Saw the trailer an hour ago, looks sick!

Sure k.

:lol:

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If I know Bay's regimen, filming starts in two hours. Also, the new show Transformers: Prime returns Peter Cullen to TV as Optimus Prime. TF movie writers, Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci will act as showrunners, which leads me to believe this show will a) be awesome and b) canon. But an interesting tidbit is the shows Hasbro is launching around the TF CGI 'toon, which includes a My Little Pony reboot, a new GI Joe cartoon, a revived Fraggle Rock show, and Pound Puppies. For some of us this almost recreates an old Saturday morning block on the head. Hasbro's new kid's channel is even still cruising for some shows, so until it can produce new content it will air oldschool TF and GI Joe cartoons in what is sounding like the greatest channel ever.

Did You Know?:

They can't show TF toy commercials during a TF cartoon programming. This is a government regulation (one I'm sure I seen broken several times over... must be new).

Great to be a geek these days.

After seeing a bit of Cybertron in the first movie I was hoping a good part the third would take place there rather than Earth oh well I second the notion for Dinobots.

They did that in part 2. People didn't like it.

Despite rather straight forward evidence, Megan Fox will not be returning in TF3.

Okay.

Given their emphasis on the human element again, you'd think that would call for some major script rewrites.

They're hard at work adjusting the script for a new female lead, ad they're getting into casting ASAP.

There's a script?

Yes. Had one ready for a while.

nevermind

"Prince of Persia" star Gemma Arterton is the front-runner to replace Megan Fox in "Transformers 3," TheWrap has learned.

And why did she get fired from TF3?

Never call Bay Hitler...even if he really is.

Didn't get fired. Was her decision. No reason why, as of yet.

No...she was fired. Hardkore. Reason...being a total and compleat bitch and calling Bay Hitler.

Wonder who they'll get to play Shia's love interest now.

She is hot as hell, but boy is she a shyt actress.

Gemma Arterton? I mean, she's hot, and I liked her in the last Bond film and all, but to replace a woman who oozes sex, THIS is the front running choice?

http://www.pickmeupnews.com/wp-conte...ton-bikini.jpg

Maybe they want an actress.

Oh I get that she can't fucking act to save her life, but the role hardly called for it either. Her inability to act was no hindrance. Her being all hot was one of the best things about that first movie.

Disagree but yeah.

Frank Welker is also in Transformers: Prime, hopefully as Megatron but his part wasn't revealed. Fucking awesome - though all this G1 fanservice will mean nothing to whiny bitches who'll hate the show because it isn't exactly G1, and they're too lazy/overly entitled to merely watch the old show on DVD.

If they were looking for an actress they wouldn't be looking at other supermodels. They don't give a fuck about acting. It's about robot fights and product placement

There's really more story to the movies than the usual (and 'safe') criticism aimed at the series. It's getting old.

Yea I'm playing it safe

Just caught this news tidbit and I figured I'd post it here. Good to see they're looking at skilled actresses for the part. And here I was playing it safe, thinking they were casting a body...

o_O

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
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Sarah Wright
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Brooklyn Decker
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Yeah, some real Ocar-winning actresses there :shifty:

For an Oscar winning movie series?

Of those 3 it really needs to be Brooklyn Decker.

BDC, come off it dude. We get it, TF movie franchises don't do it for ya. OKAY! I enjoyed both movies, and I watch them on my HTC HD2 quite often! For Fucks Fucking Sake, let these guys make the great blockbuster movie that they're destined to make.

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Jaws, The Dark Knight, and to a lesser extent movies like Iron Man are great blockbusters.


I don't know where this whole notion of a movie being a blockbuster meaning it doesn't have to be very good came from. It seems like lowered expectations, or flat out brainwashing. I can't count the times I hear the term "mindless fun" thrown around. True, it doesn't have to be profound, but it also doesn't mean it can't be a respectable film.
I think it's a bit of a lame excuse.

With that being said, I enjoyed the first. It was a fun movie, while not abandoning some semblance of focus on character and coherent story.

The biggest problem I had with the second movie wasn't even how bad it was, it was the reason why it was so bad. Let me explain.

The plot is all over the place. It takes dozens of turns, and it's written and directed so poorly that the narrative descends into a downward spiral of incoherence and nonsense. It's all over the place. On top of that there is so much crap going on, that it becomes an assault on the senses and none of it means anything.
But that's not even what's most troubling. If it were a case of them genuinely trying to tell a certain story they set out to tell, and getting lost along the way and running into those problems, I'd at least respect the effort. It'd be an artistic failure.
It's not though. It was written that way to work in as many different robot characters and action setpeices as possible. I don't know how anyone could even attempt to argue against that. The movie is a fucking mess because of poor priorities.

We get it...Bay raped your childhood. FUCK THE SHUT UP!

Shia must be loving all this news of who he gets to lock lips with in this movie

I'm sure he's looking forward to taking a break from pounding pussy to film fake kissing scenes in front of a green screen

He's rich. They're cool with it.

wtf just learned Megan Fox won't be in this

Yeah, but those aren't the rule. I see what you're saying, but it's usually several seasons between blockbuster franchises. Even if you're lucky enough to get a string of them (Star Wars, Raiders, most likely Batman), they're not the norm and it's likely to be a while before the next quality blockbuster comes out.

But, I mean, honestly, I got what I wanted out of Transformers. I understand Becker's gripe, and it's his right to bitch if he wants, but this was a movie where I expected "blockbuster" in a more pejorative sense, and still lined up to see it opening weekend. Transformers was rarely a deep franchise, and while this was probably a shallower experience than even the cartoon and such, it was still a fun experience. Mindless fun should never be an excuse to call a bad movie good, but it can certainly justify an enjoyable experience.

That being said, I dislike the idea of people with little or no love for a franchise being put in charge of it and then starts dicking around. Transformers is kind of a fringe example, but it is an example.

Still, I'm not watching Transformers for elaborate stories. I'm watching it to see giant robots wreck shit. One can enjoy movies that are mindless fun and still enjoy good plots and characterisation elsewhere.

Hey, I'm not the one bitching about Michael Bay raping my childhood. :p

this.

nice post. i actually thought the first half of the first movie was watchable. then, a lot of what i like to (possibly mistakenly) call plotholes start to set in. plain stupidity is probably more accurate. for one thing, i remember thinking that the girl - she would have been dead. running underfoot of giant, killer robots like she's some fuckin' wide reciever. and then another particularly assinine scene that comes to mind was where the boy - the lead character - he was all disappointed and shit with the girl possibly having some sort of small-time criminal record - acting like he's not sure if he wansta fuck her now. i mean c'mon :nono:

P.S.

the Dark Knight was terrible.

Thank fucking god the twins are out.

Dunno how I feel about shockwave. Not a particularly bad choice, but I was really hoping for Unicron.

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Took 'em three fucking movies but Prime finally gets...the Trailer.

Carly was a G1 character.

Also:

tfw2005

Michael Bay was sitting in first class on my flight from Chicago to LA on Sunday.

Special Effects 3

US Army: Hey we got this thing called the "all spark" which the bad guys are going nuts over lets take take it in to the city so people will die and it will look cool.

Meet the new Autobot, Rollbar:

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And apparently a new NESTs soldier.

FUCK

I quit.

We better get a Roller sighting if there's a trailer now.

Traditionally.

Teaser included with Narnia and Tron.

Bay says to watch T3 in 3D, as it was completely filmed in 3D, and he's very proud of how it turned out.

Looks like my first modern 3D film for me.

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Yeah...pretty sure that's the Autobot ship Bumblebee was in.

Might be awesome.

Maybe it was the Arc? Mysteries ahead.

So, is the old robot Alpha Trion or Vector Prime?

That's the vibe I got as well. Not sure.

Kinda get the vibe its Vector.

Know any others?

So inside of his eyeball are the title and release date of Transformers 3? Thats ..... neat.... ..... ... ... ....... .... titties.

Ummmm could always just be a generic thing for the trailer.

I was thinking the Arc but it crashed on earth. This gotta be something else not mentioned in the lore.

Me thinks Vector Prime, but I don't recall him leaving Cybertron.

I thought the only prime announced was sentinel prime.

No that keen on the title but the tone of this movie looks to be a lot different and could end up very well being the best one of them yet even though I actually liked the 2nd one didn't like it nearly as much as the first.

Seen Megatron's new form (toy version). He's certainly got a desperate evil going on. I like the allusions to Optimus now, better sells that they're brothers here.

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Woooooooooooooooo

Damn it, want to see shockwave.

Great that Lazerbeak got in. Prime finds a way to 'Jetfire boost' again. Have no idea what the tentacles come from.

Everything looks incredible.

The trailer looks cool. I'm not a Transformers fan but the movies were entertaining, more so the sequel than the first but I'll watch it on DVD or something whenever this is out.

lol really?

Yeah, I only saw each of them once but the second one was more entertaining than the first. The battles were just cooler.

On the carpet, Bay also briefly touched on two new alien bots set to debut in "Dark of the Moon." "Sentinel Prime is great. He's great," he said. "I can't tell you anything else, other than he's great."

And about the villain Shockwave, Bay say, "He's bad," adding that compared to Megatron, "He's got a much bigger gun [and is] a little bit more vicious."

Though Bay is certain he's got a winner on his hands, the director maintained that "Dark of the Moon" will be his final "Transformers" film. "It does have an end, yes," he said. "Because I am finished doing this."

Since I'm not a fan so I never followed Transformers as a kid but I always thought that Megatron was like *the main man* as far as villains go.

Interesting.

Thank goodness - I still hate this version. During hand-to-hand fight scenes you can't tell which bot is winning because they all look alike except the faces.

I can tell them apart. Easy as pie.

Secret's out... SENTINEL PRIME:



And LORD MEGATRON:



Of course the toys are less detailed renditions of their movie forms but they're usually accurate. Megatron hides evidence from Optimus Prime's face mutilation addiction and Sentinel Prime looks awesome!

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