stories from the middle earth press room

for making an awesome film about the transformers!

i was speechless the whole screening. gad. i can't say anything else but michael bay and the rest of the movie makers (i call the CG people movie makers) are really really good at what they do.

i love optimus prime!!!

i was awestruck by the action sequences and (optimus-prime-and-another-decepticon-combat on the higway was waaaay too cool for school!). basta lahat maganda.

the director's decision of not exposing all the robots in the trailers is a really good move because it leaves the audience wanting for more...atsaka the action scenes are not all in the trailers, unlike some movies na kung ano lang ang nasa trailers yun lang ang maganda.

i would've been crushed if peter cullen was not hired to voice optimus prime. for me his voice was the autobots, enough said. glad that he made the cut. listening to prime brought all the good feelings i had when i was a kid watching the cartoons. there's something about cullen's voice that makes me feel safe -- probably because optimus prime's character makes you feel that way anyway...iba talaga pag narinig mo "autobots, transform!" o kaya "autobots, roll-out!"

kaso ang naalala ko lang na narinig ko, "autobots, fallback!"

sadly, frank welker was not hired to do megatron since accdg. to the movie makers, his voice has aged a lot for the old fans to recognize him. cullen's voice has aged, too, but it was still recognizable as prime. welker was demoted to voicing megatron on the video game. hmpph.

who provided the voice for megatron? hugo weaving. buti naman hindi mala-matrix ang boses nya. they did something to make his voice sound mechanical/alien-ish. but it was not as matining as frank welker's.

i did not hear star scream's annoying screams. so sad.

another thing, it was so funny hearing optimus prime saying "ebay". hahahahahaha! *luthien falls off the bed laughing* who would have thought that optimus prime checks out ebay!

or the web for that matter.

i love how starscream transforms mid-air. he is, i think, an F-22.

i have always thought that it was unfair that autobots were disadvantaged since most of them were cars or land vehicles whereas decepticons can either fly or float on air. in the movie, they are mostly military vehicles like tanks, military choppers, jet fighters, etc.

and megatron is no longer a sissy gun. bwahahahahaha! it would have been too awkward to have starscream pointing megatron (as a gun) at optimus prime. imagine a beautiful CGI-laden movie with a gun as the main antagonist. nyi...

go, watch the movie. i can go an and on about it but it's futile to describe it. go!