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Scythe
Thread title subject to change, but anyhoe, we've got some juicy tidbits about the movie.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/10/transformer-3-3d-release-confirmed-villain-and-plot-details-revealed-the-end-of-the-trilogy/

Bay has stated that there's an end to "Dorky Comedy" whatever the hell that means. The twins seem to be somewhat gone, and good ole Shockwave is suppose to be the villain. Not to happy about the 3D thing, but Bay has gone on the record of stating he's not very fond of 3D films, so it may not be totally 3D-obvious, think of stuff coming at you every two seconds. Glad to see this is the end of the trilogy as now we can hope for a reboot sometime in the near future.

Let the Bay hate mail roll in, none from me though, thank ya very much. Though I liked both films a lot, I still saw that they were quite flawed in many ways. I'm happy to see TF's in the limelight so that interest in them would come back for a new generation. Thanks to the live action films, we have animated shows, neat toys and re-releases of the G1 show.

darthmaul1
My only hope for this is if they do it in a way that you can forget the 2nd one ever happened that movie was a piece of sh1t.
But given Bays record we are still in for another 2 craptacular movies including Transformers 3
He seems to do 2 good movies then 3 crappy ones.

KingAdRock
Well it looks like we have a new villian. http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-transformers-fans-to-receive-a-shock.html

Kazenji
Set Photos

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/102792-new-transformers-3-set-photos

Scythe
I love the way Prime's trailer looks.

EyeOfApocalypse
It will be interesting to see this film take a darker turn. I would also enjoy less focus on the Sam/Prime relationship and more on giant robots kicking ass.

Kazenji
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68152

Something bad happens and it only takes place in America???

why not the whole world.

Sadako of Girth
'Cause thats where the target audience for Michael Bay movies live.

Its the reason that Bay is still in work today, I believe, 'cause the guys a joke the world over..

Kazenji
More video's

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68330

Scythe
Well now, this fire truck Autobot looks freakin' awesome.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs248.snc4/39735_1554032815988_1390209327_1467222_395000_n.jpg

ares834
It's called the Transformers: The Dark of the Moon.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/112/1125944p1.html

Scythe
Saw that, sounds rather odd. Heh, title possibly made up while listening to Pink Floyd.

darthmaul1
It's called. .... The dark side of the moon. So yeah there's a pink Floyd robot wink

darthmaul1
another vehicle accident on set

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=22409624

they will probably write it in that bumblebee will transform to avoid the police car.

Kazenji
Has anyone seen the title for it now they've taken out the "Side" from Darkside so now its just 'Dark of the Moon' confused


also found a plot summery on comingsoon.net

lordmegatron1
I (Carnage not Metal Head Megatron) would like to extend an invitation to Micheal Bay to come to "An Early Grave" party that I'm hosting just for him.


hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahaha

(Yes, to those who are wondering, I do have Schizophrenia.) rolling on floor laughing laughing out loud laughing

Kazenji
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71932

Scythe
B6g9yfZjrDQ&

roughrider
So who could that be in the shipwreck? Shockwave?
Colours and design don't match, if it is.

Scythe
I think it may be an Autobot, hence the blue eyes. Cons are more on the red side. He's gold and seems to have a mustache perhaps beard combo, I dunno. Alpha Trion perhaps?

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/8111/citrusmaximus.png

The Nuul
I think its Alpha Trion but some people said they've seen Unicron in the trailer. Where is he, at the end?

Mr. Rhythmic
That really annoys me. If people have to speculate who a character is when the face is directly front and center, you didn't adapt the character well. We should be able to tell who that is without question, but Bay just doesn't give two shits.

Bloinky
Just out of curiosity..........Is that the ship the Decepticons were on in the 2nd movie.?

Mr. Rhythmic
Originally posted by Bloinky
Just out of curiosity..........Is that the ship the Decepticons were on in the 2nd movie.?

Might be the Nemesis.

roughrider
He's got the appearance of Unicron, if not the size...
Maybe he terraforms the moon into his new body...?

LanceWindu
Originally posted by The Nuul
I think its Alpha Trion but some people said they've seen Unicron in the trailer. Where is he, at the end?

Looks to be Alpha Trion to me as well. Not anywhere near the size of Unicron. I saw no other Transformers in the trailer.

darthmaul1
Just saw the trailer. Looks neat but it also worries me. So sector 7 knows about the transformers in the early 1900's and they knew something attacked the mars rover in 2005 or when ever that was. But now there is another cover up in 1969?

(>^^)>
there is apparently a scene where a transformewrs knocks over a building sam's in, and the orange bot does resemble unicron, would not be surprised if they include unicron as a decepticon that was lost when that ship crashed, and is around skyscraper size...

LanceWindu
Originally posted by (>^^)>
there is apparently a scene where a transformewrs knocks over a building sam's in, and the orange bot does resemble unicron, would not be surprised if they include unicron as a decepticon that was lost when that ship crashed, and is around skyscraper size...

But Unicron is the size of a planef. It would be asinine to dumb his character down.

Sadako of Girth
Thats never stopped Bay doing what he did to all the other characters.... sad

(>^^)>
Originally posted by LanceWindu
But Unicron is the size of a planef. It would be asinine to dumb his character down.
ya, pretty sure as this point, michael bay's goal is just to see how much he can shit on your childhood

darthmaul1
They had better put a small sattelite in orbit when they orbit the moon, other wise it will be retarded if they can communicate with earth while supposedly on the darkside. and are they walking from where they land to the dark side? LOL
I can feel a bunch of dumb things coming for this one again.

darthmaul1
i don't think they are actually not on the dark side of the moon. so i think they are just cutting communications (this is why the guy says "Neil you are dark on the rock"wink plus we can see the earth and the lunar lander and the alien ship. so they are clearly not on the dark side of the moon. this will be a cover up and they landed early and used the black out from before they landed to buy some time.

Sadako of Girth
Originally posted by darthmaul1
They had better put a small sattelite in orbit when they orbit the moon, other wise it will be retarded if they can communicate with earth while supposedly on the darkside. and are they walking from where they land to the dark side? LOL
I can feel a bunch of dumb things coming for this one again.

Soundwave'll probably get that gig.

msgplacide
Aww Its the last one! Why does everything good have an end.

Phanteros
LOL at it being good.

Sadako of Girth
Msgplacide is clearly a master of deadpan comedy.

He had me loling, too.

InfernoJG95
well as long as the romance is kept to a minimum and the whole giant alien robots beating the crap out of each other to a maximum

Sadako of Girth
Yep. Thats what sells the tickets.....not "Sams teen love problem corner".

In fact thats what they should rename the movie franchise:

"Dawsons Creek shit + Some Bionacle robots."

Scythe
Im diggin' the rags over Megs face, I really am. Reminds me of the Sandrock Gundam.

Kazenji
Rags ?

Scythe
Yeah, one of the new DOTM toys depicts Megatron as a truck with a blanket covering his cargo. In bot mode, the blanket covers his left shoulder and half of his face.

Sadako of Girth
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Kazenji
Megatron as a tanker truck

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/transformers/transformers_3/pictures/?i=1375&p=1

thought they were going for a tank.

darthmaul1
If that is megatron why the f is he a tanker truck????

Scythe
The film will explain everything. Not very well if you're not a fan of the Bay films. I'm glad to see Shockwave runnin' about, I'm also happy they strayed waaaay the f*ck away from the Geewun interface that most people who can't let go of the 80's would rage/cock pump about. I love G1 as much as the next guy, but this Bay-verse if you will is a completely seperate extension. Just like TF: Animated, TF: Prime and many of the Japanese toy lines.

I am, however, still hopeful that in the future we will perhaps see a G3 or a continuation of how things ended in G2 and such. If they're bringing back Thundercats as a cartoon series, then they'll eventually run out of 80's toons and someone will probably pick up G1 and say: "Let's finish this!" That! Better not suck.

So, I'll fully support most TF related oddities that spring up. I loved the Alternity line, even if the background stories reek of WTF. The Bayoformers are great as well in their own way because to me they mixed in what made Alternators so great.

Sadako of Girth
I just support each continuity on its own merit.

Something that Bayformers has lacked tremendously, so far.

K3VIL
I'm really sorry to have to agree with you all. I don't see what's wrong with hollywood directors. A movie adaptation of a comic book, should follow the comic book script, not Michael's Bay retarded fantasy. He changed the characters veichle mode, he just keep adding more and more characters, big explosions, so that kids and people with no taste will buy the ticket and secure a big hit at the box office. I bet half my monthly check that if Christopher Nolan was directing this the two movies would have been epic. Megatron now is a truck with clothing? WTF??

RE: Blaxican
Originally posted by K3VIL
I don't see what's wrong with hollywood directors.




What's not to understand?

Sadako of Girth
Yup. Its just businessmen funding a guy who seems to be on a mission to lower the IQ of his audiences, whilst ripping them off..

Kazenji
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73856

Sadako of Girth
Well that last bit seems to be the "Oldboy" moment.

Looks like they were his thrusters we saw on shooting production.

Scythe
Finally, a TF head-on collision.

K3VIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlvKLDTFkkA&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_917690
This is the official superbowl trailer.
Now Bay has become officiali a screw-saga director. Transformers spaceships flying around blasting down buildings, Optimus Prime coming in flying and ripping Decepticons apart with his energon blades, lots of explosion and FX, and surely a poor script. Probably once again Sam will be the key for the fate of earth. I had enough of Lebouf poor acting adding more waste to one of the greatest cartoon ever. Bah. My grandma could direct a better movie.

darthmaul1
Originally posted by K3VIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlvKLDTFkkA&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_917690
This is the official superbowl trailer.
Now Bay has become officiali a screw-saga director. Transformers spaceships flying around blasting down buildings, Optimus Prime coming in flying and ripping Decepticons apart with his energon blades, lots of explosion and FX, and surely a poor script. Probably once again Sam will be the key for the fate of earth. I had enough of Lebouf poor acting adding more waste to one of the greatest cartoon ever. Bah. My grandma could direct a better movie.
I'm going in there with lower expectations than I did for the 2nd one. Hope it helps cause the 2nd movie totally sucked.

Kazenji
Originally posted by K3VIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlvKLDTFkkA&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_917690
This is the official superbowl trailer.
Now Bay has become officiali a screw-saga director. Transformers spaceships flying around blasting down buildings, Optimus Prime coming in flying and ripping Decepticons apart with his energon blades, lots of explosion and FX, and surely a poor script. Probably once again Sam will be the key for the fate of earth. I had enough of Lebouf poor acting adding more waste to one of the greatest cartoon ever. Bah. My grandma could direct a better movie.

Thanks for not looking before posting.

Sadako of Girth
Dark of the moon Prime.
http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/uploads/1297115322_Prime4.png

http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/uploads/1297115322_Prime3.png










Prime combined with trailer....!





http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/uploads/1297115322_Prime.png

http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/uploads/1297115322_Prime2.png

K3VIL
Originally posted by Kazenji
Thanks for not looking before posting.
Man I live on the other side of the globe, there's the chance I'd get my hands on the tv spot later than you? Superbowl tv spots ain't aired in italy, otherwise I wouldn't waste a post by reposting that

I-Drop
Originally posted by darthmaul1
I'm going in there with lower expectations than I did for the 2nd one. Hope it helps cause the 2nd movie totally sucked. If I can get a free screening for this, I'll see it. If not, I'll wait for it on HBO. Feel like I got robbed last time.

Kazenji
Originally posted by K3VIL
Man I live on the other side of the globe, there's the chance I'd get my hands on the tv spot later than you? Superbowl tv spots ain't aired in italy, otherwise I wouldn't waste a post by reposting that

Well there is the internet its always on there roll eyes (sarcastic)

K3VIL
Originally posted by Kazenji
Well there is the internet its always on there roll eyes (sarcastic)
Man are ou really that dumb? When it's morning for you it means it's night here in italy, and I also work during night, I don't get payed to wait for the next tv spot being released

Kazenji
No, i'm not dumb

just pointing out these trailers what were shown for the superbowl can be watched on the internet.

Sadako of Girth
Originally posted by K3VIL
Man are ou really that dumb? When it's morning for you it means it's night here in italy, and I also work during night, I don't get payed to wait for the next tv spot being released

But 'If you'd read even just a couple of posts up, K3VIL, especially suspecting yourself to be late to the party infowise, you'd have seen it already posted' is the point....And Im not far out from you, timezone wise. (In case you think I'm not understanding the timezone difference thing.)

But anyways, fellas, its no biggie, not worth spilling blood/flaming over, IMO.

We can all feel lied to and letdown by Bay together, regardless of our geographic locational differences.. smile

Sadako of Girth
Originally posted by I-Drop
If I can get a free screening for this, I'll see it. If not, I'll wait for it on HBO. Feel like I got robbed last time.

I sympathise.

The action looks good, from the trailers.....but we could say that for the other, previous films too. sad

Sadako of Girth
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Dark of the moon Prime.
http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/uploads/1297115322_Prime4.png

http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/uploads/1297115322_Prime3.png










Prime combined with trailer....!





http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/uploads/1297115322_Prime.png

http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/uploads/1297115322_Prime2.png

So.... Fairy Power Ass-Master girly-butterfly-wings McPrime....

Yay or Nay?

Sadako of Girth
The stunned silence speaks volumes:
Its hideous. This is the pap they have in store for us...
Another good idea like Devastator turned into dog faeces. sad

Scythe
Haven't had time to look at it, but I think it looks abit like ass. In those photos though. I recently saw this:

http://img843.imageshack.us/i/1297448945122.jpg/

Yeah, I was right, it was mistranformed, though not by much. The newest photo of it almost makes it worth getting, but that pricetag to me, kills it. I won't be getting it unless it's on clearance. Those first photos posted really made me hate it. Here's a vid that shows that the wings can be moved around abit and he has a huge ass gun.


Ook37byOOmk

Here's a vid that shows that the wings can be moved around abit and he has a huge ass gun.

Sentinal Prime though, that.... Looks beautiful....

Sadako of Girth
Yeah Prime looks a lot better with the wings with the wheels on them folded down like in the vid...thanks for posting it.

Kazenji
Teaser for the game, the folks who did 'War For Cybertron' are doing this

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/126221-teaser-for-transformers-dark-of-the-moon-game

Sadako of Girth
Their involvement bodes well....

Hopefully they'll be able to effectively put plots/character depth into the Bay universe for the 1st time. stick out tongue

Scythe
Sweet, Highmoon.

Sadako of Girth
Blitzwing? :O

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/is-a-familiar-triple-changer-appearing-in-tf3-dark-of-the-moon/20850/

lordmegatron1
Awesome trailer can't wait for the movie and game. BTW could someone explain to me how to make a spoiler like what Sadako of Girth has. Been tryin but no luck.

The Nuul
Easy way.

Click quote under his post.

Just get the spoiler tags from there.

lordmegatron1
Thanks man.

The Nuul
NP.

Scythe
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Blitzwing? :O

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/is-a-familiar-triple-changer-appearing-in-tf3-dark-of-the-moon/20850/

I'd like that, he needs some love.

Sadako of Girth
Yep. Hope its not bullshit.

Another thing that makes me think that that might be true is that triple changing seems to be a theme in this movie what with all these alt-alt modes that having been flying about on all the promo stuff....And Octane and Astrotrain make no sense scale wise in their alt modes...it'd have to be one or the other, in Bay's messed up hypocritical Mass shift "rule"...
But a big tank and a compact jet? I can actually see that working...!!! So as I say, hope its not bullshit...

(Sometimes I wouldn't be surprised if it was bullshit actually generated by the studio to attract those that rightly feel utterly disillusioned with the franchise...it looks so correspondant to the types of designs in the movies...and looks like pro-work...but no toys, character models, casting mentions or anything of that nature on Blitzwing so far.)
I guess well know for sure in a few months....)

Robtard
Watch, probably going to be Starscream after he 'absorbed' some parts from another bot, as Prime did in TF2.

Sadako of Girth
Cool idea, except for the Eurofighter parts on it make me think otherwise...Starscream is a F-22 Raptor...

ti83mather
gay

Robtard
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Cool idea, except for the Eurofighter parts on it make me think otherwise...Starscream is a F-22 Raptor...

This is true.

I do think it's the 3-former though, it's something new for the franchise (which is needed) and in a way goes along with the 3rd film moniker. Marketing loves that shit.

I'd suspect the autobots would get a 3-former in their ranks to.

Sadako of Girth
Springer - Cybertronian/Alt Car/Alt Helicopter could work....

His fellow Wreckers seem to be nodded to in the new Autobot car ranks too.

darthmaul1
this was in yahoo news from the hollywood reporter

Transformers 2" director says film "was crap

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Director Michael Bay has labeled as "crap" his 2009 movie "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," blaming its shortcomings on the Hollywood writers' strike.

In an interview with Britain's Empire magazine, Bay admits that they "made some mistakes" while filming the critically panned sequel.

"The real fault with (Transformers 2) is that it ran into a mystical world," he explains. "When I look back at it, that was crap. The writers' strike was coming hard and fast. It was just terrible to do a movie where you've got to have a story in three weeks."

He adds, "I was prepping a movie for months where I only had 14 pages of some idea of what the movie was. It's a BS way to make a movie, do you know what I'm saying?"

This isn't the first time Bay has blamed the writers' strike for the blockbuster's faults. In July 2010, he told USA Today, "I'll take some of the criticism. It was very hard to put (the sequel) together that quickly after the writers' strike."

Actor Shia LaBeouf had similar complaints earlier that year at the Cannes Film Festival. "When I saw the second movie, I wasn't impressed with what we did," he said. "There were some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone."

However, both Bay and LaBeouf promised that the franchise's third installment, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," due in July, would rejuvenate the series.

"Transformers 2" grossed about $836 million worldwide, having cost about $200 million to produce.

Hopfully he is accurate in his statement that the 3rd movie will rejuvinate the series.

link is here
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/transformers-2-director-says-film-crap-20110306-180651-442.html

Kazenji
I find it funny that he blames it on the writers strike for getting a 14 page script

when you get something like Iron Man where it did'nt even have a script.

Sadako of Girth
Exactly. Hes got no one to blame but his 'visionary' dogmatism, stubbornness and complacency..

He got caught redhanded laughing at the fans of G1 AND his own 1st movie, and was spanked appropriately hard for it.
And ego like that will never admit to that truth publically.

So of course it was everybody else's fault.

Kazenji
And Spielbergs lost the plot because he said "Transformers 2 Might Be Michael Bay's Best"

then this now with Bay saying its crap.

Sadako of Girth
Absolutely. He doesnt give a f*** about TFs, despite all that publicity to the contrary before the 1st incident in 2007.

darthmaul1
Originally posted by Kazenji
And Spielbergs lost the plot because he said "Transformers 2 Might Be Michael Bay's Best"

then this now with Bay saying its crap.

Spielberg said that?
I swear these directors and producers etc. are going nuts in their old age.
They are even rebooting tomb raider....Really? that needs a reboot? just continue on with a different story.

I guess we will wait and see with TF3 if it will have the same type of charm as the first one.

Kazenji
Originally posted by darthmaul1
They are even rebooting tomb raider....Really? that needs a reboot? just continue on with a different story.


Well the second movie was rather shite.

darthmaul1
Originally posted by Kazenji
Well the second movie was rather shite.
Agree with you there. But that doesn't mean they have to reboot does it?

Scythe
Doesn't matter, since it'll probably happen cuz there's money to be made I suppose. I for one am really interested on what else is next for TF's. They'll most likely do a reboot, but more on topic. I'm kinda glad there won't be anymore Bay movies, so much as a hater at all, but I wanna see what other directors will do.

Sadako of Girth
Yes indeed.

Time for fresh, hindsight equipped perspective.

Kazenji
Gameplay reveal

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gdc-11-transformers-dark/711493

Sadako of Girth
Holy shit...! Condor/Laserbeak lanching from Soundwave..!!! stick out tongue

Nice find, Kaz...!

Kazenji
Just be the first movie game tie-in thats actually good from this bay franchise.

Kazenji
Also can't belive some people are thinking its gonna suck just because its a movie tie in.......shit its being handled by High Moon Studio's who had success with War For Cybertron.

Sadako of Girth
I agree. War for cybertron was f***ing insane awesome.

Even if the movie is shite, the game will probably be pretty similarly awesome.

Sadako of Girth
Laserbeak images of the figure:
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/better-quality-dotm-laserbeak-images/21056/

TitanicFTW
TRANSFORMERS, ROBOTS IN DISGUISE

Sadako of Girth
Now that was a jingle.
Still in your head after all this time....!!

Scythe
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
I agree. War for cybertron was f***ing insane awesome.

Even if the movie is shite, the game will probably be pretty similarly awesome.

I can't wait till the sequel comes out.

Kazenji
http://www.superherohype.com/features/articles/165127-preview-of-activisions-transformers-dark-of-the-moon-video-game

RE: Blaxican
**** that, do want War for Cybertron 2.

Kazenji
Here we go the song for the third movie, sneek peek of it

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/165215-linkin-parks-song-for-transformers-dark-of-the-moon

Sadako of Girth
Looks like this Graphics package demo was where the Blitzwing pic originated from...
D3n8FrULXlw
....so looks like that was a false alarm on the Blitzwing front. sad

Kazenji
Bay previews Transformers 3

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/165547-michael-bay-previews-transformers-dark-of-the-moon

Kazenji
Shockwave banner

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/166285-transformers-dark-of-the-moon-reveals-new-banner

Scythe
These banners are really badass.

Sadako of Girth
Yeah Shockwave looks pretty menacing in full render..I'll give em that.

Robtard
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Yeah Shockwave looks pretty menacing in full render..I'll give em that.

Hopefully they'll have him blasting the intro to Slayer's Angel of Death, it's been 21 years since we've heard it in a film, iirc. Gremlins 2.

Sadako of Girth
Ahhh that be Soundwave, you remember.

Hes in the movie too, to its still possible. stick out tongue

YoungGunna
Originally posted by Scythe
I love the way Prime's trailer looks.

Agreed

Kazenji
Achivements for the game

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/transformers-dark-of-the-moon/achievements/

theres multiplayer for it, Hope its good.

Kazenji
2 tv spots

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=78091

lordmegatron1
I know that some of us are thinking it so I'll just say it: What in the hell is that snake-like thing in the trailer. Is it supposed to be Dead End, Unicron's scout, or is it Unicron himself?

Kazenji
That snake thing seems to be Shockwave's pet or something going by this image

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=78392

Sadako of Girth
Yeah Ive heard that.
Apparently, its name is 'Driller'.
How imaginative of Bay.. lol

We are kinda lucky that Prime was an existing name.
(And that he wasnt just called "Big flamey coloured robot."wink

Kazenji
Stills of Mirage and Wheeljack

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Jolt17/news/?a=38767

Sadako of Girth
I'd seen the Mirage one in the trailer. sad

The Wheeljack one was new to mine eyes though... those poor eyes...

Scythe
Apparently the Red Ferrari's name is Dino.

Kazenji
http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/3333/d3efe211c961f662d1867a6.jpg

Sadako of Girth
Heh... stick out tongue

Sadako of Girth
Originally posted by Scythe
Apparently the Red Ferrari's name is Dino.

Perhaps they listened to the unanimous fan reaction this time.....
IE: "No f**king WAY is that Mirage...."

Mind you, that didnt matter when they called that pile of shit "Megatron", or the other characters with ZERO resemblance to their namesakes.....

Scythe
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Perhaps they listened to the unanimous fan reaction this time.....
IE: "No f**king WAY is that Mirage...."

Mind you, that didnt matter when they called that pile of shit "Megatron", or the other characters with ZERO resemblance to their namesakes.....

In some ways though, Megsy looked like Megs. Bucket head, gun arm, greyish. He spoke Megatron to me, even though he spoke Agent Smith.

Kazenji
Anyone checked out the latest tv spot?

Sam witwicky finds out the humans have been working with the decepticons for 50 years.

lordmegatron1
I have discovered, thanks to the video game, that "Driller" is just what it's name says. He's an extremely primitive, thinking drill.

Kazenji
So i've been to see this latest one

alot better then the second movie and that earlier picture someone put up of Prime with his trailer using it as wings never happened. They even use a story from a G1 episode

4/5 from me

BruceSkywalker
saw transformers dark of the moon today, but originally planned on seeing it friday, but my nephew wanted to see it sooner..


i liked it a lot, pretty good story, optimus and bumbles are damn good..

loved leonard nimoy as the voice of sentinel prime, also when sentinel prime said "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" i literally jumped up and shouted

8.8/10

Kazenji
What did you think of the new girl?

i reakon she was better then Megan and i'm not talking about how good looking she was more her acting.

Scythe
Wellllllllllllll, I just got back from seein' it and I poopooed my pants internally on how awesome it was. No brain needed when watching this film, as one knows what the hell they're getting themselves into when it's a Bay film and we've seen what to kinda expect with the first two. Action-wise, it was all over the freakin' place. While still being able to present an idea on what people were doing. The military-wank seemed less with this one, I honesty felt the TF's had a bigger presence. The WFC-esque Cybertron they showed was neat, Nimoy was great and Prime, goddamn, he was just one murder after another. Which is cool, cuz that's how I like my heroes.

Several bots went down like a chump, but my only major gripe with the film was it's massively rushed ending. It was like: They're dead.... Yes.... Credits! Y-yeah..?? People can b*tch and moan about plot hole shenanigans, how did Bee go from lookin' dandy to gettin' captured in a matter of seconds? Obviously movies don't really progress in real-time, and this film seemed to really jump ahead time frames in seconds, but no one really gives a shit, G1 had plotholes. Hardly anyone watches these films for their story, I know I sure as f*ck don't. I went in wanting mindless robot killing, this film presented that. So glad I'm an OP fan, as he was massively fan-wanked.

Shocky, poor Shocky, throughout the whole film, I thought he was a hobo. Think about it, he wandered around aimlessly not really up to much. He sure as hell made no effort to show he knew what was going on, one can only assume someone passed the word that they were takin' over.

The new girl, I don't really care about a female lead in this franchise, same turd wrapped differently to me. Based off looks, yeah, I'd say she's more attractive than Fox, but she still had a dumbass open mouth expression, random wardrobe changes, and everlasting, possibly strongest smudge-proof/never-ever smear make-up that I like to call Alpha-Make-Up I've ever seen in a movie. Obviously cuz sex sells, but goddamn, that chick could've gone through the holocaust and forever retain the same dolled-up appearance the entire time. She didn't do anything in the film that stood out ot me. That little pep-talk with Megs towards the end could've been started up by a 10yr old, but it's fine, it made her seem 'important' I guess.

Now, the nitpicks I'm hearing from friends and fans are borderline stupid. My favorites:

"Megatron wasn't on-screen that much"

"Bumblebee needs to stop being on-screen"

"Optimus Prime could never do that"

"His trailer didn't disappear"

"Why were there only 3 girls in the film?"

That last one is ctually my favorite and is in no way stupid, because I kinda brought it up first. Really, aside from random no-name characters, there's Carly, Sam's mom and the government chick who is still under investigation due to her 'don't call me ma'am' episodes which only complimented her somewhat manly lookin' chin.

But I digress, can't please everyone, obviously, though this film really tried to remedy what the second one molested and the first one teased.

Kazenji
Did you catch the plot that they used from an old G1 episode?

Sadako of Girth
Scythe: This movie had plotholes too....that conflicted with the first two movies plotlines, regarding Megatron and Sentinel's plan and how that seems to have massively conficted with the sun crusher plan from ROTF, and also the clash with the 'Megatron getting to Earth all that time ago' when the humans were in no position to be rebuilding cybertron (which was depicted as a self healing transforming planet previously anyways wtf)
It also had insane and asinine plot diversions that expanded the screen time needlessly, Sam was an irrititatng and shallow jerk,
who should have been killed 7 times alone against starscream

They had two from the G1 series, plotswise, Kazenji:

One from The one where Megatron brings the Cybertron to earth, (Yet the purpose of bringing it was ignored: In the cartoon - which had more advanced scifi in it - Megatron wanted to harvest the energy that the gravitational clash of Earth's mass and Cybertron's mass would provide...in this it was for the totally non sensical humans as slaves to rebuild cybertron...wtf plot)

And the one where Megatron convinces the earth's government via manipulation to banish The Autobots from earth, leaving the humans as slave prey fro the decepticons, with the full intention of destroying the Autobot craft as it leaves Earth

Ive defended the movie online against premovie bay hate, but it cannot seriously be made out to be completly Star Wars OT awesome. Just "Pretty good for a Bay movie' awesome.
Visual spectactular? Maybe.
Overall as entertaining as the 1st one, pissed alllllll over the second one. Once the novelty of the shiny big things fighting wears off with its more enthusiatic reviewers, the pants will remain and the scores will rightfully diminish, imho.

Your friends are dicks. Dicks with no chick dar.
They missed yellow mug girl and every chick in the office.
And the russian women, and every other hot-ass girl in it.
Tell them to grow balls. lol

Yeah I agree with your 1st paragraph and you mockery of your friends critiques... they missed out the really descerved weak points to attack.

Kazenji
Only picked up the bringing cybertron to earth plot

but Did'nt notice that second one.

Sadako of Girth
Fair play Kaz. That one was where Megatron had the other deceps impersonate the Autobots while being bad, so the means were ever-so-slightly different in convincing the governments, but the end result was the same)


Scythe: Yeah I agree with your 1st paragraph and your rightful mockery of your friends critiques... they missed out the really deserved weak points to attack. The totally juvenile and brain dead 'humour' displayed within. Devastator 13 yr old level balls joke were just shifted across to Ken Jeoung and his deep wang thang. sad Also they missed out (probably batting for the other team, or blind, or both) on Russian chick, yellow mug girl and the other hotties in the background at various points.

BruceSkywalker
Originally posted by Kazenji
What did you think of the new girl?

i reakon she was better then Megan and i'm not talking about how good looking she was more her acting.

rosie is hot, i may get a sig of her done... i thought she did a good job

Sadako of Girth
'Yeah' on new chick, but that wasn't a massive mountain to climb.

Her character was bloody annoying though. With that establishing scene I was ambivalent. Really nice legs, but wanted her to get stomped due to like 80% of her when her mouth opened.

I'd love to see her and Fox settle any residual bad feeling in a hardcore mudwrestling pit.

Darth Martin
I'm no Transformers fanboy but I do follow the movies.

It pissed me off when they killed off Ironhide the way they did.

Also, is Megatron supposed to be a ***** now? He's badass in the first film, steeps lower in the second one, and even lower in this one.

Meh, I might get around to commenting on the film as a whole later.

Kazenji
I can see a reboot happening in 10 years.

Scythe
Originally posted by Kazenji
Did you catch the plot that they used from an old G1 episode?

I did, and I though it was nice. Gave the G1 fans something to be happy about.

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Fair play Kaz. That one was where Megatron had the other deceps impersonate the Autobots while being bad, so the means were ever-so-slightly different in convincing the governments, but the end result was the same)


Scythe: Yeah I agree with your 1st paragraph and your rightful mockery of your friends critiques... they missed out the really deserved weak points to attack. The totally juvenile and brain dead 'humour' displayed within. Devastator 13 yr old level balls joke were just shifted across to Ken Jeoung and his deep wang thang. sad Also they missed out (probably batting for the other team, or blind, or both) on Russian chick, yellow mug girl and the other hotties in the background at various points.

I pointed out the fact that aside from random, nameless, throwaway characters, there wasn't much of a female presence. My buds went abit over the top, but it's just not a big deal that the vag count was low.

Mr. Rhythmic
Wow, what a piece of dog shit this was. Oh well, this is exactly why "Transformers: Prime" exists: To give a level of entertainment that Bay will never understand, let alone listen to.

I'm not even reviewing this movie. 1/5, and that's being generous.

darthmaul1
Just got back from seeing it. Ughhhhh! I went to see it with low expectations after the 2nd one which I would give a 1/10. This one I would give it a 3 out of 10. Spoilers ahead.!!!!! I like the first little bit with the ship on the moon. With the exception of how they used the dark of the moon(stupid). I just didn't like the way it was put together. Can someone explain to me when they fired up the portal thing and brought the deceptions to earth, where did they come from? Were they on the moon?? That's what it looked like to me. And that is retarded! Also the flight suit thing it was cool but them flying through damaged building retarded. Very little interaction between transformers. And the plan for the government is to get rid of the autobots?? I'll probably end up trying to mix this on with the 2nd. I could go on but what's the point. Don't see this just watch the first one and be done with it.

chomperx9
They made it look more like a comedy than an action movie from the till the end of the movie. Honestly I think they went overboard with the 50 ft anaconda robot digging down into the ground in and out destroying the city. to much scifi with the flying around as well.

Spartan005
People need to stop being so harsh on these movies. Yes, Michael Bay is the only person alive who can introduce a new character by having a close up of her ass before showing her face, but I went into the movie expecting stuff like that and wound up enjoying it a lot. As far as I'm concerned, this movie had the best CGI and action sequences I've ever seen.

Mr. Rhythmic
Originally posted by Spartan005
People need to stop being so harsh on these movies.

People aren't harsh ENOUGH. There was nothing about this movie I enjoyed, and I actually left bitter, and that never happens.



You shouldn't have to lower your expectations just because a director is being incompetent.



I do not feel the same way at all. If I knocked you down, got in your face, and slammed a bunch of pots and pans into your ears and made funny faces, that would make more sense than what I saw today.
The CGI was great, but it was used for a million and one robots that looked exactly the same. When they fight, I honestly have no clue what is going on, because they all look exactly the same and are covered in random explosions. The action is awful for me because the cameraman cannot keep the camera straight to save his life. Thus, everything that happens is almost entirely indistinguishable from the last scene.

I'm tired of people going "Well, what'd you expect?" I expected a competent movie from something that is so bad it even can't get the 'action' aspect right. Not to mention NO ROBOTS FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF. It's called "Transformers," not "Humans." And if you are going to do that, at least give me characters I give a rat's ass about instead of joke setups with legs.

Digi
It was pretty bad. There were probably 8-10 moments where my brow furrowed a bit and I thought "Really? Really?!" at the plot or dialogue. I had way more cringes than laughs or awed expressions. The dialogue was not funny, the acting was either bad (the girl, Dr. McDreamy) or over-acted like some cheesy B-list film...John Turturro (normally awesome, here forcing it), Malkovich, etc. And shouldn't extraterrestrial robots be above phallic humor and racial slurs? Broke my suspension of disbelief numerous times. And if anyone tries to use the "they got their lingo from the internet and..." excuse, please just ask yourself if it's needed, useful, or entertaining in any context for those over 16. And if anyone just wants to drool over the girl, google some pics of her when she was a model. Actors, however, need to act.

They also ripped the plot straight from a Doctor Who special, right down to some specific elements of it. Just sub out Optimus, Megatron, Sentinel, Dempsey for the Doctor, the Master, Rassilon, and "anonymous rich black dude" respectively, and you're done.

Leonard Nemoy had the only funny line of the film, and it was some 4th-wall style humor that only a select group would get. Or maybe when the girl was giving the camera a blowjob while explosions went off everywhere...people kinda chuckled, rightly so. From a general appeal standpoint though, I can't recommend this to anyone.

It was better than the 2nd (which isn't saying anything), and I enjoyed the first. This whole franchise is a shame now, I love Transformers.

chomperx9
They always mess up the 3rd film in action movies. they go over board with the sci fi cause they want to show something new and different.

I can let Jet Fire from the 2nd movie as well as afew others that turned into jets that were flying around. but that huge space ship that was a decepticon was just a little over board. yeah I know they come down from space and all that. but would have liked it more if they kept the action more at ground level.

and at the end where bumble bee transforms back into the Camaro for the last time after the war is over, not one Freacking scratch on the car. I mean come on now.

they made him look all shiny and mint condition at the end like he just drover out of an auto show.

Spartan005
Originally posted by Mr. Rhythmic
People aren't harsh ENOUGH. There was nothing about this movie I enjoyed, and I actually left bitter, and that never happens.



You shouldn't have to lower your expectations just because a director is being incompetent.



I do not feel the same way at all. If I knocked you down, got in your face, and slammed a bunch of pots and pans into your ears and made funny faces, that would make more sense than what I saw today.
The CGI was great, but it was used for a million and one robots that looked exactly the same. When they fight, I honestly have no clue what is going on, because they all look exactly the same and are covered in random explosions. The action is awful for me because the cameraman cannot keep the camera straight to save his life. Thus, everything that happens is almost entirely indistinguishable from the last scene.

I'm tired of people going "Well, what'd you expect?" I expected a competent movie from something that is so bad it even can't get the 'action' aspect right. Not to mention NO ROBOTS FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF. It's called "Transformers," not "Humans." And if you are going to do that, at least give me characters I give a rat's ass about instead of joke setups with legs.

I'm not saying this was a great movie. I'd probably give it a 6/10, but I seriously have to disagree with you about the action scenes. I was completely blown away by them. The shot during the freeway chase when Sam gets thrown out of the car and then bumblee grabs him and transforms back was incredible. And I'd agree with you about getting confused during the action scenes in the first two films, but not this one. Michael seemed to pull the camera back a lot more during the fights so you could see everything.

Just my opinion though

Spartan005
Originally posted by Mr. Rhythmic
Not to mention NO ROBOTS FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF. It's called "Transformers," not "Humans." And if you are going to do that, at least give me characters I give a rat's ass about instead of joke setups with legs.

There were transformers throughout the entire movie. The human characters have to be their so we can relate to them and care for them. Whether Michael did a good job at that is questionable.... but a 2 hour movie with just robots would actually be even worse. Trust me.

S_D_J
OMG

I can believe there's people that overanalyze Transformers



I loved it!

a least the plot made some sense, unlike the second one.

Best TF movie so far! Best CGI this year and Most BadAss explosions so far

Made me forget about my problems for at least 2 and a half hours and enjoyed some popcorn, that's all that matters to me

... anyone else can suck it!

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