The road in the shot is practically empty, though. There's literally one car and one truck on the entire stretch of road he landed on. The Autobots tend to be rather sociopathic in the films from the second one on, though, so it's to be expected.
And I don't buy that this was the only way the robots could've looked. Hell, they gave Prime those stupid frog toes that I honestly can't figure out how they got past the design phase.
The worst part is, this is likely going to set the standard for what theatrical giant robots are going to look like from here on.
Too bad the designers didn't take design cues from the Armored Core mecha. Something along those lines would look excellent in live-action.
They really should've introduced an Ultra Magnus or Grimlock/Dinobot type character to do all the sociopathic stuff, would've set off a nice-contrast to Optimus too.
edited 7th Jul '11 11:17:24 PM by Rynnec
Well, Armored Core does feature designs by Shoji Kawamori, and he actually designed the original Diaclone Battle Convoy toy, which was adapted into Optimus Prime. He also designed the Valkyries of Macross fame, which were some of the first transforming mecha (though I'm fairly certain that, not counter Getter Robo's really loose style of transformation, Raideen might have been the first).
Well, somebody is not cool enough too handle his awesomeness.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.So has anyone on this thread yet mentioned this plothole (I haven't read all the posts):
Sentinel Prime's ship gets shot down by Decepticons during the war. The Decepticons then work to secretly help the Autobots revive him, because he was their ally all this time.
That's right, the Decepticons shot down their own ally, whose spaceship was carrying vital military hardware he was going to give them anyhow.
So in other words, the whole movie's premise makes no sense and shouldn't be happening, because Sentinel Prime's ship shouldn't have been shot down.
That is defined as "nitpicking" in my book.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.My problem is that the moon plot was entirely arbitrary, written only to fill the first half ot the film with conspiracy theories so there's an illusion of the plot moving forward. If Sentinel's ship had crashlanded on Earth today, instead of the moon sixty years ago, it wouldn't have changed the last hour of the plot in any way.
edited 8th Jul '11 1:36:27 AM by Kerrah
I was talking the overall design schemes, a unifying appearance that makes the robots look alike, not the cosmetic choices with regards to things like proportions and "frog feet." Evidently they changed Megatron's original head design after fan backlash and both Optimus and Bumblebee had slight alterations for DOTM. You can argue how a character model could be improved but before "Bayformers" no other Transformer design scheme would work in live action. The original toyline didn't even heed that idea because it was mixing different Japanese toylines, the only similarity was robots that change into something else.
Some news!
There will be a Transformers 4.
It won't be a reboot, it will start a new trilogy.
However, Its unlikely the Bay and Shia will come back for it.
edited 8th Jul '11 8:56:21 AM by dmysta3000
GUNDAMU GUNDAMU

Mirage was the red Ferrari, you see him mostly in the opening scene showing the Autobots taking out an illegal nuclear facility. Are you talking about the highway chase and one of the Dreads getting thrown onto a passing car? I don't recall every intricate moment of every action scene but that seemed more like collateral damage to be expected in such a situation when fighting 20 foot tall robots while driving 50 MPH down a freeway. If you're talking about the 'Con being smashed into a car and thrown into a building it was Ironhide and Sideswipe (silver Corvette with twin swords), and I'm assuming the shop was empty.
The most advanced CG robot character created before the Transformers movies was General Grievous, which is far from what was needed for the movies. They would have had to go through the same tech development and the subsequent movies benefitted from all that stuff already being figured out. Some sort of middle ground between the boxy G1 and complex movie designs would be either War For Cybertron or Transformers Prime, and I don't think either (especially WFC) would really work live action. The movie robots are gritty and uncompromising in what they are, too hyper-stylized and they don't look like they can transform into anything.