Script For Transformers 2 Will Probably Suck

[Pimppeter2]

Yea so... My childish dreams are destroyed right

 

[Tharwen]

I called it before the strike

And the lottery this week will contain numbers

D:

NO!!!!!

 

[MovieBob]

Orci and Kurtzman haven't been behind a legitimately well-written movie yet (Zorro 2 kinda/sorta comes close,) so the fact that they're all-but saying "sorry" for THIS one is actually a little frightening...

The last film has probably the worst story, script, dialogue and execution-of-concept of any genre film of the last decade or more. Even with among all the OTHER stuff that doesn't work - Michael Bay's dogshit concept of action-direction, uniformly awful acting, horribly-designed robots, useless and extraneous human characters (what is the point of the army guys and the hackers again?) and so on... the script towers above all. It's an almost-entirely worthless film... the "masculine" equivalent to Twilight.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

People watch Transformers for one reason, the same reason we watched it as kids.

GIANT FUCKING ROBOTS.

Okay here is how you do a Transformer movie, you have ONE token human, he is there to be the team pet and then the robots beat on each other over a MacGuffin.

At some point robots combine and it will be awesome and *SPOILER* In the end the good guys win and Megatron swears vengence against Optimus Prime AGAIN and if were lucky Unicron can show up. but better save that for a third movie.

Nah Unicron will either be a massive unicycle or a giant cloud of nanobots.

Hell I'm not even a big transformers fan but even I get the point of it. GIANT ROBOTS. not Shia LeBoeuf trying to get some.

Damn right. But if they just give me HotRod as Rodimus Prime, I'll forgive them for EVERYTHING.

First, they had just two weeks to hammer out a 20 page outline that would serve as the pre-production guide, and then after the strike had finished, they had only three months to get the script finished.

It shouldn't take two people working full-time anywhere near three months to finish a script for an action movie. Look at The Wire for example: the second season began airing nine months after the end of the first. Twelve hour-long episodes of almost constant talking written by one person, which then need to filmed and edited. All done in the space of nine months. The Transformers script will probably be half the length of one episode of The Wire and there were two people working on it.

And a fortnight to do a twenty page plot outline? Again, I would imagine this is a typical time frame.

You don't really start writing a script for a series if you have no clue where it's going, the writer probably had a good idea of what to put down for the first and second season before it ended, maybe before it began.

He would have had longer than nine months, and if he did just have that, it would have been more likely he had the idea in his/her head rather than pulling ideas out of his/her arse.

Plus maybe they really want this to be good, or maybe they are bad writers, or have a severe case of writers block, but either way this is going to be a feature film. I banged out a feature film script in two weeks but no way in hell I consider that to be screen worthy.

If you're given two weeks for a pre production outline and three months to do a film script people want to see in the cinemas, on the side of other projects, also factoring in redrafts it's going to be tough.

Also a fortnight would probably be typical, maybe a month, but again it wasn't the only thing they were doing. The first draft most certainly won't be the last.

EDIT: Either way, the Writer's Guild sure as hell wasn't striking during the first movie, so I have no hope for this one.

 

[Nanissimov]

Are you really suprised, all of shialebufs movies suck, its not him as an actor its just the movies he gets attracted to.

 

[Dalisclock]

The First one had a script?

The half I watched didn't seem like it.

 

[PhantomCritic]

Honestly, if it's a script from this franchaise, it will almost definetly fail, the first one just scraped by, and in my experience, sequels are never better than the first, no matter how good(or in this case, bad).

 

[PhantomCritic]

I'm a movie critic by nature so I make it a point to find one good and one bad thing about every movie I go and see. Transformers wasn't great but it doesn't deserve this much hate. I could list a dozen movies that sucked worse then this that were released in this last year. If you're going to hate on a movie, hate on one that really, truly deserves it.

Yes i agree that there are worse movies, one movie in question would be Crank.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Like Robot Chicken said: EXPLOSIOOOOOOONNNNNS.

 

[timmytom1]

I called it before the strike

And the lottery this week will contain numbers

(Is so stunned that smoke falls out mouth) Dude, i checked the lottery ,AND IT CONTAINED NUMBERS!!!!! you`re like a .........psychic or something

 

[Pezzer]

I own the DVD of Transformers and in the special features they mention there was a script, then Michael Bay used it as firelighters mostly and changed it.

Hope is still out there.

Transformers was Awesome, as an action movie and also as a technical achievement with the cgi - live action combinations.

 

[PureChaos]

i liked Scream 3. i don't have many expectations for the film as i was never really a Transformers fan in the first place and quite enjoyed the first film. i'll check it out, could be a laugh

 

[The Shade]

The Transformers movies were always going to be mindless fun. Nothing wrong with that. I'll still go see it.

I <3 'splosions.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

I have one complaint about the Transformers movies. When I go to see a Transformers movie I want to see the Transformers in the starring role. I do not want Shia 'Every Role' LaBeouf and an all human main cast starring special guest stars The Transformers. So I implore Michael Bay, for this movie:

MORE BLOODY ROBOTS

 

[Brett Alex]

P.S. Soundwave comes back as a PS3. Half a million from Sony as well please.

The problem is, although he has free online mode, more powerful hardware than other leading Decepticons and is Blu-ray compatible, he is incredibly pricey and has a limited library.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

P.S. Soundwave comes back as a PS3. Half a million from Sony as well please.

The problem is, although he has free online mode, more powerful hardware than other leading Decepticons and is Blu-ray compatible, he is incredibly pricey and has a limited library.

He does have the voice of Stephen Fry though, which makes him AWESOME.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

First, they had just two weeks to hammer out a 20 page outline that would serve as the pre-production guide, and then after the strike had finished, they had only three months to get the script finished.

That does sound like it will suck and be half done, I'll say that.

 

[Jaebird]

As long as this robot movie is better than some other robot movie, and everything else that doesn't have "Star Trek" in it's title, I don't care.

 

[Sigenrecht]

At the moment I heard Capt. Lennox say, "Let's bring them to the un-evacuated population center to risk thousands of civilian lives, expose a huge-ass government conspiracy, and cause millions in collateral damage," (I might be paraphrasing) for the sake of another twenty or so minutes of action, I had my doubts. When they threw the Decepticons into the ocean instead of, you know, turn them to even tinier bits or slag, I knew things were going down hill from here.

 

[GloatingSwine]

And then, when the 45 minute violence gang-bang was supposed to happen, I instead got bukkake: messy, unorganized, and full of moments where I was asking; what in the fuck is going on here? .

Moar Itano Circus, Less Greengrass Edits.