Teaser trailer online?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:26 pm

Transformers versus Predator. Their War. Our World.

I like it.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:37 pm

Brendocon wrote:It won't be Miller's Crossing. It won't be the hard-edged gritty sci-fi epic we all have in our mind as what TF *is* - it's a Michael Bay movie.

So, I've decided not to complain.

My views exactly.

Though less with the Michael Bay as I don't really follow the dude's work- probably familiar, but eh.

It's gonna be a fun shoot-em-up. S'all I expect, and I get a bit annoyed when people whine and cringe as they expect somethng more out of it than that... I hardly expect someone to make much more of it than a "popcorn movie" out of it. If it turns out differently, well, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Regardless, I intend to enjoy it for what it will be- the first TF movie in what, a decade? A decent action flick? [And maybe I'll have a bit of fun picking it apart after

]

... I think they were tring to achieve some sort of gritty "real" feel to the trailer... why they think a rover would be waving the camera about, I don't know.

Bloo skies! bloo skies!

To their credit, the sky appeared slightly tinted to me. I took the trailer's vagueness as simply not wanting to give too much of the transformer "look"/the plot away while satisfying those who would want a look.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:37 pm

Rebis wrote:Transformers versus Predator. Their War. Our World.

I like it.

We have a wiener!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:48 pm

All we need do is introduce Will Smith, and it would be I, Robots in Disguise.

Nyuck.

I'll get Legion's coat.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:16 pm

Brendocon wrote:All we need do is introduce Will Smith, and it would be I, Robots in Disguise.

Leaked dialogue from that would-be movie:

WS: Hey you! Yeah, you! The 30ft walking toaster! I'm talking to you! Get your big-ass metal butt outta my backyard or I'll...

Robot transforms into some gigantic metal death-dealing monstrosity.

Robot: Or you'll what?

WS: or I'll... or I'll... or I'll haveta start handing out guides to the sunniest spots in my backyard. That's what! (quietly to self) Damnit!

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:22 pm

Rebis wrote:
Brendocon wrote:All we need do is introduce Will Smith, and it would be I, Robots in Disguise.
Leaked dialogue from that would-be movie:

WS: Hey you! Yeah, you! The 30ft walking toaster! I'm talking to you! Get your big-ass metal butt outta my backyard or I'll...

Robot transforms into some gigantic metal death-dealing monstrosity.

Robot: Or you'll what?

WS: or I'll... or I'll... or I'll haveta start handing out guides to the sunniest spots in my backyard. That's what! (quietly to self) Damnit!

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Phily 911 · Post by **Phily 911** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 12:55 am

Does anyone agree that this is better than nothing?

I feel should be a difficult movie to make. There are 2 different crowds to please with this.
1. People like us with back ground on Transformers.
2. People who don't know anything about it.

What if they make a really good movie with no coralation with the past of the Transformers? Then were gonna be upset.

What if they make a movie that hits on every corner of the Transformers rich history? Then the other people won't have a clue what's going on.

Regardless, it's still better than nothing. IMO

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:08 pm

potential is sometimes best left untapped i would say.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:16 pm

Karl Lynch wrote:I'm expecting it to be a film in the exact same vein as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Van Helsing. Probably some no-brainer plot, most of the 'excitement' being derived from the novelty factor of big transforming robots shooting stuff and... transforming. wow.

Yeah, but at least there was some measure of character developement in those movies, even for the non-human characters (like the werewolf brother in Van Helsing). But what I fear most from 'Transformers - a Michael Bay MOvie' is that TF's will just... be there. And the real stars will be the human actors, which is exactly what we don't want. After all, who liked Spike? Not even cartoon fans....

The more spoilers I see, the more sure I am that those 'fake scripts' were true, and this movie will really be about the story of a boy and his transforming car, as Bay said...

With a heavy dose of 'subtle' hints at the old continuities... and by subtle I mean pointless one-liners and set-pieces that are about as well interwoven with the story as a rhinoceros horn up the backside.

We'll be lucky if we even see some hints to previous stuff... at all.

Frankly, I'm hoping more for a TF Classics Cartoon directed/edited by Furman. If we'd get that, the movie can suck for all I care...

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:28 pm

I had a big drunk rant about this over at Murphy's forum, but I'm not sure what reply I got, if anything. Probably nothing constructive.

Why does every human voice on that trailer have an American accent?

Beagle 2 was an ESA launch and it took off from Kazakhstan. No-one sounds even remotely European.

Maybe they used stock dialogue. Maybe they used recorded dialogue but no-one could do a European accent. Maybe they thought their target audience would be confused by a European accent that didn't belong to a villain. Perhaps they didn't like the idea of a non-US space launch, or thought that too would confuse potato-farmers in Iowa. It's entirely possible that it was completely overlooked, or that the trailer production team erroneously believed that Beagle 2 was a NASA mission or something. You'd think someone would have pointed it out before now, though.

It just seems really strange to fixate on a real-world object like Beagle 2 and then represent that same object in completely the wrong way. It's not like Beagle 2 was a success or anything, but my friend worked on some of it, and he didn't mention anything about them flying in an American team to supervise the launch. Why didn't Murphy, Bay, or whoever use the Mars Climate Orbiter that went hopelessly wide because they mixed up their pounds and their Newtons? Because they didn't want to show NASA in a bad light? In which case, why dub the B2 launch with American voices, because then it looks like NASA ****ed up both probes.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:16 am

You know what would have made that trailer? Voice over by Cullen. I know those lines in the trailer were read in his voice by most of you.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:36 pm

Professor Smooth wrote:You know what would have made that trailer? Voice over by Cullen. I know those lines in the trailer were read in his voice by most of you.

Actually, I 'heard' Patrick Stewart in full-on Captain Picard storyteller voice.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:23 pm

"These are the voyages of the Beagle 2. Her mission: to boldly go where... Great Captain Kirk! A robot!" CRASH !

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:05 am

Then nothing of Mars matters a bit?:

http://www.michaelbay.com/blog/files/df ... 30-26.html

They made a teaser of another thing