Transformers 2

[Dukefrukem]

Jazz Confirmed to be in the sequel

that's all i got...

http://latinoreview.com/news/jazz-back-for-transformers-sequel-plus-new-set-pics-4746

there's also some shots on set of shooting in a Chinese city...

[megladon8]

Designs have been leaked for a new female transformer...

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/255/07fi4.jpg

[Ezee E]

Designs have been leaked for a new female transformer...

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/255/07fi4.jpg
Hot.

[megladon8]

I love how even a female transformer has to embody Hollywood's worship of being skinny.

How much you want to bet it'll be voiced by someone like Angelina Jolie, and there'll be several moments that leave 13 year old boys going "oh my god, I want to have sex with that robot!!"

[number8]

Why the fuck would they make a fat Transformers? That's just dumb engineering.

[Raiders]

Nothing says dangerous and threatening like a potbelly and some saggy mechanical boobs.

[Sycophant]

The last franchise I would turn to for "progressive" thinking in standards of female beauty would be Bay's Transformers.

But then I kind of like slender women, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

[Skitch]

I love how even a female transformer has to embody Hollywood's worship of being skinny.

How much you want to bet it'll be voiced by someone like Angelina Jolie, and there'll be several moments that leave 13 year old boys going "oh my god, I want to have sex with that robot!!"


I don't even need the voice...I'd hit it like the champ.

[megladon8]

So...there's only two levels two a female figure? Twig-skinny, or fat?

[Sycophant]

So...there's only two levels two a female figure? Twig-skinny, or fat?Duh.

[Raiders]

So...there's only two levels two a female figure? Twig-skinny, or fat?

Dude, it's a fighting robot. Built for speed and agility. Why are we actually having this ridiculous argument?

[megladon8]

Dude, it's a fighting robot. Built for speed and agility. Why are we actually having this ridiculous argument?


I was actually going to say the same thing. I didn't intend a discussion based on this.

I just thought it was funny that all the male robots are bulky and look like they could take / give a beating...and she looks like I could break her over my knee.

[number8]

I just thought it was funny that all the male robots are bulky and look like they could take / give a beating...and she looks like I could break her over my knee.

Well, exactly. Superhero physiques work the same way. It's a fast distinction to separate male and female. I don't see anything objectionable about it.

[[ETM]]

Um... she's a motorcycle? Like... much smaller than a tank, or a truck, or a car. Remember how the annoying boom-box Decepticon was spider thin because he needed to fold into that tiny form?:confused:

[Ezee E]

Saved for "Only on Match Cut"

[Grouchy]

I was actually going to say the same thing. I didn't intend a discussion based on this.

I just thought it was funny that all the male robots are bulky and look like they could take / give a beating...and she looks like I could break her over my knee.
But, similarly, superheroines like Wonder Woman or Power Girl, who are supposed to be incredibly strong, are often drawn with slender supermodel features and not the excessive muscle male supers get.

This is the same, only Transformerized.

EDIT: number8 beat me to it.

[Watashi]

I want to have sex with that robot.

[Winston*]

Will this one have the Dinobots with the amazing power to disguise themselves as giant robotic dinosaurs?

[Ivan Drago]

Just...stop.

[Sycophant]

Just...stop.
I'll have you know that if I didn't have anything better to do with the next hour, I would have Photoshopped that sexy lady robot into a very compromising position in reaction to this.

So I'll just let you imagine it.

[Raiders]

I'll have you know that if I didn't have anything better to do with the next hour, I would have Photoshopped that sexy lady robot into a very compromising position in reaction to this.

So I'll just let you imagine it.

Uh huh. Who are you kidding? Porn will still be there tomorrow. It's not more important.

[Skitch]

I'll have you know that if I didn't have anything better to do with the next hour, I would have Photoshopped that sexy lady robot into a very compromising position in reaction to this.

So I'll just let you imagine it.

PM?

[Dukefrukem]

I want to have sex with that robot.

I LOLed

[[ETM]]

I want to have sex with that robot.

You're up to photo-realistic 3D animation now?:pritch:

[KK2.0]

I was about to make a comment about the film... but the sexy robot discussion is far more entertaining.

I'll give you a topic: "Megan Fox and Bike transformer in a cat fight!"

Talk Amongst Yourselves.

[Dukefrukem]

Official name is "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"

spoiler photo on location

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/tf2set2-21.jpg

[MadMan]

I was about to make a comment about the film... but the sexy robot discussion is far more entertaining.

I'll give you a topic: "Megan Fox and Bike transformer in a cat fight!"

Talk Amongst Yourselves.And of course it has to take place in jello or mud. With Fox wearing the tighest tang top you could possibly imagine.

[Dukefrukem]

Transformers: ROTF "Megatron" Vechicle Mode Pics (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-rotf-megatron-vechicle-mode-pics/13965/)

[The Mike]

I was about to make a comment about the film... but the sexy robot discussion is far more entertaining.

I'll give you a topic: "Megan Fox and Bike transformer in a cat fight!"

Talk Amongst Yourselves.
That's ridiculous, because you KNOW that it's gonna be Megan Fox riding the female motorcycle bot.....A little girl on girl action!

And yet, no one called it homoerotic when Shia spent the entire movie inside Bumblebee....

[megladon8]

I thought some of these were cute.

Six fan-made "Rejected Transformers" (http://www.cinematical.com/photos/rejected-transformers/1111034/)

Here are two of them...

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/5154/trans1sx9.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6333/trans4xt2.jpg

[Ivan Drago]

The one thing those are missing are Pepsi and Audi logos.

[SirNewt]

I feel uncontrolled malice toward this film.

[megladon8]

I know no one cares, but here's the poster...

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/6608/transformers2postergs9.jpg

[Amnesiac]

Sinister.

[EyesWideOpen]

Transformers was the worst film i've seen in the last 5 years. It would take a lot for me to watch the sequel.

[The Mike]

I care with every fragment of my being, if that helps. :cool:

[Skitch]

I violently love Transformers. The one guy there opening night will be me. ;)

[Scar]

I'm game.

[Dukefrukem]

first trailer will be aired during the super bowl

[Morris Schæffer]

I'm sorta curious to see the trailer or teaser. I enjoyed the first one enough. It had something new to offer in the realm of blockbusters and ILM really went to town on the FX.

[Skitch]

Transformers was the worst film i've seen in the last 5 years.

*sigh*

Really? I mean, c'mon.

[Dukefrukem]

*sigh*

Really? I mean, c'mon.

Unless he hasn't seen Wanted.

[megladon8]

*sigh*

Really? I mean, c'mon.


I kind of thought the same thing when I read that.

Transformers was a bad, bad movie for sure...but worst I've seen in years? Not even close.

[Lasse]

I really really didn't like Transformers. But I'll still watch the sequel in the cinema.

I'm really what's wrong with movie-goers. :lol:

[number8]

I'm on this like a naked man on a bear rug.

[Ivan Drago]

I'm on this like a naked man on a bear rug.

As am I. The first one was awesome.

[number8]

As am I. The first one was awesome.

A lot of people want Michael Bay to stop making movies. I want him to make Transformers sequels until he dies.

[The Mike]

A lot of people want Michael Bay to stop making movies. I want him to make Transformers sequels until he dies.
Truer words have never been spoken.

In fact, I'd say there are two kinds of filmgoers - Those who love Transformers, and those who don't love awesomeness*.

* = Except for the people who love awesomeness but not Transformers because they're mentally defective.

[Sxottlan]

Truer words have never been spoken.

In fact, I'd say there are two kinds of filmgoers - Those who love Transformers, and those who don't love awesomeness*.

But there is no charge for awesomeness.

Or attractiveness.

[Skitch]

Unless he hasn't seen Wanted.


Another film I quite enjoyed. Would I defend either of them? Nah. But I could easily come up with a hundred films inarguably worse than Wanted or Transformers released in the last five years.

:)

[EvilShoe]

Even though people are attacking the movie (rightfully so, it was terrible), they seem to forget how awful the cartoon was. I've rewatched a chunk of it (nostalghia) and it's really really badly done. Even for a kid show.

[megladon8]

Even though people are attacking the movie (rightfully so, it was terrible), they seem to forget how awful the cartoon was. I've rewatched a chunk of it (nostalghia) and it's really really badly done. Even for a kid show.


I assume you're talking about the original original original cartoon from the '80s?

I was always more of a "Beast Wars" fan...that one still holds up pretty well, actually.

[EvilShoe]

I assume you're talking about the original original original cartoon from the '80s?

I was always more of a "Beast Wars" fan...that one still holds up pretty well, actually.
Yes, the one that started it all.

I recently saw an episode of Beast Wars again, and that rather held up. (Even though the CGI is pretty unimpressive nowadays.)

[Amnesiac]

http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forum/image.php?u=2&dateline=1188591177

Okay it's time to turn up the heat on Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen. We've waited low in the weeds letting all the summer movies get their stuff out. We've seen the great year end movies, and watched the upcoming clips of the upcoming summer fare. We've seen certain movies coming out even try to duplicate Transformer size robots in their ads. Please, come on.

Well, I promise you we will rock your world with Transformers 2. The fans wanted ROBOTS KICKING ASS - well we got it. Today we are releasing the teaser poster and soon the onslaught will continue with a steady drum beat until June 26th.

I'll keep you informed.

Bay

Source (http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3323).

I don't really have any interest in this film but I came across this on Cinematical and I couldn't help but find it kind of amusing. Especially coupled with that triumphant avatar. He either has a sense of humor about himself, or he's realized the persona/reputation he's created and he's decided to wholeheartedly embrace it, or he's just a naturally unabashed eager entertainer. Maybe all three.

[number8]

That's Bay. I think he came to terms with the fact that critics hate him, but the masses love him, so why fight it? He likes explosions--after all, he puts so many in his movies--so why not just come out and say that explosions are awesome?

He talks that way all the time on his message board. Maybe there's something to admire from that.

[EyesWideOpen]

Unless he hasn't seen Wanted.

I have seen Wanted and while not good it didn't hit Transformers levels of horribleness.

I'm being completely serious about worst movie i've seen in the last 5 years. I've went through my list of films from 2003-2008 and i haven't hated a film as much as Transformers.

To clarify i have no loyalty to the Transformers franchise (i watched maybe an episode or two as a kid) and don't feel anything about Michael Bay.

[EyesWideOpen]

Another film I quite enjoyed. Would I defend either of them? Nah. But I could easily come up with a hundred films inarguably worse than Wanted or Transformers released in the last five years.

:)

I also said films i've seen in the last five years, not films that came out in the last five years. I'm sure their are 100 films in the last 5 years that are worse but i haven't seen them.

[Skitch]

I also said films i've seen in the last five years, not films that came out in the last five years. I'm sure their are 100 films in the last 5 years that are worse but i haven't seen them.

I know. My usual response your original statement would be the equally rediculous "see more movies".

[EyesWideOpen]

I know. My usual response your original statement would be the equally rediculous "see more movies".

From the little i've seen of Tyler Perry's work i'm sure all it would take is a full viewing of one of his monstrosities to knock Transformers off it's throne.

[Skitch]

From the little i've seen of Tyler Perry's work i'm sure all it would take is a full viewing of one of his monstrosities to knock Transformers off it's throne.


I just finished up Plan 9 From Outer Space this morning, and I'm incapable of watching one of his trailers in it's entirety.

[KK2.0]

of course the first film is dumb and cinematically it's a mess, these are perhaps bay's signatures :lol: but the sight of giant robots blowing stuff up, it just clouds your mind with the awesomeness.

i only hope you can actually SEE the damn things better in the sequel, please don't shake the fucking camera in every split-second cut.

[Watashi]

Superbowl Spot (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/31/omg-transformers-2-super-bowl-teaser-trailer/#more-19252)

I have no idea why... but I think I'm starting to rethink my opinion on the first film.

Help me.

[Ivan Drago]

Superbowl Spot (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/31/omg-transformers-2-super-bowl-teaser-trailer/#more-19252)

I have no idea why... but I think I'm starting to rethink my opinion on the first film.

Help me.

Depends. What were your first thoughts on the film?

[Ezee E]

Superbowl Spot (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/31/omg-transformers-2-super-bowl-teaser-trailer/#more-19252)

I have no idea why... but I think I'm starting to rethink my opinion on the first film.

Help me.
Watch it again.

It's not as horrible as some put it out to be, but it is pretty silly. No higher than ** 1/2.

And Bay certainly knows how to put together a promising trailer. My biggest complaint about the first movie was that it took too long for robots to fight other robots. I have a feeling he'll answer that here.

[Scar]

I'm all over this like stink on shit.

[Skitch]

Oh hell yes.

[Scar]

Oh hell yes.

Did you read that people are saying that the big azz transformer Optimus is fighting in the teaser is only one of the Constructicons?

*giddy*

[[ETM]]

i only hope you can actually SEE the damn things better in the sequel, please don't shake the fucking camera in every split-second cut.

It's not the camera, it's the designs. Even if they stood still and played chess the entire film, it would be hard to know which is which, except for the truly obvious ones.

[Dukefrukem]

Superbowl Spot (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/31/omg-transformers-2-super-bowl-teaser-trailer/#more-19252)

I have no idea why... but I think I'm starting to rethink my opinion on the first film.

Help me.

Remember, the first film had an awesome teaser to it as well.

[The Mike]

This is gonna be too awesome for an opossum. :cool:

[Morris Schæffer]

I'll see it. It looks at least non-boring.

[Sxottlan]

Given the message Optimus sends out at the end of the first film, I'd really like to see a scene in the sequel involving a new Ellis Island for Transformers.

"Your name is Garlinghedowitz? I'm going to call you Grimlock. Next!"

[megladon8]

Oh man, I so love blank articles. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_2/news/1795768/first_look_at_transformers_2s_ the_fallen_sort_of)

[Dukefrukem]

Oh man, I so love blank articles. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_2/news/1795768/first_look_at_transformers_2s_ the_fallen_sort_of)

Crappy RT bugs.

[Skitch]

Did you read that people are saying that the big azz transformer Optimus is fighting in the teaser is only one of the Constructicons?

*giddy*

I did. I heard Bay gushing about it.

:pritch:

[Dukefrukem]

I didn't watch the cartoon enough to know what a Constructicon is... so what is it?

[Skitch]

I didn't watch the cartoon enough to know what a Constructicon is... so what is it?


Its a bunch of sweet earthmover vehicles (dump trucks and such) that all transform on their own, and join together to make a humongous constructicon, like one big Voltron of awesome.

[Dukefrukem]

Its a bunch of sweet earthmover vehicles (dump trucks and such) that all transform on their own, and join together to make a humongous constructicon, like one big Voltron of awesome.

Are they bad or good?

[Skitch]

Are they bad or good?

Uh...whoa...I um...don't remember! Good?

[number8]

Uh...whoa...I um...don't remember! Good?

But Prime is fighting them in the movie.

[Wryan]

Well, at least Peter Cullen's getting work. Tho this is balanced by Megan Fox getting work.

[Scar]

The Constructions are most certainly bad.

[D_Davis]

The Constructions are most certainly bad.

For reals.

[The Mike]

How bout we use proper terminology, fools. The Constructicons are Decepticons.

Like, duh. :rolleyes:

[Skitch]

I stand corrected. I honestly don't remember.

[megladon8]

Michael Bay video interview courtesy of Collider. (http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/10866/tcid/1)

I can't stand that man.

[Scar]

Don't bother watching it in Standard Def:

http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/12063146/standardformat/

But in High Def, oh baby.

[Morris Schæffer]

Oh man, the summer season 2009 is well underway! :)

[Dukefrukem]

Don't bother watching it in Standard Def:

http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/12063146/standardformat/

But in High Def, oh baby.

If this wasn't posted in the Transformers 2 thread, I would have bet on Armageddon 2 after that first shot.

[number8]

I am so ridiculously pumped for this.

IMAX. Me. There.

[megladon8]

I know it's hoping against hope, but I really hope all the human stuff isn't so boring this time around.

The pacing of the first movie was atrocious.

[Ezee E]

That's a hell of a teaser.

[eternity]

Worst film of 2009? It's sure possible.

[The Mike]

Worst film of 2009? It's sure possible.Less possible than Best film of 2009, methinks.

[Saya]

Trailer looks really sweet in HD.

I also heard there is a grandpa robot with a beard and a cane in this movie. :)

Hmm, Devastator looks not so good:

http://i39.tinypic.com/30u9zd3.jpg

http://www.rovang.org/wg/pics/megazord.jpg

Should be more like:

http://i42.tinypic.com/nxsuh.jpg

[The Mike]

Yeah, but doing Devastator the old way would recognize the Japanese influence on the original....This is Michael Bay's fucking America, dude!

(Wow....Michael Bay's Fucking America would be a kickass movie. How did it take me this long to figure that one out? :lol:)

[Saya]

Hmm, I think the current design of the robots look more Japanese than the original ones. :)

I just found out the Fallen is actually another robot. I thought it would be revenge of Megatron or something. Did Megatron die at the end of the first movie? I can't remember.

[Scar]

Hmm, I think the current design of the robots look more Japanese than the original ones. :)

I just found out the Fallen is actually another robot. I thought it would be revenge of Megatron or something. Did Megatron die at the end of the first movie? I can't remember.

Little Human Shove Cube Into Megatron's Chest

[Skitch]

Worst film of 2009? It's sure possible.

Why would you even enter this thread?

[Sycophant]

Why would you even enter this thread?
Probably to say this:

Worst film of 2009? It's sure possible.

[Skitch]

Probably to say this:

Thanks, Captain O.

[megladon8]

I do think it's lame that...

...Megatron died in the first film. If it had been another creative team I would say "oh, I'm sure they'll figure out something clever to bring him back". But wait, no...it'll probably be something so convoluted that there's really no point in explaining at all.

Either way, I'm sure there'll be a comeback at some point.

[Morris Schæffer]

Some robo news:


After months of speculation about which giant transforming robots may or may not appear in Michael Bay’s upcoming mega-sequel, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Paramount Pictures has been kind enough to release a full list of the participating Autobots and Decepticons – and there’s a couple of surprises on there…

The Autobots are: gravelly leader Optimus Prime (like, duh!), weapons specialist Ironhide, medic Ratchet and Sam Witwicky’s bestest friend, Bumblebee, now a 2010 Chevy Camaro.

That quartet, of course, return from the first movie, but now they’re joined by reinforcements including turncoat Decepticon, and doddery old duffer, Jetfire; female Autobot Arcee (briefly glimpsed in the teaser trailer that launched a couple of months ago); Jolt, and Skids & Mudflap, two Autobots known as The Twins.

So, nine Autobots in total. Not bad, but they’ll need all the strength they can muster in the face of the overwhelming Decepticon onslaught. They are:

Returning characters Starscream (formerly second-in-command, now head honcho) and Scorponok; and new characters, Sideways, Ravage (the panther-like beastie glimpsed in the teaser trailer), Soundwave (now a satellite orbiting Earth), The Doctor, a tiny bastard that will torment Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky, Wheelie, Demolishor (the giant wheeled villain that we saw fighting Optimus in the teaser), and the seven – s-e-v-e-n – Constructicons that will form the massive Devastator. They are: Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower (wasn’t he in the Police Academy movies?), Longhaul, Rampage, Overload and, erm, Mixmaster. Jazzy Jeff wasn’t available, apparently.

Then, last but not least, there’s The Fallen – the catalyst for the movie’s plot, the Lucifer of the Transformersverse. But we knew he’d be in it – he’s the title character, for God’s sake.

But the plot thickens: Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons, is not on the list. Given that he was last seen getting killed and dumped into the ocean, that shouldn’t be a surprise. But all along, the suspicion has been that Megatron will appear in the movie, and that his exclusion from the list is misdirection on Bay’s part. After all, Hugo Weaving has confirmed that he has recorded dialogue as the voice of Megatron, so… watch this space.

Also, ILM effects guru, Scott Farrar, hinted recently that there may be as many as 60 robots in the finished movie, which is way more than Paramount have revealed thus far..

[Skitch]

WANT.

[Wryan]

Mixmaster should wear giant plastic novelty sunglasses. Would be great.

[Dukefrukem]

9 Autobots?? And of course Megatron is going to be in the movie.

[[ETM]]

Yeah, they should have melted Megatron's ass. Then again, not much else in the first film made sense either.

[Watashi]

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/bayspielberg.jpg


Steven Spielberg sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony today,” wrote Bay on his online forum. “There were 98 empty seats. The lights came up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen. He turned to me and said ‘It’s awesome’ He felt this movie was better then the first - and probably my best, who knows - at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it.”

There's a picture to blow your brain away.

[Sycophant]

Why is that picture warming my heart?

[lovejuice]

Why is that picture warming my heart?
perhaps bay's finding a father he has lost in frankenheimer.

[Grouchy]

Michael Bay is wearing a very cool jacket.

[Wryan]

I'm disturbed by the similarity of Bay's stance in that photo to Israfel the Black's Dostoevsky avatar.

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/bayspielberg.jpg http://www.match-cut.org/image.php?u=48&dateline=1228894598

[Skitch]

Damn that's a great review.

[Watashi]

Damn that's a great review.
..........

[Ezee E]

Spielberg is creepy looking there.

[megladon8]

Isn't Megatron only supposed to show up briefly? Maybe as just a little hook at the end to say "...there's going to be a third!!"

I remember a month or two ago there was some news where Hugo Weaving let it slip that he recorded dialogue for Megatron for this film, but it was only a line or two.

[Morris Schæffer]

The movie is 147 minutes long apparently.

[Skitch]

..........

Is Spielberg not to be trusted?

[[ETM]]

Is Spielberg not to be trusted?

I will answer with another question: "Is Bay quoting Spielberg to be trusted?"

[Lasse]

;153136']I will answer with another question: "Is Bay quoting Spielberg to be trusted?"

I will answer with another question: "Am I the only one who's confused now?"

:P

[MadMan]

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/bayspielberg.jpgI may actually have that put into avatar form on another site. I can't believe it actually exists.

[Amnesiac]

I can't believe it actually exists.

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mil/features/804MIL_VES08__214.jpg

[MadMan]

http://digitalcontentproducer.com/mil/features/804MIL_VES08__214.jpgMore :eek: is my response. Must be the nature of the business, I guess.

[EvilShoe]

More :eek: is my response. Must be the nature of the business, I guess.
Spielberg's executive producer of both Transformers films, so I don't see why this is surprising.

Although it is surprising to read how one of the producers states the movie is actually good. Why would he lie?

[Raiders]

Spielberg loves spectacle. Just because he wouldn't make this film this exact way if he directed it doesn't mean he wasn't awed by the gadgetry on display.

Plus, he's the producer. He loves the money it will make. What else is he going to say?

[Watashi]

Clip from the movie. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sfMlCcFqU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cinemati cal.com%2F&feature=player_embedded)

Megan Fox takes off her clothes and Bumblebee cries.

Oh yeah, and there's a transformer with a beard.

[Watashi]

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/tfshowest6.jpg

[Stay Puft]

Oh yeah, and there's a transformer with a beard.

And a cane!

That's kinda awesome.

[Lasse]

Looks like the Transformers have more personality - in a slapsticky way - than last time. I'm not sure I like that.

[[ETM]]

More slapstick, still interchangeable when in action.:crazy:

[Saya]

Cam version of the new trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZX34mhSR4

[Dukefrukem]

I love the locations this movie was shot at... but that was a real lame attempt to get Shia back in the story....

[Watashi]

Full Trailer (http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/transformers-2/trailer)

number8 just creamed his jeans.

[megladon8]

God that looks retarded.

And just me, or did that CGI at the end with the huge transformer sucking up the sand really suck? Like, Stephen Sommers suck?

[number8]

Full Trailer (http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/transformers-2/trailer)

number8 just creamed his jeans.

Twice.

That looks really good.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Man. Even though I know the film will be garbage, that trailer is still really good.

[megladon8]

Shia didn't go "n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-no", so as far as I'm concered, that wasn't a complete trailer.

[number8]

I have to say, as much as I liked the first Transformers, I wish it was shorter. I think all of Michael Bay's films would benefit from being 90 minutes.

Last night, I was invited to a special screening/costume event of the first movie which was supposed to also premiere the trailer on IMAX, and I almost went, if I didn't realize that I would be wasting 2.5 hours for a trailer. Efffffffff that.

[Scar]

Fucking.
Awesome.

[The Mike]

Yeah, it's amazing.

[Saya]

Yeah, it's amazing.

Yep! Here are some pics:

http://i39.tinypic.com/of6n3o.png

http://i41.tinypic.com/255mh5z.png

http://i40.tinypic.com/2rqng42.png

http://i40.tinypic.com/148ksop.png

http://i44.tinypic.com/20hxdtk.png

http://i39.tinypic.com/oputes.png

http://i41.tinypic.com/2l8eys4.png

http://i43.tinypic.com/2py5mhw.png

http://i43.tinypic.com/2v31ptv.png

http://i43.tinypic.com/c3hup.png

http://i44.tinypic.com/10hjg5c.png

http://i40.tinypic.com/313r3tl.png

[EvilShoe]

Where's the trailer music from? Previous movie?

[[ETM]]

Why can't Bay stop destroying world landmarks?

[number8]

Where's the trailer music from? Previous movie?

Yeah, it's the first movie's score.

[Qrazy]

God that looks retarded.

And just me, or did that CGI at the end with the huge transformer sucking up the sand really suck? Like, Stephen Sommers suck?

Ehh, if there's one thing you can count on with Bay it's that the SFX will be very clean by the time the thing hits theaters.

[Ezee E]

I liked the first trailer a LOT more.

[EvilShoe]

Yeah, it's the first movie's score.
Thanks.
Sounded good, but I couldn't place it.

[D_Davis]

That trailer is off the freaking hook.

[DavidSeven]

I'm with 8. Bay's films might make for passable escapism if they weren't so long and poorly structured. 2.5 hours for Bad Boys II, really? The guy knows how to work a camera, but his films are boring and tedious.

[D_Davis]

Bad Boys II was insanely long. With the fat cut, that could have been a totally kick ass action flick.

[transmogrifier]

That shot of Megan Fox on the motorcycle should be the next banner. I think it reflects accurately our collective philosophy and metaphysical connection with the art of cinema. Also, great ass.

[Sycophant]

http://www.whatnotstudios.com/shit/mc/transformersmatchcut.jpg

I don't want to see this up top, but dicking around in Photoshop helps keep me from taking care of the things I should probably actually be working on.

[Watashi]

http://www.whatnotstudios.com/shit/mc/transformersmatchcut.jpg

I don't want to see this up top

I do.

God, I do.

[Barty]

Who wouldn't want to see Megan Fox on top?

[number8]

That shot of Megan Fox on the motorcycle should be the next banner. I think it reflects accurately our collective philosophy and metaphysical connection with the art of cinema. Also, great ass.

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/Meatypoop/heat-pacino-great-ass.jpg

[Raiders]

Um, yeah, still looks like shit to me. Not really "my thing" I guess.

[Ezee E]

Worthless people shouldn't be on a worthy banner.

[BuffaloWilder]

Worthless people shouldn't be on a worthy banner.

See, I disagree. And, here's why:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/483889539_af7c6d3c69.jpg?v=0

[Sycophant]

Oh, hell, Mr. Wilder. You have no idea the broken glass you're treading on.

[BuffaloWilder]

Oh, hell, Mr. Wilder. You have no idea the broken glass you're treading on.


Say what?

[Sycophant]

Say what?

Pssst. (http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=1813)

*cough* Nothing!

[BuffaloWilder]

Pssst. (http://match-cut.org/showthread.php?t=1813)

*cough* Nothing!


Clearly, they are all insane.

[Ezee E]

Yes Wilder. Welcome to the jungle.

[number8]

Speaking of which, she promises that she'll never play Wonder Woman. Quote from FHM:


"She's lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it."

[[ETM]]

That's a good point, actually.:P

[The Mike]

That's attitude.

[Grouchy]

We don't get it either, Megan.

Wonder Woman sure is worthless.

[Dukefrukem]

I must say... seeing the newest trailer before the Wolverine movie... it looks much better on the big screen than Quicktime.

[Dukefrukem]

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/9186/transformers2_finalmovieposter .jpg

bad movie poster

[number8]

Optimus Pyramid is watching you poop.

[Henry Gale]

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/9186/transformers2_finalmovieposter .jpg

bad movie poster

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_298fEV7jCAo/SFknBSN9bsI/AAAAAAAAAxU/r42_T2FW2RI/s400/TRANSFORMERS+POSTER+2.jpg

It worked once, right?

I actually like the colour pallette of the new one and the look of the lens flare and clouds around the pyramid, but yeah, it's nothing exciting.

[Dukefrukem]

it just looked like someone did it in their beasement.

[EvilShoe]

Pop/rock singer Stan Bush has re-recorded his 1986 song "The Touch" with the hopes that it will be used as one of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/movie/transformers_revenge_of_the_fa llen/)" anthems. The remake version of the track is titled "The Touch: Sam's Theme" and claimed to "capture the indomitable spirit of hero Sam Witwicky."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_EXxwDpq0

This is really bad... :lol:

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/438/stanj.jpg
Bukkake!

(The 80s version is great)

[number8]

Yeah, it's seriously embarrassing. Then again, the original sucks ass.

[Scar]

The Touch is why I can't watch the original animated movie.

Different soundtrack, and I'd be on it like stink on shit.

[Ezee E]

Mark Wahlberg has got the touch.

[number8]

The funniest part is at 3:00, when the song's all sad... then Stan Bush is closing his eyes all sad.... and the Lamerapper looks down all sad... then the guitarist is smiling.

I laughed.

[Saya]

Optimus Prime and Jetfire:

http://i43.tinypic.com/xeoivn.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/2d99wcn.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/ebacfp.jpg

[Skitch]

June 16th 25th Anniversary Transformers The Complete First Season.

[Fezzik]

Optimus Prime and Jetfire:

http://i43.tinypic.com/xeoivn.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/2d99wcn.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/ebacfp.jpg


Jetfire is in TF2? :eek:

I'm a huge Jetfire fanboy. Dammit, I'm gonna have to see this now.

[Saya]

Jetfire is in TF2? :eek:

I'm a huge Jetfire fanboy. Dammit, I'm gonna have to see this now.

Yep, he is the "old man" robot. He is the one with the cane and beard.

[megladon8]

The movie will be longer, with more action only if you see it in IMAX? (http://movies.ign.com/articles/992/992281p1.html)

Wow, not that I was too interested in the movie to begin with, but this makes me want to totally boycott it.

[Skitch]

Oh well, I've been wanting to hit up Columbus again anyway.

[number8]

I was already planning on seeing it on IMAX anyway (really, the only acceptable way to see a movie like this), so it's good news.

[Raiders]

I'm already sick of this new trend of all high-profile summer blockbusters having IMAX releases. If it's not a glorious 70mm IMAX experience, I fail to see the point in paying more money, especially for a screen that is likely only marginally bigger. I saw The Dark Knight in both a regular theater and a retrofitted "new IMAX" theater. The experience was not really much different except it cost me more money.

[number8]

IMAX Digital theaters are ripoffs. Please do not go to them. Real IMAX theaters have seven story high screens. They are not "marginally" bigger.

[Raiders]

IMAX Digital theaters are ripoffs. Please do not go to them. Real IMAX theaters have seven story high screens. They are not "marginally" bigger.

It's really all that is available to me except for the one at the MD Science Center, and I do not believe they typically have the in-release Hollywood movies on their docket.

This makes my point though. A good number of so-called IMAX screens are these new Digital knockoffs and people not only do not know better but may very well, like me, not have many or any free-standing IMAX theatres near by. These films catering their release, or at least holding "special releases," specifically for IMAX are only stealing many people's money. Bay and the producers specifically have kept things from regular theater audience members and some diehard fans who don't know better are going to waste $5 in an IMAX Digital theatre.

It is a trend I could do without. Release your damn movie everywhere. It'll already gross a billion worldwide. Is this necessary?

[megladon8]

IMAX does not make a movie better.

[Grouchy]

It's really all that is available to me except for the one at the MD Science Center, and I do not believe they typically have the in-release Hollywood movies on their docket.

This makes my point though. A good number of so-called IMAX screens are these new Digital knockoffs and people not only do not know better but may very well, like me, not have many or any free-standing IMAX theatres near by. These films catering their release, or at least holding "special releases," specifically for IMAX are only stealing many people's money. Bay and the producers specifically have kept things from regular theater audience members and some diehard fans who don't know better are going to waste $5 in an IMAX Digital theatre.

It is a trend I could do without. Release your damn movie everywhere. It'll already gross a billion worldwide. Is this necessary?
Is there ever something as enough money?

[number8]

Okay, what about Director's Cut, Extended Cuts, etc.? I think you can look at it from another direction. They're not holding things back, they're releasing a longer, more indulgent version that you can choose to go see, or you don't. It's your money.

They did the same thing with the first Transformers. The IMAX cut was longer. And people loved it, it's an incentive to go. The only difference was that it was released months later as opposed to simulataneously.

[number8]

Badmouthing IMAX and downplaying its experience just-because is silly to me. Of course it doesn't make a movie better. They can give me blankies, pillows, and Thai erotic massages during the movie and it won't make the movie better. That's a ridiculous notion and it's insulting to assume that everyone who loves IMAX believe that it's a quality enhancer.

No, I love IMAX because I like watching movies on a giant screen with an awesome sound system, the same way I don't like watching movies on a fucking iPod. IMAX theaters also has less people, bigger seats and way more legroom. I would gladly pay $5 extra for all of that. Some people don't. Whatever. That's why planes have different classes, too.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Okay, what about Director's Cut, Extended Cuts, etc.? I think you can look at it from another direction. They're not holding things back, they're releasing a longer, more indulgent version that you can choose to go see, or you don't. It's your money.

But these are available to anyone via DVD. So that argument doesn't hold water.

[Watashi]

You people do not understand IMAX.

[Watashi]

Badmouthing IMAX and downplaying its experience just-because is silly to me. Of course it doesn't make a movie better. They can give me blankies, pillows, and Thai erotic massages during the movie and it won't make the movie better. That's a ridiculous notion and it's insulting to assume that everyone who loves IMAX believe that it's a quality enhancer.

No, I love IMAX because I like watching movies on a giant screen with an awesome sound system, the same way I don't like watching movies on a fucking iPod. IMAX theaters also has less people, bigger seats and way more legroom. I would gladly pay $5 extra for all of that. Some people don't. Whatever. That's why planes have different classes, too.
Yes.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Badmouthing IMAX and downplaying its experience just-because is silly to me. Of course it doesn't make a movie better. They can give me blankies, pillows, and Thai erotic massages during the movie and it won't make the movie better. That's a ridiculous notion and it's insulting to assume that everyone who loves IMAX believe that it's a quality enhancer.

No, I love IMAX because I like watching movies on a giant screen with an awesome sound system, the same way I don't like watching movies on a fucking iPod. IMAX theaters also has less people, bigger seats and way more legroom. I would gladly pay $5 extra for all of that. Some people don't. Whatever. That's why planes have different classes, too.

If this is how you feel...


I was already planning on seeing it on IMAX anyway (really, the only acceptable way to see a movie like this), so it's good news.

why say this? The only acceptable way to see a movie like this? Doesn't that imply that the film is inherently better on an IMAX screen? Seems that if you're insulted when people think you are of the opinion that it's a "quality enhancer", you shouldn't tell people it's the only acceptable way to see the film.

[Morris Schæffer]

I wish I even had an IMAX screen nearby. You lucky fucking Americans.

[megladon8]

Badmouthing IMAX and downplaying its experience just-because is silly to me. Of course it doesn't make a movie better. They can give me blankies, pillows, and Thai erotic massages during the movie and it won't make the movie better. That's a ridiculous notion and it's insulting to assume that everyone who loves IMAX believe that it's a quality enhancer.

No, I love IMAX because I like watching movies on a giant screen with an awesome sound system, the same way I don't like watching movies on a fucking iPod. IMAX theaters also has less people, bigger seats and way more legroom. I would gladly pay $5 extra for all of that. Some people don't. Whatever. That's why planes have different classes, too.


I'm pretty satisfied with the giant screen and great sound system at my local theatre.

It's a relatively new theatre, so everything's top notch.

I don't feel like driving more than an hour and paying an extra $5 on top of that so I can see the same movie on a bigger screen.

[number8]

why say this? The only acceptable way to see a movie like this? Doesn't that imply that the film is inherently better on an IMAX screen? Seems that if you're insulted when people think you are of the opinion that it's a "quality enhancer", you shouldn't tell people it's the only acceptable way to see the film.

I was being mostly facetious. Giant robots on a giant screen, get it? The symmetry rocks, is all. I thought it was cool that on certain wide shots, Bumblebee was at 1:1 ratio. It's fun.

I understand that it's unfair to people who don't have real IMAX theaters nearby, but that is not anyone's fault. I have a friend who lived in a small town in Oregon that doesn't have a cineplex, so the one movie theater, you just see whatever's playing, unless you drive to another town. That sucks, but that's just the way it is. Some places have stuff others don't. IMAX is only available to limited people and not everybody get to have it. That's just the way it is. Would I be happier if IMAX is available at every cineplex in the world? Shit, yeah, but I'm not gonna not get excited because I happen to be in a luckier position than others.

I just don't understand the aversion. I don't understand why it's so bad that some people would pay extra for an extranormal experience and the filmmakers want to reward them for it. It's a few extra scenes, it's just a special thing that doesn't hinder the regular version. I look at it like special screenings, where you pay extra to watch Up at Pixar Studios, or you get a special ticket to go to a party with the filmmakers. Things like that. Or, to be more related, like watching The Dark Knight on IMAX and not have the 4:3 shot compositions, the way Nolan framed it, cut in half. It's just an option.

[Barty]

Nothing can beat the image quality of IMAX. That's the best reason to see it.

[Qrazy]

Hrm... I don't know if my theater has a real Imax or a digital Imax (Montreal). I'm guessing it's digital? There's a real Imax down by the shore but I"m pretty sure they only play 'Imax' films... 45 minute docus mostly that is.

[Qrazy]

Nothing can beat the image quality of IMAX. That's the best reason to see it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/UHDV.svg/800px-UHDV.svg.png


The plan is that ultra-high definition TVs will have 16 times the resolution of anything we currently have now in high definition. It'll be more than twice the resolution of 70 millimeter film, a commonly used format for IMAX movies [source: Hamasaki]. The projected images will be crammed with 32 million pixels, compared to the current HD experience that displays about two million pixels. With these huge numbers, not only is the image resolution exceptionally rich, the screen ends up being quite large. Developers expect the consumer versions will be between about 100 and 200 inches (254 and 508 centimeters) in size. Commercial versions -- possibly used for educational, security and advertising purposes at sporting events, art shows and museums -- would be more along the lines of about 350 to 600 inches (889 to 1,524 centimeters).

Link. (http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ultra-high-definition2.htm)

[Sycophant]

UHDV is insane. Reality doesn't even have that much detail. They're just gonna have to make up shit for the inbetween pixels.

[Skitch]

I'm pretty sure the IMAX they have in Columbus is not the seven story tall one, but its still better than a regular theater. I can dig it.

Don't you think having an extended version in IMAX is more incentive to pay a little more for the IMAX ticket? I do.

[angrycinephile]

Apparently the movie is like 1 minute longer in IMAX so no big deal. As for the debate if IMAX is the ideal way to see a film like this. Considering Bay shot some of the major action sequences with special IMAX cameras I would say that the way to see it is in an IMAX theater.

I shall join the camp of those who are actually looking forward to this.

[Qrazy]

UHDV is insane. Reality doesn't even have that much detail. They're just gonna have to make up shit for the inbetween pixels.

The space between spaces!

[angrycinephile]

This new picture of Optimus = awesomesauce (http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8846/primecannon.jpg)

[lovejuice]

awesome indeed. although it'll probably be shown for one tenth of a second before neurotically cut to another image.

[Morris Schæffer]

Just wanna add something entirely useless about the first film and that is that, as Watashi has said in his soundtacks thread, "Arrival to Earth" is an incredible piece of music by Steve Jablonsky. I hope that said theme will return in the sequel.

[Skitch]

Just wanna add something entirely useless about the first film and that is that, as Watashi has said in his soundtacks thread, "Arrival to Earth" is an incredible piece of music by Steve Jablonsky. I hope that said theme will return in the sequel.

That track is the reason I keep looking for a used copy of the score. I have to add that to my pile of scores.

[KK2.0]

I'm pretty sure the IMAX they have in Columbus is not the seven story tall one, but its still better than a regular theater. I can dig it.

Don't you think having an extended version in IMAX is more incentive to pay a little more for the IMAX ticket? I do.

Now that i've read that post from N8, i guess the new IMAX theater here in Sao Paulo also isn't the seven story tall screens. I was slightly disappointed when i first went the IMAX waiting for an awesome huge screen only to find a "bigger" screen... however it was still a nice experience.

early Transformers 2 reviews

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Early-Transformers-Revenge-Of-The-Fallen-Reviews-13554.html

well, anyone actually needs those? we know it's going to be the same as the first, only with more explosions.

and i will be there

[Dead & Messed Up]

I've only seen a couple of movies on the Imax format (I Am Legend, Spider-Man 3), and I suspect they weren't the full-size screens, but even then it was too much for me. My eyes were overwhelmed - I felt like I was scanning the picture for the vital information.

Then again, I'm not a fan of the newfangled 3D stuff. Times like this I think I was born an old man.

[Skitch]

Does it annoy anyone else when reviewers use the phrase, "check your brain at the door"? Or is it just me?

[Morris Schæffer]

Does it annoy anyone else when reviewers use the phrase, "check your brain at the door"? Or is it just me?

The comment isn't nonsensical, but perhaps overused and/or a little insulting to moviegoers who appreciate a loud and explosive, albeit vapid blockbuster. Still, if the reviewer is part of that group, then I see little wrong with it.

[Skitch]

The comment isn't nonsensical, but perhaps overused and/or a little insulting to moviegoers who appreciate a loud and explosive, albeit vapid blockbuster. Still, if the reviewer is part of that group, then I see little wrong with it.

I understand and agree, but it just grates on me.

[number8]

Does it annoy anyone else when reviewers use the phrase, "check your brain at the door"? Or is it just me?

Like you won't believe. There is no reason why summer popcorn movies don't need brains. It's a ridiculous assumption, and a poor defense of bad movies.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Does it annoy anyone else when reviewers use the phrase, "check your brain at the door"? Or is it just me?

All of those soundbite-ready comments irritate me. Jeffrey Lyons, Shawn Edwards, and Earl Dittman can suck it.

[megladon8]

Like you won't believe. There is no reason why summer popcorn movies don't need brains. It's a ridiculous assumption, and a poor defense of bad movies.


So do you admit the Transformers movies are bad but like them anyways, or do you see intelligence in them?

[The Mike]

A movie doesn't have to be intelligent to be good.

Thankfully for me, neither does a message board poster.

[number8]

So do you admit the Transformers movies are bad but like them anyways, or do you see intelligence in them?

I don't really like bad movies (not anymore these days, at least). The movie is great fun. Therefore I consider it a good movie. It stimulates me. I don't see a need to abandon my brain to justify liking it. Saying it's a movie you need to "check your brain at the door" is to say that any movie is likable--just don't think about it too much! That's just idiotic. It's a hack line for hack critics, like DAMU said. I thought about Transformers after watching it, I thought about it before seeing it 3 times in the theaters, I thought about it while writing my review. The narrative is stupid but it works just fine being processed by my brain, and I even really like some aspects of it, like the idea of bonding Bumblebee and Sam through sex in the same vein teenagers view their cars. More over, my brain appreciates its skill in devising action scenes. Please don't tell me it's a movie that requires willful ignorance to appreciate.

[number8]

Oh yeah, here... Fun IMAX info Paramount emailed to me:


Because IMAX screens can be as high as eight stories and 120 feet wide, the Chevy Camaro that turns into Bumblebee™ will actually be life-size.

You could stand Bumblebee™ on Optimus Prime’s® shoulders and they would still not be as high as the largest IMAX screen.

The average IMAX screen is 4,500 times bigger than an average TV screen and is as wide as an NFL football field.

The light from the powerful lamp in an IMAX projector is so bright that if it were on the moon, we could see it from Earth – and possibly even from Cybertron.

IMAX film uses the largest film frame in the motion picture industry, 10x the picture area of a conventional 35 mm film frame. The length of the IMAX DMR® version of “TRANSFORMERS” is more than 50,000 ft long.

In IMAX theatres, audiences will feel the impact of the footsteps of the Autobots’® and the Decepticons® thanks to the powerful IMAX sound system – a multi-channel, state-of-the-art, digital surround sound system that uses 44 custom-designed speakers.

[Skitch]

All of those soundbite-ready comments irritate me. Jeffrey Lyons, Shawn Edwards, and Earl Dittman can suck it.

Indeed, sir. Add Peter Travers from Rolling Stone to that list. I hate that guy. Even when I agree with him.

[Acapelli]

so how do you know if the theater you're looking at is a real imax theater and not a digital imax

[Watashi]

so how do you know if the theater you're looking at is a real imax theater and not a digital imax
One's a lot bigger than the other.

[Acapelli]

One's a lot bigger than the other.
i meant online. i was on the imax website and the only different categorizations were imax, imax 3d and imax dome

no mention of digital imax

[number8]

Obviously, they don't want you to know.

[Raiders]

This is helpful:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&msid=113621990356540393221.000 469b6c5915161c3667&ll=40.178873,-89.824219&spn=46.554548,74.707031&z=3&source=embed

From the Destroy Fake IMAX blog.

[number8]

This is helpful:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&msid=113621990356540393221.000 469b6c5915161c3667&ll=40.178873,-89.824219&spn=46.554548,74.707031&z=3&source=embed

From the Destroy Fake IMAX blog.

Very nice.

[Acapelli]

This is helpful:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&msid=113621990356540393221.000 469b6c5915161c3667&ll=40.178873,-89.824219&spn=46.554548,74.707031&z=3&source=embed

From the Destroy Fake IMAX blog.
this is great

conveniently, the only real imax screen in ny is right by my internship. looks like i'll be watching transformers 2 on the big screen

[KK2.0]

Ha, i knew the one in Sao Paulo was fake as soon as i've read that post from 8. guess i'm still an IMAX virgin then...

[number8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXsd5aw8oas

[Skitch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXsd5aw8oas

Huh. So thats what spontaneous orgasm feels like.

[lovejuice]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXsd5aw8oas
as usual, youtube comment is the best.


I have a feeling this isn't true. Correct me if I'm wrong. But that WAS Meghan fox in Transformers 1.

[number8]

Apparently one of the Decepticons has testicles.

Devastator, who is made out of construction vehicles, has two wrecking balls dangling from his crotch.

I love this movie already.

[Morris Schæffer]

http://www.empireonline.com/features/michael-bay-quiz/

[angrycinephile]

From an interview with Bay from Total Film:


And Bay admits that if film bosses give the go ahead for a third Transformers movie, they will have to find a different director.

He adds, "After the three and a half years I've spent making these movies, I feel like I've had enough of the Transformers world.

"I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions."

Maybe the interviewer mixed things up because I thought Bay was going to do TF3. Maybe he just meant he's going to do something smaller in between.

[Qrazy]

"I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions."

Blahhaaha stfu Bay.

[number8]

He said the exact same thing after the first one. Then he changed his mind.

$$$.

[Qrazy]

He said the exact same thing after the first one. Then he changed his mind.

$$$.

Plus he's never made a film without explosions. I can't fathom why he would start now. I could see him making a smaller film with explosions maybe, smaller explosions.

[Raiders]

I'd rather he just stick to explosions. I may not like him, but the man certainly has a style and a niche. I can at least respect that. The last thing I want is a Michael Bay chamber drama.

[Eleven]

I'd rather he just stick to explosions. I may not like him, but the man certainly has a style and a niche. I can at least respect that. The last thing I want is a Michael Bay chamber drama.

Emotional explosions? The mind reels...then explodes.

[Wryan]

Oh yeah, here... Fun IMAX info Paramount emailed to me:

"and possibly even from Cybertron."

Oh you go to hell.

[Wryan]

And apparently the IMAX I've always gone to in Charlotte is an Omnimax instead. So is that middle ground? Not quite as fake but not quite as max? It always seemed pretty damn big to me and filled my field of vision just fine. Never saw "movies" on it though.

Closest true IMAX to me is Myrtle Beach but fuck that...

[number8]

Plus he's never made a film without explosions. I can't fathom why he would start now. I could see him making a smaller film with explosions maybe, smaller explosions.

I was referring to not wanting to do a Transformers sequel, not the non-explosion movie thing.

That, he's actually been saying for longer. That's like his dream or something, to make a low budget drama.

[Qrazy]

I'd rather he just stick to explosions. I may not like him, but the man certainly has a style and a niche. I can at least respect that. The last thing I want is a Michael Bay chamber drama.

What about a Michael Bay chambara... with explosions?

[Sycophant]

Michael Bay will direct a movie without explosions when George Lucas goes back to making his small, low-budget, personal indie projects he's been squawking about for a quarter of a decade.

Though I'm liking Qrazy's idea.

[Eleven]

He just has yet to make his shomin-geki masterpieces The Flavor of C4 over Rice and An Autumn Explosion with Urination Jokes.

[angrycinephile]

I've heard the small picture he wants to do is a project that he's wanted to do for years called Pain & Gain; described as a dark film about steroid-abusing bodybuilders who engage in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder in Florida that's based on a true story. Apparently it has elements of dark comedy too.

I don't know. I'm sure he can squeeze some helicopters flying against sunsets and explosions in there.

But you should never say never. It could be good. Stranger things have happened after all.

[angrycinephile]

Bay is still on for TF3.


Hah,

Love press how they spin. Never said it - just wanted a vacation is more to the point. And no I don't read the good or the bad reviews.

So there you have it.

[Lazlo]

And apparently the IMAX I've always gone to in Charlotte is an Omnimax instead. So is that middle ground? Not quite as fake but not quite as max? It always seemed pretty damn big to me and filled my field of vision just fine. Never saw "movies" on it though.

Closest true IMAX to me is Myrtle Beach but fuck that...

I've been to that one, mostly for IMAX documentaries when I was in school, but I saw Harry Potter 5 there. From what I can gather, the size is fine and they project 70mm, but since the screen is curved so distinctly, everything seems slightly warped and distorted. I found it really distracting. One of the problems may have been I was sitting really low in the theater and that may have added to the distortion, but friends that have seen features on both the dome and the regular 70-foot IMAX screen have said the dome is not what the experience is meant to be. It's wonderful for things like Everest or Fighter Pilot due to the immersion, but it doesn't quite work for features.

They've just opened two digital IMAX screens in Charlotte, one at Stonecrest and the other at Concord Mills. I have an urge to draw up some flyers and stand outside espousing the inferiority of these new screens. As it stands, the nearest true IMAX screens are in Raleigh and Myrtle Beach. Shame.

[number8]

I have no idea if this is true or if Michael Bay is making shit up.


In a press conference Friday in Beverly Hills, Calif., Bay explained that he was inspired to put Obama in the movie instead of some fictional president because the two have met in passing. During an airport layover in Las Vegas, Bay ended up walking side by side with Obama, who was without bodyguards, let alone Secret Service protection, carrying his own bags. (This was before Obama won election last November.)


Bay introduced himself to Obama and complimented a recent speech. When Obama asked him what Bay has directed, the president-to-be recognized names such as The Rock, Armageddon and Transformers. "Oh, you're a big-ass director," Obama said, according to Bay.