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post #1 of 571
12/20/06 at 8:29am
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http://video.vividas.com/CDN1/5029_paramount/en/web/
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post #2 of 571
12/20/06 at 11:41am
Hm, don't really like that organic rounded look of the robots. I guess it would be impossible to keep the old-school feel without it looking equally lame though...

R.I.P. childhood memories.
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post #3 of 571
12/20/06 at 12:06pm
The movie looks like it will be a feast for our HT's ... Looking forward to it!.
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post #4 of 571
12/20/06 at 12:10pm
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Originally Posted by Chewbacco View Post

The movie looks like it will be a feast for our HT's ... Looking forward to it!.

Shoot, it already is. I downloaded the HD trailer here:

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers_hd.html

Played it in my theater, (106 inches of transforming Optimus Prime! Boo-yah!) and I don't think I could've geeeked out any more than I did. LOL
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post #5 of 571
12/20/06 at 12:45pm
Yup agree it would rock on our HT.
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post #6 of 571
12/20/06 at 2:37pm
Wow. From this trailer it seems like a rather frightening film to be based on a child's action toy. I guess in this day and age that's what it needs.
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post #7 of 571
12/20/06 at 5:01pm
Whoa. That looks cool.
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post #8 of 571
12/20/06 at 5:40pm
In the original cartoon, The transformers came to Earth and fought against each other, ignoring the humans. In this movie it looks like they are trying to take over the planet.
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post #9 of 571
12/20/06 at 7:26pm
I like!
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post #10 of 571
12/20/06 at 7:46pm
Thank God it isn't going to be a cartoon.
BTW, this trailer rocks!
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post #11 of 571
12/20/06 at 10:08pm
...........uhmm looks like any other Bay movie, even with Spielberg as EP. We shall see!
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post #12 of 571
12/20/06 at 10:12pm
Loved what I saw, can't wait until next July to see it. Since I got my theater I haved pretty much stopped going to the movies, but I think I will have to make an exception for this movie.

It does look like it should sound great at home though.
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post #13 of 571
12/21/06 at 5:29am
nice!
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post #14 of 571
12/21/06 at 12:16pm
That trailer is simply amazing! I echo the sentiments expresed, I really can't wait to see and hear it both in the theater and in my HT. Glad they waited till the technology is available to do the transformers in the right way, and in real time instead of animated. Watching them transform in the trailer sure brings back memories. Sigh.
BTW : Anybody seen the recently re-released version of the old 1986 movie?
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post #15 of 571
12/21/06 at 4:30pm
Looks more and more like exactly what I've been fearing, that the movie will be all about the humans with the "evil robots" secondary. There's basically nothing recognizable about any of the classic robot characters in that trailer. And being a Michael Bay movie, all of the transformation sequences will be quick-cut edited in an incoherent series of 1/4 second-long shots.

Was there really no one else in all of Hollywood available who could direct this instead?
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post #16 of 571
12/21/06 at 5:27pm
I have no idea who Shia LaBeouf and Travis Van Winkle are, but that trailer looks pretty damn promising....

I hope that there is actually somewhat of a plotline and interesting dialogue, and not just special effects...but the trailer really has made me interested!
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post #17 of 571
12/21/06 at 6:37pm
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Originally Posted by slateef View Post

I have no idea who Shia LaBeouf and Travis Van Winkle are, but that trailer looks pretty damn promising....

Shia LaBeouf is Hollywood's favorite go-to guy for the designated "teenage sidekick" character in their big budget movies. See: Charlie's Angels 2, I Robot, Constantine.
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post #18 of 571
12/21/06 at 7:35pm
Come on Josh ..stop Barricadin'. LOL

I liked this trailer and I'm hoping Bay injects an actual story behind this action. The soundtrack needs to rock here.
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post #19 of 571
12/22/06 at 7:32am
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Originally Posted by Josh Z View Post

Looks more and more like exactly what I've been fearing, that the movie will be all about the humans with the "evil robots" secondary. There's basically nothing recognizable about any of the classic robot characters in that trailer. And being a Michael Bay movie, all of the transformation sequences will be quick-cut edited in an incoherent series of 1/4 second-long shots.

Was there really no one else in all of Hollywood available who could direct this instead?

Yep, quiet frankly I was much more intrigued by that Mars teaser a few months back, now this "ID4" type thing just gives me a feeling I like I saw this movie already.
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post #20 of 571
12/22/06 at 7:44am
In the spirit of traditional Bay films, this movie is going to be the "guilty pleasure" viewing experience of the summer. Count me in!
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post #21 of 571
12/22/06 at 9:14am
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Yep, quiet frankly I was much more intrigued by that Mars teaser a few months back, now this "ID4" type thing just gives me a feeling I like I saw this movie already.

Just wait until they reveal that the energon cube everyone is fighting over is actually an old Powerbook hidden at Jeff Goldblum's house somewhere in Berverly Hills. OH NOES WAS THAT A SPOILER?
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post #22 of 571
12/22/06 at 9:26am
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Originally Posted by Josh Z View Post

And being a Michael Bay movie, all of the transformation sequences will be quick-cut edited in an incoherent series of 1/4 second-long shots.

I'm calling this one. Your beef with the transformations will be relegated to trailers only. If there's one thing Bay can actually be relied on, it's too much of a good thing. I'll bet there will be plenty of full transformation sequences.

We can wager something if you like... like my used Insectacon grasshopper kickback. :P

As for the movie sucking or not... well... Micheal hasn't made a movie I liked yet, but there's always a first time! ^_^
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post #23 of 571
12/22/06 at 9:27am
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Just wait until they reveal that the energon cube everyone is fighting over is actually an old Powerbook hidden at Jeff Goldblum's house somewhere in Berverly Hills. OH NOES WAS THAT A SPOILER?

Considering the absolutely absurd amount of product placement in Michael Bay's last movie (seriously, why would these clones living in an underground bunker need to wear Puma sneakers and drink Aquafina?), I can only imagine how he'll go to town with this one. He's obviously got some auto manufacturers lined up for branding.
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post #24 of 571
12/22/06 at 10:57am
Josh, isn't any movie good to you? Please list the one's you do.
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post #25 of 571
12/22/06 at 11:15am
The trailer made me anxious to see it. I'm taking it for what most Michael Bay films are - big budget action movies involving shoestring plotlines and mediocre acting, accented by an amazing chase sequence brought to you in part by Ford. I'll probably see it twice, then go home and watch the 25th anniversary edition of the Transformers movie that I own.
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post #26 of 571
12/22/06 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by khyron View Post

Just wait until they reveal that the energon cube everyone is fighting over is actually an old Powerbook hidden at Jeff Goldblum's house somewhere in Berverly Hills. OH NOES WAS THAT A SPOILER?


Nah, it's a Commodore 64
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post #27 of 571
12/22/06 at 4:54pm
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Originally Posted by Josh Z View Post

Considering the absolutely absurd amount of product placement in Michael Bay's last movie (seriously, why would these clones living in an underground bunker need to wear Puma sneakers and drink Aquafina?), I can only imagine how he'll go to town with this one. He's obviously got some auto manufacturers lined up for branding.

Product placement was credited being pioneered by your bud Spielberg. Since he exec produce this well.............
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post #28 of 571
12/23/06 at 8:04am
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Originally Posted by vitod View Post

Josh, isn't any movie good to you? Please list the one's you do.

Here are over 250 movie reviews I've written. I liked some of them.

http://www.mindspring.com/~zyber/reviews.html

Have at it.
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post #29 of 571
12/23/06 at 9:15pm
Why do we even need "good" transformers to "protect us"? They should have just eliminated that part of the plot completely.

Yeah, the FX look cool, and I know it's more true to the original cartoons, but it seems it would have been more more interesting if it was sort of an alien war taking place on the planet with the transformers ignoring us and wreaking havok in the process.

Now that's what I call a movie.
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post #30 of 571
12/23/06 at 11:04pm
The trailer looks great to me. Could be a really neat movie, as you guys say, both in the theater and at home.

However, I also agree that I hate the style of a different shot every 1/4-second, lets hope we dont get that this time.
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