Comments on: transformers: 1986 vs. 2007

By: Transformers.lap.hu

Transformers.lap.hu — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:31:40 +0000

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By: Alex Keefe

Alex Keefe — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:14:44 +0000

Yeah, that’s understandable. I realize that not everyone is gonna like the film but, just that credit should be given where it’s due. I don’t think the movie was properly marketed seeing as how it was only in a very few select theatres. On top of that, the violence level was too much for kids at the time but, at the same time the property was very kid-centric so it couldn’t quite find it’s audience there. Personally, I don’t think the movie would have succeeded anyway due to Disney dominating the theatrical animation market. Look at Don Bluth and Gary Goldman’s efforts as well as Dreamworks’ and Warner Brothers’. That’s not even mentioning all the other smaller studios that tried and failed to market theatrical animation here in the U.S. All in all, I agree that outside of Transformers fandom it’s probably pretty unknown or reviled (Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin) but, if it were completely unknown I don’t think Sony would have bothered with a souped up DVD like it did.

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:34:52 +0000

When giving Judd Nelson his movie credits you omitted posibly one of his only cool movies “The Dark Backwards”

By: John Marcotte

John Marcotte — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:55:05 +0000

I dunno. I liked the cartoon version of the Transformers, but the 1986 movie was not enough of a leap forward for me. It played like a TV show on the big screen. It grossed $5,706,456 in the US box-office, so it didn't do too well there.

I think that people who enjoy animation, comic books and other geeky activities were aware of the film and have seen it, but I think the vast majority of the American movie-going public were probably not even aware that it existed.

Just my $.02.

By: Alex Keefe

Alex Keefe — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:22:49 +0000

I don’t think I’d call the original 1986 “Transformers the Movie” all-but-forgotten. It’s still fondly remembered by Transformers fans and fans of animation as a stand-out piece of the 1980’s, is on IGN’s list of Top 25 animated films of all time as well as still getting play at Botcon pretty much every year, and just as recently as last year got a 20th Anniversary DVD re-release through Sony BMG. Maybe in your opinion in wasn’t a great movie but, in all honesty it’s probably the longest lasting and best remembered piece of animation from the 1980’s. The movie did have stellar production values and is just as good to most folks, if not better, than the 2007 version. This isn’t to say that the 2007 version sucked…far from it. Just that the comment by you was a bit erroneous. Anyway, thanks for your time.

By: Icomic.com - Transformers: 1986 Vs. 2007

Icomic.com - Transformers: 1986 Vs. 2007 — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:54:37 +0000

[...] Autobot vs. Decepticon, the real battle is between the casts of the big-budget 2007 Transformers movie and the 1986 animated classic. [...]

By: JK

JK — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:34:47 +0000

It’s just the CGI really, Michael Bay didn’t need a good cast. All he needs&cares is the money to make a blockbuster.

By: John Marcotte

John Marcotte — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:48:36 +0000

You wound me, sir! I left squirrels long ago in order to concentrate on pigeons.

As to the trivia, I did do research for this, you realize. I am not some sort of Rain-Man-esque Transformers idiot savant.

I did remember that Orson Welles was in the original movie, however. The article sprang from that fact.

By: Brian McDonough

Brian McDonough — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:24:36 +0000

Your grasp of microtrivia about something as nanotrivial as the Transformers of 1986 leaves me slackjawed with a combination of wonder and horror. (Worror? Hunder?)

It’s as though I’d seen you chase a squirrel through the park, catch it and bite its head off. Mostly I’d be horrified, but part of me would be, like, “Wow — John can run FAST.”

So, yeah, call me one part impressed to two parts worried for your mental health.

By: Movie Rocker Report

Movie Rocker Report — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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