New “Revenge of the Fallen” Trailer
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
The new Transformers trailer is totally worth giving a watch. Catch it after the break. I recommend you watch the HD version. This is really the first glimpse we get at the plot of the movie.
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I can’t help it… I laughed my butt off at all those gratuitous shots of Meghan Fox on a motorcycle.
Yeah It’s a little much. I saw it in the theater today and actually most of the people there laughed at it too.
Well the two movies will fit together when it comes to shots of Megan Fox’s body. People say Bay isn’t artistic *scoff* at least he’s mixing it up a little, (I assume for the sake of artistic cred) after all he did move the camera from her navel to her butt.
Other than John Turturro this looks like exactly what I wanted out of this movie.
I agree, but I was also annoyed to see Josh Duhamel’s name on it. The Decepticons that I know and love don’t get defeated by marines, I was hoping they would drop that in the second movie.
They should have recruited him to the GI Joe movie, instead. Seems like he would be more at home there.
Really, what I want from this movie is more scenes between the transformers. But having the same number of humans and adding extra Transformers isn’t really leading me to believe that’s going to happen.
Also, I was ever so slightly annoyed that they revealed Megatron was still alive in this trailer. Granted, I had assumed he would make a return, but since they was saying that it wasn’t true, I was hoping they would A> Keep it a secret until you watch the movie, and/or B> Make him a lesser role.
Also, some other random thoughts from a huge Transformers fan.
I continue to be annoyed that Optimus hardly ever has his face mask on. He looks like a younger “person” without it on, rather than the wise old leader that he is supposed to be.
The story is, that Megatron gets “reborn” out of spare parts, which changes his looks and form. But the writers/director/whoever didn’t want him to become Galvatron, because they thought the name change would confuse the viewers. Apparently, the 5 second “Megatron is dead, long live Galvatron” bit from the original movie couldn’t be worked in to fix that problem.
Soundwave is voiced by Frank Welker. Who voiced (among many others) the original Soundwave as well as the original Megatron. The rumor is that Welker was originally tried out for the voice of Megatron, but they felt that he sounded too old for that role, so it went to Hugo Weaving instead (who sounds pretty much perfect, BTW).
There was a strong push for Leonard Nimoy to voice “The Fallen”. And Nimoy REALLY wants/wanted to do it. IMDB lists no voice for The Fallen, and there hasn’t been a confirmation one way or the other. Nimoy is related to Michael Bay. However, who knows if it will come through. Nimoy was also the voice of Galvatron in the 80’s movie.
I’m really stoked about the idea of Devastator being in the movie, especially since he will actually be made from 6-7 (There is some debate on this) different transformers. That will be awesome, even if we only get to see it once. As long as it’s done right. I wish they would look just like the cartoon version, but I haven’t seen many green construction vehicles lately, so I’m sure they will find a maker of construction vehicles (Yellow, I’m sure) to sponsor the figure. Sad, but still cool.
There is a lot of talk about the third movie. Both the Dinobots and the Triple changers (Three different forms) are being discussed/rumored. Orci doesn’t think Dinobots make much sense. I say, have the stupid meteor thingies land in a Museum. Problem solved. It didn’t seem to be a problem to make a transforming Xbox 360. He also brings up the point of why robots would choose to “hide” as Dinosaurs. Simple solution. Make them decepticons to begin with. They are mentally unstable to begin with, so if they are decepticons, they aren’t going to care about hiding. They are going to want forms that do the most damage.
Also, apparently Michael Bay isn’t happy with the fact that TF3 was given a release date of 2011. He wanted a year off, so that means 2012. But then again, when is Michael Bay ever happy? That guy whines more than any mediocre director I have ever seen. Sub-par director with a superstar ego.
I wouldn’t call Michael Bay a subpar director across the board though. His visual chops are very good. How else would there be a Michael Bay style that you can tell that he directed a movie just by looking at it?
If I were making an action movie and the budget didn’t matter matter (and I could get him to do it), I would love to have Bay as a second unit director to shoot all the action stuff. He has a knack for capturing cool action on screen….especially is you want it in slow motion.
When it comes to story and characters that aren’t macho tough guys, Bay has quite a bit of trouble. I think if he’s not blowing something up, Michael Bay gets bored rather quickly.
Well crap. I really needed to proofread that better…
We used to joke around in film school about the pretentious film kids and how they wanted to be an “auteur” or some such nonsense. I had a buddy that used to say, “screw it. I want to blow sh*t up, use helicopter shots whenever I can and just blow threw money making movies. Don’t care if that makes me a sell out. Dammit, give me a helicopter.”
I can’t hate Michael Bay. The Rock and Armageddon are just so delightfully fun and without pretension. They are just so silly and beyond plausibility that you can’t help but have fun. Some times you just need a movie where sh*t blows up and very good looking people make out and that’s what he gives us. Like my roommate’s boyfriend was joking around when we were watching Transformers last time, “sh*t’s blowing up, brain turns off, no time for logic.”
And, at the end of the day you can tell a Michael Bay movie apart from another director’s. In my opinion that’s what elevates a schlock by-the-books Hollywood director from any other. It’s like with Ed Wood- TERRIBLE movies, but terrible in a way that you can tell them apart from another director. There’s something to that.
The only movie that Michael Bay truly screwed up was Pearl Harbor. The subject was just too serious for a guy like him. I like to say that if you could cut the war footage of Pearl Harbor together with the amazing story and direction of From Here to Eternity than that might be the perfect movie. (The story and acting and non-war stuff is timeless and amazing… but the actual Pearl Harbor sequence is a direct result of the times in From Here to Eternity.)
See, I keep hearing the “sometimes you just want a movie where shit blows up good” arugument, but then you get movies like Iron Man and Casiono Royale. Action-packed movies that choose not to be dumb. Then we have Wolverine, which has plenty of explosions, but also really, really sucked. It was dumb, and it sucked. (I had fun with Transformers btw, but the idea that a movie about fighting robots should only so good bothers me…)
I actually don’t hate Michael Bay. But, when I consider directors, I only consider the ones that are relevant to me. I know there are a lot of sucky directors out there that would raise Michael Bay to Average or above average. However, as I said, I only pay attention to relevant directors to me. So in that regard, I do actually consider him below average. I think you have to have the whole package to be above average, and I think you need to hammer down at least a few issues in order to be average.
But I can buy the argument either way. I would be disappointed if he left Transformers. But with the ego he has, I would get over it quickly. Still, the movie could be /A LOT/ worse. A giant robot movie is not easy to pull off and make believable.
All the action looked great, the “comedy” however was awful.
wait……..there was comedy?
I don’t think it was intentional. :P
Oy. I can already hear the rest of the audience in the theater guffawing at it all whilst I sit there going, “but it’s not that funny…” like I did in Wolverine.
WAIT……..wolverine had COMEDY?!?!?!?!?!?
Wolverine was the funniest film of the year. “DECAPITATE”
I think it’ll be a fantastic drinking movie, but sober I just rolled my eyes for about 2/3 of it. The fact I didnt want to see it and I was dragged there probly didn’t help.
Bumblebee dancing to “I’m So Excited,” I guess technically counts and “humor.” Wait, didn’t Bumblebee get back his voice at the end of the frst one?
I was wondering about that
Yeah he did. But I guess that’s still a personality trait that he has, since he did it for so long. Reminds me of the Junkions from the original cartoon. They became absolutely enamored with Earth culture from TV and Radio.
I’m sure John Turturro is supposed to be the main source of humor. I do actually find some of what he does funny. It’s just that he’s way over the top with everything. They need to take him down about 16 levels.
I added a video from IGN. This is a new series they’ve been doing called IGN Rewind, where they take a video and break it down into crazy amounts of detail. So if you are interested in getting good looks at all of the robots, and determining who they are, this is a good video to watch. Probably want to view the High Quality version.
I watched the Transformers cartoon version during my childhood days. It is nice to know that good computer graphics brought the Transformers back again. I wish to see more of the Dinobots in action perhaps on another sequel.