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[SephCast]

The title fucking sucks.

It's way better than The Dark Knight Rises though. I don't know why I brought that up, but I just really don't like the new Batman's title.

 

[sphagnum]

That's who I'm assuming that's supposed to be.

This is going to be terrible.

Spoiler

We've already seen a photo of Shockwave's head being used as a stand-in during filming, this isn't him.

 

[YagizY]

"Dark of the Moon" :lol

I pity anyone that thinks this is actually going to be good. Transformers 2 is the worst thing I've ever seen in a theater (and I saw Charlies Angels 2 in theaters).

 

[big ander]

Dude, remember when that energy pulse went through Shia Lebouf's house and all the appliances went KEEERRRAAAAZZZZY and there was that pelvic thrusting transformer man that was so funny and then the sr71 had incontinence hahahah and he walked through the back of the smithsonian into the arizona desert man what an amazing.... piece of shit.

Most of that was the 2nd film. The first one was a lot better.

"Dark of the Moon" :lol

I pity anyone that thinks this is actually going to be good. Transformers 2 is the worst thing I've ever seen in a theater (and I saw Charlies Angels 2 in theaters).

GOOD GOD WHY

 

[Talon]

That's who I'm assuming that's supposed to be.

This is going to be terrible.

We already know what he looks like.

Screenshot from TF2:

Head stand-in during shooting in Chicago:

 

[Broken Arrow]

"Dark of the Moon" :lol

I pity anyone that thinks this is actually going to be good. Transformers 2 is the worst thing I've ever seen in a theater (and I saw Charlies Angels 2 in theaters).

You are brave my friend...

 

[Gram Negative Cocci]

Most of that was the 2nd film. The first one was a lot better.

I honestly can't remember specifics from the first film all that much. All I remember was that it was really bad. I remember some fat black dude and a boombox transformer.

edit:
And I think there was like some groan inducing 'hacked our internets' bullshit too

 

[mollipen]

Even downloading it period is a damn pain now.

1: Go to trailers.apple.com, pick movie
2: Pick version you want to watch (from "Download" list)
3: Trailer opens in QuickTime
4: Wait for movie to fully load
5: File > Save As...

 

[Talon]

1: Go to trailers.apple.com, pick movie
2: Pick version you want to watch (from "Download" list)
3: Trailer opens in QuickTime
4: Wait for movie to fully load
5: File > Save As...

This only works if you Quicktime X (from Snow Leopard) or Quicktime Pro.

 

[duckroll]

I honestly can't remember specifics from the first film all that much. All I remember was that it was really bad. I remember some fat black dude and a boombox transformer.

So maybe the movies aren't for you. You don't like them, that's fine. No need to keep running it down over and over unless there's something you actually want to discuss. You're not going to change anyone's mind by repeating "I'm right, you're wrong".

 

[big ander]

1: Go to trailers.apple.com, pick movie
2: Pick version you want to watch (from "Download" list)
3: Trailer opens in QuickTime
4: Wait for movie to fully load
5: File > Save As...

Which is harder than
1) Right-click>Save As
2) watch download bar in browser

Because I can see exactly how far along it is.

I honestly can't remember specifics from the first film all that much. All I remember was that it was really bad. I remember some fat black dude and a boombox transformer.

Sam wasn't a douche in the first one, none of the Transformers were legitimately offensive, the action was quite good, and I found the story way better.

 

[artist]

Anyone with Quicktime Pro .. please upload it on the mediafire? 720p would suffice!

 

[duckroll]

Anyone with Quicktime Pro .. please upload it on the mediafire? 720p would suffice!

I already have the file. Gimme a sec.

 

[Discotheque]

Pretty boring teaser. I just skipped to the ending and I saw a robit with a beard. Looked pretty funny. I assume that's the bad guy?

 

[duckroll]

This is going to take 40 minutes or so to upload. If you can get it faster on your own, you can use jett's instructions from the previous page regarding Firefox's user agent switcher. The direct url is http://trailers.apple.com/movies/paramount/transformers3/transformers-tlr1-f1_h720p.mov

 

[Takao]

My only problem is how weird the flow of this movie franchise will be once it's all said and done. We have a pretty balanced movie in the first one, with the second one heavily leaning on comedy, and the third supposedly being super serious. So weird.

 

[Discotheque]

It'll be like the Alien trilogy (prior to 4) only much better of course.

 

[jufonuk]

It'll be like the Alien trilogy (prior to 4) only much better of course.

teh feck????

 

[YagizY]

So the second one had racist robots, robots with wrecking ball balls, an incontinent old jet robot.

So far this one has a bearded robot. I hope their is going to be a robot with genital herpes and perhaps a schizo or bipolar robot. Maybe they can add in a robot that has AIDS.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

We already know what he looks like.

Screenshot from TF2:

Head stand-in during shooting in Chicago:

Shockwave. Fuck yes! He was lame in the G1 cartoon, but a badass in the comic.

 

[Takao]

So the first one had racist robots, robots with wrecking ball balls, an incontinent old jet robot.

That's all Revenge of the Fallen. Unless you're taking Jazz's 4 lines from the first movie as racist?

 

[YagizY]

That's all Revenge of the Fallen. Unless you're taking Jazz's 4 lines from the first movie as racist?

Sorry, edited that, I meant the second one.

 

[Youta Mottenai]

On using the G1 designs:

Yeah... I wonder why they didn't use these designs in the movies...


I hope they don't throw 23948 tranformers that end being on the screen for 2 seconds
(and less comedy, less plot-holes please).

Hide those thumbs baby, hide'em! Wait is that Fox on the right?

Korean-girls-group-GAF says clubbed thumbs are ok now.

 

[duckroll]

My only problem is how weird the flow of this movie franchise will be once it's all said and done. We have a pretty balanced movie in the first one, with the second one heavily leaning on comedy, and the third supposedly being super serious. So weird.

I don't think it's as unbalanced as you think. I just rewatched ROTF yesterday, and it's definitely not leaning more towards comedy than the first movie. The only difference was that the movie didn't have the solid rhythm the first movie had, and the narrative was weakened by being disjointed at parts.

As far as actual tone is concerned, the movies have always been relatively serious in approach (Decepticons are evil killers, people actually die, lots of real world government/military involvement, etc) peppered with a good dose of stupid and silly slapstick stuff (hacker kid, Agent Simmons, Sam's family, the Twins).

I'm sure the third movie will be exactly the same, even if they're going for a darker and more personal overall storyline. It's not like you're not going to see a single slapstick joke or stupid character in the movie. I'm certain those elements will still be there.

 

[Vanille]

My only problem is how weird the flow of this movie franchise will be once it's all said and done. We have a pretty balanced movie in the first one, with the second one heavily leaning on comedy, and the third supposedly being super serious. So weird.

But didn't Bay say a few weeks ago that this will have MORE comedy than RotF?

 

[sphagnum]

I find it funny how this movie is almost certainly going to retcon Ghosts of Yesterday, the first movie's prequel novel, out of continuity, since in that the moon landing was a front for Sector 7 to test launch a spaceship reverse engineered from Megatron's tech.

 

[Gram Negative Cocci]

So the second one had racist robots, robots with wrecking ball balls, an incontinent old jet robot.

So far this one has a bearded robot. I hope their is going to be a robot with genital herpes and perhaps a schizo or bipolar robot. Maybe they can add in a robot that has AIDS.

Dude, you forgot the sexy fembot transformer.

 

[Talon]

On using the G1 designs:

What is going on?

 

[Dragon]

No Hot Rod please. Wasn't he cooked up just for the animated movie and before that he wasn't even in the cartoons? Fuck Hot Rod and fuck Ultra Magnus, who's even worse.

What is going on?

I believe that's the Hate Plague episode

Edit: Looks like I'm wrong!!

 

[Takao]

But didn't Bay say a few weeks ago that this will have MORE comedy than RotF?

Bay says a lot of things. I don't really believe what he has to say in regards to this movie's story. However, many of the cast have said it's a more serious film.

 

[mollipen]

Which is harder than
1) Right-click>Save As
2) watch download bar in browser

Because I can see exactly how far along it is.

I had a progress bar in QuickTime Player both when I first loaded and watched the trailer, and the second time when I opened the link again when I got a download progress bar after doing the Save As.

You described that process as a "damn pain", I'm just saying that I don't know that exactly qualifies as such.

Yeah... I wonder why they didn't use these designs in the movies...

There can be a happy medium between the two.

 

[sphagnum]

What is going on?

They're all covered in some golden liquid called electrum that blocks laser blasts, so trying to shoot each other does nothing. Episode is The Golden Lagoon.

Hate Plague turns everyone red!

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Gigantic brass knuckles for Unicron?

Oh boy.

In G1, the Autobots went on an expedition to collect Energon. They used a science vessel called the Ark.

Megs caught wind of their plan, then tried to hijack their vessel. They got knocked off course and crash landeed on Earth circa 4,000,000 years B.C. In the 80's, a volcano erupts, Jostles a Decepticon (Thundercracker I think? Can't remember) then he uses Teletran 1 (the Ark's computer) to reformat all the Decepticons and they bounce. Bumblebee awakens, and he does the same for the Autobots. After this, the war resumes on Earth.

The Ark, simply put, is the Autobot's makeshift base from thereon out and a pillar of the series. The movie canon is obviously different from the cartoon (and by proxy, the comic) canon, hence the dark side of the moon shit.

It's at this point that i'd like to suggest that the Transformer we see isn't Hot Rod, but instead Alpha Trion, who is essentially Optimus Prime's father.

 

[MetalAlien]

What is going on?

They're kicking their own ass! Do you mind?

 

[WillyFive]

"They are now on the dark side of the moon."

NO THEY ARE NOT!

YOU CAN SEE THE EARTH FROM THERE!

 

[big ander]

I had a progress bar in QuickTime Player both when I first loaded and watched the trailer, and the second time when I opened the link again when I got a download progress bar after doing the Save As.

You described that process as a "damn pain", I'm just saying that I don't know that exactly qualifies as such.





There can be a happy medium between the two.

Excuse me for my use of hyperbole. :lol If I cared at all I'd go back and edit it to "an inconvenience" but I'm gonna leave it the way it is, if that's cool with you.

Bay says a lot of things. I don't really believe what he has to say in regards to this movie's story. However, many of the cast have said it's a more serious film.

Same. But I'm going to trust the cast. And from the looks of the trailer, it does look a lot more serious.

 

[GillianSeed79]

Looks like it. But I pictured him to be MUCH bigger. Surely, with the Fallen in the last movie they HAVE to go with Unicron this time.

Maybe the moon is actually just Unicron's head? In the animated movie I thought after he was destroyed his head became a moon of cybertron.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

What is going on?

The Decepticons found an alloy that essentially made them invincible. What you're watching is them fucking around and shooting each other for fuck's sake.

 

[KevinCow]

On using the G1 designs:

http://i.imgur.com/wsEoP.gif[IMG]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Bt6xc.gif[IMG]

Yeah... I wonder why they didn't use these designs in the movies...[/QUOTE]

Surely they could've found a happy medium between the blocky G1 designs and the confusing car-thrown-in-a-giant-blender movie designs.

But then there's still a huge list of problems with the movies before we even get to the bad designs.

 

[Ferga]

the transformers films are just eye candy for me. can only watch it once but i enjoy it

This film's name is just ridiculous though:lol

 

[MindCollizion]

"They are now on the dark side of the moon."

NO THEY ARE NOT!

YOU CAN SEE THE EARTH FROM THERE!

Picture of the guy who loves twists.

 

[DarkWish]

I don't know where people are getting Unicron from... all hints point towards it not being Unicron. For one, Unicron is the size of a planet. But yes, there seems to be a strong possibility of it being Alpha Trion, based on his looks. And if you look closely at the other dead Transformers around, they have Autobot-like looks (Decepticon proto-forms are all spiky). So it seems to me that that ship is the Ark, and it's full of Autobots.

And for those saying "WTF" at the title, "Dark of the Moon" actually means something. Yes, it sounds weird... but it actually has a meaning behind it.

It's amazing though how determined people on GAF are to hate this film. Every indication so far says that it's going to be a HUGE improvement over Revenge of the Fallen, from the behind the scenes, the interviews, filming, etc. Whatever, I don't care to try and convince anyone, I know I'm excited for this.

 

[Femmeworth]

Michael Bay is going to fuck up Unicron? >:\

 

[jett]

"They are now on the dark side of the moon."

NO THEY ARE NOT!

YOU CAN SEE THE EARTH FROM THERE!

:lol

 

[Zabka]

"They are now on the dark side of the moon."

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/9588/1653223-2.jpg[IMG]

[B]NO THEY ARE NOT!

YOU CAN SEE THE EARTH FROM THERE![/B][/QUOTE]
I hate to defend this, especially since they make that mistake in the actual movie, but that was only what the phony news report said. And they said far side of the moon, which under certain circumstances...ah fuck it.

 

[Youta Mottenai]

There can be a happy medium between the two.

No! It must be G1 designs! Anything less is Bay raping my childhood!!!!


Seriously answer you, I'd like to see some "middle of the way" designs, although I think Bay designs work very well in the movies. They, for me at least, convey a better image of "real" living mechanical beings.

 

[jufonuk]

Oh boy.

In G1, the Autobots went on an expedition to collect Energon. They used a science vessel called the Ark.

Megs caught wind of their plan, then tried to hijack their vessel. They got knocked off course and crash landeed on Earth circa 4,000,000 years B.C. In the 80's, a volcano erupts, Jostles a Decepticon (Thundercracker I think? Can't remember) then he uses Teletran 1 (the Ark's computer) to reformat all the Decepticons and they bounce. Bumblebee awakens, and he does the same for the Autobots. After this, the war resumes on Earth.

The Ark, simply put, is the Autobot's makeshift base from thereon out and a pillar of the series. The movie canon is obviously different from the cartoon (and by proxy, the comic) canon, hence the dark side of the moon shit.

It's at this point that i'd like to suggest that the Transformer we see isn't Hot Rod, but instead Alpha Trion, who is essentially Optimus Prime's father.

didn't starscream shoot at the ark causing an avalanche awakening bumblebee or something?

 

[Reilly]

Transformers: War for Cybertron was the best thing to happen to the license in the past 20 years.

These movies are awful and I can't wait for Michael Bay is done with them so we can get a proper Transformers reboot.

 

[duckroll]

But didn't Bay say a few weeks ago that this will have MORE comedy than RotF?

No, he didn't.

http://www.collider.com/2010/12/08/michael-bay-interview-transformers-dark-moon-edit-bay-visit/

“We tried to learn from the second movie. On the second movie we got burned. We had a writers strike, we had to agree on a story in three weeks, and then we knew they were going on strike. It was a fucked scenario all the way around, it wasn’t fair to the writer, it wasn’t fair to me, it wasn’t fair to anybody. It was still an entertaining movie, but I think we failed on certain aspects. What we did with this movie is I think we have a much better script, and we got back to basics. I think there’s some really cool action on this movie, there’s some very cool conspiracy, there’s great robot stuff in this that people were missing in the second one, you’ve got great robot conflict. So I’m excited about this movie. It’s more serious. I got rid of the dorky comedy, I mean we’ve got two little characters, that’s it, but the dorkiness is not there. Dork-free Transformers. It’s much more serious. It’s still entertaining, it’s big looking.”

“My take on this movie was that I wanted to make the fighting a lot more personal. In the past two movies the cavalry has always came in, this time the cavalry isn’t coming. It’s black hawk down, a small group; they’re fucked. It makes it more intimate.”

 

[siddx]

I'm hyped, can't wait. Haters eat a dick. One that transforms into a hairy ballsack halfway down.