Transformers: Dark of the Moon

[Iroscato]

At least it can't be worse than Transformers 2 right? Or can it...

Transformers 2 had a railgun shooting a giant robot, and some other robots being blown up by aerial bombardment.
That's about all i remember about that movie, and those scenes weren't bad

That's probably because your brain refuses to let you remember any more of that pile of shit.
THIS looks much more like it, just for god's sake don't go in expecting high cinematic art. The giant snakey robot thing snipping the building in half looked visually impressive to say the least.
It's incredible to see the Transformers films, because, detritus as they are, the CGI in them is...uncanny valley destroying. I literally can't tell what's real and what's not anymore. If I saw [Sam Witwicky]OPTIIMUUUUS![/Sam Witwicky] walking down the street, I probably would barely flinch in surprise.

[RecklessPrudence]

GodDAMNit I am such a sucker for 'dramatic' music. I literally cannot make a rational assessment of something if the music plays me well enough.

That said, with all the usual trailer caveats, this looks okay. I am cautiously optimistic... come to think of it, was Spielberg's name on RotF, or did he refuse to be associated with it? Because for some reason I can't remember seeing his name on that piece of dreck anywhere near as prominently as on that trailer.

At least Optimus kept the Jetfire upgrades - I wouldn't have put it past them to say 'it would be dishonourable to his memory' or some such to reset his capabilities, like with Bumblebee's vocoder. I presume they become his truck's trailer? And was that Laserbeak?

I guess the masquerade has finally crumbled, then? There's no saying 'oh, the robot on top of that bridge was a publicity stunt', or 'LA was attacked by terrorists and the reports of giant robots are from... some gas, or something' ...right?

Spiro, that's an interesting point. There is of course the fact that, AFAIK, they haven't tried to render a human being for more than a few seconds at a distance, or like with the Pretender in RotF, when the disguise is already failing and you're supposed to be realising something's off - humans, of course, being the hardest thing to get over the Valley with. I don't seem to see Uncanny Valley effects anywhere near as readily as most folk though (points to sig), so it's just interesting to me that other people haven't been feeling it, either.

[Vympel]

Hasbro has a website with selected profiles of various transformers. Here's our first look at Megatron from the movie, as opposed to the toy version:-

http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_U ... s/megatron

The description says his status was Spoiler

"wandering in the desert"

My speculation is that Shockwave is the new leader of the Decepticons and Megatron is deposed. My hope is that he kicks Shockwave's ass himself.

At least Optimus kept the Jetfire upgrades - I wouldn't have put it past them to say 'it would be dishonourable to his memory' or some such to reset his capabilities, like with Bumblebee's vocoder. I presume they become his truck's trailer? And was that Laserbeak?

Yes and yes.

Also, Soundwave = Spoiler

Mercedes SLS AMG

[Molyneux]

Hasbro has a website with selected profiles of various transformers. Here's our first look at Megatron from the movie, as opposed to the toy version:-

http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_U ... s/megatron

The description says his status was Spoiler

"wandering in the desert"

My speculation is that Shockwave is the new leader of the Decepticons and Megatron is deposed. My hope is that he kicks Shockwave's ass himself.

At least Optimus kept the Jetfire upgrades - I wouldn't have put it past them to say 'it would be dishonourable to his memory' or some such to reset his capabilities, like with Bumblebee's vocoder. I presume they become his truck's trailer? And was that Laserbeak?

Yes and yes.

Also, Soundwave = Spoiler

Mercedes SLS AMG

Checked out the site, saw that Sideswipe was listed in the characters, and thought to myself: well, his one big scene in the second movie was also one of the few scenes I liked. Neat character design, and I enjoy the "cocky swordsman" idea. Let's see what they've got planned for him -
Spoiler

Status: Currently assigned as mentor to Mudflap and Skids

...well, fuck.

[Iroscato]

Hasbro has a website with selected profiles of various transformers. Here's our first look at Megatron from the movie, as opposed to the toy version:-

http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_U ... s/megatron

The description says his status was Spoiler

"wandering in the desert"

My speculation is that Shockwave is the new leader of the Decepticons and Megatron is deposed. My hope is that he kicks Shockwave's ass himself.

At least Optimus kept the Jetfire upgrades - I wouldn't have put it past them to say 'it would be dishonourable to his memory' or some such to reset his capabilities, like with Bumblebee's vocoder. I presume they become his truck's trailer? And was that Laserbeak?

Yes and yes.

Also, Soundwave = Spoiler

Mercedes SLS AMG

Checked out the site, saw that Sideswipe was listed in the characters, and thought to myself: well, his one big scene in the second movie was also one of the few scenes I liked. Neat character design, and I enjoy the "cocky swordsman" idea. Let's see what they've got planned for him -
Spoiler

Status: Currently assigned as mentor to Mudflap and Skids

...well, fuck.

Oh bollocks. Those racist robot twins? They annoyed the FUCK outof me. The more I think about it, the more I realise what a shit director Bay is. Dogs humping? Robots humping legs? Massive robot testicles? For shame.
On that note, cananyone actually name 1 good movie he's made? Just 1? And if you say Pearl Harbour, I shall bring a world of pain. Well, I'll send you a stongly worded PM, same thing.

[RogueIce]

Checked out the site, saw that Sideswipe was listed in the characters, and thought to myself: well, his one big scene in the second movie was also one of the few scenes I liked. Neat character design, and I enjoy the "cocky swordsman" idea. Let's see what they've got planned for him -
Spoiler

Status: Currently assigned as mentor to Mudflap and Skids

...well, fuck.

It's possible that this is an indication they toned them down. One can hope, anyway. While they weren't "OMG MOVIE RUINED!!!" for me, I did find them pretty damn annoying.

Oh bollocks. Those racist robot twins? They annoyed the FUCK outof me. The more I think about it, the more I realise what a shit director Bay is. Dogs humping? Robots humping legs? Massive robot testicles? For shame.
On that note, cananyone actually name 1 good movie he's made? Just 1? And if you say Pearl Harbour, I shall bring a world of pain. Well, I'll send you a stongly worded PM, same thing.

Pearl Harbor.

Actually, to be fair, once they got into the actual attack, its aftermath, the Doolittle raid, and pretty much any scene that wasn't about Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and their little love triangle, it was pretty good. Not super historically accurate, but still pretty decent.

But for an actual good movie Michael Bay directed? The Rock. That was just a great movie through and through, and Ed Harris as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel United States Marine Corps is still one of my favorite movie villians (a relatively noble one, at that...at least by action movie villian standards).

[Vympel]

Mudflap and Skids are "not even in it" according to Michael Bay. Don't confuse Hasbro's website with the film, that website covers TF1 and TF2 as well, not just TF3.

[DPDarkPrimus]

Toy bios aren't necessarily going to jibe with the actual film.

[Vympel]

HUGE PLOT SPOILERS, CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK

[wautd]

Still no Astrotrain?

[Molyneux]

Still no Astrotrain?

I'm not sure they'll ever include that character...at least, not as an actual space-going train. That might be just a little too silly.

[seanrobertson]

HUGE PLOT SPOILERS, CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK

Jesus! Murphy was on top of that like a swarm of pubescent girls going at "The Kids On the Block." (Damn. That dates me, doesn't it? . Substitute "Justin Beiber" for the "New Kids," then.)

I wonder why the man's quite so keen to quash spoilers? If the film's story stands on its own merits, I'm actually more inclined to see the thing, not less. Such was the case with "Clones." I knew ahead of time that Anakin would lose one of his hands and that he'd develop an intense relationship with Padme. But I'm still glad I went to see it on opening day. A script can't convey the excitement of, say, Obi-Wan running from Slave One's blasters, missiles and seismic charges in the midst of a large asteroid field.

Did anyone actually read the spoilers before Amazon was so timid as to remove the "see inside!" page? Please PM me if you did.

[Magellan]

HUGE PLOT SPOILERS, CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK

Jesus! Murphy was on top of that like a swarm of pubescent girls going at "The Kids On the Block." (Damn. That dates me, doesn't it? . Substitute "Justin Beiber" for the "New Kids," then.)

I wonder why the man's quite so keen to quash spoilers? If the film's story stands on its own merits, I'm actually more inclined to see the thing, not less. Such was the case with "Clones." I knew ahead of time that Anakin would lose one of his hands and that he'd develop an intense relationship with Padme. But I'm still glad I went to see it on opening day. A script can't convey the excitement of, say, Obi-Wan running from Slave One's blasters, missiles and seismic charges in the midst of a large asteroid field.

Did anyone actually read the spoilers before Amazon was so timid as to remove the "see inside!" page? Please PM me if you did.

Sometimes its nice to be surprised. Already knowing who the killer(s) was/were in Scream 4 didn't stop me from enjoying the movie, but it would've been nice to *gasp* along with everyone else in the theater during the reveal.

You're glad you saw Attack of the Clones opening day? I'm sorry, that sentence doesn't compute.

[Vympel]

If the movie is anything like the comic, I will say that there's no way TF3 could be considered worse than TF2 by even the most fanatical TF2-haters (of which I am not one, famously).

Of coure, Leonard Nimoy being Sentinel Prime guaranteed that ...