatron! considering he whipped ass with V's voice, i can imagine how MT will be, hopefully no long list of M words but not sounding like a Retardicon.

And anyone else notice that Anime/Manga movies are starting to pop up more and more.
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Post by Yarry » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:00 am

OmniStrata wrote:It's war, it figures
that WON'T stop me from hearing Hugo Weaving turn Megatron GODLIKE
It sure win't! :)

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Post by The Wired Knight » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:06 am

Meh, we have films involving every other war and the war in Iraq.


Anyway you might want to do some research first. Taht scene does not occur in Iraq and actually is the US. base in Qatar and actually has nothign to do with the war in Iraq.
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Post by Streicher » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:07 pm

You should put more trust into James Cameron. He knows how to properly use SFX. He mentioned often that Battle Angel Alita is a dream project of him since a long time ago. Hugo will surely die in a terrible way. Supersonic Martial Arts, Panzerkunst and Gehirn Umbau ftw. etc. etc. Also I can imagine that it will again be mostly his own money at stake. He is really interested in Alita.

For the Transformers Movie, I never watched any of the series and just can remember that Optimus Prime dying thingie of a movie. Never before saw the main villain outlive the main hero before. So that was memorable.
I don't really care for any staying true to canonical stories here. I just want to see some really awesome mecha hitting the shit out of each other while doing lots of collateral damage.
I even expect the rest of the movie to seriously suck. But as long as that rest of the movie is not as grinding like Spiderman 3 was I'm fine. What a terrible terrible movie.
I'm much more concerned how I will be able not to spoiler myself to death during the time between US and German release. While still being able to use the internets...
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Post by ZephyrStar » Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:47 pm

Streicher wrote:I even expect the rest of the movie to seriously suck.
Yeah pretty much. I kinda don't want to see it now that all my friends are in ZOMG mode over the trailer. Hopefully if I think it'll suck terribly bad, then I won't be disappointed when I get dragged along to go see it :O

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