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Transformers: Dark of the Moon Teaser
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BattleMonkey
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thetrin said:
Well thought out rebuttal
Messypandas
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Nothing exploded
Blue Ninja
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I liked Revenge of the Fallen, but only because I turned my brain off while watching it. The plot's holier than swiss cheese.
So, I'm going to anticipate and see this movie using the same (non-)mindset. If it turns out to have an actual story, well... Then my mind will explode.
So, I'm going to anticipate and see this movie using the same (non-)mindset. If it turns out to have an actual story, well... Then my mind will explode.
MetalAlien
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Stabby McSter said:
Why? Dust covered Unicron is a great idea. It isn't him anyway, but I would be totally ok if it was.
lightless_shado
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Expecting realism in a Transformers film is like watching a Transformers film in anticipation of some deep sort of plot (which also wasn't evident in source material). People still do it, and people still get super pissed about it.thetrin said:
But hey I'd be pissed too if they raped my childhood infront of me on a silver screen. Fortunately, Digimon The Movie was fucking awesome.
MetalAlien
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enzo_gt said:They're replacing her with the hot mess on the left.
I mean, I still would, but she looks like a washed up, B-grade Megan Fox.
Hide those thumbs baby, hide'em! Wait is that Fox on the right?
Uhhh... yeah. They had a lot more heart and were much easier to feel any sort of empathy for because they actually had faces that were recognizable as... faces. If they went with some spruced-up version of the old designs issues like giving the human characters more face to add a human element wouldn't have been of such importance.TacticalFox88 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzo0brJL76w
Give that guy a multi-million dollar budget and he could have filled the movie with characters that would have been much more pleasing to look at than a kaleidoscope of gears and shapes that randomly shifts into a robot.
lightless_shado
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Ezalc said:
I tried to watch transformers 2 the other day and I just couldn't. There was a scene were she dropped by sam's house in full motorcycle gear, then she took off her gear and was wearing a dress. She kissed sam and then put on her gear and then rode off again. It was just the most pointless and stupid scene. I really hope michael bay doesn't pull that shit in this one. Yes I get that you have a good looking supporting actress, but that's no reason to devote entire scenes to just her body(which is never even nude!)
DeaconKnowledge
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quickwhips said:
The fuck? That was the Ark!
I support this. But I'd like a middleground, a bit more intricacy than that, but a LOT less than the Bayformers. I don't need someone to keep rubbing 80s design in my face, and it probably wouldn't be that way with modern vehicles used as autobots/decepticons.Dali said:
What people fail to realize is, the obligation Bay made from day one to include a love story between Sam and Megan Fox's character, whatever her forgettable name is, and as a result he's going to stick with this shit forever. Worlds falling apart? Sam needs to know where his beloved girl is. Earth being shit on by Unicron? Sam needs to meet up with the girl before any of the autobots can do fucking jack shit about it.
If it is Unicron, it wouldn't be unprecedented. In the fanclub comics he got a regular sized TF body after he was killed at the end of Transformers: Energon. It would be really weird though if they downsized Unicron for this movie, unless it's to set up him getting a planet (or at least moon) sized body for the finale.
Considering how weird that would be, I'm more apt to think it's Alpha Trion or Vector Prime.
edit: If you look really closely at his face, he's got Optimus's bat ear things. This makes it more likely that he's Alpha Trion, Vector Prime, maybe even Sentinel Prime (if you remember, in TF2 they mention the "Sentinel Prime expedition").
Considering how weird that would be, I'm more apt to think it's Alpha Trion or Vector Prime.
edit: If you look really closely at his face, he's got Optimus's bat ear things. This makes it more likely that he's Alpha Trion, Vector Prime, maybe even Sentinel Prime (if you remember, in TF2 they mention the "Sentinel Prime expedition").
Guardian Bob
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Looked really sweet, until it said transformers. I just can't get over how bad they made the transformers look. Also, if the moon does transform, life on earth will be all fucked up.
Also, who was the 2nd earth moon in beastwars? Unicron?
Also, who was the 2nd earth moon in beastwars? Unicron?
Barberetti
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Mikey Jr. said:
This thing was supposed to be Megatron right? What does he transform into? A scrapyard?
quickwhips
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They should have just released the transformers movie in theaters again. That movie is still pretty awesome to me. I just hate michael bays transformers because I can't tell what the fuck is going on at all. The one fight with optimus in the second in the woods I could make out everything but whole first movie and most of the second one had confusing fight scenes. And I still think the teaser sucked. All they needed to do was show unicron transforming and it would have been awesome. Now we sit here and have no clue who the fuck that way.
Broken Arrow
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My bet is on Unicron
TacticalFox88
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What? :lol Nooo. You guys seriously think G1 designs work in Live action? These designs work FLAWLESSLY in the movie. Bay is pretty much the only reason they look as good as they do. He literally kept telling the people at ILM that they didn't "Look real enough". It is what is, and it was ultimately (despite what you think of the ACTUAL film) for the best.Dali said:
I ATE THE WHOLE PLATE.thetrin said:
THE WHOLE PLATE.
OKAY?
This is true, but it's one of the least of the problems of the Transformers plotline. Sam coming back, teleportation and all that shit rank higher on the list for me.
Michael Bay just needs to get someone to proofread his scripts for plotholes, that's all. Really, then the movies would be okay. When your watching them, if something doesn't make sense, you say fuck it and move on to the next explosion. It's just watching them for a second time that it's unbearable. Especially reading that one long ass article on all the plot holes in TF2, which I don't have a link to atm.
thetrin
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TacticalFox88 said:
They work flawlessly? How do they work flawlessly when I can't even tell who is who, and where one robot starts and the other ends when they're fighting?
enzo_gt said:I ATE THE WHOLE PLATE.
THE WHOLE PLATE.
OKAY?
This is true, but it's one of the least of the problems of the Transformers plotline. Sam coming back, teleportation and all that shit rank higher on the list for me.
Michael Bay just needs to get someone to proofread his scripts for plotholes, that's all. Really, then the movies would be okay. When your watching them, if something doesn't make sense, you say fuck it and move on to the next explosion. It's just watching them for a second time that it's unbearable. Especially reading that one long ass article on all the plot holes in TF2, which I don't have a link to atm.
I will concede hot chicks everywhere falling in love with Sam, because apparently he is Autobot Jesus.
Also the Matrix of Leadership is a key to a super weapon (what?!) How is a key to a super weapon a physical representation of leadership?
aparisi2274
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DeaconKnowledge said:
Was it?? Are you sure? I have to look again...
jufonuk
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sphagnum said:Armada. Three shows from the early-mid 2000s (Armada, Energon, Cybertron) formed a series called the Unicron Trilogy.
edit: Here's the guy's face in case you guys didn't notice his Optimus antennae.
I get a real Prime vibe from that head shape.
they any good?
gave animated a try, loved it
ohh looking at the pic i bet it is like err primus and the whirling buzzsaws of death mean unicron is coming.
he looks like a good guy in this shot
Teaser looks absolutely fantastic. Bay already said that the robot CG in the teaser and the effects shots (astronauts on the moon, the ship) are NOT by any means final. This is a really good start. I love the tone they're going for. This is definitely the sort of continuation of the series I love, and a direction I'm happy they're exploring. I'm hyped! 
I finally got the Big Screen Edition of the ROTF blu-ray this week too, after holding off for over a year. I sat down yesterday and watched the movie again after not having seen it for a year. I defended it when it was in the cinemas, and I'll gladly defend it again. Hardly the turd most make it out to be. Far from a terrible movie, although it is definitely very flawed, especially the various beats in the narrative being overall shaky. In the end it was still entertaining as hell, and so fucking well shot. Excellent CG too.
I finally got the Big Screen Edition of the ROTF blu-ray this week too, after holding off for over a year. I sat down yesterday and watched the movie again after not having seen it for a year. I defended it when it was in the cinemas, and I'll gladly defend it again. Hardly the turd most make it out to be. Far from a terrible movie, although it is definitely very flawed, especially the various beats in the narrative being overall shaky. In the end it was still entertaining as hell, and so fucking well shot. Excellent CG too.
Looking at it, it does sort of resemble Rodimus.sphagnum said:Armada. Three shows from the early-mid 2000s (Armada, Energon, Cybertron) formed a series called the Unicron Trilogy.
edit: Here's the guy's face in case you guys didn't notice his Optimus antennae.
I get a real Prime vibe from that head shape.
There is a new head writer for this film. Orci and Kurtzman didn't want to do this anymore (for ROTF they had to write a treatment in two weeks due to the writer's strike), so one of the assistant writers on Revenge of the Fallen takes the helm here. Granted, anything he writes still has to go through Bay's hands.
You should probably watch the Japanese versions of those movies (notice how I say movies). You might just be crying out the names of Haim Saban, and Shuki Levy in disgust afterwards.
enzo_gt said:
You should probably watch the Japanese versions of those movies (notice how I say movies). You might just be crying out the names of Haim Saban, and Shuki Levy in disgust afterwards.
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