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Transformers Full Theatrical Trailer Available
roelbj writes "The full trailer for Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers movie is now finally available on Yahoo. Unlike the teaser trailers that have only hinted at what the final effects would deliver, we can at long last get a much better feeling for how the live-action CGI Transformers will look."
Excellent! I've been waiting a long time for this. Finaly, something to help me get over the dissapointment that was Spiderman 3mo
For those who don't have something that can read qtl files, here are some direct links:
"Exclusive Trailer".
Theatrical Trailer.
Teaser Trailer.
They look.... pixelated.
At first I wasn't sure about this. The designs of the Transformers, when I first saw them, seemed way too busy and overcomplicated. Now that I've seen it in motion, especially the awesome transformation sequences, I'm sold on this film.
From the previews, it seems to me the weakest part of this flick may not be the robots in disguise, but their human counterparts.
Although it looks good, why drastically change the characters. I mean, I can't even figure out what Megatron is supposed to be.
And Bumblebee? Named that way because he was a VW Beetle. I dunno.. It will probablly be a good movie but they could have at least used stylized versions of the original characters. Even a newer model VW woulda been ok...
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
It's got the sound !!!
is that we know that the movie will be more than met the eye.
Classical Liberalism: All your base are belong to you.
Yes, I know they have to make the transformers look realistic and can't look like the cartoon. But frankly they just look like a jumble of metal, and there's nothing to help me figure out who is who. I mean even Optimus Prime barely look any different from the other robots, the only distinguishing factor is he is slightly red and blue. I guess I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.
I hope they have the Dinobots...
Any movie that thinks it's OK to ruin the VW Beetle joke and try to foist a fucking CAMARO on us that is some piece of domestic shit and totally destroys the joke, rather than pulling the joke entirely and saying "fine, if we can't use a Beetle, we aren't going to use the name at all" is not good in my book.
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Any movie that thinks Beagle 2 was a Mars rover, uses footage of a Saturn 5 rocket in the launch shots when it's really easy to get stock footage of the actual launcher used for the Beagle 2 mission (Russian R-7 derivative, NOT the Delta 2 the trailer showed), and then goes on to show shots of a really badly-done Mars Exploration Rover copy, all in a 30-second trailer
What the fuck are they SMOKING?
If I see it at all I'll do it by waiting for the cheap DVD. Good going. Insult my VW-loving side AND my space-geek side.
There are plenty of other movies I'd like to see this summer and this one isn't going to get my money.
i am a soviet space shuttle
How can we judge the movie without seeing even a few seconds of one of the song and dance routines? This is a musical, right?
These trailers suck!
I haven't actually seen them yet, but it's not for lack of trying. Yahoo's server is so crappy that I can't even see the video smoothly. I guess I'll have to get them on BitTorrent....
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is terrible quality, what was the plan there
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On a related theme, how many here have seen Code Guardian?
It's quite impressive.
Please be nice and not Slashdot Goo..., er, youtube.
- No sound in space.
- Correct orbital mechanics (eg, thrust behind made the robot go up instead of ahead)
- When the "good guys" says, "Wait! We don't need to fight! We can both walk away from this fight before we kill each other!" the "bad guy" thinks about it for a minute and then agrees. They walk away from it. The end.
Best. B-Movie. Ever."It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
They worked in the original transforming noise from the cartoons. :-)
Good enough for me! I'll be standing in line for this one.
The new trailer is MUCH better than the previous teasers and has put my mind at ease about a lot of things. But what it doesn't indicate is if the robots are actually going to talk, or if they've turned into cool-looking machines that blow stuff up. The original series as centered around the dialogue between the Autobot/Decepticon characters, and it would be a shame if they decided to cut their voices out altogether.
Although I am against to forget such horror as happenned during the Hitler in germanay, and the cooperation of many firm and religious eprsona, you would think that the VW of 60 years ago and the VW of today are not the same. The management is not the same, the CEO is not the same, the WORKER are not the same, the product are not the same , so why be surprised on VW refusing to be associated with Transformer with the VW which cooperated with Hitler 60 years ago ?
While it make sense to point finger at the firm & people of 60 years ago, it make absolutely no sense to point finger at the firm and manifacturer of today, unless they are publicly praising those of 60 years ago.
I work for LH at an airport which was built on the blood of Nazi victim. I would be really dumbfounded if somebody pointed its finger to me saying "nazi collabo !" or made any parallel to the LH of the 40's. But you jsut did that. It does not make any sense and you were modded informative. .
Let us see if I can be modded informative. Moderator here is a wiki for you and the related parent post : Linking VW today policy with VW policy of Hitler's Germany On a film about transformer
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Plays just fine (and looks marvelous) on my open sores ubuntu boxen with with xine, mplayer, totem...
What's this about worse player ever? Xine is one of the best ever!
May I be the first to welcome, etc...
Take off every 'Sig'!! You know what you doing. http://www.donline.co.uk/
My computer chokes on 1080. =/
After seeing the McBain movie trailer..
Shop guy: So would you like to rent the movie, sir?
Homer: Why? I just saw the best part!
I never got into the tv show, it wasn't of my generation. I'm an old man of 45, and these trailers have me convinced I need to be getting in line because this one deserves the big screen.
And I *never* actually go to the movies anymore.
Totally can't wait to see the Bollywood remake of this one!
The view was horrible and the smell was even worse; Julie severely regretted becoming a proctologist.
What's next, a movie about capacitors? Followed by "Resistors' revenge", maybe?
Nuffsaid
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Don't know about his cat, but Schroedinger is definitely dead.
It's on the trailer at http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html at about 1 minute and 37 seconds in when Optimus transforms.
I just looked again and saw there are three different ones. You specifically want the exclusive trailer. I was watching the 1080p version.
i don't know if any of you have been following the sector 7 arg but there's a new login for that in the trailer. it flickers during part of the trailer, if you pause it when bumblebee's radio is shown in close-up and fritzes out, you'll see it, the code is "codeblack".
No one has said it yet!?? Ok, I guess I'll have to:
I, for one, welcome our new Autobot overlords!
Holy crap that was hilarious. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE start a movie review site. I would read every one of your reviews. They would be forwarded to millions of people on the interweb.
You love VW's and space tremendously. Just for that the world needs you.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Did you seriously just equate a movie with world opinion and foreign policy like the war in iraq is a side note to a Michael Bay film?
When they invent bitch slaps that can go through a monitor you better f'ing duck.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Michael Bay films never make sense. They're not even internally consistent. It's a wonder that his movies even make money considering how bad they usually are.
Plotlines in disguise.
So which one of those links was a goatse video?
I dunno...I personally got the impression that it was simply editing for the trailer.
Almost as if they didn't want you to see the full effects. Every scene where the transformations take place literally span 1 second, and the trailer's music/sound masked a lot too.
I won't pass judgement until the movie is released. But from what I see, it appears they still want to only throw teasers out to the public.
If you want a bad implementation check out Robot Jox http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/
That would be plausible if we weren't talking about Michael Bay. One second cuts and bombastic music blaring over everything are his trademark. I'm sure you might see some slower "transforming" or even slo-mo (another trademark) in places but do you really care to go and see the movie because of that? He's made so many shitty movies that the default assumption should be that this one will be bad too. Of course we might all be pleasantly surprised, but better to wait for critics to say as much before wasting an evening & money to find out.
... and to think that if you stopped at your first sentance you would have been modded "insightful" !
I just finished watching a National Geographic documentary about building the new bridge across the hoover dam. Therefore I was amused to be able to tell what point construction was at when they filmed the hoover dam flyby for the movie. They must have had to be damn careful of the cables and high-line towers you can clearly see in the shot.
I think the new bridge is going to ruin the visual impact of future movies, but who knows. Got to stay true to reality.
I see so much interest in this film. Lots of summer blockbuster "buzz" and eager fanboys awaiting the release of the film. I just have to say it. I have to rain on the parade. I have to be the buzz kill:
Michael Bay directed and co-produced Pearl Harbor.
The man sat down and, with what I'm assuming was a straight face, said "let's take one of America's greatest military defeats and make it a love story starring Ben Affleck." Read that over a few times. Then remember that the same guy thinks a love story should have a goodbye scene in a train station, especially when your protagonist is leaving New York for F%$#ing London, is directing a film adaptation of a beloved story from your childhood.
I'd like to be wrong....but I'm not holding out a lot of hope.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
No one noticed they are all Chevy vehicles? Including next year's Camero (Bumblebee)?
I'm still disappointed that Frank Welker is not the voice of Megatron. I'll still see the film, but Peter Cullen and Frank Welker are equally important to an old school audience. Granted, Megatron will not be a gun either, but still, I would have preferred Frank Welker over Hugo Weaving.
Just because you get modded "insightful" on Slashdot doesn't mean you actually are in real life.
"However this is the closest I'm going to get to seeing FASA's MechWarrior's"
If you were a true fan, you'd refer to it as "BattleTech."
Soundwave seems to have not lost anything over the years...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYLEO9sIVQ
Just because you get modded "insightful" on Slashdot doesn't mean you actually are in real life.
Why do people put these f*ing quicktime files online. It seems like the best way not to see a film's trailer is to encode it with quicktime. Quicktime is: 1) Not playable under windows without installing Apples crappy "take over your computer" software. 2) Not playable on Linux under MPlayer / vlc At least Xine can play it on linux. -bms20
OMG PONIES!? When I saw that lil girl? :D
This is exactly what I was wondering, I remember the Transformers from when I was around 12 or something and it was rubbish then. I don't imagine making a film about it will make it any less rubbish.
You've got the powerrrrr! Yeah!
On sector seven (passcode CODEBLACK), there's a video of surveillance cameras in a garage. They show a short clip of him crushing another car. You don't see the VW logo though. Cute.
-Stu
When watching a movie about transforming robots from space, realistic physics is definitely what I'm thinking about..
"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."-Oscar Wilde
Because the Ninja Turtles wasn't enough for Hollywood this year...
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
It's just that sometimes you gotta slap a bitch, you know?
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
America doesn't have a monopoly on bad and tasteless entertainment.
Well it's a dirty comment, but someone had to post it.
--- The American Way of Life is not a birthright. Hell, it's not even sustainable.
Well the war in Iraq and Michael Bay films are disasters, so I guess the comparison isn't quite so ridiculous.
I don't think this movie looks interesting at all. I keep thinking that the next trailer or the next article or the next poster I see will spark my interest, but it hasn't happened yet. Agreed, the effects look cool. But I'm with the "Michael Bay sucks" school on this one. Frankly, Transformers is nothing more than a pain in my backside - we carry the comic books at our store, and they're garbage.
It's been a long time since I watched the cartoon, and the movie trailers haven't sparked any nostalgia - only disgust.
A Sherman can give you a very nice...edge.
Yep, you're deaf.
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
Resistors are Futile.
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand
With Puppetmaster 43 playing in the run down city. jesus, how can i remember that and not be able to remember my g/f's birthday?
I'll quote the director losely (from memory):
"At first we went with designs that looked much more like the original cartoon designs. Simpler, blocky, faceplates and all that. We all agreed they looked terrible in a live actions set. There are things that look perfectly fine in a cartoon or a comicbook but need to be modified to be believable in a live movie." I think they went too far in the opposite direction. Now the robot forms have almost no connection to the vehicle forms. I don't need these to be the classic designs, but I would enjoy it if you could look at one of the Autobots, say, and recognize some parts from the car mode. I suspect they may have intentionally decided not to do that to guard against the possibility that they might lose permission to use a particular car design in the future. If the robot design has no particular ties to the vehicle design, they can just swap out vehicle mode for something else and keep the robot mode pretty much the same.
I don't think the Citroen commercial looked bad in a live-action setting. And I do believe that relatively simple, clean designs have a lot of merit. All the detail that goes into the movie bots is impressive but I think it creates a bit too much clutter. Because they're "evil" right? Wanna destroy your childhood memories. Them bastards. Uh, no. They just have poor taste sometimes.
I get just a bit tired of people assuming that, because I don't agree with them, I must embody the worst, most short-sighted, fickle, and petty versions of their opposition. Give people a little credit, would ya?
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand
It is entire too busy ...
It's that horrid everything is busy and there is never a still camera shot style that Michael Bey the terrible director that he is today.
Seriously - I have a friend that works for Sony doing video processing software - he tells me once of doing a search on the movie Armageddon and not finding a single take as a long as 4 seconds. That's why, if I have to sit through a Bey film, I need to spend the next three days staring at a white wall, just to compensate for the over-stimulation...
I'm really excited about a the idea of this movie, but they couldn't have picked a worse director.
My only complaints are Starscream looks stupid as a robot and Bumblebee is supposed to be a VW Bug.
To justify someone modding me down, on the link to the yahoo page there are 3 trailers listed. Since the /. article said it was the Theatrical Trailer, that's the one I watched. That trailer, does not the sound. The "Exclusive" trailer is the new one, which does include the sound. If anything, the article was a tad misleading.
Aw Frell this
My friend downloaded the unedited version and this movie is awesome!
>> Then remember that the same guy thinks a love story should have a goodbye scene in a train station, especially when your protagonist is leaving New York for F%$#ing London
So... what you're saying is Optimus Prime is going to swim across the Atlantic Ocean?
If you can't tell the difference between a tolerable romance plot or sub-plot, and the mind numbing crap that Bay makes, you clearly are the one who has not spent any time with women and been dragged to chick flicks. A romance in a movie doesn't have to suck unbearable amounts by definition... unless of course Michael Bay is the asshole who made it. It is like the guy has a Hollywood checklist that he goes over while making the movie.
Explosion? Check.
Actions? Check.
Lame ass heroes with corny lines? Check.
A horrific romance that is forced and contrived into the plot no matter how little it fits and no matter how much it takes away from an otherwise bearable movie? Check.
A romance doesn't have to take away from a movie. Despite what Hollywood demographers think, you actually don't need to stuff a romance into every single movie to make sure that girls like it. Even when you do feel the need to stuff one into the movie, it doesn't have to suck and take away from the movie. Spiderman and Superman both managed to weave action and a small dose of romance without ruining the movie. Pearl Harbor on the other hand managed to destroy otherwise good and fulfilling action with the stupidest fucking romance ever to hit the screen.
Personally, I wish Hollywood would put down the god damn checklist. If the movie is about explosions, giant fucking robots, and other things that clearly are not going to attract an audience looking for romance, they don't actually need to included. It isn't like a geek gets his girlfriend to watch giant robots fight each other by promising a stupid romance interwoven into the plot.
See subject.
Paramount pictures were kind enough to preview this for retail - I'm not a Transformers expert so I can't comment on accuracy, but it looks great :-) Far better than the trailers in that you can *see* the robots, the fast cutting to black of the trailer isn't a feature of the film. Looks like it'll be a great action movie.
The humans were quite amusing (retailers are a hard bitten cynical lot but there was plenty of laughter in the right places!) and the robots talk, and interact nicely. Looks spectacular, they didn't just show the FX stuff so got a good feel for it, and I reckon it could be a massive movie.
For me, it's probably the most exciting forthcoming movie - but then again... I'm posting on Slashdot ;-) My wife seems less impressed by the idea and is looking forwards to Johnny Depp in POC & AWE (and that's *her* copyright for the new Pirates.. movie!)
isn't most hollywood romance mechanical anyway? i think it very appropriate to have such a romance during a movie called "Transformers" anyway,why would I want to go to the movies with my son without the hint of a life that used to be? bring on the mechanical aids!!!
Do you mean "It's got the touch"? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZymYbG9YUZw)
They would have the romance be between two transformers (autobot and deceptacon) who are forced apart by the war. Or maybe have some kind of robosexual story line (Starscream and Megatron).
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
Many moons ago, I was amazed by the transforming Beetle that Michael Smith produced http://www.themichaelsmith.com/animations/VWHiRes. mpg. After watching it I hoped that someone would make a movie and hire this guy.
Now I see that he's done it again with a Nissan 350Z http://home.comcast.net/~themichaelsmith/TransZ.mp g!!! Personally I prefer the look of his robot as opposed to those in the trailer for some reason...
Sav
Its dark in here, some one let me out!
-j Oh, I'm sure it looks dandy. That's not the issue.
The issue is that there's no perceptible relationship between the car mode and the robot mode of these designs. When that's the case, there's not much point, from a design perspective, in that thing being a transformer. From an aesthetic sense, a thematic sense, etc. it's a lot better to have visible ties between the two modes.
Suppose, for instance, that the granularity of the transformation was so fine that it went right down to the atoms - then the bot could transform into just about anything. It wouldn't be a "transformer" anymore, it'd be a "shape-shifter". On the other extreme, you could have a transformation like in the crappiest of Transformer toys - either a car folds in half and sprouts arms and legs, or maybe it's like a robot with a jet plane on its back, and you don't see the robot part from certain views or whatever. The movie designs aren't "shape-shifters" but the granularity of the transformation is fine enough that they almost could be.
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand