Break Out the Malt Liquor: Michael Bay's Racist Transformers Are Still Alive!
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got til it's gone? So it was for Skids and Mudflap, the robotic urban caricatures from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen that appalled us at first view in 2009, then slowly but surely became our go-to summer mascots. We poured one out a few weeks ago when Michael Bay said both Autobots had been exiled from Transformers 3, then held onto a little sliver of hope when spy reports said the opposite. Now, Bay has issued his final word on the matter... and it's good news!
In a USA Today report where Bay reveals that the new film's villain will be Shockwave, he also takes on the subject of the twins:
"One thing we're getting rid of is what I call the dorky comedy," Bay adds. So the twins, the two bumbling, slang-spewing robots? "They're basically gone," he says, though John Turturro returns for comic relief.
"Basically gone" is not the same as "totally gone," so this is time to rejoice -- It's like going from "sell" to "don't buy"! I don't care if they're killed off in the first reel while shepherding a stunt double for Megan Fox's Mikaela into a dangerous explosion factory (you know, the kind of factory where they make explosions), because some Skids and Mudflap is far, far better than nothing at all.
Next 'Transformers' is due for a switch [USA Today]
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What about robot scrotum? Will there be any robot scrotum?
Glad to hear Bay is getting rid of the dork humor. As a rule of thumb, if George Lucas would find something funny, cut it.
maybe they will be in the opening and killed on screen. that would work
Bay's replacing Skids and Mudflap with the far more racially sensitive Rickshaw and Ling Ling (just don't expect them to drive well).
Is that what it would say on the call sheet?
EXT. - DAY - DORKY COMEDY
break for lunch
INT. - NIGHT - MEGAN FOX'S VAGINA
Thats realy stupid,they were awesome characters!
So besides Shockwave,the movie will now suck.
kyle buchanan = lame ass fratboy? love the way he tries to coat his love of these lame characters with his "disgust" of them....
Racist transformers? They're not racist. They can't be - just ask Farrakhan. Only white robots can be racist... or maybe blue and red robots, since that's the color in power.
I find Mr. Buchanan's repressed Robot Love to be charming.
But, someday he will come out of the removable hard drive and face the truth.
Dude, stop being a fucking moron. You do understand that the only way you could comment on whether a fucking CG robot was racist or not is by determining if you see that CG robot portraying a particular race. I'd place them as rednecks cause they can't read and have gold teeth. Maybe that would be racist towards black people in 1980 when RUN DMC was doing their thing, but today, gold teeth ain't black folk, it's rednecks. And can't read ain't black folk, it's rednecks. So stop holding on to your old racist thoughts when you look at a colorless CG robot and try to place a race on it and a voice.
Did I miss something...? why did this guy start liking those tasteless robots again?
How about for the next movie they get Jerry Lewis to cameo with squinty eyes and buck teeth?
What can be said about Cheryl Cole other than What a Trouper! Almost at Death's door recently with Malaria and already she's returned to the showbiz saddle! Well done Cheryl!