Because Why Not? TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Trailer With Food

Not much can be said, I just enjoyed this funny little clip.  I especially enjoy Shia LaBeouf as a whiny banana. This was found courtesy of /Film's Page 2.



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TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Reel First Impressions

Hey guys, Javi, here briefly back from my hiatus to just talk about my recent Botcon/Michael Bay/TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON experience where we were treated to the full opening scene and about 10 minutes worth of spoiler free clips showing off the use of 3D in the movie.  I was really hoping that we would have been the first people in the world to take a look at this footage, but turns out this was the same 3D demo reel that was shown off at the "3D A Transforming Visual Art- A Conversation with Michael Bay and James Cameron" even that /film covered a while ago.  Either way it was a great experience
 
For those "not in the know", Botcon is the rapidly growing annual Transformers convention set up by the Transformers Collector's Club every year.  There are panels, script readings, behind the scenes looks at upcoming toys, and an overpriced dealer room! The big draw is always the exclusive toys as well as the fun of the convention experience.  This was a particularly fun year as I got to meet and hang and drink with a lot of my Twitter buds. (shout out to all of you guys!)

During each of the years that a movie has come out, Botcon goers have been privy to exclusive first looks at the movie.  In 2007, they were the first audience to see the completed movie, and in 2009, there was a clip, and this year during the second annual Hall of Fame Event, which took place on June 4, we knew that Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay would be inducted, and that we would be receiving the new Cinemasks for the occasion (for those wondering, I got the Optimus). So it felt very obvious that we would be at least getting a clip of the movie. There were suits, a VIP section, and even Tyrese "Left Cheek" Gibson showed up, so the buzz in the room was pretty high with anticipation. 

Michael Bay accepted his statue for the Hall of Fame and talked about the production of the movie and how it was going before introducing the 3D reel which was mostly a clip show. Please be advised of potential spoilers ahead:

The acting in this TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON clip is a little...(puts on glasses) ROBOTIC. YEEEEEEEEA!

So, yes the fanboy is writing about TRANSFORMERS again, and this time with a more sobering look at what we can expect from this movie in terms of acting, which has never been director Michael Bay's strong suit. In it we see newcomer Rosie Huntington-Whiteley introducing Sam (Shia LaBeouf) to her boss, played by McDreamy himself, Patrick Dempsey.

Not gonna lie guys... she can't act very well.  It reminded me of my "acting" debut back in 3rd grade.  And Sam obviously hasn't changed or matured at all from the previous movie but that's to be expected.  I'm not gonna lie, this make me dread the non-robot parts of the movie.  So, let's hope something good comes out of having McDreamy a cameo here. 

As a bit of little news the release date has now been pushed back to June 29th according to Deadline. I feel this bodes well for our Summer Bet, because this means the movie will be further apart from HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 and so people will feel like they have more money to spend in this movie.

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The Almost Annual Summer Bet...who will win out??

So, two years ago, my cohort and I had a bet of which movie would make more money in its opening weekend...STAR TREK or TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN.  Now, if you've been following us over the past few months, you will know that Javi is the die-hard Transformers fan.  So, naturally that's what he predicted would make more money.  I, however, put my faith in the Star Trek fandom that would be thrilled for a J.J. Abrams reboot of the series, which was the first movie in about seven years, and wouldn't let me down.  But as we all know, ROTF beat the weekend gross of STAR TREK within 24 hours.  (STAR TREK made $70 million opening weekend, which is pretty awesome for a May beginning of summer release, and ROFT made $90 million the FIRST DAY....)  Needless to say, I went down in a Baysplosion of fire.  So, I owed Javi two movie tickets.

 

This summer however, we are rehashing our bet.  Within two weeks of each other, both TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON and HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 will be released.  So, he, once again, is betting on Transformers, while I am putting all my faith and love into Harry Potter.  Surprisingly, I haven't written much about Harry Potter here, but let me assure you of my devotion to it.  I could spew Dickens-type jargon about my nerdy obsession with the series; however, since I don't have time to write a book, I wrote my condensed thoughts when the full trailer premiered not too long ago here. 

 

So, from awesome and somewhat completely biased my perspective, PART 2 will be the movie of the summer. 

 



I mean...he's so fierce!



 

Why?  Well, first off, it's a billion dollar, international success.  When the first movie was released ten years ago, there was much speculation about whether the series would be successful, or if they might have to go straight to DVD with the later movies.  The fans showed their loyalty, and the movies bred new fans, and the franchise is now almost untouchable.  Also, not only do you have fans of the books who also care about the movies, there's another whole set of people who just go and see the movies.  The movies began ten years ago, so there's a whole generation that grew up with them, and there's a whole new generation that are falling in love with the franchise with its repetition on ABC Family. 

This is also the final chance for all the fans to say good-bye to the characters that some of grown up with and come to love.  When the final book came out, it was definitely a chapter closing in the fandom world, but we still had the movies to look forward to.  However, this is it for this world, and for many of us, it's going to be a very sad farewell. 

 

Plus, let us not forget that the Harry Potter movies are, quality wise, exponetially better than the Transformers movies.  My cohort will agree to this.  (In fact, we both whole-heartedly agreed that STAR TREK was a better movie, but unfortunately for my sake, that wasn't the terms of the bet).  What I underestimated was the Speliberg-magic from the first Transformers movie that obviously flickered in the hearts of the movie-going public who ended up spending $400 million domestically to see the sequel two years ago.  I saw the first movie months after it was released on video, and I actually enjoyed it.  It was funny, fun, and had (somewhat) of a heart.  So, the ROTF had that momentum going for it.  However, I think many will abhorredly remember ROFT moments such as Transformer balls that dangled in front of our faces and a robot dog humping Megan Fox's leg.  Many, many, many people, including die-hard fans, felt ROFT was an atrocity to the Transformers legacy.  This is what I'm banking on! I'm hoping that people will remember their I-wish-I-didn't-pay-$12-for-the-IMAX-experience feelings they felt after ROFT and not go see the third movie (which from the trailer looks pretty baysplosion-esque fun).

 

 

The fact someone thought this was funny makes me weep for mankind, says Javi

 

Will I win?? I hope so.  I mean I better.  Am I completely confident I will?  Absolutely not.  However, it's all in good fun, and it'll be a great summer to see who will win the epic battle between wizards and alien robots.  Plus, the quality movie needs to win!

 

 

 

Javi: Ok, so obviously, I know that I'm rooting for the"wrong" movie. TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN was an atrociously bad piece of shit that bastardized the property worse than the third Pirates of the Caribbean.  Regardless, the audience of teenage boys, nerds, and bros, made this movie the biggest hit that wasn't called AVATAR during 2009.  So why is that, discounting the big love for the franchise since 1986, I would root for this movie to make a load more money than that nerdy wizard? Simple, every bad thing that could have gone wrong with this movie has been fixed and has been improved.

 

Complaint #1-The Story- The second movie sucked so bad mostly because of the confusing and badly edited story, and the fact that Shia LaBeouf was born.  In the past few years,  the writers and Bay have been blaming the writer's strike of 2008 as the big reason as to why it failed completely.  This time around, we don't have that, sure the worst of the writers Ehrin Kruger is the head of the script nowadays, so I'm sure he'll be messing up completely somehow, but it won't be nearly as bad ass it was that summer two years ago.

 

Even that nose-less freak would cower in front of this guy.

 

Complaint #2- Michael Bay is raping childhoods- Yes, nerds can be hyperbolic and have sheer hatred of a thousand burning suns when they don't like something, and I can even admit that I'm not really happy that it was Bay that was the director for this series.  Everyone's big complaint is that Bay has a Ritalin-infused ADD style of directing with his cuts lasting fractions of a second.  But! for once 3-D has saved the day! Thanks to the technical difficulties of setting up the 3-D rigs, Bay is forced to show long shots to properly show which robot is kicking who's ass.  This will at least help with making the visuals of this movie superior than the last movie's

 

Complaint #3 Racist and childish humor- Skids and Mudflap (The Twins) are two characters I wish I could somehow turn into a hybrid human/robot centipede along with the character of Leo Spitz.  They encapsulate many of the faults of the last movie with their moronic and truly racist humor injected into the last movie.  Well, this time around, Bay has allegedly promised that there will be no Leo, no twins (even though you can spot them in the trailer), and no "dumb humor".  What does this mean? No robots portraying bad racial stereotypes voiced by SpongeBob, although the NASCAR Autobots have been shown to have hats and mullets, no robot testicles, and no overly horny nerds just trying their hardest to get laid.   Given the trailers, it seems this might be true.  I mean, they have LaBeouf crying like the little girl he probably is. Alll we have seen in the teaser and the full trailer is utter destruction, chaos and desperation.

 

Finally, last time I heard, HARRY POTTER didn't break any records for having the most trailer views in 24 hours on the QuikTime/iTunes.

 

In my mind, the demographic that went to see ROTF doesn't care too much about quality either for the lack of empathy or the fanboy aspect of it, so they'll see the third movie regardless of how much it could suck.  The improvements might help sway those that are more savvy towards good movies such as ourselves.  Honestly, I just wanna beat Jonesy! 

So seriously guys, who do you think will win during the summer? Either one of our choices? A completely unexpected one?

 

 

Side note: the winner of the bet will receive bragging rights (until the next bet) plus a Criterion Blu-Ray.



-TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON will be released July 1, 2011 in theatres and IMAX.

-HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 will be released July 15, 2011 in theatres and IMAX. 

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This summer will be filled with Baysplosions! TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON trailer hits!

Prepare to have your minds blown! Quicktime has released the trailer for Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON today.  Hit the jump for the trailer.

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Picture Countdown Day 3

Seems like the guys over at the Apple QuickTime site have updated their gallery for their TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON daily picture reveal. Hit the jump for the image.

Logic Dictates You Will Check Out This TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Picture Countdown!

Ha! You thought I'd stop writing about this most potentially atrocious movie? Nope! Especially when it deals with sweet images! Earlier this week, the cool guys over at the Apple trailers website are featuring a gallery of five images that will be released one per day before the release of the trailer later this week.  Yesterday, I was too busy/tired to write about this awesome image featuring Shockwave that was released yesterday!

Leonard Nimoy (Spock, William Bell) will voice Sentinel Prime in TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

Well this came out of nowhere. The coolest guy to come out of the Star Trek franchise (I hate you for Priceline, Shatner) has decided to return to the Transformers franchise this summer as a voice once again!

New TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON NASCAR extended trailer

Ok, I'm a liar, and I'll probably be writing a whole lot more of TF:DOTM. But this stuff is looking so bananas, I can't help but share. As a huge movie tie-in, director Michael Bay, along with stars Josh Duhamel and Rose Huntington-Whiteley, were at the Daytona 500 race to announce the race, plus they got to show off the new Wreckers, which are actual NASCAR cars (is that how you would say that?) Either way, we got an extended TV spot that shares a lot of images from the Super Bowl teaser and adds quite a few interesting tidbits.



What I really enjoyed about this spot is it shows you the ridiculous gimmick called MechTech. In the new toy line, it is manifested as giant guns that you can attach and combine to make more weapons. In the movie, it seems that this will show up as well. In the trailer, you see Bumblebee deploying his guns and you see brief shots a few of the Wreckers with their guns out as well. Put it this way, this movie just got insane, unless the story is as atrocious as the second one, this might be at the very least, an amusing movie. Let us know what you think in the comments section!
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TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON mystery mustache robot from the trailer revealed!(spoiler)

This might be one of the last TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON post until the movie comes out, but I'm not promising anything. Earlier today TFW2005.com posted a link to (out of all places) Entertainment Weekly where they debuted a few images showing official pictures of the new body for Megatron, the new Ark spaceship seen in the trailer, and more importantly, Sentinel Prime! Check out the pics!

The Ark, which looks rather similar to the original, and a good TIE Fighter rip off.

This is the new Megatron, who use to be a ridiculous looking space ship/tank hybrid before this.

Here's the big guy, Sentinel Prime!

I will say that Sentinel Prime is my favorite Transformers design to come out of this movie, that's not Shockwave. He looks heroic, badass, and more like an experienced fighter and not a ridiculous, cantakerous old robot like Jetfire from the previous movie. I'm not sure how he exists because in the last movie, Jetfire said that all of the last Primes died fighting The Fallen. Plus the big deal about Optimus is that he is the last Prime alive and there's no one to carry on the legacy. And just as a cool little tidbit, the new article has Michael Bay saying that Megatron will be "hiding in the jungles of Africa, nursing his wounds, and vainly hiding his pulverized visage while plotting — what else — revenge."

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON will be released July 1, 2011

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TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Super Bowl Teaser

Wow is all I can say after seeing this trailer. Now, I am the most jaded person in terms of this movie franchise mainly because of how ridiculous Michael Bay has made the movies; however, even this trailer made me want more. I'll post my full thoughts later.







TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON comes out July, 1, 2011.

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New Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Villain Revealed Through Stolen Toys

Oh no! It's Javi blogging about new Transformers stuff...again.  It's been a known practice that Chinese workers will steal early copies of upcoming toys and sell them on eBay for toy reviewers.  This has been going on for a few years, and thanks to this rather illegal practice, we now have the first view of the main villain of TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON.

Here is Shockwave courtesy of TFW2005, and ACTOYS.

Compare this image to his previous incarnation to the original 1980's cartoon, you'll see it's a good modernization of his character into the Michael Bay movies.  Unlike a lot of the more iconic characters, such as Starscream or Ironhide, Shockwave actually looks like his original design of a purple cyclops. In the original cartoon he turned into a Space Gun, and he was the Decepticon that stayed behind on Cybertron to keep things in check for Megatron, while the main cast of characters were stuck on earth.  For the movie, his alternate mode has been updated to an alien tank of some sort.

Hilariously, this shows Shockwave holding himself in Space Gun mode. Image courtesy of TFWIKI

What I like about this particular design is, like I stated before, all of his iconic characteristics are intact here.  You have the main purple body, the one-eyed faceless head, one of his arms being a gun and the hose that attaches to his back.  This is almost as close to an homage to the original as movie Optimus Prime was. 

As the main villain of the movie, he'll be a huge character, even if plot details are still rather sparse. We'll just have to wait and see. This is his main character description from TFWIKI: 

"Shockwave has been referred to as "a computer on legs." This is not far from the truth. Logic rules Shockwave's thought processes and is the source of his every inspiration. He sees emotion as a weakness and a distraction. His cold and calculating modus operandi is supported by his frightening and exceptionally powerful form.  Shockwave is possibly even more powerful than Megatron. Perhaps logic may one day dictate that the time to replace Megatron's flawed, emotion-fueled rule is at hand. After all, the only logical choice for Decepticon leader would be Shockwave himself."

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON comes out July 1, 2011.