Shortpacked! by David Willis

Discussion (18) ¬

1. 
   Noble Bear

   May 10, 2010 at 4:14 am | # | Reply

   It didn’t sell out. It’s just completely absent of character or narrative substance. It also falls desperately short as a thrill ride or action vehicle; I don’t get to see more than one transformer until the later quarter of the film. Fail.

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     Tetsukalian

     October 9, 2010 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

     I completely agree Noble Bear. Plus, Robot Heaven? What…the…fuck?

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       Wackd

       April 9, 2011 at 3:23 pm | # | Reply

       What’s so crazy about that? I mean, where do you THINK all the calculators go?

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         Djer

         July 23, 2011 at 4:18 am | # | Reply

         You, sir, just made my day with that Red Dwarf reference. Smegging good show.

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           Valil

           November 14, 2011 at 2:19 am | # | Reply

           hells ya it is I remember that episode when kryten was going to be shut down
2. 
   Old_Crow

   July 10, 2010 at 9:37 am | # | Reply

   Noble Bear shows his age

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     Hewlett

     August 1, 2010 at 11:55 am | # | Reply

     And yet a fifteen-year-old Transformers fan shares his opinion…

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       Andrusi

       May 7, 2011 at 10:28 pm | # | Reply

       Poor impressionable youths…
3. 
   Thoughtwanderer

   October 12, 2010 at 12:15 pm | # | Reply

   I’m a huge Simpsons fan, and I had almost this exact conversation when The Simpsons Movie came out. Despite the millions of Bart tshirts, dolls, posters, and toys sold in the show’s first year alone, some people still thought the show wasn’t actually a commercial endeavor until they made a movie. Fans of every big media franchise go through that, I guess.
4. 
   Boristus

   November 1, 2010 at 2:00 am | # | Reply

   I don’t know about the second movie, but I know that the reason that there were so few scenes with the robots in the first movie was because it took 24 hours to render each frame of footage with one of the transformers in it. They apparently melted at least one computer rendering one of the scenes.
5. 
   TheSuperhoo

   November 20, 2010 at 4:35 pm | # | Reply

   Both movies were hax.
6. 
   Bakke

   May 21, 2011 at 3:13 pm | # | Reply

   No-one can argue against the movies being highly entertaining on a visual level! Seriously, the forest battle scene is top 5 greatest fight scenes of all time.
7. 
   ConnorElzaim

   August 4, 2011 at 5:53 pm | # | Reply

   For something to sell out, doesn’t it have to be created for a purpose ‘other’ than to sell toys in the first place? It’s like saying a musician sold out when they got into music for the purpose of making a load of cash in the first place.
8. 
   AwesomelyAnonymous

   August 5, 2011 at 3:36 pm | # | Reply

   It didn’t sell out, it stayed exactly what it was: A big dumb action film about giant toys. I disagree about the problems people have with it, namely, the complaint about humans being in the way. Does no one remember that Generation 1 had its own fair share of human characters? Hell, in the first five minutes of the 80s movie Spike Witwicky’s there, despite them not even being on earth. There was MORE humans here, yeah, but that’s because if they didn’t use human characters, there wouldn’t of been any point to making it live action. Plus, CGI is expensive, and the films were using cutting edge level animation to make the robots (One of the computers used actually MELTED), its actually annoying that people make a big deal out of it.
9. 
   Arroh Kujati

   August 8, 2011 at 4:42 am | # | Reply

   I wonder how long that list is.
10. 
    Sporkaganza

    December 26, 2011 at 4:08 am | # | Reply

    As I re-read Shortpacked!, it occurs to me that Ethan’s line in the last panel is the most accurate summation of the comic I’ve ever found.

    Man, this shit’s fucked-up.
11. 
    Beastlybro7

    February 23, 2013 at 11:16 pm | # | Reply

    Great use of ultra car’s technology
12. 
    Valdrax

    April 9, 2013 at 8:45 pm | # | Reply

    Doesn’t Ultra Car find human sexuality disgusting?