Am I the only person who thinks the character models are too gawdy and gets a headache just looking at them.

yall are fuckin stupid…they are ROBOTS..there just tryin to make then realistic. i think they did a pretty b.a. job with the detail.

Am I the only one that thinks Optimus prime looks like Gundam?

A realistic robot from another planet would have the decency to cover it’s shame.

Seriously though while I can appreciate their attention to detail it physically hurts my eyes to have to distinguish what is happening in the pictures and trailers I have seen so far. Maybe it would work as a 3d tangible model but on the 2d screen its hard to see.

>Does the idea of making giant, English speaking, transforming robots realistic seem a little bit retarded to anyone else?

Ever heard of the phrase “internal logic”? Basically, it means that a fictional system, while divorced from reality, has its own internal rules. If these rules are adhered to, then the audience can suspend its disbelief and become immersed in the story. If the rules are broken, then the suspension of disbelief fails and the audience is unable to feel emotional investment.

If you’re watching a horror movei about vampires, you have to temporarily accept the idea that vampires can exist, just so you can get immersed in the story and enjoy it. If it follows its own rules, then it works and you can have fun, but let’s say we’ve established that sunlight kills vampires instantly, but one vampire character goes for a stroll at noon and no explanation is given? The audience goes “What the fuck is up with that?” and they pull out of the story. It was never believeable in the first place, of course, but this “breaking of the rules” forces you to _recognise_ that it’s against the rules.

All this is a long-winded way of saying that, no, it’s not retarded. It is perfectly sensible to say “Okay, if there _were_ such a thing as giant, English-speaking, transforming robots, how would they look? How would the move? What would they want? What would their motives be?” If they came to earth and said “We demand you turn over the world’s supply of marshmallows!” then you may be forgiven for replying “What the FUCK?”

If you accept, for the sake of the movie, that these machines could exist, you might think, okay, they’re machines, maybe they want a power source, or maybe they want metal. These are “realistic” things for them to want. In the same way, wanting them to look “realistic” is perfectly reasonably.

Okay, I’ll stop now.

Too many doodads…looks like my laundry fighting my garbage.