You might have heard that there’s a well-reviewed Bumblebee movie about to debut stateside, #FeelTheBuzz yet? To that end, we are pleased to share with you an extensive Hollywood Reporter interview with star and Oscar-nominee Hailee Steinfeld, who is enjoying a busy and very successful December with two hit movies and a popular single.
What was it about Charlie Watson that led you to commit to Bumblebee?
Being a part of a franchise that is so huge was very exciting to me, but reading the script and learning what kind of story they wanted to make, how different it is to the rest of the franchise, that excited me even more. The script had this young girl who’s completely normal, has no special powers, but she can take on the world without that. She’s an honest portrayal of a young girl growing up and feeling misunderstood.
Most franchise films require a multi-film commitment if all goes well. Have you already agreed to play Charlie Watson a few more times?
The thing is we’ve made this film for the fans, and if the fans love it and want to see more, that’s when we go back to work.
With fair warning to spoilers that are often the case with movie debut week cast interviews, you can read the entire article here then join to the discussion on the 2005 boards!
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Posted by TRANSFORMERS on Thursday, December 20, 2018
Autobot Burnout
Shockblast is the name they use when Shockwave is unavailable…and he still didn't have a face whenever he was based on the G1 design.
Terrellatron
I thought Shockblast was Shockwave?
Autobot Burnout
Shockwave has only ever had a face twice in the history of the core brand incarnations – Armada (where it technically was just a nameslap on the guy we all know as Tidal Wave) and Animated (also a technicality because it's his disguise that has a face – his true robot mode only has an eye…and a chin)
The only time that ever REALLY happened was Car Robots 2000. Cybertron Prime was supposed to be a firetruck but he pretty much was a super-long base cab with panels attached to 'fire hoses' or whatever, and Animated Prime seemed to forget he was a firetruck as well given only ONE main line toy of him actually became a firetruck (And to its credit, a water squirting feature) as all his other figures just turn into a very G1 style truck cab. And even then RID Prime's core robot still looked something like the original, at least with the head and the cab chest – the muscular arms not so much admittedly.
At least Energon Omega had some aspects of 'transforming' required – the original is literally partsforming from robot into a rocket base/track oval/motorized tank thing that travels on the track.
Nobody liked Energon Ironhide. He was nothing more than a nameslap – plus everybody gravitated toward tow-line who was the real Ironhide/Ratchet homage.
Cartoons normally do that because they just create whole new characters and just use the old names because Hasbro wants to keep the trademarks going. That's why Armada Perceptor is a three-bot mini-con combiner instead of anything resembling a red microscope.
If you don't think people have complained about the cartoons since at least the 2000s, you haven't been paying attention!
Armada – Poke'formers (the collect them all mentality of pushing the mini-cons), the kids, Hot Shot being obnoxious
Energon – do I even need to list reasons here?
Cybertron – The Velocitron Arc. Ten episodes of pure goddamn filler.
Animated – the art style/chins, Sari, Soundwave getting sort of shafted, reliance on human villains
Prime – STATUS QUO, Airachnid was a sad attempt at trying to make a beast former without having a beast alt. mode (she turned into a helicopter TWICE our of how many times she simply did the spider leg thing?), the kids were deus ex machinas or annoying (or both simultaneously), Megatron was a fucking idiot, Unicron got wasted early on, most of the plot build up at any given point in the show was stupid, the endings of S1 and S2 were reverted because nothing bad ever could really happen to the Autobots, the relic hunts were dumb, Arcee was such a liability to the Autobots, the fact the show somehow kept going over budget despite not being able to render pedestrians just standing around if the scene was in a city block, and the fact it sounds like there was a three-way civil war going on within the studio the entire time that got UNIT-E killed before it could begin and saw the shuttering of Hasbro Studios.
New-RID: too simplistic, the ending made it seem the more interesting stuff was happening on Cybertron instead of the actual core team.
Machina Prime Trilogy – EVERYTHING.
Cyberverse – poor voice work, animation not up to par, feels overall not like a true effort on Hasbro's part.
Rescue Bots – too kiddie, no Decepticons
That's…not how a franchise works. At all.
Ten years ago, maybe? But the franchise as it stands can't attract that level of goodwill anymore. Not as long as it is forced to be associated with some of the biggest critical stinkers in the last decade.
The effect of the films, initially, can not be denied…nor can the fact TLK basically dropkicked the franchise where the sun don't shine with its massive underperformance last year. The films are not the same juggernaut they were back in 2007, but I'm getting the impression most people don't seem to understand this…
CorePrime
Have… have you seen the first five minutes of G1? Like, at all?
dragon
Bumblebee unrecognizable look at shockwave he have no face I can recognize bumblebee most of you people can accept change in cartoons with transformer prime as fire truck and combine train who is omega surpreame , and ironhide who is pick up truck with rotating head in truck mode who is sidekick to human kicker but you can never ever accept change in movies talk about one sided narrow minded cartoons have changed to bots and personality’s if you can accept cartoons you should be able accept movie changes talking to brick wall.
Complain about movies but never ever complain about cartoon changes bay transformers movies have done what comic books, cartoons, and video games could have never ever have done with transformers series made them popular all over again it new transformer fans who never read comics, never watch cartoons, never play transformer games and these are same people who called transformers kids stuff but because of bay moves he took hose new people made them into fans always complain about bay movies but never see god side how what his movies had impact on new transformer fans open your mind for once if you talk to new transformer fans for once you will know this shit
Music
Because it has to follow some kind of connection with the rest of the movieverse as it was originally a prequel. Also, you know the whole brand unification thing with Cyberverse and Rescue Bots Bee. He's a small chubby character with antenna horns that turns into a yellow beetle. If you can't recognize who that is then I'm afraid to say you haven't watched a whole lot of Transformers.
He's not even named in the film. It's obvious he was meant to be random Seeker and not the triple changing Blitzwing. I'm speculating the name Blitzwing was given by Hasbro for trademark purposes. Plus, you can clearly see the real Starscream on Cybertron.
No, please elaborate on your "etc's". I've seen you use the same exact argument in the other threads, but I haven't seen anything more than the easily refutable points you've stated earlier.
The Cybertron scene doesn't wipe away any of the horrible Bay movies—no one is that shallow. The fact that Travis has created a respectable Transformers movie all around makes the movie good.
Literally none of the reviews has said this. Only you, which is quite ironic as you haven't seen the film, is saying this.
Unicron9
I think this is an interesting post.
After hearing good things about the Bumblebee movie and the bits of Cybertron scenes in the trailer, I found myself finally caring about seeing a Transformers movie again.
But then recently it occurred to me that this is still going to have some of the issues that made the last 5 dumb popcorn special effects flicks instead of solid good movies, because when I thought about it, why would Optimus look like an Earth truck on cybertron and why did they decide a robot that finally looks so much like Starscream should be called Blitzwing?
That made me start thinking that this one will be successful for the same reason the first one was. We TF fans want a movie of The transformers so bad (not Bay's Transformers, but THE TRANSFORMERS) that just throwing us scraps of what we want to see makes it easy to turn off our brains and digest the rest too.
They don't need to dabble in the idea of sort of rebooting the live action TF movies, they need to completely start over. Fan reactions to those clips of Cybertron in the BB movie should make that real clear.
I don't think the Bayverse is salvageable.
Terrellatron
Have you been under a rock for the last 11 years or something?
Afterburner
If this was made for the fans, why is Bumblebee and unrecognizable mute warrior? Why does Blitzwing resemble Starscream while not even being a triple changer? Etc, etc, etc
5 minutes of random Earth mode robots on Cybertron doesn't wipe away over a decade of nonsense parading as something we should be interested in. They still don't get it, and they'll be happy to continue not to get it if you let them while pretending if this fails it must be our fault now. Don't fall for the trap, it's been set.
Read the reviews on the score by the way, they're mostly just shock that it's not as bad as all the others. Most have serious issues with the film in one form or another, and combined with how little this still has to do with anything TF other than robots converting, it's confirmed how little they understand what it's like to be a fan.
AzT
Hailee Steinfeld: Interview For The Transformers Bumblebee Movie – Transformers News – TFW2005