Bumble Bee NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ThoriumHotdog

It was a closed street and they were shooting a scene for the movie. It was the stunt drivers job to drive like that. The cop was the one who made the mistake, not the stunt driver. It would be a different story if this was just some random Camaro on some open street driving around like a fool.

vividracing

looks like a publicity stunt!

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Tjai370Z

hahha ^true that^ but hey they were in a Transformers scene, bumblebee dont stop for anyone or anything.
also a few points I wana mention:

1) stop at :16, does anybody like that spoiler on that camaro? idk, I'm having weird feelings about it; I mean I love the front.

2)the camaro got f**cked up real bad. the hood is dent, looks like bumper has been torn off, bits of bumblebee just lying on the floor, BUT then when you take a closer look at the cop car, I cant seem to find a dent, hahaha

I wonder if they're going to put this in one of the scenes and then kind of change or alter the rest of the movie, or make another one.

OH and how hard is it to make another bumblebee camaro out of scratch?
I mean all it has is exterior mods right?

ThoriumHotdog

They likely have several BumbleBee Camaros just in case something like this happens. You're right though, it's all exterior mods. It's probably just a V6 with a kit.

Lemers

The camaro was on a closed street. He didn't stop because they paid a lot of money for that street and the scene called for him to make the turn without stopping. The cop would be wrong if he went around road blocks.

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Jeffblue

btw, bumblebee should be drifting around that corner anyway. wtf is this, grandma in a rush to get her perscription filled?

obviuosly, if you are a 'stunt' anything, you do dangerous stuff. but i think this leaves the police open to a liability suit. If you have a legal drag strip at a race track, and a cop decides there is an emergecy and drives across the far end of the track to get somewhere it would be deadly. bottom line is cops need to be aware of where they are driving. if i saw a cop barrelling down a street at 60-70 where the speed limit is 20 and there is a school, i'd be pretty bothered.

cop's thought process: "Oh man this idiot kid just hit me! i'm calling this one in! i've been waiting to take down one of these ******** that buys the bumblebee camaro. seriously what the hell is up with that? its a movie, get over yourself. bumblebee isn't real, why would you spend 35k on a car that looks like a giant space robot from a fictional movie... seriously man.... wait, is that optimus prime? what are all these people doing here? ....oh... god. *turns off sirens*

Lemers

Here's a thought:

in order for the police department to headoff a liability suit by the production company and stunt driver the cops press charges against the driver. Charges like not yeilding to an emergency viehicle, assualt of a police officer in the performance of his duty, use of deadly force to increase the assualt charge. This way if you can get the driver to plead to the lesser charge with a fine and no jail time then it would be hard for him to file in civil court.

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Jeffblue

haha i wouldn't be surprised if they pull that. then again, the video evidence is pretty undisputable. honestly, what would happen if a cop rolled up onto the set of some movie with a bank robbery scene while they were shooting and shot one of the actors because he had a gun?

350z_2nr

def the cops fault, the stunt driver prob didn't expect the cop to come through at all or even really see him until it was too late.

LuckyJinx

That is true, but i rather him saving someone's life than worry about the camaro.

Lemers

The cop did have lights and sirens on. Why didn't the camaro driver knotice the cop and try to avoid him. He's a trained stunt driver.


Forget the poor dead carcass of bumble bee. Didn't anyone knotice that optimis had a trailer (1st time in the movies). Wonder what it's for? Does it change into anything cool like a heavy gun platform like the toy did or just to carry cargo?

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Jeffblue

wait... really? stunt drivers and doubles are supposed to be good at doing dangerous things in a controlled environment. they act based on how they rehearsed the scene over and over again. Thats like saying an actor in a movie should be better at coping with the death of a family member because they played a character in a movie in which their child died. The reason they close the street in these kinds of scenes specifically for this reason. so that the environment is controlled, and there is nothing unexpected. All the driver knows is that he's supposed to take that turn at a specific queue. If a streaker gets hit in the head with a 90mph fastball at a baseball game, its not the pitchers fault.

ThoriumHotdog

I'll have to check the video again but wasn't there a building on the corner? If so, there was only a small space and very little time for the camaro driver to spot the cop car at the speed he was going. I'm surprised he even hit the breaks when he did.

IF anything, the production crew should have radioed the stunt drivers to tell them something was wrong on set. Since they didn't, maybe this was a publicity stunt after all or maybe someone other than the cop and stunt driver got fired over this.

ishthemienguy

it is a "closed" set so all streets are "supposed" to be blocked off so the stunt driver never expected to see a random cop car driving through the set. I don't think he was trained to avoid a cop car that wasn't suppose to drive though the set and plus the stunt driver could have thought the sirens was from the set an not an actual cop.

Plus I think the trailer is octimis's upgraded weapons like what he had received at the end of the 2nd movie.