Movie Review - Transformers 4 : Age Of Extinction (spoilers)

**Mythirax** · 8th August 2014, 07:57 PM

Originally Posted by Omega Metro

And I thought Dark Knight was boring, dark, depressing garbage.

I felt a bit like that too.

**Sinnertwin** · 8th August 2014, 08:07 PM

I must admit, whenever i'm looking for something i use Batman's
WHERE ARE THEY?!?!?
line sometimes

**Magnus** · 9th August 2014, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by Omega Metro

And I thought Dark Knight was boring, dark, depressing garbage.

I don't know about 'boring' or 'garbage', but definitely with you on 'dark' and 'depressing'. It wasn't an enjoyable movie to watch; I only saw it once.

That's what I like about the Transformers movie series - they're not 'dark' or 'gritty' or depressing, although AoE was pretty dark by this franchise's standards.

**GoktimusPrime** · 10th August 2014, 04:47 PM

Looks like Japan is drawing in some of their own star power with the Japanese dub version of Age of Extinction (Lost Age), most notably Nakagawa Shouko as the voice-over for Tessa Yeager. The other voice-over actors aren't widely known outside of voice acting (and Tokusatsu shows for some), so it seems that Nakagawa is the draw card for more general audience members in Japan. And of course, Genda Tesshou (Japanese equivalent of Peter Cullen

) has returned to reprise his role as Optimus Prime.

Yamadera Kouichi is credited as the voice for Bumblebee to dub over the radio lines. Somewhat interesting that the original English language version never paid anyone to voice Bumblebee, but the Japanese dub does.

Another funny thing is that Watanabe Ken did not dub over himself as Drift! He's being dubbed over by Mizu'uchi Kiyomitsu -- probably because it was cheaper than hiring Watanabe himself.

I dunno... if I were producing this dub, I would've spent the extra money to hire Watanabe to dub himself, but maybe the budget didn't allow for it. I guess hiring Nakagawa for Tessa made more sense from a marketing POV since Tess gets more lines and screen time than Drift.

**M-bot** · 11th August 2014, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by Sinnertwin

I must admit, whenever i'm looking for something i use Batman's
WHERE ARE THEY?!?!?
line sometimes

I lost my voice recently (courtesy of the flu), and when it started to come back it was all Bale-as-Batman gravelly. I confess to asking my friends and family (and the odd random stranger) "DO I LOOK LIKE A COP?"

I loved the Dark Knight. Clear that Nolan puts a heap more thought and effort into script, character and story than Bay ever does in the TF franchise. In fact I would say that it's quite clear that most of us here put more thought into Bay's TF films than Bay has.

**GoktimusPrime** · 11th August 2014, 01:07 PM

Japanese commercial showcasing some of the dub-over voices. Nakagawa Shouko's voice can be heard at various points throughout the ad (she's the second person to speak after Cade). Genda Tesshou sounds pretty awesome as Optimus Prime -- those of us who've watched any Japanese G1 (e.g. The Headmasters) will recognise that voice.