thats what that thread was? people to make your thread titles clearer in u&k matters of this type please!
yeah for real, we could’ve known about this 24 hours ago
sorry :-(
to be fair to you I’m surprised at myself for not clicking on a thread with ‘dueling robots’ in the title in the first place.
but it also sez “and the strokes”
i didn’t even see the other thread but if i had i would indeed have been mindful of the ‘strokes’ reference.
yes i think the Strokes reference put me well off
anyhoo the trailer rules. I bet seeing it in the theater would have completely blown my mind. As is
1. I love the fact that they show you the bare minimum of robots. even if you freeze-frame through the whole thing you only catch teasing glimpses of anything in robot mode, from odd angles with all kinds of shit obscuring the view, like exploding buses, fleeing soldiers, etc.
2. I like that the US DOD is involved straightaway in the whole mess, it makes a lot more sense provides for a lot more kaboom than the cartoons’ conceit that somehow these massive fuckoff killing machines are somehow so good at keeping themselves and their spats under wraps that the army never shows up until the GI Joe crossover
3. What we do get to see of the robots looks totally fucking awesome, kudos for giving bumblebee a bug face and making the decepticons scary as shit
4. waht wif soldier’s face going all blinkety-blink terminator underneath the skin? I fear that which I do not understand
it could be a transformer pilot, like to complete the disguise ?
i think this will be only as good as...X-Men 3. hm.
the next trailer needs less US military geezers and more TFs actually saying stuff.
*views*
Might this be Michael Bay’s first actually good film? (Then again, X-Men 3 IS a pretty cold comparison.)
OH #4, it is the fake pilot in the cockpit of fake helicopter that is actually a large sociopathic robot, still, HUGE BREACH OF CANON
Fuck you Ned Bad Boys 2 and The Island are awesome
Look at least you didn’t say Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, then I would fear.
I admit in the trailer I was waiting for That Theme Song.
On the soundtrack:
Thransfomers Theme—McFly (Island)
‘u got the touch’ came from the original cartoon movie right?
wasn’t it orson welles’ last movie too?
the next trailer needs less US military geezers and more TFs actually saying stuff.
“AUTOBOTS, LETS ROLL!”
Thransfomers Theme—McFly (Island)
Oh good lord.
‘u got the touch’ came from the original cartoon movie right?
wasn’t it orson welles’ last movie too?
yes to both.
eeyore: “roll out”
Are people still complaining that Bumblebee isn’t a VW Beetle?
to the bitter end
Although you don’t get to hear them in this, I think we can all rest assured knowing that Frank Welker & Peter Cullen once again voice Megatron & Prime.
FUN FACT: I somehow didn’t know Frank Welker is also the voice of SCOOBY DOO, but guess what guys, MEGATRON = SCOOBY DOO.
In fact it seems like it would be hard to find a cartoon from any era of the past 30ish years that Frank Welker DIDN’T lend his voice to.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0418279/
jon voight! nick turturro! bernie mac!
re tom’s point 4, why can’t there be a hologram? doesn’t seem a huge issue
also, i hope that it touches on some mideast war for oil/energon shit
I mean, making a seeing up conflict over energon instead of over any real righteous cause would be an lol bigger than doogie hauser in an SS uniform
Zapp and Roger for Soundwave!
i want my film version of Transformers vs Gi Joe, WWII-era
“HUGE BREACH OF CANON”
They’ve done that before. One of the cartoons had an entire fleet of decepticons created by hologram, while the real ones were busy filling Energon cubes miles away. The Autobots attacked the fakes, the fules.
i want a steampunk version of transformers, set in 1888
or a stone-age version, crossover w/the flintstones
no I don’t mean holograms as breach of canon I mean pilots/drivers as breach of canon, doesn’t anybody remember passersby always yapping about “ain’t nobody drivin’ that car!!” all the time?
well the whole thing’s pretty much a breach of canon
that reminds me, they should have created a decepticon that turns into a cannon, named “Breach”
how did the humans fit inside the transformed autobots, anyway? was it in some sorta weird battloid/guardian mode?
palm of hand
the only clue we have is this recording
SSSSSSCCCCCCCRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWW
lol
this is actually a really good trailer, it shows a lot without showing too much and keeps things mysterious. also love the non-use of music!
i want a steampunk version of transformers, set in 1888
fuck u doctorow!!!!
how did the humans fit inside the transformed autobots, anyway? was it in some sorta weird battloid/guardian mode?
shit where is that gif from the clerks animated series
squish squish
I’m not a Bay-hater, but I gotta say that this trailer was pretty underwhelming... Clips of stuff that I saw in the trailers for Independence Day, Matrix Reloaded, etc. etc.
yeah and all those movies were fucking awesome
“man this lord of the rings shit, I saw this stuff in Conan”
Yeah I did like how Conan and Subotai hugged each other a lot at the end.
(This said Independence Day was the first thing I thought of too.)
the love story kills it for me.
also matrix reloaded was not fucking awesome, tom.
in a roundabout sort of way i was reminded of this
chaki you just hate awesome movies
no I don’t mean holograms as breach of canon I mean pilots/drivers as breach of canon, doesn’t anybody remember passersby always yapping about “ain’t nobody drivin’ that car!!” all the time?
In the comics Ratchet installed holographic projectors that simulated human beings to prevent this.
So, is Starscream in this — voiced by Cobra Commander?
this guy in my office just farted so loud
Fuck you Ned Bad Boys 2 and The Island are awesome
I COMPLETELY AGREE
This trailer is great and (aside from “Pearl Harbor” aka “That Fucking Awful Movie, God”) I like Michael Bay movies. However, I still have trepidation about this movie (and I never saw the original one).
(Also Matrix Reloaded was awesome, esp. the highway scene.)
revolutions was soooooooo bad though
“The Island” was great because it felt like a 2-hour toothpaste commercial, esp. the end where all the people dressed in white are running across the big red rocks—“THESE ROCKS ARE YOUR TEETH COVERED IN PLAQUE, AND THOSE CLONES ARE CREST WHITENING TOOTHPASTE.”
OK, the trailer was underwhelming — like watching a chintzy Terminator. The young guy (Spike Witwicky?) is cute though. Do you think Megatron will transform into a bull and rape him?
No, I don’t think that will happen.
I think the world is being fooled—the real film is a straight ahead animated old school Transformers!
No, I don’t think that will happen.
No fun.
If Bay and co. really wanted to get frisky, they would have cast Teela, Man-at-Arms, and Lion-O to help the earthlings, leaving Skeletor, Mumm-Ra, and Mer-Man to squabble tetchily with an amused Megatron.
I think the world is being fooled—the real film is a straight ahead animated old school Transformers!
few things could make me happier.
So, is Starscream in this — voiced by Cobra Commander?
Unlikely, as he is dead.
the thing about the hologram is...why reveal a robotic face within it? the decep’s face would not be visible within the hologram as it would be buried somewhere in the copter itself. and there’s no point him projecting the image of his face thru the hologram at all. STUPIDOCON.
Maybe he coughed.
another way to remind me of
Precisely.
Hunh. Didn’t know this:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490383/bio
He was the original voice of Nuclear-plant-owner C. Montgomery Burns on “The Simpsons”, before circumstances forced him to turn the role over to Harry Shearer after the first few apearances. Shearer modeled his performance after Latta’s, and was able to seamlessly assume the role.
Also originally provided the voice of Moe the bartender on “The Simpsons”.
So, is Starscream in this — voiced by Cobra Commander?
Unlikely, as he is dead.
Starscream (no lines from the ghost? ;] ) or the actor?
Hot new Transformers trailer (69 new answers)
So is Arcee going to be in this?
i remember a particular episode from the cartoons where either Bumblebee or Hound had a hologram of a human driving their vehicle.
LOL at my little pony reference with little girl.
Im going to go on the record and say that this movie sucks unless it has Starscream acting all swishy and gay.
Voiced by Ian McKellan:
Turd’s already in line now.
it’ll be Ricky Gervais at this rate.
You can’t tell but I am so turned on right now. FUCKINGFANTASTICON!!!
Bumblebee voiced by Ben Stiller! Jazz by Owen Wilson!
The thing about the new TF film is that it means I won’t be able to resist buying the new toys.
I see that the robots really have that spaghetti design as hinted in the earlier ILE thread. I hope they don’t end up looking as ugly as in those production pics.