Monday, April 23, 2007
Run Shia Run!: Barricade Chase Image
Another image has hit the web from Entertainment Weekly, the same issue as the Optimus image, that shows an excellent shot of an angry Barricade chasing after Shia. I am not sure but in the upper right, it looks like Prime is about to interfere with the chase. Either way, an excellent image that invokes danger and fear.
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Good eye, that does indeed look like Prime in the background
ReplyDeletesorry to dissapoint but prime aint in this sequence! think its before spike is introduced to him. this is where barricade is chasing after spike under the freeway having tossed bumblebee aside. this picture has been shown on over siebertron and appears to have been 'painted' to improve the quality. this shot has been taken from one of the trailers also already released. not sure which one but if you view thru them again (i'm sure it wont seem like a chore) then you'll see its just spike and barricade in this shot).
ReplyDeletestill dont think ill be happy with keith david voicing him... barricade looks like he'd have more of an insecticon voice... what with his face n all... i know keith's voice will be comp synced... but i just cant picture it! oh well we'll see!!
Is it July yet? Screw Spider-Man!!
ReplyDeleteI love Barricade design, the only thing I dislike its the friggin fingers, but in general its awesome!
ReplyDeleteI could lament about this being Bay's Transformers and not the real thing. But, I wont. Bay got the rights to use the names and so on, it's hit show, he should do it in such a manor as will make the best return on the invested money, so that he may get backers for his next film.
ReplyDeleteNuff, said about that.
I find one thing off center and a bit offensive. Yes, he's a Decepticon, I know. But having a scary evil bad shape changing police car is not the greatest idea. First off it's far too much like the bad guy in T2, but that's not my problem with it.
This character is an evil bad police car in a move promoting kids Toys. This and many other dimensions of this film conflict with idea of promoting kids toys. It's Hasbro's brand to license and do with what they will, but in my book this is an error.
The charm of the Transformers was the good vs bad. The bad guys were bad, and they often turned on each other. You know they were bad, and you knew they ever focused. This meant they must be stopped.
The good guys were good. You knew their cause was just simply by the fact that they apposed Megatron and his army. They wished not only to free their people and planet form slavery, buy also save whomever the could.
It theme was made exceptionally clear in the Beast wars show during the Agenda story. This gave us someone to root for and someone to hate, making the defeat of the bad guys much more sweat. You wanted them to lose so bad, and you wished for the best for the heroes.
It's that this amazingly clear message was not as much the focus here. Bay needs to see a return on the investment. He's not an artist in the sense that he would starve for his art. This is a pure Hollywood schlock move.
Robots, 4 million years, humans, Earth, Cybertron, all just a backdrop to a story far bigger. The true content is the characters, their interaction, their focus and meaning.
I digress.
A police car should be a good guy, not a bad guy. It's a bad message for kids. If you don't have kids you don't know what I'm talking about, and think that it's meaningless. I'm sure police are not going to be happy when little kids are pointing at them and yelling "Decepticon!"
Im 22 years old, and I am already pointing at pigs yelling "Decepticon!" :D
ReplyDeleteI'n fact I have always been doing it seein how they are the real bad guys!
No I havent seen anyone call a a cop a terminator from T2
But then again I hope this movie gets kids screaming "Decepticon!" at dem coppers.. they deserve all the mistreatment they can get!
Dude T2 was not a movie about kids toys.
ReplyDeleteOr was it?
This is what an actor looks like when he's chasing his agent. That not fear, but murder in his eyes.
ReplyDeleteUh...Bay didn't WRITE this movie... he just directed and chose designs... Barricade was a cop car from the script...if you have beef with that, take it out on the writers, not the director...
ReplyDeleteAs for the cops getting upset that a KID is calling him a decepticon...I'd only hope he'd either laugh or be so oblivious as to what he's being called....if they are called a Nazi or something, that's different...
and this is PG-13...not PG... KIDS shouldn't really be seeing it before the parents watch it first to make sure there's nothing in it they shouldn't see.... but those that do take their 7yr old to a PG-13 movie w/out watching it first probably let them watch R rated movies anyway...
Yes, I see. But..
ReplyDeleteWe are left to wonder: Bay was forced to direct this film and never asked for a rewrite?
Only he has the answer. So maybe he's only 1st mate on the ship. If it turns out to the Titanic he'll point his finger at the script writer, but if it turns out to make money he sure wont avoid credit.
And if this is not about kids toys why involve Transformers or Hasbro? Only some names have remained the same. It's a strange reverse of TV's Dragnet, where ONLY the names changed.
If you want to regale us with the virtues of how wonderful it is to make toy of an evil cop car, go ahead. It might just make you out to sound like the SLA or part of the Mason family, but go ahead. Feel free. Nobody's stopping you.
Script or not this, whomever it at fault, this does not foster trust in the sight of a cop car in kids. And if you don't think kids will see this you are wrong. People will bring their kids, not me, but some will. They'll think "Oh, it's the Transformers. My kids will love that."
You are contrarian, taking up the point of defending something just because. This is not a point that should be defended. It doesn't matter that it's in the script. I would defend that just as soon as I would defend a child molesting priest. No matter how it happened it is wrong.
What were they thinking?
GOD SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!! IT'S A FUCKIN MOVIE YOU PEICE OF CRAP!!! IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR KIDS TO SEE IT, OR GET THE TOYS, THEN DON'T DO IT. JUST SHUT THE HELL UP. GOD I'M SICK OF TREE HUGGIN HIPPIES LIKE YOU!!!!
ReplyDeleteJAKE U RULE!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletehttp://bayformers.blogspot.com/2007/04/transformers-your-toys-wont-work-on-teh.html
Give credit where credit is due... if it's a great storyline, then it's to the writers, if it's great directing, it goes to the director etc...
ReplyDeleteIf you have a problem with it, then quit looking at it and don't take your kids to see it... it is PG-13 so that the parents at least have the chance to check it out first up until 13yrs of age... PG should be for any -kid- and G should be safe enough.
Parents shouldn't take kids under the age of 13 to a film like this anyway...but if they don't see a problem, then their child's warped nature will be on them...
A child the age of 13 should know that this is fantasy and shouldn't connect Barricade to a real cop car.
If you can't get over a 'hunter' being a cop car, then you don't understand the meaning of disguise.