Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon

What, you thought I was joking?

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/transformersdarkofthemoon/

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc259/ericrider/WileyWiggins.jpg

Robot alien has a moustache

Turn Off The Dark Of The Moon

Is this a musical?

Reminds me of that old Lou Reed song, "Walk On The Wild"

or maybe I'm thinking of the Rolling Stones' "Time Is On My"

are you sure you're not thinking of "Sympathy For The"?

starring Ken Jeong as The Moon

Still not as bad as that Killers song

that trailer...didn't they imply in the earlier movies that the transformers have been around since cavemen and shit? who gives a fuck if Buzz Aldrin found one of their spaceboats

a) Mergatroid or whoever that last robot's face is looks like robot Christopher Plummer

b) does this mean no Shia LaBouef and Tits McGee?

c) really hate them fucking with my moon landing. Fuck up all the cities you want, but the moon landing? UGH

i think tits was already told gtfo.

never understood why all the deceptacons look exactly the same.

I never understood why giant indestructible robots felt the need to turn into cars.

but in the cartoon they did not all look like big silver angry turds. they had personalities and expressions.

Yeah--all the shit hanging off their faces and such in these useless movies, who knows what the fuck they're doing or saying or which character is which

I was really hoping Truckasaurus would make an appearance in this 3rd movie.

I pity my poor bandmate slaving away on this

Shia is in the movie

any other questions

Where's Galvatron? Where's Ultra Magnus?

excited for this.

Where's Galvatron? Where's Ultra Magnus?

should be on Unicron eating the Earth level by now so f this

Ultra Mingus?!????!!

wouldnt have expected alfred to start reeling off names of Transformers

Optimus Prima

wouldnt have expected alfred to start reeling off names of Transformers

I own every comic book and the cartoon series. They were my favorite toys EVAH.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/10/SCANNERS-GIF-01.gif

I don't read Henry James in the shower every day.

can't imagine this being worse than the second transformers movie, but there are now going to three dimensions of suck

Awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzNsOGt3bHk

can't imagine this being worse than the second transformers movie, but there are now going to three dimensions of suck

the 3d angle had me hopeful, but this trailer is disturbingly plotty and dull - wanted more of a Bad Boys II MORE MORE MORE vibe then some kind of Saw-esque "make sure you remember everyone's name before seeing this" shit

like, seriously, do people who sat through Fallen see that decepticon at the end and go "oh shit, it's SUPER MEGATRON" or whatever? Are they supposed to? I saw the first one drunk and then sat through Fallen up to the Fox leg-humping scene in a dollar theater, and all I remember is that one guy spoke in song samples or something.

I apologize if I sound like I'm defending ignorance as more valid than expertise

think i have mentioned this before but the first one is the only film i've ever been so offended by that i just got up and walked out halfway through (and i managed to sit through irreversible)

only regret is that i didnt clasp my hands to my head and scream "SPAAARE ME THIS MOCKERY OF JUSTICE!!" right before i left :/

had alfred down as more of a perceptor guy tbh

On the playground I was always Galvatron: bigger fusion cannon.

Hey, you know what could be worse than this? NOTHING.

Next year we have Transformers 3, but also Paul Blart in a zoo, a freakin' Planet of the Apes sequel to a remake, another god damn Pirates of the Caribbean, a trio of origin story superhero films and another Katherine Heigl/Lionsgate action-comedy. Even Pixar is slumming it with Cars 2. 2011, may I admit defeat early?

Werner Herzog in 3D, tho

paul blart in a zoo?!?! NICE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAhQA5gT62w&feature=player_embedded

In a candid interview, Reese Witherspoon — who stars opposite Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson in the upcoming romantic comedy How Do You Know — explains that her break from acting wasn’t anything she planned. “I just didn’t read anything I liked,” she says. “There are a lot of really, really, really big movies about robots and things — and there’s not a part for a 34-year-old woman in a robot movie.”

that all changes when you get to Frances McDormand's age, apparently

“I just didn’t read anything I liked,” she says. “There are a lot of really, really, really big movies about robots and things — and there’s not a part for a 34-year-old woman in a robot movie.”

UH:

Arcee is pink, and carries a big gun.

http://www.leggetter.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/transformers/arcee-dreamwave.jpg

Yeah, and didn't Witherspoon do a voice in Monsters Vs. Aliens? Methinks she dost protest too much.

that all changes when you get to Frances McDormand's age, apparently

― da croupier, Friday, December 10, 2010 9:40 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

there are more parts for 34-year-old women when you're frances mcdormand's age?

Frances McDormand is in Transformers 3 btw

oic

does she play a megatron

Marissa Faireborn (occasionally misspelled "Fairborne") is a fictional character from the Transformers series. A human female, she holds the rank of captain in the Earth Defense Command, a military organization helping the Autobots fight against the evil Decepticons. In some interpretations, she is depicted as an unlikely love interest for Autobots such as Jazz (G.I. Joe/Transformers), and, more prolificly, Optimus Prime (Kiss Players).

prolificly

they didn't want to be so gauche as to outright call her a whore

and occasionally tumbling into the void:

Scenes where robots destroy cities apparently uninhabited by people—a bloodless Armageddon—either excavates Chicago’s secret moral corruption (perhaps a timely private fantasy of Rod Blagojevich?) or else is just another tentpole time-killer, as stupid as Inception or Avatar.

armond white getting distracted from his sentence's original plural subject by a singular noun in a parenthetical clause probably explains why the second halves of his ideas never have anything to do with the first halves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIBNB0LPpOc

that's sort of mildly interesting -- carriers in 1941 must have looked different to carriers in 2007. it's obviously at least partly cgi because the planes on deck in transformers (modern jets) aren't in the peal harbour shots. but i'd guess it's not *all* cgi, but a shot of modern carriers...? what im saying is, either it was an anachronism in the one movie, or in the other.

mostly it's interesting because you figure dude would be into wasting more money to make a whole new shot

michael bay, america's thriftiest filmmaker

enh, isn't this 'tic' just a product of digital editing? it's so easy to bank footage now

this is not a new thing at all

filmmmakers have been doing this since the dawn of movies

recycling sets, props, sound f/x, music cues, footage, etc.

digital editing/cgi just makes it even easier.

Kinda wondered what happened to Jolt, Mudflap and Skids?

Shockwave and his worm were kinda *shrug*

Anyway, better than ROTF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PHw80S5TQ4

what movie is that from?

missing reel of the magnificent ambersons

(actually, it's mystery men)

Basically, this trilogy has been about the folly of Optimus Prime - he's a total autocrat (haha), and is unwilling to listen to anyone else - he coulda just called a truce at any time it seems, but nah, he's just got to go and chop up his enemies with his axe and sword. Couldn't win the war, and couldn't win the peace. Oh, and the space bridge - Galactus moment...just get around a table with Sentinel and Megatron, work it out - you can transport yourselves to all sorts of uninhabited worlds and plunder resources - 6 billion puny humans would make for rubbish slaves anyhow. Nothing noble about Optimus :(

I need to get a job.

Soon.

^ blames Chamberlain for WW2

(actually, it's mystery men)

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, July 5, 2011 12:28 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

ha, that must have happened after i walked out on that fucking movie.

this is not a new thing at all

...filmmmakers have been doing this since the dawn of movies

― skinny arbuckle (latebloomer), Sunday, July 3, 2011 4:40 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

this sounds true, but i'd like to see other obvious examples from the last 30 years of big-budget, high profile, tentpole productions. like, not in sequels or B-movies, where you'd expect it, but other instances of the straight-up reuse of non-stock footage in unrelated "blockbusters" by the same filmmaker. it's not something i've noticed before...

I need to get a job.

Not sure that's wise--if films like this is what you're spending your $$ on when you don't have a job, what hell will you unleash when you do have a disposable income ???

lol that ppl (not here) are actually incensed that a filmmaker reused footage

There's a difference between stock footage of dogfights or whatever being used in black and white war flicks, and elaborate helicopter shots of aircraft carriers in the ocean. Then again, for all I know these shots appear in all his films and are his trademarks. Hell, for all I know these three shitty movies reuse robot fight footage.

his sounds true, but i'd like to see other obvious examples from the last 30 years of big-budget, high profile, tentpole productions. like, not in sequels or B-movies, where you'd expect it, but other instances of the straight-up reuse of non-stock footage in unrelated "blockbusters" by the same filmmaker. it's not something i've noticed before...

― Looking for that #Swagu? (contenderizer), Tuesday, July 5, 2011 9:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

It is pretty rare to see such blatant re-use of footage in a recent high-profile blockbuster. But I still don't think any of us would have noticed it in this case if it wasn't for that youtube comparison clip! So it probably goes on more frequently than you'd think.

i was literally laughing at this movie!

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One minor example of footage re-use from the last decade that I personally noticed was that Gary Sinise sci-fi movie Impostor (I might have been the only person in America who saw that movie in the theater...and it was for free because I worked there). There's this scene in the beginning that's supposed to be news footage of the aftermath of an alien attack, but it's blatantly taken from Starship Troopers. There's also allegedly footage re-used from Gattaca in that movie too!

The Star Trek movies re-used lots of footage as well. The opening shot of the Klingon ship in Star Trek: The Motion Picture was re-used as part of the Kobayashi Maru test in Wrath of Khan. And the Klingon Bird of Prey from ST VI is reused a bunch in Generations, including the key shot of it exploding.

http://www.theonion.com/video/nation-somehow-failed-to-predict-attack-by-michael,20888/

sort of slightly not related at all - in Revenge of the Fallen the dozy suit guy who gets thrown out of the plane by the tough hero marines pretty much steals a jokey line from Point Break.

okay he doesn't get thrown out, just accidentally opens his chute.

highest domestic grossing movie of the year

Yuck, this means even more of these.

I liked Conan's tweet this weekend about trying to decide between seeing Horrible Bosses, Bad Teacher, or Crappy Transformers.

Was just looking at the ironhide toy on amazon and part if his description was all about how he 'loves a fight, very agressive' etc. And I just thought, well I never got any of that from watching the films.

these films need to be less about the boring humans and more about the robot characters, yeah i know it's been said lots of times but its just so true.

dude... dude

no

i guess you lose even by clicking on a thread about transformers, but: thinking about the robots' characters. come on.

rong.

this is an important issue.

i don't see many movies, but i loved this. bye

Make a new trilogy, all on cybertron. No room for humans.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tnSNJd8cLuQ/SdlSOTxTO2I/AAAAAAAAAis/aY1GhQWokbY/s400/No+Room+for+Humans.JPG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv6fVuvcHis

I wanna go see this

You seeking permission or absolution

http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/kevin-b-lees-transformers-the-premake

http://io9.com/transformers-age-of-extinction-the-spoiler-faq-1598579492

blimey this movie is pretty dreadful

And now some new insanity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79oxuuvx1JE

michael bay has devoted more than a decade of his life and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on untold hundreds of thousands of hours of manpower to produce no less than five transformers movies

i feel like this is bordering on mental illness on his part tbh

I'm disappointed they didn't just soundtrack that whole thing to INXS

“He was telling me about the work he did on [the Transformers bots] – how he would refine them and go into the special effects guys and design them and get all the details of light on metal and all that. He told me all that at breakfast before I started on the film. I thought ‘This guy’s a genius. He really is.’ He’s the same ilk as Oliver Stone and Spielberg and Scorsese. Brilliance. Savants, really, they are. He’s a savant,” Hopkins said.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/anthony-hopkins-calls-michael-bay-a-genius-and-savant-1794139158

i feel like this is bordering on mental illness on anthony hopkins' part tbh