Transformers Trailer

[lastroots]

http://video.vividas.com/CDN1/5029_paramount/en/web/

The bots look a bit strange, but I think I'll be seeing it.


/lastroots

[The Dog]

This movie is going to blow, hard.  they don't look like transformers that we know and love and the script is just god awful, cringe worthy to more exact.  will be a gigantic disappointment.

[25]

It's a Michael Bay movie. Let me sum it up for you: WHIZZ!BOOM!CRASH!SWOOSH!BLAM!KABLOOEY! (Insert corny dialogue here.) BAM!ZOOM!POW!KABOOM!BANG!SCREECH! (Roll credits.)

I just saved you $10.

[lastroots]

It's a Michael Bay movie. Let me sum it up for you: WHIZZ!BOOM!CRASH!SWOOSH!BLAM!KABLOOEY! (Insert corny dialogue here.) BAM!ZOOM!POW!KABOOM!BANG!SCREECH! (Roll credits.)

I just saved you $10.

 

Nah, nothing will ever be better than the G1 cartoon, but still, I'll give the movie a chance (and that says me, who usually isn't into action movies anyways...)


/lastroots

[mrlee]

i think it looks good. at least its got action and, well so far doesnt look like it has any comedy which is a good thing, i hate comedy.

(unless its stuff like blues brothers XD)

[Izzy]

http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/transformers/

Finally, the new trailer

Looks awesome

Fans are giving Michael Bay a hard time over this film because he hasnt paid any attention to the look, style, feel, backstory etc of the original series

But as a big fan of the classic show i think Mr Bay is doing everything right - especially the look, after all box shaped things in weird colours were hardly menacing or 'alien'

Mr Bay does brain dead action films like no other - and lets face it, we want loads of robots beating seven bells of of each other - but chiefly wiping out as much American military hardware as is reasonable to expect a dozen 30 foot machines to do in 2hrs...

Cant wait!

edit. opps someone beat me to this, my bad

[Izzy]

This movie is going to blow, hard.? they don't look like transformers that we know and love and the script is just god awful, cringe worthy to more exact.? will be a gigantic disappointment.

i assume ur referring the script leaked ages ago which isnt even the script being used for this film....

I think this will be awesome - robots that look like robots kicking stuff around, eyeyey - c'mon its transformers, this is the one film series where zero plot is actually a plus

[The Dog]

This movie is going to blow, hard.  they don't look like transformers that we know and love and the script is just god awful, cringe worthy to more exact.  will be a gigantic disappointment.

i assume ur referring the script leaked ages ago which isnt even the script being used for this film....

I think this will be awesome - robots that look like robots kicking stuff around, eyeyey - c'mon its transformers, this is the one film series where zero plot is actually a plus

nope, i'm referring to the one that is being used for this film

[Voodoochild]

The worst part is Megatron. He looks like a metalic pile of shit.

[Izzy]

This movie is going to blow, hard.? they don't look like transformers that we know and love and the script is just god awful, cringe worthy to more exact.? will be a gigantic disappointment.

i assume ur referring the script leaked ages ago which isnt even the script being used for this film....

I think this will be awesome - robots that look like robots kicking stuff around, eyeyey - c'mon its transformers, this is the one film series where zero plot is actually a plus

nope, i'm referring to the one that is being used for this film

 

Good one

Seriously though, that script hasnt leaked so unless you know something we dont how would you know it wasnt the best script ever?

And who cares whats in the script? We're watching this for giant cgi robots - speaking parts are only needed to identify the sides

Face it, a stunning story full of commentary on war and the rise of technology, with oscar winning performances from all involved would be savaged by fans as taking up valuable transforming time. No one will be going to see this for the human characters....

Did we ever sit through Megatron's antics in the original series and go - 'wait a second, this script really isnt up to much...'

Its a film designed to sell toys, the normal filmaking rules dont apply - this isnt even a film, its the biggest, longest advert ever made, transformers is the ultimate expression of?style over substance? - not even plot holes (giant robot into gun that human can hold) matter here!

[marty]

got nothing against the movie, but that was a bloody boring trailer 

[The Dog]

This movie is going to blow, hard.  they don't look like transformers that we know and love and the script is just god awful, cringe worthy to more exact.  will be a gigantic disappointment.

i assume ur referring the script leaked ages ago which isnt even the script being used for this film....

I think this will be awesome - robots that look like robots kicking stuff around, eyeyey - c'mon its transformers, this is the one film series where zero plot is actually a plus

nope, i'm referring to the one that is being used for this film

 

Good one

Seriously though, that script hasnt leaked so unless you know something we dont how would you know it wasnt the best script ever?

And who cares whats in the script? We're watching this for giant cgi robots - speaking parts are only needed to identify the sides

Face it, a stunning story full of commentary on war and the rise of technology, with oscar winning performances from all involved would be savaged by fans as taking up valuable transforming time. No one will be going to see this for the human characters....

Did we ever sit through Megatron's antics in the original series and go - 'wait a second, this script really isnt up to much...'

Its a film designed to sell toys, the normal filmaking rules dont apply - this isnt even a film, its the biggest, longest advert ever made, transformers is the ultimate expression of style over substance  - not even plot holes (giant robot into gun that human can hold) matter here!

dude, they TOTALLY changed the story and the origin of the tformers...why mess with something when its not broken?  All of these re launches of awesome franchises get shat all over.   There is a reason why the Marvel movies are better and sell more then the DC movies...they stick to the original stories and don't insult the REAL fans.  Superman Returns was one of the biggest piles of shit ever put on film, whereas all the spidey and xmen movies are amazing.

like that one guy said, that doesn't even look like megatron!!  they shouldn't be calling it transformeres b/c its NOT!!! 

[The Dog]

This is the script review I'm referring to.  Is this not the script they are using?  Please say its not.

http://www.therossman.com/rrr/other/tfscript.html

[Izzy]

This is the script review I'm referring to.? Is this not the script they are using?? Please say its not.

http://www.therossman.com/rrr/other/tfscript.html

its an early pitch - its not the one being used, though elements from it are

As per Michael Bay himself

[Izzy]

dude, they TOTALLY changed the story and the origin of the tformers

what story was that? Robots come to earth for ''energon'' - er..........

...why mess with something when its not broken?

It might not be broken but it not what it once was - Takara/Hasbro want to relaunch the series, and that means things need to change. The '86 TF film made just 8 mill at the box office....

All of these re launches of awesome franchises get shat all over

.?

Casino Royale? Batman Begins?

There is a reason why the Marvel movies are better and sell more then the DC movies...they stick to the original stories and don't insult the REAL fans.

I'd have said a better product to sell - they have all the best characters, Superman is just lame - horrah he's invincible.....

Superman Returns was one of the biggest piles of shit ever put on film,

so very true

whereas all the spidey and xmen movies are amazing.

c'mon, the X men films deserved better than Bryan Singer and Brett Ratner - and people call Michael Bay a hack! Ha!

like that one guy said, that doesn't even look like megatron!!

Megatron isnt in the trailer (or is he - the thing that attacks the coach?).....how can we really judge when we can barely tell if he's even there. More to the point he has two different modes in this film (an alien jet and a apparently a new US plane called a Riazor, which does exist but hasnt been unvieled yet - Bay's the first dorector to get a good look at it thanks to full co-operation with the military he will depict getting its ass handed to it )

they shouldn't be calling it transformeres b/c its NOT!!!?

A film about robots that change form for no clearly defined reason - sounds like transformers to me!

The new machines look deadly, and like real alien robots should look - when one of them turns up your gonna think 'aw crap we're in for it now' - the G1 machines were hardly threatening. Can you imagine what they'll be up to - and what they'd be capable of, hurling abrams tanks about is just the start of things!

I leave with one final point

The '86 transformers film is genius, everything any TF fan could ever aks for, but consider you'd read the scipt in '85 - ud think it was going to be the worst film ever

-cast killed off in first third of film
-Prime killed
-Megatron 'reformatted'
-legion of new characters
-female transformer
-transformers dancing

they proved everyone wrong there.

Have a bit of faith, Michael Bay will give us two hours of explosions, now if he was making a 19th period drama that might spell doom, but this is transformers - and that kind of (thinking?) just might be the trick

Be grateful we're getting a film by a top director - this could have gone to Uwe Boll....

Rarely have i been so excited about a film!

[The Dog]

Interesting that you like the cartoon movie so much, i found it disappointing once prime dies.? its still a good movie, but it would have been a million times better had the original characters gotten all the screen time.? that was a clear marketing/toy ploy to make money off new characters.

i don't know, i hope you're right Izzy.? I just have a very bad feeling about it.? i want to be excited about it as if it is done right with respect to the source material it SHOULD be an awesome movie.? but Bay scares the shit out of me as does that early draft of the script.

not sure if you've seen all the leaked pics, but they don't even look like transformers to me.? megatron looks like someone puked metal, prime has flames on him (WTF!!!!), bumblebee looks all Gen-x'd.....

so long as they have the theme song and the transformer noise when they transform it'll be somewhat good   i have also heard they got the original voice for prime (now lets just hope he has good lines).

god i sound like a fucking nerd hahah

EXCELLENT point about Boll though...i dont' know how he is allowed near a movie set.  And yes, Bay can blow shit up real nice.  we'll see.

[bazgnr]

Ah, the cartoon movie.  Orson Welles in his last role as Omicron.  Hot Rod becoming Rodimus Prime (awful name, but my ten year old self loved it!).  Here's hoping the new movie can measure up...

[The Dog]

Ah, the cartoon movie.? Orson Welles in his last role as Omicron.? Hot Rod becoming Rodimus Prime (awful name, but my ten year old self loved it!).? Here's hoping the new movie can measure up...

you mean Unicron don't you?    Omicron sounds like a corporation that makes evil products that poison the earth hehe 

Rodimus prime was soooooo lame.  all the new characters were except for the green helicopter dude, he was cool.   infact he was so lame they brought optimus back to life.

That movie had an awesome 80s rock soundtrack though.  Instruments of Destruction, awewomse song.  and of course, the dirk diggler epic, "the touch" hahah.

[bazgnr]

Ah, the cartoon movie.? Orson Welles in his last role as Omicron.? Hot Rod becoming Rodimus Prime (awful name, but my ten year old self loved it!).? Here's hoping the new movie can measure up...

you mean Unicron don't you? ? ?Omicron sounds like a corporation that makes evil products that poison the earth hehe?

Rodimus prime was soooooo lame.? all the new characters were except for the green helicopter dude, he was cool.? ?infact he was so lame they brought optimus back to life.

That movie had an awesome 80s rock soundtrack though.? Instruments of Destruction, awewomse song.? and of course, the dirk diggler epic, "the touch" hahah.

Ouch.? Unicron.? ?Yes.

And yes, Rodimus was totally lame, but I bought into it...I just loved that movie.? Even had the cassette soundtrack...I'd forgotten about "Instruments of Destruction."? Oddly enough, I can still remember the lyrics to the Stan Bush songs - "The Touch," "Dare," etc.

Okay, time to buy the DVD, I think...? ?

[The Dog]

They just released a new special edition DVD.  not sure what was so special bout it, but it looked cool when I saw it.

For IZZY:

This is some dudes response from seeing the trailer from another message board, it sums up how I feel to a "T"

I came to this trailer with an open mind. The project needs to be judged on it's merits. You can see big explosions anywhere. And you can get special effects on any street corner. I'm not here because I wanted a big explosion, special effects movie. I'm here because I had expected to see something that would make me feel "at home" with this version of TF. I viewed the trailer hoping that I would see something that resembled TF in some way. Alas, I saw Armageddon mixed with War of the Worlds. Not that this was any big surprise, but still, I had hoped....


----For the record, I liked War of the worlds, but Armmageddon is one of the worst movies ever.  but that dude is right, you mention the TFs looking "alien".  they're not supposed to be super duper strange looking, I always thought of them as giant human like robots, not aliens like the ones in ALIENS or independence day.