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ajprice · Feb 1, 2009, 05:05 PM

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q7l5WmLUE2Y

There's a trailer on YouTube here (the Superbowl ad?)

As first trailers go, there is a bit of info in here (more than the TF1 Mars rover trailer!). One of the bots is an R8, one of the bots is f*&%ing huge (Devastator?) and fighting Optimus Prime. And theres a big 4 legged animal bot (Dinobot? Beast Wars? Ravage?).

Anyway, it looks like Transformers 1 but bigger and more, which I suppose should be expected for a Michael Bay sequel to a Michael Bay movie

!!

analogue SPRINKLES · Feb 1, 2009, 05:06 PM

Looks crazy retarded awesome so far. I loved the first one and I hope this one is even better.

I saw a drawing of soundwave though it he looks terrible, he's a friggin satellite now!

Andrew Stephens · Feb 1, 2009, 06:06 PM

too much is never enough eh!

TF1 was way over expectations. Looking forward to this one too.

Ghoser777 · Feb 1, 2009, 06:25 PM

Was I the only one disappointed by TF1?

brassplayersrock² · Feb 1, 2009, 06:57 PM

Here's a longer trailer.

gradient · Feb 1, 2009, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by Ghoser777

Was I the only one disappointed by TF1?

Nope. As a kid who loved Transformers back in the '80s, I thought the movie was terrible and didn't have any of the original appeal at all.

analogue SPRINKLES · Feb 1, 2009, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by gradient

Nope. As a kid who loved Transformers back in the '80s, I thought the movie was terrible and didn't have any of the original appeal at all.

Total opposite for me.

Chuckit · Feb 1, 2009, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by Ghoser777

Was I the only one disappointed by TF1?

No. That movie was straight-up retarded and the story was absolute nonsense to the point where I'd much rather it just started with Megatron knocking on Optimus Prime's door and they'd proceed to fight for two hours.

lavar78 · Feb 1, 2009, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by gradient

Nope. As a kid who loved Transformers back in the '80s, I thought the movie was terrible and didn't have any of the original appeal at all.

I didn't mind the movie, but I definitely prefer the original from '86, which is awesome.

besson3c · Feb 1, 2009, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

Here's a longer trailer.

The best part about this trailer are the awesome YouTube comments... Pretty funny, in a non-intentional sort of way.

Rev-O · Feb 1, 2009, 11:31 PM

Trailer looks good. Should be a fun mindless film!

voodoo · Feb 1, 2009, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

Looks crazy retarded awesome so far. I loved the first one and I hope this one is even better.

I saw a drawing of soundwave though it he looks terrible, he's a friggin satellite now!

No interest in the first one, and I have no interest in a lame sequel to a pathetic movie.

My brother watched it and filled me in on how much waste of space in the material world the Transformers movie is.

Quite a bit of waste as it happens.

Captain Obvious · Feb 1, 2009, 11:55 PM

Its going to suck just like the first one did.

In related trailer news this still has a shred of hope: http://www.gijoemovie.com/

RAILhead · Feb 2, 2009, 12:14 AM

You can see the real version at the site now:

http://www.transformersmovie.com/

analogue SPRINKLES · Feb 2, 2009, 12:41 AM

Originally Posted by voodoo

My brother watched it and filled me in on how much waste of space in the material world the Transformers movie is.

I retract the enjoyment I experienced from this movie on behalf of this new info.

Andrew Stephens · Feb 2, 2009, 04:10 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

No. That movie was straight-up retarded and the story was absolute nonsense to the point where I'd much rather it just started with Megatron knocking on Optimus Prime's door and they'd proceed to fight for two hours.

Dude it was a movie about giant transforming robots kicking the crap out of each other. If you wanted a non retarded, non nonsense movie experience you were in the wrong theatre.
You can make a great stupid movie and IMHO TF1 was.

ajprice · Feb 2, 2009, 08:07 AM

Yes, it was a 'Leave your brain at the door and watch the pretty fights and bangs (and Megan Fox)' movie, TF2 will be more of that

. If you're criticising a movie like this for story and plot, you're definitely in the wrong theatre!

jokell82 · Feb 2, 2009, 08:46 AM

Am I the only one that doesn't want to have to become a moron for 2 hours while I watch a movie just to enjoy it? The first one sucked. I have no hope for this one.

voodoo · Feb 2, 2009, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

I retract the enjoyment I experienced from this movie on behalf of this new info.

One day you will realized Michael Bay doesn't make very good movies grashopper.

Andrew Stephens · Feb 2, 2009, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by jokell82

Am I the only one that doesn't want to have to become a moron for 2 hours while I watch a movie just to enjoy it? The first one sucked. I have no hope for this one.

You don't have to become a moron. There are many many films that actively require you to engage your brain in order to fully enjoy them. TF1 is not one of those movies. I can't imagine anyone going into a theatre exxpecting it to be like that. The TF2 trailer certainly has "disengage brain" written ALL over it.

jokell82 · Feb 2, 2009, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Stephens

You don't have to become a moron. There are many many films that actively require you to engage your brain in order to fully enjoy them. TF1 is not one of those movies. I can't imagine anyone going into a theatre exxpecting it to be like that. The TF2 trailer certainly has "disengage brain" written ALL over it.

"Disengaging brain" = becoming a moron.

When there are parts of a movie that make absolutely no sense at all it takes you out of the experience it is trying to create. And yes, I understand the movie is about giant fighting robots, but that doesn't mean simple logic needs to be thrown out the window...

analogue SPRINKLES · Feb 2, 2009, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by voodoo

One day you will realized Michael Bay doesn't make very good movies grashopper.

According to your bother of course. He also teach you how to spell grasshopper?

Maflynn · Feb 2, 2009, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by Ghoser777

Was I the only one disappointed by TF1?

Nope, I too was disappointed by the movie. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad, just not as good as I thought it was going to be.

voodoo · Feb 2, 2009, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

According to your bother of course. He also teach you how to spell grasshopper?

According to my experience watching Michael Bay movies. How many languages do you speak anyway Skywalker? Just the one?

Perhaps you'd like to teach the class something?

Salty · Feb 2, 2009, 11:44 AM

I hated the first movie, and I'll probably hate the second. At times it was American Pie with fighting robots. The point of Transformers was supposed to be about stealing energon, not about some cube thing that's more of a rip off of Lord of the Rings. Actually that's what it was, Lord of the Rings crossed with American Pie, with giant fighting robots. The movie's not hard to like if you're not aware of what it should have been.

Laminar · Feb 2, 2009, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by Salty

I hated the first movie, and I'll probably hate the second. At times it was American Pie with fighting robots. The point of Transformers was supposed to be about stealing energon, not about some cube thing that's more of a rip off of Lord of the Rings. Actually that's what it was, Lord of the Rings crossed with American Pie, with giant fighting robots. The movie's not hard to like if you're not aware of what it should have been.

I don't get it...did I miss the part where Optimus Prime shoved his giant metal member into an apple pie?

ajprice · Feb 2, 2009, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

I don't get it...did I miss the part where Optimus Prime shoved his giant metal member into an apple pie?

DVD extra

Railroader · Feb 2, 2009, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

I retract the enjoyment I experienced from this movie on behalf of this new info.

This is the best post you have made. Evar!!1!!!1ELVEVENTYBILLION

Railroader · Feb 2, 2009, 07:43 PM

http://neaat.wordpress.com/2009/01/1...old-the-truth/

I liked it though. I enjoy vegetating, escaping reality, and just watching a movie now and then. It was not a work based on a complex literary masterpiece and anyone expecting as such is a complete moron. It was huge robots fighting amongst humans. Perhaps if there was more character development and we could sympathize with the antagonist and the protagonist's struggles...

ehh, it was loud and fun!!! Woo Hoo!!!

analogue SPRINKLES · Feb 2, 2009, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

According to my experience watching Michael Bay movies. How many languages do you speak anyway Skywalker? Just the one?

Perhaps you'd like to teach the class something?

I speak 2 languages. I also know how to use a computer when it underlines a word in squiggly red lines.

But to answer your question... all Michael bay movies suck big time EXCEPT Transformers.

Rumor · Feb 2, 2009, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Salty

I hated the first movie, and I'll probably hate the second. At times it was American Pie with fighting robots. The point of Transformers was supposed to be about stealing energon, not about some cube thing that's more of a rip off of Lord of the Rings. Actually that's what it was, Lord of the Rings crossed with American Pie, with giant fighting robots. The movie's not hard to like if you're not aware of what it should have been.

Um, how exactly was it like American Pie?

ShortcutToMoncton · Feb 2, 2009, 09:15 PM

By the end I was just desperately wishing for the pain to stop. It did, eventually. I was happy, and regretted my decision to give Michael Bay one more chance and promised never to do so again.

That is all.

greg

jokell82 · Feb 2, 2009, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton

By the end I was just desperately wishing for the pain to stop. It did, eventually. I was happy, and regretted my decision to give Michael Bay one more chance and promised never to do so again.

That is all.

greg

You'd think after Pearl Harbor most people would know better. But I gave him another chance too. Stupid decision.

SpaceMonkey · 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by Rumor

Um, how exactly was it like American Pie?

Salty was watching a different movie:

http://stuff.ubersite.com/1138368145...rmer-dance.wmv (it appears you have to refresh the page for it to load)

lavar78 · Feb 3, 2009, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by Rumor

Um, how exactly was it like American Pie?

I would've liked it a lot more if it were more like American Pie.

Rumor · Feb 3, 2009, 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

Salty was watching a different movie:

http://stuff.ubersite.com/1138368145...rmer-dance.wmv (it appears you have to refresh the page for it to load)

Error 403, forbidden.

brassplayersrock² · Feb 3, 2009, 02:23 AM

heh, good one spacemonkey

Andrew Stephens · Feb 3, 2009, 05:33 AM

tbh, and I'm going out on a limb here, anyone who thinks the original tv show is anything other than cheaply made children's animation to feed the giant TV monster at minimal expense needs a smack.

lavar78 · Feb 3, 2009, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew Stephens

tbh, and I'm going out on a limb here, anyone who thinks the original tv show is anything other than cheaply made children's animation to feed the giant TV monster at minimal expense needs a smack.

You can try to smack me, but I can't guarantee your safety. The purpose of the cheaply made original TV show was to sell the toys. That was also the purpose of the original movie, but it still ended up being really good. It may have bombed at the box office, but it had action, emotion, death, and a great cast (it's the last movie Orson Welles ever did).

ctt1wbw · Feb 3, 2009, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by Ghoser777

Was I the only one disappointed by TF1?

Nope. I thought it sucked donkey balls. The only socially redeemable thing about it was that hot chick bending over the ugly Camaro...

Other than that, it was geared towards the 15 year old 20 second attention span crowd. I thought whoever wrote the script did it in crayon the day before the filming started.

Mac User #001 · Feb 3, 2009, 09:47 AM

Transformers was something I never got in to that much as a kid. When I saw the movie, it seemed like what the cartoons would pretty much have been about, and I liked it.

Booms, babes, and Bay.

voodoo · Feb 3, 2009, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

I speak 2 languages. I also know how to use a computer when it underlines a word in squiggly red lines.

But to answer your question... all Michael bay movies suck big time EXCEPT Transformers.

I don't use a spell checker for English, can't be bothered to change every time I switch between languages -- and I only write English when I post replies to you and others on interweb forums.

As for the issue at hand, here's a snippet from a person who endured through that tripe:

By the time it ended, I thought I might have vertigo or whiplash, or both, and I certainly lost more than a few of my remaining I.Q. points. The target audience for this trash craves the first two, but nobody can afford to endanger what’s left of an already compromised I.Q.

-- so no, it's suck just LIKE every Michael Bay movie. Of course it does, he can't make a good movie nor is he the least bit interested. You might as well argue that George Lucas writes good dialogue.

Mac User #001 · Feb 3, 2009, 10:55 AM

I think some people just need to accept a movie for what it is.

Go watch IFC if you want the good plot points and your independent directors.

jokell82 · Feb 3, 2009, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Mac User #001

I think some people just need to accept a movie for what it is.

Go watch IFC if you want the good plot points and your independent directors.

I'm not asking for "good" plot points, I'm just asking for plot points that at least make *some* kind of sense.

Laminar · Feb 3, 2009, 12:02 PM

I don't even care about the plot. Just give me NOT terrible acting and I'll be happy.

Mac User #001 · Feb 3, 2009, 12:51 PM

Actually, I can agree on that one Laminar. Terrible acting is... terrible...

Chuckit · Feb 3, 2009, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by jokell82

I'm not asking for "good" plot points, I'm just asking for plot points that at least make *some* kind of sense.

Yeah, like I said, no plot at all would be preferable. Unfortunately, they did put in a plot and it was stupid and distracting and took up time that could have been filled with either more robots fighting or more shots of Megan Fox in an undersized tanktop.

Salty · Feb 3, 2009, 02:43 PM

When the mom or dad or someone asks the kid if he's been jerking off. I was like... wtf why is this in a transformer's movie!

brassplayersrock² · Feb 3, 2009, 02:51 PM

^ to add realism to the movie. I'm sure that has happened many times before somewhere in some kind of household.

jokell82 · Feb 3, 2009, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

^ to add realism to the movie. I'm sure that has happened many times before somewhere in some kind of household.

Add realism? More like try for a cheap laugh from the teenage male demographic the movie was obviously geared for.