Sub-Prime

I've been watching with interest as designs have been leaked from the upcoming live-action/CGI Transformers movie. Although this are admitedly early design concepts, I'm not exactly enthused. Michael Bay seems to be drawing as much on the look of Alien and Terminator as the original G1 Transformers that I knew and loved. Take the Big Bot himself, Optimus Prime:

Now, maybe when I see him transform I'll be completely wowed, but I really don't think Prime ought to come even close to creeping me out... and this look is certainly creepier than Optimus Prime should be!

And we won't even talk about Megatron (linked above)! Yikes...

I suppose it was naive of me to expect that the Transformers of 2007 would resemble the ones I've remembered fondly for twenty years. Maybe this will be a great reinterpretation of a classic toy for a new generation...

Maybe I can talk myself into believing that...

At any rate, I'm still gonna have to take Gretchen to the movie... I mean, it is the Transformers.