EVERYTHING TAKES DAMAGE IN TRANSFORMERS 3. EVEN THE MOON

It's better shot. But i still don't dig the design of the robots. New love interest girl looks especially wooden as well.

I like it. Hard to call the girl wooden when she's not in the trailer too much.  But it's a Bay film so her acting might well in fact be wooden.

Her sole purpose is to make the audience wooden.

Elisabeth Rappe, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 3D, Looks...Awesome!  It looks like the...Titanic Trilogy of Bayhem, will end in...Spectacular Rock Em Sock Em Robot Fashion!  It looks like...Fourth Of July Fireworks, will explode on, The Big Screen,In...3D, for...IMAXimum Effect, 3 days early!

All I hope is that I can watch Transformers 1 & 3 without ever having to know that the second one even existed.

Honestly, this seems like Bay really trying hard to apologize for the last one by making it SO SERIOUS. This film series will go down as the most schizo of the modern action franchises. At least the action looks like it isn't all edited to shit.

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Honestly, this seems like Bay really trying hard to apologize for the last one by making it SO SERIOUS.

 

Seriously?  I remember the trailer for the first one being serious, and then the movie was chock full of Bay humor.  This one will be noooooo different.

Yup. Looks like same ole' same ole'......as in it looks like SHIT..........I'll still see it on Blu-ray though, goddammit.

From the talkback: "That’s it Charlie, make a run for that ball.  Lucy said she wouldn’t pull it away this time."  

I seriously don't understand why anyone who didn't enjoy the first two (or even the 2nd) would be excited over a well-cut trailer.  Do we need someone to bring up the Pearl Harbor trailer again?

This is for kids?

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This is for kids?

I was thinking the same thing, but I'd prefer a darker tone over humping robots any day of the week.  

Even if it wasn't part III of that... something series it'd be a fairly mediocre trailer. The battle scenes in the city look technically superb, but lack thrill, Shia already sleepwalks in the trailer, Rosie is extremely wooden and the tiny Apollo 18 trailer looked way more interesting than this super expensive cgi moon castle space ship. The whole thing looks super expensive, but lifeless and generic. Also, the use of music is really weak. Even Battle LA did the serious thing better.

I wouldn't wonder if this and Pirates 4 end up being less successful than expected. Even if they did as much as their successors, the 3d ticket prices would show a decreasing interest. And people were not that happy with TF2 and Pirates 3.

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I was thinking the same thing, but I'd prefer a darker tone over humping robots any day of the week.  

 

That these are seemingly the only two legitimate choices for what is an adaptation of a childrens toy commercial from the eighties speaks volumes about where Hollywoods relationship with geeks and their beloved ridiculous properties has found itself these days.

I think Megan Fox is a terrible actress. But i think it a waste that we don't get to see her bobbing breats again in 3D.

Oh does that make Bay Hitler? 

Any time the trailer cuts to a shot of this... Rosie android... it feels as if whoever cut the trailer spliced in footage from a promotional tie-in Victoria's Secret ad.  Complete disassociation!!!!  She is completely unappealing to me.  

Anyway, the trailer looks cool.  

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Seriously?  I remember the trailer for the first one being serious, and then the movie was chock full of Bay humor.  This one will be noooooo different.

I remember it being sold on Megan Fox's lady parts and the whole "boy and his car" aspect. There was some Allspark nonsense but it wasn't all "end of the world" doomsaying like this trailer is. It was a few years ago so I could be wrong. TF2 definitely had some of the same "OMG! Ancient destruction!" this film seems to be culling from and that was a big cheesy mess. So maybe this one will have the same horrible jokes like TF2 did, but given how Bay's apologized for that film and the lack of humor in this trailer, it seems like it's being marketed as the "serious" TF film.
 

I'll probably end up seeing this, because, as a former resident of Chicago, I love to see Michigan Avenue torn to shit. 

Still haven't seen Transformers 2, but I gotta admit I'm kind of interested in the film just because it seems to have a different colour palette to most Michael Bay movies. Less Orange and Teal, more desaturated blue. Also it infers that the moon is either a Transformer, or is a fortress for Transformers. I've got a weakness for that kind of shit, even if I couldn't care less about Transformers in general.

After quickly Youtubing the teasers and trailers for the previous two movies, I don't think the tone of this trailer is all that surprising.  It seems like a pretty natural degree of escalation from the trailers of the previous two movies.  This one was something between a teaser and the final trailer.  I'm certain there will be one more trailer that goes into the silly plot and the current circumstances of LaBeof's character.  The other two movies played it that way.  The franchise has always had to make sure that the robots not come across silly.  The teaser and the first trailer usually focus on the mystery, the wonder, and the threat... of toy robots.  The final trailer goes into... Boy, First Car, Hot Girl... or Boy and his College Experience... while mixing it up with the fancy action.

All that combined with the 'apologizing' for TF2 seems to have resulted in a 2nd trailer that comes across a little more 'despair-ridden'.  Oh NO!  This shit is finally getting real!  Hahahahaha.

Taking his personality into account Bay couldn't be acting more contrite about Transformers 2 if he was self flaggelating in front of the Kodak Theater before the Oscars.

Regardless, even as someone who has often defended Bay here, I have such deep, fundamental, extreme hate towards that piece of shit movie that it will take unprecedented for a Bay film critical reception for me to even consider paying for this. 

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Third time in a row that Shia screams OPTIMUUUUUS!!! like a little bitch that can't fight on his own.

In his defense, how is he gonna fight a giant robot?  If I saw one of those things coming my way, I'd be screaming for Optimus, too.

looks shiny. as usual.

I am...PRIMEd, to see, Transformers 3 3D, on an...IMAXimum Sized Screen July 1st!

It's cute how Bay keeps insisting on bringing Duhamel and Tyrese's characters back. As if the audience is thinking "Hmmm... I wonder what happened to White Army Guy and his friend Black Army Guy?"

I'm more interested in what's become of Implausibly Hot Hacker Girl from the first movie.

Evi, Rachel Taylor?  She is now an...Angel!  Not in...Heaven, but a...Charlie's Angel, on ABC, this fall!  It should be quite the...Transformative series, as Ramon Rodriguez, from Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen is...Bosley!

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I'm more interested in what's become of Implausibly Hot Hacker Girl from the first movie.

Yeah! If Fox's Hitler comments hurt Bay's precious little but so much he had to get rid of her, couldn't he at least bring her back as Shia's squeeze?

Chicks with Aussie accents make me horny.

So this one is Boy and his first job?
 

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The teaser and the first trailer usually focus on the mystery, the wonder, and the threat... of toy robots.  The final trailer goes into... Boy, First Car, Hot Girl... or Boy and his College Experience... while mixing it up with the fancy action.

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I am...PRIMEd, to see, Transformers 3 3D, on an...IMAXimum Sized Screen July 1st!

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I'm more interested in what's become of Implausibly Hot Hacker Girl from the first movie.

Yeah, she totally outshined Fox in that first movie.  However, the problem with inviting that character back is that they probably would have brought Anthony Anderson back, too.  

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Any time the trailer cuts to a shot of this... Rosie android... it feels as if whoever cut the trailer spliced in footage from a promotional tie-in Victoria's Secret ad.  Complete disassociation!!!!  She is completely unappealing to me.  

 

Anyway, the trailer looks cool.  

Indeed.  The trailer indicates she didn't get a speaking role either.

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So this one is Boy and his first job?
 

 

Looks like it.  Is he working for Sector 7 or something now?  

And as much as Shia screams "OPTIMUUUS!!!" in these movies, he's really good at it.  I buy it.
 

I thought it looked great, and agree that it's a fairly organic escalation of the stories told in the first two films.

As long as it's a lot more like the first one, I'm in. It was far more fun and enjoyable than it had any right to be, and I have no problems saying I enjoyed the hell out of it.

And if you've somehow escaped seeing the second film, all I can say is that I envy you. It's beyond terrible.

The fuck is wrong with you dudes who're calling the new chick wooden after seeing the three seconds of her and hearing the zero words from her in the trailer?

It's a Victoria's Secret model acting in a Michael Bay film. Wood will most defnitely be involved. Don't be naive.

You're being rational though Stelios, which is markedly different from saying "She looks wooden" when you've only seen two fifths of a glimpse and heard exactly fuck all out of her mouth.

The machines still look stupid and I never saw the second film but if the reviews say it doesn't suck I'll cruise on in to see it. The first one at least is a blast.

You are indeed correct. Not about me being rational, about not having enough to judge her by in this trailer.

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and agree that it's a fairly organic escalation of the stories told in the first two films.

How do you get this from that plot-less trailer....?
 

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How do you get this from that plot-less trailer....?
 

Well, I could easily be wrong, but the scale of destruction and range of autobots on display, and just the tone of the thing, implies it's bigger and badder than the first two.

Ok, so you guys are right that the trailers for all the TF films have been more ominous than the films themselves. Still, this one's all death and destruction. A Roland Emmerich movie (a director who I prefer on every measure) with giant robots (and Inception noises!).

And yeah, there's zero personality given to Shia's new girl in this trailer. Yeah, it's a blip of screentime, but they didn't even try here. A MacGuffin with pouty lips. Hiring a runway model doesn't help foster the notion they're aiming for an actual character. I'll be surprised if, in the movie, she has as much personality as the fembot in TF2.

If Shia LaBeouf does not at any point in these movies turn into a giant robot (or just a giant, I'm not picky) to help fight the Decepticons, then what the fuck's the point?

After having made out with a fembot and having been in Transformers heaven.. yeah, there's basically nowhere else to go.

Maybe he goes back in time to prevent his great grandfather from ever finding Megatron. By killing him, thus killing his parents and thus killing himself and thus undoing everything we've gone through in over six hours Transformers.

There is precedent for it in the cartoons.  There was an episode where Spike (iirc) gets injured and is in a coma and the autobots transfer his mind into a robot body that they built out of scrap.  And then he sort of goes power mad and Megatron tries to tempt him into joining the Decepticons and he almost kills either Bumblebee or Optimus.

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There is precedent for it in the cartoons.  There was an episode where Spike (iirc) gets injured and is in a coma and the autobots transfer his mind into a robot body that they built out of scrap.  And then he sort of goes power mad and Megatron tries to tempt him into joining the Decepticons and he almost kills either Bumblebee or Optimus.

...You been playing Portal 2?

Reading so many comments to the effect of "didn't see the second film" or "hated the last film" followed by something along the lines of "but I'll give this a shot" reminds me quite vividly of the story of the scorpion and the frog