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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."
For those who don't have something that can read qtl files, here are some direct links:
"Exclusive Trailer".
Theatrical Trailer.
Teaser Trailer.
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.
It's got the sound !!!
No can do. Volkswagon refused. Something about not wanting to be associated with a war movie. Go figure.
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.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
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?
Dude, you managed to "Godwin" a story about the Autobots.
What were you thinking?
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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!
- 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
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.
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
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.
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.
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'.
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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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.
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.
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!
I guess we're screwed, then. It's titled "Transformers."
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.
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.
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.
Here is the one problem.
.45 ready to save yourself from the horrible mind numbing romance and Hollywood cliche that will quickly follow.
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
"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.
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..??
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
Dude.. it's just a movie. There are far worse things in the world to be upset about.
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
It was a rubbish mercantile cartoon that was totally awesome.