My name is Joshua S Hill, and here’s my dirty little secret: I like the Transformers movies.
They’re big, loud, fun, and have robots and Megan Fox! Also the jittery camera technique was never a problem for me; I kinda like it. So in honour of all of that, here is the trailer for the third Transformers movie, Dark of the Moon, set for release sometime int he new year.
Additionally, Michael Bay has commented in an interview that he admits there were a lot of problems with the second movie, and that in this, the third movie, he’ll be getting “back to basics” in an effort to fix that. He went on to say that “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.”
If he tones down the balls joke, like down to zero, then to me its already improved. ;p
Don’t care. The second movie has turned me away form the series. If this movie gets anything less than an academy award nomination, I’m not watching it.
Might actually watch this one. Didn’t like either of the previous movies because of the stupid jokes and focus on “the human drama”
did anyone else get chills when that THX windup music started halfway through?
OK, I can’t wait to see how this ties to Bay’s canon. There’s going to have to be a hell of a lot of contrivances to explain how nobody bothered telling the Autobots about a Decepticon ship crashed on the moon, or how they never detected it when they came to Earth.
Still the fan-boy in me can’t wait.
You are aware that Megan Fox is not in the third movie yes?
I hated the first time because of the ET with robots vibe – Quick, Optimus Prime, hide so my parents don’t see you! Because nothing’s better than a teenager being Earth’s primary point of contact with the general of a space army.
I loved the second because I got used to the general stupidity of the first, and instead we got goofier humor, deeper mythos, and two gestalts. Plus, the military knew about them and helped them, as it should be.
The fourth should be a GI Joe crossover. No matter how much it doesn’t work.
Why is no one talking about the fact that the moon DOES NOT ROTATE with respect to the Earth?
Once Apollo landed, THEY COULD NOT HAVE MAGICALLY OVER TIME GONE INTO THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME. That part where “we lost contact with Apollo” was when the rocket was flying around the back side of the moon to us, so that we would have to be transmitting THROUGH THE MOON’S CORE to get transmissions to Earth. And the reason it only took 26 or whatever minutes was because the moon lander was going FAST AS HELL THROUGH THE MOON’S SKY.
And this is being marketed to NERDS??
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Get red of the ball jokes
Get rid of the parents on Pot
Get rid of 3/4 of the humans
Make the plot have cohesion, and not be a chase quest around the world
GET YOUR ASTRONOMY RIGHT!
and it might be decent
feh Bay failed for me on the first movie… could not care less about this one
In order to preserve the spirit of these films, i will now write in a manner similar to Bay’s directorial style.
/BOOOOOM
/Bang
/Ratatatata
/Bomb whistle noise
/Bigger BOOM
/Bomb whistle-then silence-then BOOM
/pointless romance subplot, then BOOM
/roll credits
Dammit, Nicholas! Now I’m going to have your post in mind when I see the movie!
LOL! Okay, I hope that’s the only technical problem with the picture. Suspend my disbelief, please!
Okay, enough exclamation points. It’s nice to hear them marketing it as a more serious movie, and anything with Peter Cullen and Frank Welker can’t be missed; even Shia LaBeouf. Say what you may of him, I gained respect for his attitude (mentioned in a past post here somewhere.) So yeah, I’ll make a theater trip for this one, but first…
Anyone else out there hosting a “Tron Party”? I’m getting together with a few friends to relive the original movie and start their kids on it before going out to see the sequel. It’s something I just have to do.
Michael Bay Drinking Game:
Every time you see any characters nostrils from underneath DRINK.
(you’ll be drunk by the first 10 min, or the 12th 360 degree pan whichever comes first.)
Nicholas has a point. But with some clever edting, they could’ve land on the radio silence side of the moon and then relaunche…..ah never mind. This flick should not be seen with the brain on and just enjoy the giant robot fights, minus the Jar Jar Binks factor.
I heard there’s like a twenty-minute take of Michael Bay getting punched in the face until his face looks ground beef dropped in a garbage disposal. But you can only see it at the midnight showing.
Guys, my bad, I just remembered that Apollo 11 had two parts–one that landed on the moon, /and one that continued orbiting/, called the orbiter or the CSM.
So while the LM (landing module) landed, the CSM (Command and Service Module) kept orbiting the Moon. That was what the transmissions that were sent to earth came from, not the surface–the reason is exactly how we use satellites to communicate across the globe today (since line-of-sight doesn’t exist between, say, Los Angeles and New York, without the help of a satellite between and above both of them. Line of sight is much better between the Moon’s surface and Earth through an orbiting module instead of having to make sure there’s not a rock or hill in your way.)
So my bad guys, this movie is still good and scientifically and historically accurate–the trailer just sucked at showing it.
Ah, cool. It still made for some spirited discussion; it’s still going to make me look for those details when I see the movie.
The dorkiness was the only good part about the last Transformers movie, it was finally capturing the spirit of the old anime.
If anything he should be saying that he got rid of Megan Fox.
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Classy, Bay.
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worst trailer ever? Neil and Buzz got out ok. There is no possible way to add tension to this moment.
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