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 Ouze wrote:
See, people complain they hate his stupid 80's cartoon retread movies, but they get these huge box office returns.

Thanks, Obama.

Well I for one haven't given him a penny of my money since Transformers 2, and that was only because my wife bought the DVD for my son.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
How would Bay even make a film like this?

I mean, the setting has no helicopters or US military, no sports cars, American flags or super models.

Like... what would Bay even put in the film?

Oh, he'll make do with Thundercars, Thunderflags, and Thunderfurries.

There's a lot of weirdly anthropomorphic heavy metal in the show, IIRC.

This is one I really don't care about- Thundercats got the blood pumping when I was a wee one, but I can't give you a single detail as to why- which usually indicates its a temporary high.

Heck, I have a more clear recollection of SWAT Kats- The Radical Squadron and their wide array of nonlethal missiles.

LOved the first Transformers film - if he can do that again I'd be happy.

Oh and Megan Fox as Cheetarah sounds good to me

Bay and the Thundercats deserve each other.

I see a possible Micheal Bay doing a 40K Space Marine movie in the future..

 Jihadin wrote:
I see a possible Micheal Bay doing a 40K Space Marine movie in the future..

That sounds absolutely perfect.

40k may be the one place Michael Bay's style actually would work out perfectly XD Lots of explosions, a plot no one really cares about because we just want to see explosions, and insanity XD

 LordofHats wrote:
40k may be the one place Michael Bay's style actually would work out perfectly XD Lots of explosions, a plot no one really cares about because we just want to see explosions, and insanity XD

Then Space Marines would be Tau, and the Tyranids would ally with Necrons!

 LordofHats wrote:
40k may be the one place Michael Bay's style actually would work out perfectly XD Lots of explosions, a plot no one really cares about because we just want to see explosions, and insanity XD

And Megan Fox as Calgar.

I'm pretty ambivalent about this one. I'd gladly see Thundercats sacrificed on Bay's altar instead of one of the few childhood shows left that I have fond memories of that haven't been massacred by Hollywood remakes.

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
40k may be the one place Michael Bay's style actually would work out perfectly XD Lots of explosions, a plot no one really cares about because we just want to see explosions, and insanity XD

Then Space Marines would be Tau, and the Tyranids would ally with Necrons!

So it would be 6th Edition?

Personally, I was never much into Thundercats, at least not beyond every 80s boy's shameful attraction to Cheetara... so Bay making this movie doesn't honk me off any more than I would normally be when I hear that Bay is being allowed to make a movie (of any kind). I don't think he can make a better Thundercats than the 80s did, not because Thundercats was that good, but because Bay is just that bad.

Still, i am kinda... curious... to see what a live-action Cheetara looks like.


...even if she is played by Megan Fox.

Bayturtles was a great movie, the designs were great and worked on screen and the movie didn't take itself seriously and was close to the cartoon original not the more serious comics and more recent cartoons.

While I think the 2012 thundercrats retread was a really good re-imagining of the source, the source was silly trash, so Bay can do nothing but improve. If they did a live-action re-tell of the 2012 series in a grand LotR style filmography, it could work out.

Or a hokey campy robobears stuff with a transforming Mum-ra, that is cool too.


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squidhills wrote:


Still, i am kinda... curious... to see what a live-action Cheetara looks like.


...even if she is played by Megan Fox.

You don't have to imagine, the internet solved this for you...

So, when's he going to do Silverhawks? Or the old D&D cartoon? Lawrence Fishburn as Dungeon Master...

nkelsch wrote:


You don't have to imagine, the internet solved this for you...

Budget cosplay isn't what I'm talking about. I mean a full-on Hollywood makeup/costume setup that has had real money spent on it and takes five hours for the actress to get into.

TL;DR not furry enough.

I see female cat sales (AS PETS!!!) jumping to a new high

 djones520 wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
See, people complain they hate his stupid 80's cartoon retread movies, but they get these huge box office returns.

Thanks, Obama.

Well I for one haven't given him a penny of my money since Transformers 2, and that was only because my wife bought the DVD for my son.

Cool story time (bro): Transformers 2 is the only movie I've ever walked out of a theater on midway through. That too was my last Michael Bay movie.

 Ouze wrote:

 djones520 wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
See, people complain they hate his stupid 80's cartoon retread movies, but they get these huge box office returns.

Thanks, Obama.

Well I for one haven't given him a penny of my money since Transformers 2, and that was only because my wife bought the DVD for my son.

Cool story time (bro): Transformers 2 is the only movie I've ever walked out of a theater on midway through. That too was my last Michael Bay movie.

I saw like half the theater leave on Alexander the Great. Since I knew my history it did not bother me

I didn't make it 5 mins into 'Alexander'...

 Jihadin wrote:


I saw like half the theater leave on Alexander the Great. Since I knew my history it did not bother me

It was ok but you can't have a true depiction of Alexander without key events like the rebellion of Thebes, the battle of Issus, the seige of Tyre and glossing over the gedrosian desert crossing. They should have had Peter Jackson do the movie so it could have been broken into like 8 parts or something.

squidhills wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
40k may be the one place Michael Bay's style actually would work out perfectly XD Lots of explosions, a plot no one really cares about because we just want to see explosions, and insanity XD

Then Space Marines would be Tau, and the Tyranids would ally with Necrons!

So it would be 6th Edition?

Personally, I was never much into Thundercats, at least not beyond every 80s boy's shameful attraction to Cheetara... so Bay making this movie doesn't honk me off any more than I would normally be when I hear that Bay is being allowed to make a movie (of any kind). I don't think he can make a better Thundercats than the 80s did, not because Thundercats was that good, but because Bay is just that bad.

Still, i am kinda... curious... to see what a live-action Cheetara looks like.


...even if she is played by Megan Fox.

Wait, Space Marines were actually Tau? I'm no 40k expert, but I know that's heresy.

 LordofHats wrote:
40k may be the one place Michael Bay's style actually would work out perfectly XD Lots of explosions, a plot no one really cares about because we just want to see explosions, and insanity XD

But it'll still be full of badly choreographed action scenes which takes the fun out of them.

 Ouze wrote:
See, people complain they hate his stupid 80's cartoon retread movies, but they get these huge box office returns.

No one admits to watching professional wrestling yet it makes barrels full of money. Bay is the professional wrestling of SciFi.

 Ouze wrote:
Thanks, Obama.

Not sure what you mean by that...

Pro wrestling been taking a lot of big hits financially recently.

 Cheesecat wrote:
Pro wrestling been taking a lot of big hits financially recently.

Well maybe if they took it of Syfy

 Cheesecat wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
40k may be the one place Michael Bay's style actually would work out perfectly XD Lots of explosions, a plot no one really cares about because we just want to see explosions, and insanity XD

But it'll still be full of badly choreographed action scenes which takes the fun out of them.

Only if Christopher Nolan is involved and lack of charactisation, terrible plots.......

quite looking forward to seing what Bay can do with it.

 Cheesecat wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
40k may be the one place Michael Bay's style actually would work out perfectly XD Lots of explosions, a plot no one really cares about because we just want to see explosions, and insanity XD

But it'll still be full of badly choreographed action scenes which takes the fun out of them.

Yeah but the BAYSPLOSIONS! It's the movie he was born for XD Everything can be blown up and it'll actually fit perfectly with the setting. Even the bullets blow up!

I really liked the last Transformers movie, probably because it had Marky Mark leading instead of The Beef

In 10 years time we'll be thinking that Thundercats 1 was the best in the series - which will have ended with all the originals dead and a new leader 'Ben-Gal' leading a rag tag bunch of survivors such 'Short Hair', 'Selkirk', and 'Toyger'.

Mumm-Ra will be a turd wrapped in Toilet Paper.

Me Like Burnaz wrote:
No one admits to watching professional wrestling yet it makes barrels full of money.

Eh, all the people I know that enjoy Professional Wresting don't lie about it nor would they. I'm indifferent to it, but it takes a hell of a lot of practice and athleticism to do what they do.

Me Like Burnaz wrote:
Bay is the professional wrestling of SciFi.

He isn't as well respected as pro-wrestling, and the writing for his scripts is not as good.

Wonder how he would do in Thundar the Barbarian

 Jihadin wrote:
Wonder how he would do in Thundar the Barbarian

god damn it, now i want to see him try
i'm also completely unbothered by him going after thundercats, and enjoyed transformers 4 (i skipped 3 though)