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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    10/02/09

    In reply to Chinese TV Ink Ad Is Just Beautiful to Watch
    Stunning!
    Perfect match of ink and the traditional chinese music.
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    Bokusatsu_Tenshi was starred Bokusatsu_Tenshi was unstarred
    Image of Earthslide Earthslide
    10/01/09

    In reply to Chinese TV Ink Ad Is Just Beautiful to Watch
    I was ready for Ken and Ryu to duke it out .. followed by a Street Fighter 4 title screen.
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    Ruthless, If you let me promoted this comment Earthslide was starred Earthslide was unstarred
    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    10/01/09

    In reply to Chinese TV Ink Ad Is Just Beautiful to Watch
    They must have that special chemical that makes the water change colors with you go pee pee in the pool.
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    phunnyballs was starred phunnyballs was unstarred
    Image of madog madog
    10/02/09

    @phunnyballs: That's a myth!
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    madog was starred madog was unstarred
    Image of FightingChance FightingChance
    10/01/09

    In reply to Chinese TV Ink Ad Is Just Beautiful to Watch
    I'm sure it's been stated before, but I guffaw at the fact that CCTV can be both China Central Television and Closed Circuit Television, both being geared towards reporting and surveillance.

    Tre cool commercial, liquid/smoke CG effects are always amazing and always incredibly difficult to do.
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    kosai promoted this comment FightingChance was starred FightingChance was unstarred
    Image of XerxesQados XerxesQados
    10/01/09

    @FightingChance: In communist China, television watches you.

    Hmm...doesn't have the same ring as "Soviet Russia," but it's probably truer.
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    lolgreg promoted this comment XerxesQados was starred XerxesQados was unstarred
    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    10/01/09

    @XerxesQados: China is double plus good
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    10/02/09

    @XerxesQados: You make a most good point. Most good....
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    Image of stranger stranger
    07/09/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    That's got to be the most expensive product placement shot for a Michael Bay film within a Michael Bay film EVAR!
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    stranger was starred stranger was unstarred
    Image of stranger stranger
    07/09/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    "Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete" Or: How Hollywood lost it's fucking mind along with most of their broader audience.
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    stranger was starred stranger was unstarred
    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    07/07/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    a more detailed description here:

    [features.cgsociety.org]


    and the word 'rotoscoping' should really be 'matchmoving'...

     Reply
    goldfarb was starred goldfarb was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    Saw a flick not long ago

    'Bout transforming robots - so

    I figured - what the heck

    and endure this goddamn stupid dreck


    Never have I seen more ripe a turd

    There is no expletive - no word

    To describe this shit I can't undo

    Bay, you asshole, what's wrong with you?


    Transformer balls, Blackbird cane

    WTF are you insane?

    Minstrel droids - ghetto bots

    I'd rather take some morphine shots


    Terminators and silly shticks

    These robots eat a bag of dicks

    Cullen's voice cannot save

    the amount of brain cells that this shaved

     Reply
    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/07/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    Maybe that explains why his FiOS installation took so long. He needed a more Awesome connection.


    Seriously, his next movie should just be called "BLAM/BOOM!"

     Reply
    GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat was starred GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/07/09

    @TheyCallMeStacey_GitEmSteveDave: And what is ironic? I used my FiOS connection to download both Transformers movies!


    (ATTN RIAA: statement above is not true.)

     Reply
    GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat was starred GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat was unstarred
    Image of pharmboy pharmboy
    07/07/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    Even John Turturro couldn't save it
     Reply
    pharmboy was starred pharmboy was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    @pharmboy: I think he somehow made it worse.
     Reply
    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of B1663R B1663R
    07/07/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    yeah, that movie was painfully too long...
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    B1663R was starred B1663R was unstarred
    Image of Saboth Saboth
    07/07/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    So is it a girl that turns into a robot or a robot that looks like a girl?
     Reply
    Saboth was starred Saboth was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/07/09

    @Saboth: Both and yet, neither. I just blew your mind!
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    GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat was starred GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/07/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    Mark, please remove this article. I am still recovering from seeing the unspeakable horror that is "Transformers 2" and my therapist says that even stills or framegrabs can set off my PTSD.


    Just typing this comment is giving me a nervous tic.

     Reply
    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of phaota phaota
    07/07/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Oh come on, the movie wasn't even half as bad as you claim. Sure, it had stupid moments in it, but on the whole, it was a fun, mindless, summer action flick.
     Reply
    phaota was starred phaota was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I share your hatred of this movie. I don't feel quite so alone now.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of newgalactic newgalactic
    07/07/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Don't agree with phaota, the movie was in fact "that bad".


    It would have been an improvement to watch the movie "muted" during all dialog. Then turn on the sound when actual robot action started up. So much of that movie served no point and could have been left on the cutting room floor.


    SPOILERS!!!


    Like the Twins, Sam's parents in Egypt/College, College roommates, dude's in thongs (are they fricken serious?), robot balls, "bad" government/DOD guy, Blackbird robot (didn't even fly), Marine Corps commercial/Sam vision of Primes...

     Reply
    newgalactic was starred newgalactic was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    @newgalactic: Jetfire actually did fly once in the movie, but only very briefly, and right before the absent-throughout-the-rest-of-the-movie... scorponok burst out of the ground and ripped a hole in his torso.
     Reply
    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/07/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You aren't. Any movie that can make me feel any dislike for either a B1-b or a SR-71 is truly bad.
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    GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat was starred GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/07/09

    @phaota: It was joyless, hamfisted, mindnumbing, banal, and painful to watch and listen to.


    It made no sense, was overlong, frequently verged on racist, and lacked any artistic merit. I saw it only out of morbid curiosity, thinking "How bad can it be?"


    It makes "Armageddon" look like Laurence Olivier's "Henry V".

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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of smegz smegz
    07/07/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Haven't seen it...don't care to. Thought the first was a bit too campy. Is Transformers 2 worse than Van Helsing? Van Helsing currently sits at the top of my list of steaming piles...followed closely by Catwoman.
     Reply
    smegz was starred smegz was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    @smegz: Transformers kicks the shit out of Van Helsing in suck ability. It'd make Hugh Jackman think he played the prestige role of a lifetime.
     Reply
    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/07/09

    @smegz: If this movie had Torgo, liturgical dance, and featured someone eating feces, it would have been a vastly better movie.
     Reply
    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of LVL32 LVL32
    07/07/09

    In reply to Why Just 2 Seconds of Transformers 2 Took 3 Months to Complete
    I really think the robot girl was a bit much.
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    LVL32 was starred LVL32 was unstarred
    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    07/07/09

    @PDSM: a bit? she had no point in the movie, whatsoever. other than Michael's seemingly erotic fantasy involving a 6-foot long robotic tongue.
     Reply
    acrobatic rabbit was starred acrobatic rabbit was unstarred
    Image of Cjay79 Cjay79
    07/07/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: Michael Bay loves Tentacle Rape?
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    Cjay79 was starred Cjay79 was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/07/09

    @Cjay79: No, but he does enjoy Tentacle Grape soda! You going to get graped!


    @bkchosun: Since they became nanites like in the scene stolen from Aeon Flux where ball bearings could move on their own and be explosives/a transformer.

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/07/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: i thought that was the point of the entire movie, michael's erotic fantasies.
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    tetracycloide was starred tetracycloide was unstarred
    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/07/09

    @PDSM: Robot girl? Do you mean Megan Fox or the other character?
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    Hello Mister Walrus was starred Hello Mister Walrus was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    07/07/09

    @PDSM: I think the Racist Twins were a bit much.
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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of citizensmith: I may be stupid but: citizensmith: I may be stupid but:
    07/07/09

    @PDSM: Apparently the back story is that when that one landed in proto form it landed in Disney land. It's first thing it saw that it latched on to was an animatronic Alice in Wonderland (hence the name Alice). So sure, still a bit of a stretch, but slightly more acceptable than transformers straight copying humans.


    And I think the ball bearings becoming razor thin transformer bugged me more. Really, when did they learn how to transform at a molecular level.

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    citizensmith: I may be stupid but: was starred citizensmith: I may be stupid but: was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    07/07/09

    @citizensmith: Actually, if you wanted to try and ground their transforming abilities in some kind of reality, they'd have to transform at the molecular level anyway, since they change the properties of their bodies to different components, such as rubber insulation for wiring, rubber compounds for tires, fuel, and paint finishes throughout. Their protoforms are nothing like the vehicles they mimic, so their body panels would have to completely shift in shape to accommodate the form they want to copy.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of ShadowX ShadowX
    06/30/09

    In reply to Excellent Special Effects or Terrifying New Sewer Creatures? You Decide
    And here we go. The question as to what it is has been answered...
    [cryptozooblog.blogspot.com]


    Still a little disturbing

     Reply
    ShadowX was starred ShadowX was unstarred
    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    07/01/09

    @ShadowX: Well done.
     Reply
    shorty63136 was starred shorty63136 was unstarred
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