New Movie Still Featuring Optimus Prime with Mouth
Friday, May 4th, 2007 7:30AM CDT
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The stills include a shot a Ironhide seen in the 'hidden' TV spot and a noew photo of Optimus Prime, complete with mouth instead of a faceplate.
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Posted by Skowl on May 4th, 2007 @ 7:35am CDT
And holy crap, those lips looks so horrible. That combined with the flames... I guess the movie Prime is truly dead to me now.
Posted by dabattousai on May 4th, 2007 @ 7:39am CDT
Posted by dj_funk_gut on May 4th, 2007 @ 7:51am CDT
Shockwave has a reactor inside so he had his own power source.
Posted by Flashback77 on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:04am CDT
Posted by Leonardo on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:06am CDT
layouts77 wrote:Nope, don't like an exposed mouth on Prime. Lips are for Primal. And if they can give Prime a humanish face, why not Starscream, Bumblebee, etc?
That's what I don't understand. I don't dislike any of the designs really, but I don't understand why some of them look like a completely different species to others.
Posted by dj_funk_gut on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:24am CDT
layouts77 wrote:
Nope, don't like an exposed mouth on Prime. Lips are for Primal. And if they can give Prime a humanish face, why not Starscream, Bumblebee, etc?
That's what I don't understand. I don't dislike any of the designs really, but I don't understand why some of them look like a completely different species to others.
Posted by Swerve on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:25am CDT
Bender Prime wrote:
He reminds me of like some ancient Egyptian or something, it's really bizarre.
Speaking of Ancient Egyptians, he looks a little like Apocalypse from the X-Men Comic Books.
Posted by gothsaurus on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:26am CDT
Posted by Swerve on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:27am CDT
Leonardo wrote:He looks good. I feel the lack of faceplate makes him look somewhat younger.
Kind of like when people look younger when they shave off their beards?
Posted by Wheeljack35 on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:38am CDT
I know he wasn't G1 but get used to the lips there not bothering me
His faceplate shows up in the movie
Posted by Windracer on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:44am CDT
Posted by Skowl on May 4th, 2007 @ 8:56am CDT
Posted by JazZeke on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:09am CDT
Posted by Ninja Sixshot on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:10am CDT
Posted by jonusjaxon on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:20am CDT
Posted by Anonymous on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:33am CDT
Skowl wrote:Front paged and credited!
And holy crap, those lips looks so horrible. That combined with the flames... I guess the movie Prime is truly dead to me now.
Thank you! Someone who agrees.
Posted by timothyvernon on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:45am CDT
Posted by Milanion on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:46am CDT
Posted by Ransack187 on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:52am CDT
Posted by Robinson on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:52am CDT
Skowl wrote:If the bigwigs thought the lips were so damn cool, then why doesn't a single piece of merchandise, promotional material or toy we've seen have Prime with his mouth?
Because people will bitch and moan and cry havok "it's not prime without a faceplate"
Posted by Shadowman on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:55am CDT
Prime DOES seem like a handlebar moustache kind of guy.
Posted by magnusupreme on May 4th, 2007 @ 9:58am CDT
Posted by jgilkinson on May 4th, 2007 @ 10:10am CDT
Posted by Cheetron on May 4th, 2007 @ 10:26am CDT
No hero can keep their mask on during the big fight at the end of the movie. Look at Spiderman 1, 2 and the previews for 3. Prime just wants in.
Posted by kendragon on May 4th, 2007 @ 10:27am CDT
BTW Ironhide looks wicked in that shot.
Posted by City Commander on May 4th, 2007 @ 10:38am CDT
The Hide looks ready to rock!
Posted by hubcapsignstop on May 4th, 2007 @ 10:41am CDT
and i dont see any other 80s children identifying that thing with prime either
Posted by GeidiPrime on May 4th, 2007 @ 10:57am CDT
hubcapsignstop wrote:thats not prime to me
and i dont see any other 80s children identifying that thing with prime either
I'm a child of the 80's and I can deal with it just fine. The only thing I am having a hard time dealing with in this movie is Ratchet being green. Now THAT sucks.
Posted by Asderiphel on May 4th, 2007 @ 11:00am CDT
Swerve wrote:Bender Prime wrote:
He reminds me of like some ancient Egyptian or something, it's really bizarre.
Speaking of Ancient Egyptians, he looks a little like Apocalypse from the X-Men Comic Books.
Huh. I actually think he looks more like a Sentinel. I wouldn't be surprised at all if eye lasers shot out and incinerated poor Shia.
If they go with the lips, I'll deal. But I don't like them personally, and I think it kills the aesthetic.
Posted by Kimmer on May 4th, 2007 @ 11:02am CDT
Posted by Venomous Prime on May 4th, 2007 @ 11:20am CDT
The face plate isn't as iconic as everyone is making it out to be.
Everyone I know knows Prime as red and blue semi
Everything that gets released for this movie you people just tear it apart.
The designs are something new, just like every other incarnation of the Transformers.
These aren't supposed to be G1 designs, DEAL WITH IT.
Now, I think Prime looks better this way anyways.
Posted by Skowl on May 4th, 2007 @ 11:29am CDT
Apollyon wrote:Honestly, you people bitch way to much.
The face plate isn't as iconic as everyone is making it out to be.
I disagree. Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, I've talked to about this film was shocked when I told them that Optimus Prime had lips instead of his 'mask' in the movie. Everybody did a double-take and said something to the effect of 'you can't do that, Prime needs his mask thing or else he just won't look like himself'
Apollyon wrote: Everyone I know knows Prime as red and blue semi
True, and most non-fan people I talked to were fine with him being a peterbilt, but hated the idea of flames on Prime, they said it was just over the top and not like the noble personnality Prime is supposed to have.
Apollyon wrote:Everything that gets released for this movie you people just tear it apart.
I've liked alot of the choices they made for the film, but I think when 99% of the fandom bitch about something, it's a problem with the filmmakers' choices, and not the problem of the fandom.
Apollyon wrote:These aren't supposed to be G1 designs, DEAL WITH IT.
I think anyone who still thinks this movie is a G1 remake is just being naïve by now. This movie might not be G1, but it is still TRANSFORMERS, and some things you just don't change, because I don't know about everyone else, but when you stick flames and lips on Optimus Prime, well, he just ain't Optimus Prime to me anymore.
Posted by kendragon on May 4th, 2007 @ 11:35am CDT
Posted by St. Even on May 4th, 2007 @ 12:00pm CDT
Posted by Shadowman on May 4th, 2007 @ 12:05pm CDT
kimmer wrote:my god that looks terrible but what else is new? all in all prime is definately the most tolerable bayformer even with his stupid-looking face, retarded flames, and etc. i'd give him a 5 or 6 out of 10 and its pretty sad when average is by far the best. it just says how utterly pathetic the other "creations" are.
Aw, Kimmer, I missed you.
Seriously, I needed someone to fill Bluebullet's role. You're a little blunt, and you tend to avoid a lot of the logical fallacies Bomber-Boy had (In turn creating some of your own), but, c'mon, you fill the Void he left that I so depserately desire.
This forum isn't nearly as good without a raving geewhunner running around. But you're probably older than him, so it's not quite as good.
Posted by Quaternion on May 4th, 2007 @ 12:34pm CDT
Moreover, he could have had lips in G1 and they just never showed them. His faceplate moved up and down alot as if he had a mouth under it.
Posted by Robinson on May 4th, 2007 @ 12:38pm CDT
Quaternion wrote:I don't see what the big fuss is about Prime having lips. He had lips in beast wars. He had lips and a faceplate most recently in Cybertron. The bottom line is: while that face plate is cool, it doesn't attract the ladies - instead he shows the lips when they are around. Yeah.
Moreover, he could have had lips in G1 and they just never showed them. His faceplate moved up and down alot as if he had a mouth under it.
Before anyone can blast you for your beast wars connection, Primal wasnt Prime. He was an homage to him, but I know what you are going for
Posted by dj_funk_gut on May 4th, 2007 @ 12:58pm CDT
Posted by Kayevcee on May 4th, 2007 @ 1:00pm CDT
Prime's face won't be a big issue to me until after I've actually seen it in action, but I agree with what a few folk have said about there being a reason why Prime always appears on promotional material with the mask in place. From the writers' comments on boards it sounds like there's a lot of discussion about the open face look right up to now, so I'm quietly keeping my fingers crossed that there's still time to make the call and quietly slip the faceplate into the renders.
-Nick
Posted by Robinson on May 4th, 2007 @ 1:07pm CDT
If you think back they said 38 hours to render a frame. so say they have to add in the face plate and it takes say 5 hours per frame
5 hours times lets say 1000 frames of prime(just a guess, could be more could be less) = 5000 hours.
54 days I believe until earliest release day, you figure the movie would have to be done at least 10 days prior to that.(most likely longer than that.
so that leaves 44 days times 24 hours in a day = 1056 hours
5000- 1056= not enough time.
Now granted I dont know the specifics but it's not that much of a stretch of imagination to see that they simply do not have enough time to go back and edit the mouth out completely.
Posted by Skowl on May 4th, 2007 @ 1:28pm CDT
As if giving Prime a mouth was already completely illogical enough, isn't it just giving the animators more work to do? I'm no expert on the subject, but animating lips must take more time and effort than animating... well, nothing.
Posted by Kayevcee on May 4th, 2007 @ 1:47pm CDT
-Nick
Posted by j-man on May 4th, 2007 @ 2:00pm CDT
Posted by Nico on May 4th, 2007 @ 2:05pm CDT
*COUGH*Megatron*COUGH*
Ironhide look really neat, however..
Posted by Insurgent on May 4th, 2007 @ 2:11pm CDT
I like the look of Prime in that shot. Shame Lebaiu or whatever his name is in the way. Ironhide's looking ready to rumble.
Posted by skeletal13 on May 4th, 2007 @ 2:17pm CDT
Posted by Dead Metal on May 4th, 2007 @ 2:49pm CDT
Posted by AbsumZer0 on May 4th, 2007 @ 4:04pm CDT
Posted by Nemesis Cyberplex on May 4th, 2007 @ 4:14pm CDT
.....BTW, anybody ever notice that any Prime figure(not Primal....Prime) that has ever been made with a mouth has not sold well. Hell, look at Energon Prime for example....they gave him a mouth & soon after they changed the mold to give him one. IMHO, Cybertron Prime got away with this only because he still could have his mask cover his mouth, & you could pretend he didn't have one.