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Transformers Full Theatrical Trailer Available

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the more-than-meets-the-eye dept.

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."

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  1. Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by karmatic · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who don't have something that can read qtl files, here are some direct links:

    "Exclusive Trailer".

    Theatrical Trailer.

    Teaser Trailer.

    1. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Informative

      This should link to the exclusive

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    2. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by suv4x4 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Well, for those of us who don't have Core Quad Extreme and 50 yard screens, the 480p version:

      Exclusive Trailer

    3. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by suv4x4 · · Score: 2

      I can't even reach the play button, my horizontal resolution 1280 so it's outside on left somewhere.

      BTW, I found an easter egg on the trailer. I wonder if 1080p helped you see it better :P

    4. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by yakumo.unr · · Score: 2, Informative

      If you can't deal with QTL files then your quicktime or quicktime alt install needs to be reinstalled to fix up the file associations.

      And/or you need to check your mime type application/x-quicktimeplayer opens with the OS default handler ( I used the MIME edit addon to fix firefox just now so I could watch this new trailer).

      When it's working Quicktime will load it up, or Quicktime Alt will popup a menu asking what you want to do (download to location / download and play with MPC or WinMplayer / Stream)

      Forcing .QTL to open with a browser, or directly with a media player doesn't work.

      finally, if you download it, and have media player classic with coreAVC installed, rename the file to .hdmov and it will open with directshow and coreavc instead of quicktime, and playback speed will be much improved.

    5. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by 19thNervousBreakdown · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, you misunderstand, it was just an easter egg.

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    6. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by suv4x4 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Care to let us in on the secret?

      Watch carefully the Camaro dashboard sequence, the first time the boy goes inside.

      You'll see a little black square with cube logo saying "CODEBLACK" which looks pasted-on in post-production.

      I googled around and it turns out this is some sort of passcode to SectorSeven.org, which has the same logo, and a password box...

    7. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's a viral marketing site for the film - entering "takara83" at the password prompt is supposed to get you in. Some discussion can be found at this site.

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    8. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by Ecuador · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Hmm, strange. This seems to indicate that Transformers are related to Klingons? At least on the parent-mentioned website, after you log in, the buttons are marked with Klingon letters.

      If they are not related to the Klingon homeworld, I do hope they at least have a license from Paramount (who are well known for their strict copyright policies).

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  2. I'm Sold. by AbsoluteXyro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:I'm Sold. by WebCrapper · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yea, I was the same. When the helicopter transformed though, I was hooked.

    2. Re:I'm Sold. by ErikInterlude · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I used to be a huge Transformers fan (the original series before the movie, and the movie. I wasn't too into everything that came after). It's sort of left me split on how to feel about this movie. On the one hand, it's clearly got action, great visuals, and I like that they're keeping that sound the Transformers make when they change form (it's a small point, I know).

      On the other hand, this is a Michael Bay film. I heard he got his start as a director of music videos, so that might serve him well in a film like this. The problem is he goes for big explosions and fancy camera shots over good storytelling. And the purist in me kinda wishes they stayed with the original designs.

      That said, it's pretty much a given that I'm going to go see it.

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    3. Re:I'm Sold. by SvnLyrBrto · · Score: 2, Insightful

      > but then I realize that it's being produced by spielberg,

      If Spielberg were directing instead of producing, and michael bay were in no way whatsoever involved; I might agree. I have too much of a suspicion that, even with Spielberg looking over his shoulder, michael bay will find some way to royally fuck it up. This is a wait-for-HBO one for me.

      > Same thing with pirates of the caribbean...I hate most jerry bruckheimer
      > movies, but johnny depp sort of cancels him out too.

      Meh. I must be one of the freak few who didn't care for POTC. Not that it was appallingly bad; but I don't think it was anything special. And even Johnny Depp couldn't change that. Maybe if they'd had Tim Burton direct...

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    4. Re:I'm Sold. by xero314 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The designs of the Transformers, when I first saw them, seemed way too busy and overcomplicated. Having seen all the trailers and a number of stills I have to say that I still don't like the Robots. The Japanese artists that designed the characters that The Transformers were based on, as well as all the incarnations of The Transformer Toy line, put alot of care into making sure that their transformations were realistic. Most of the original Transformer Line could have transformed without need for unrealistic physics. Working versions of The Transformers, as well as most Japanese Mecha, are physically possible (with the possible exception of the aerodynamics of the flying ones). You can't say this about the versions in the upcoming Movie. It won't stop me from seeing it, but it will bring down my enjoyment a bit. And when they finally do put out a toy line for the movie, and they will, the units will look cheap and the transformations will be both unrealistic and only a weak simulation of the movie.
    5. Re:I'm Sold. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      put alot of care into making sure that their transformations were realistic.

      Yeah, like when Soundwave would transform from a 10 foot tall robot down to a 5 inch tall tape player. That was totally realistic...

    6. Re:I'm Sold. by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 2, Informative

      From what I read, they did the exact same thing for the movie. They wanted realistic space taken up by vehicle and robot forms.

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    7. Re:I'm Sold. by anothy · · Score: 4, Funny

      From the previews, it seems to me the weakest part of this flick may not be the robots in disguise, but their human counterparts.
      oh, good. then it matches the TV show well!
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    8. Re:I'm Sold. by jmoriarty · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yea, I was the same. When the helicopter transformed though, I was hooked. "Stop... you had me at chooch chooch chech chech CHOOCH CHOOCH CHEECH CHEECH!"

    9. Re:I'm Sold. by falcon5768 · · Score: 4, Informative
      Um no they didnt, the movie animators had a LOT of trouble trying to make the G1 designs work. Very often the Japaneses animators cheated and removed a piece here or moved a piece to a spot it could never have gone to. If your looking for care in animation, watch Gundam or Macross, but Transformers G1 had very little care in how they transformed.

      The fact that OP is not a flat faced truck in this one is a direct result of them trying to make him one, and realizing there was no way in hell he could have realistically transformed and look how he did in the TV show.

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    10. Re:I'm Sold. by icepick72 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      IMHO the robot that transformed out of the guy's old yellow car at the beginning of the movie looked like a lot more metal than the car originally had in it. Maybe it's just an optical illusion because of "camera angle".

    11. Re:I'm Sold. by bogjobber · · Score: 4, Funny

      Let me get this straight. You are talking about a series where good anthropomorphic intelligent alien robots that change into cars and planes come to Earth and fight evil anthropomorphic intelligent alien robots that change into cars and planes and you're worried that it's unrealistic? Somehow I don't think that's really the point :)

    12. Re:I'm Sold. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      yes. I always found the logic behind Megatron's transformation to be perfect. From a gun that fits in a human's hand to a 3 story robot monster. I hope they stick the the same physics model for the movie.

      I'd love to see a tiny Megatron yelling at a giant Starscream. Would make my day! (Hitler indeed)

    13. Re:I'm Sold. by lise · · Score: 5, Funny

      The rest of him turned into 1000 feet of extension cord.

    14. Re:I'm Sold. by xero314 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Um no they didnt, the movie animators had a LOT of trouble trying to make the G1 designs work. Then I am guessing they didn't have any of the original toys sitting around. Having owned an Optimus, many other Transformers, a number of the original Diaclones, as well as many transformable Gundam, I can tell you that most of them are fully transformable with out the need for removing parts and the operate in robot form as well as vehicle form just fine (i.e. they roll in car form and are full possible in robot form). The original cartoon, including the original movie, where based very closely on these transformable model toys, wether the animators took care in that or not I can't really say, but the designers certainly did.

      the could have at least kept the surface area proportional. What the heck happens to all the body sheets on Bumblebee when he transforms? I mean before transformation he is fully surrounded by yellow sheet metal, but after transformation it's like he is in tattered rags.
    15. Re:I'm Sold. by xero314 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The scaling issues, such as with Soundwave, were due to the fact that the original toy line was not supposed to represent giant sized robots but were actually life size. Yes Bumblebee was supposed to be a toy car, and Megatron was a standard sized guy, and their robot forms were measured in inches not feet. This is also why in later versions of the Transformers those characters where either changed into different forms (Megatron became a cannon and not a gun) and a good thing that the move chose to not use those forms of the characters. But disregarding the scaling issue of the cartoon, Soundwave, and the cassettes that came with him were fully transformable.

  3. The sound !!! by The+Sith+Lord · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's got the sound !!!

    1. Re:The sound !!! by loteck · · Score: 5, Informative
      For anyone wondering what this is referring to:

      A) turn in your geek card and slashdot ID at the door
      B) check the trailer at 1:38-39. the sound prime makes as he is in his final stage of transforming is right out of the oldschool.

      Incredible how a simple sound can induce such vivid recollection of days long gone by. They've got me, hook, line, etc.

      How much is nostalgia worth? We'll find out July 9th, after its first full weekend.

    2. Re:The sound !!! by Notquitecajun · · Score: 2, Funny

      The REAL challenge is in spelling that sound out. It's well-nigh impossible.

    3. Re:The sound !!! by Overzeetop · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Those of us over thirty don't need geek cards - we invented geek. Anyone who has learned to code in assembly by poking two hexadecimals into an 8 bit computer will never - I repeat - never have to fear that his or her geekiness might be questioned by someone who was born after Apple created their first computer.

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    4. Re:The sound !!! by Reader+X · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh sure, like you young'ns are geeks with yer "Internets" and yer "GUIs" and yer "hard drives"! All MY ones and zeros were painstakingly crafted in the old world tradition!

      And that's the way it was and we LIKED it!

      Transformers? Flibble-dee-flee!

  4. Re:Disappointed by AbsoluteXyro · · Score: 4, Informative

    No can do. Volkswagon refused. Something about not wanting to be associated with a war movie. Go figure.

  5. mixed feelings by CPE1704TKS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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...

    1. Re:mixed feelings by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Also, have you seen some stills of Optimus Prime? He doesn't look like his cartoon incarnation at all, imo. I understand that done "properly", Optimus wouldn't go over so well in the movie... but come on, can they at least get the faceplate right? Not to mention that Optimus doesn't have flames, I'm sorry. Call me a purist, but he's only the most iconic character from that franchise, you'd think they'd REALLY WANT to get him right.

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    2. Re:mixed feelings by suv4x4 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not to mention that Optimus doesn't have flames, I'm sorry. Call me a purist, but he's only the most iconic character from that franchise, you'd think they'd REALLY WANT to get him right.

      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."

      Trust me, they want to make money on this film. If they could take the original designs and it'd be fine, they'd just do it. Why would they waste so much money on creating totally new designs, much more complex mechanics and try to animate all this?

      Because they're "evil" right? Wanna destroy your childhood memories. Them bastards.

    3. Re:mixed feelings by xero314 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Of course you have a solution for this too, I suppose. "He should've used VW anyway and took the lawsuit like a real man, he should!". First of all Bumblebee was not a VW Bug. There were no VW or Beetle insignia on any incarnation, and the design was different enough to avoid likeness, trademark and copyright. Bumblebees wheel base, for one thing, is significantly different than a VW Bugs. Bumblebee was a transformer that looked similar to a VW Bug. Hasbro was never sued by VW over the likeness, though they were died when they attempted to license to create an exact replica of the remodeled bug.

      The creative director behind the movie could have easily created a vehicle design that at least made the viewer think "bumblebee," but instead made, the intelligent, soft spoken, and emotional bumblebee into a classic american muscle car. I'm afraid at some point in the movie he's going to end up with a mullet, blasting Journey through cracked speakers.
    4. Re:mixed feelings by damsa · · Score: 3, Interesting

      "They're gonna (complain) about everything, you know what I'm saying? Then you'll see them accept it," Bay says. "The things that really matter are there." Internet chat that Volkswagen didn't want the Beetle involved in an action movie are false, Bay says: "I just liked the other car better. I didn't want anything to do with the Bug because it reminded me of Herbie the Love Bug
      http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-04-1 9-summer-movies_N.htm/
  6. This movie is doubly insulting to me by Buran · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

    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.

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    1. Re:This movie is doubly insulting to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      So the main reason you will not go and see this film about GIANT SPACE ROBOTS* is that the footage used for the real space stuff in the trailer is inaccurate?

      *I think that deserved extra emphasis

    2. Re:This movie is doubly insulting to me by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "This movie is doubly insulting to me"

      More insulting then a half hour commercial, I mean cartoon, designed to sell toys?

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  7. This trailer is INCOMPLETE by Gerocrack · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  8. Re:Disappointed by CrackedButter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please mod parent +5 Whiny Fan boy.

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  9. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Be skeptical - this is a Michael Bay film. Here's what to expect:

    1) Absurd and inappropriate love story
    2) Countless quick, nausiating cuts
    3) Horrible dialog

    Lets hope transformers are awesome enough to make up for Bay's movie making "skills".

  10. Re:Disappointed by Rank_Tyro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, you managed to "Godwin" a story about the Autobots.

    What were you thinking?

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  11. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by BackwardHatClub · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be skeptical - this is a Michael Bay film. True, but don't forget the golden rule of Michael Bay movie-making. If it starts with "The" it will be good. The Rock, The Island good movies. Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II bad movies. Since this movie is "The Transformers" I have high hopes!

  12. Sorry... by tm2b · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Give me Robot Jox any day.
    • 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.
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    1. Re:Sorry... by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As I was reading your post, it sounded like a movie I would want to leech... Until you ruined the ending. ;(

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    2. Re:Sorry... by Agripa · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Correct orbital mechanics (eg, thrust behind made the robot go up instead of ahead)

      The pilot for Firefly had this also: the Reaver ship thrusts forward to enter the atmosphere. I almost jumped up to cheer.

  13. Re:Disappointed by bm_luethke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At this point that explanation seems kinda strange - yea they were involved with Hitler but so was pretty much every single German company around then. It doesn't bother me a bit to take Bayer Aspirin even knowing what went on then - todays company has little to do with back then. Not only that, but a vehicle for every person was one of the good idea's that Nazi Germany had that much of the rest of the world followed - the US's interstates were a derivative of what they saw with the Autobahn and I bet pretty much every USian drives on them.

    I could understand a reluctance to be a Decepticon - not only does the name suck from a marketing point of view but so does being the bad guy. However, for you car to be one of the freaking saviors of the world *ought* to be a good thing. Given what I have seen in the past from VW I could see a VERY successful campaign - then again given their current commercials I can also see why they felt it was bad to be one of the saviors of the world.

    This was a fairly ignorant move on the part of VW. I have fairly happy memories of playing with the VW beetle transformer in my sandbox as a kid. They are missing out on a great opportunity here because of some idiotic notion that few people buy into.

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  14. Re:Disappointed by batkiwi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Using it as a general car in the background or random car the hero drives? No.
    Using the car itself as a main character and selling a toy with "VW Beatle" Stamped on it? YES.

  15. Re:I know by Walruzoar · · Score: 2, Funny

    May I be the first to welcome, etc...

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  16. Re:Robot speech? by NBarnes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The basic problem with this movie is going to be, and I'm telling you this now and you can admit I'm right later, is that the creative team feels the need to have humans running around that we can 'identify' with instead of trusting their writing, directing, and SFX to make the Transformers themselves the main characters. And no matter what else they get right (and that 'Exclusive' trailer was very damn cool), that will be the major failing of the movie.

    The movie is not 'The Kids That Pal Around With Transformers', the movie is 'Transformers'.

  17. Re:Link to 480 or at least 720? by moriya · · Score: 5, Informative

    As requested.. the QTL files are XML files so just save 'em and open it with your favorite text editor. The content is easy to read so getting the URL takes little to no effort. I did not bother to include the teaser trailer. If you want to view it, you know what to do.

    "Exclusive" 720p
    "Exclusive" 480p
    Trailer 720p
    Trailer 480p

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  18. Where do I get in line? by poptones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  19. Boooring! by Nuffsaid · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's next, a movie about capacitors? Followed by "Resistors' revenge", maybe?

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  20. Sector 7 code! by Allison+Geode · · Score: 4, Informative

    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".

  21. What, no obligatories? by rasputin465 · · Score: 4, Funny

    No one has said it yet!?? Ok, I guess I'll have to:

    I, for one, welcome our new Autobot overlords!

    1. Re:What, no obligatories? by rasputin465 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Shouldn't that be our Decepticon overlords? From what I hear, the Autobots don't really have many overlordish tendencies.

      Well that's a really good question. But I figured, the Decepticons only want to kill the humans, and it would be pretty difficult to be overlords if all your subjects are dead. I would much prefer to have the Autobots as my overlords. ALL HAIL AUTOBOTS.

    2. Re:What, no obligatories? by sYkSh0n3 · · Score: 2, Funny

      They tried to update him to, but when Apple wouldn't give them rights to the Ipod, they pondered on using the Zune's likeness, decided no one would know what it was and just dropped him all together.

  22. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    True, but don't forget the golden rule of Michael Bay movie-making. If it starts with "The" it will be good. The Rock, The Island good movies. Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II bad movies. Since this movie is "The Transformers" I have high hopes!

    I guess we're screwed, then. It's titled "Transformers."
  23. PLEASE START A MOVIE REVIEW SITE!!!! by deft · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  24. Nah, is a Michael Bay film... by tgd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Plotlines in disguise.

  25. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) ...? by pbhj · · Score: 2, Funny

    So which one of those links was a goatse video?

  26. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by gerrysteele · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I somewhat enjoyed The Island. Its exactly the kind of Sci-Fi I like.

    However I honestly objected to paying to see the film. After they got out in particular, I don't recall a scene that did not involve me being sold something.

    Here in the UK most of our TV adverts are more subtle about trying to push their products that "The Island" was.

    Bay claims the made less than a $million in placement, but I don't believe him. Either that or the advertisers got a great deal.

    Here's a spreadsheet: http://numsum.com/spreadsheet/show/7807/

  27. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by ystar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hope all you want, but you'll probably be let down. The two human actors seem like they're going to be the ones that really drag the movie into the dirt. Awkward lines, awkward romance, annoying quips...all in just a few seconds of the trailer. I haven't watched much of the transformers series (before my time) but the original movie was interesting...I think Welles really captured the insensitivity, the lack of compassion, that really makes a robot a robot. And yet there's so much humanity in the autobots. I don't mean to get all deep, I'm just saying these are some of the themes that would undoubtedly make the movie GOOD, not just actiony, the latter of which seems to be all Michael Bay is concerned with.

  28. Re:Looking forward to... by Sesticulus · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want a bad implementation check out Robot Jox http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/

  29. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by CmdrGravy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm old enough to remember the original cartoon and young though I may have been I could still see marketing driven drivel when I saw it. Seriously it was a rubbish cartoon designed to make people buy the toys.

  30. Has everyone forgotten? by Darth_brooks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  31. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by Shihar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here is the one problem.

    Michael Bay is a fucking idiot.

    Michael Bay embodies all that is good and bad about Hollywood. This movie will have kick ass special effects for sure, but at the same time it is going to have a fucking stupid romance that has no place in the movie and will surely result in the IQ of the audience dropping a few points. Hollywood loves to jerk off to its own cliches, and a quick glance at the movie trailer shows that it goes through a Hollywood check list to make sure all that is cliche and irritating about Hollywood got thrown in, no matter how utterly inappropriate it is for the movie. So yes, go see this movie for the eye candy, but keep a loaded .45 ready to save yourself from the horrible mind numbing romance and Hollywood cliche that will quickly follow.

    "Man, we can't have action movie about space robots without a horrible romance or else girls wouldn't like it!"

    Yeah Hollywood, I bet all the girls out there that don't want to watch sci-fi noticed the romance in the preview and are now dying to go see this movie.

    Fucking idiots.

  32. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by Keebler71 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Be skeptical - this is a Michael Bay film. Here's what to expect:

    1) Absurd and inappropriate love story

    2) Countless quick, nausiating cuts

    3) Horrible dialog

    Lets hope transformers are awesome enough to make up for Bay's movie making "skills".

    Michael Bay made the Star Wars prequels? I thought that was George Lucas..??

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  33. Re:Looking forward to... by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Informative

    "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."

  34. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by saboola · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dude.. it's just a movie. There are far worse things in the world to be upset about.

  35. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by schon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Michael Bay made the Star Wars prequels? I thought that was George Lucas..?? You ever see them together in the same room?
  36. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by Tekzel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yea, but which one is the secret identity?

  37. I agree... by le0p · · Score: 5, Funny

    When watching a movie about transforming robots from space, realistic physics is definitely what I'm thinking about..

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  38. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by seaturnip · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was a rubbish mercantile cartoon that was totally awesome.

  39. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by Hassman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Zoink!?! "The Island" was not good. Not even close.

    Bad Boys II was the epitome of what an over-the top action movie should be...well actually, Transporter II was, but BBII was pretty close. Regardless, it was fantastic. Those types of movies don't need to make sense. They aren't suppose to. They are just suppose to be non-stop in your face action. Don't confuse these with 'real' action movies like Indiana Jones or the original Die Hard, where the story is and characters are as important as the action.

    He is very hit or miss. If you go in to be entertained (via his action movies) he won't disappoint. If you go in wanting to see a serious or semi-serious story then...well...just don't go to see the move.

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  40. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by kalirion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude.. it's just a movie. There are far worse things in the world to be upset about.

    Another way of thinking is "Dude, there are enough bad things in the world. Let's not add to them."

  41. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by icepick72 · · Score: 2, Funny
    it is going to have a fucking stupid romance
    the horrible mind numbing romance
    without a horrible romance
    noticed the romance in the preview


    Let me guess you're a very single nerd, hanging around on /. Ya. I feel for you bro.

  42. Re:Disappointed by cyberformer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is yet another example of how laws surrounding "intellectual property" have got more extreme over the last few years. Back in 1984, they could make a transformer in the likeness of a VW bug whether VW wanted them to or not. This is no longer the case.

  43. I am Ohm of Borg... by MS-06FZ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Resistors are Futile.

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