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Sneak Peak of Transformers 3

Roger Ebert brings us a special sneak peek of what to expect from Transformers 3.


I think this is pretty accurate lol. I actually liked the movie but I hated how the action was so in your face.
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BatmanKnight
10/31/2009
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LaffaTaffa - 10/31/2009, 11:49 AM
Heh,heh I was thinking about putting this on a article but I decided not to. Anyway hilarious!

Nice find @BatmanKnight!
Ozymandias - 10/31/2009, 1:07 PM
hmmmm, tranformy.
Betty - 10/31/2009, 2:17 PM
i am tired of people pointing out the incomprehensible fight scenes from the first transformers.
michael bay rectified that in the sequel for the most part which i am immensely thankful.
roger ebert is one of my favorite critics because we agree on many points but this i found downright INSULTING.
it is not a crime to like a movie someone else hates. and he just called out every fan who likes this movie.

bay has already stated he didn't make this movie for awards or for critics. he made it for pure popcorn and if you expecting anything more, you will be disappointed.

there were many things wrong with ROTF but i have looked past the continuity errors and accepted it as a fun (but definitley NOT clean) movie.
Wadey09 - 10/31/2009, 3:49 PM
lol looks like Transformers 3 is gonna be like Cloverfield with only camera view haha. But i liked Transformers 2 it hada lot of great fight scenes, not to mention great CGI. But sadly the story and the dialogue killed it.
Instantclassic - 10/31/2009, 10:03 PM
Yeah, Transformers 2 was a decent popcorn movie, but the fact that a good popcorn movie was ALL that Bay was shooting for pisses me off. Yes, I get that it’s a movie about a toy line, but does that mean it’s justifiable to dismiss a story to a level of near laughable triviality? A pretty, noisy, flashy bauble of a movie as if that is all it is worth. If a director has a great visual sense, which Bay does, but has no love of the story or even the ability to see the potential in the material to be more than the sum of it impetus, then that director lacks the vision to make that movie more.

Transformers and GI Joe have gotten a raw deal in their handling; they are all flash and no story. These properties need their stories, their identities brought back to them. Transformers at its core has the potential to be a really great sci-fi adventure if treated more seriously and smartly. Bay doesn’t see that. He is a guy whose career began making car commercials and it’s as if Transformers sends him back into default mode, he is selling a product in this case toys. The funny thing is if Hasbro and Bay could just see the potential of Transformers to be expanded, to be treated as a more serious mythology it could be a true sci-fi epic, and sell ha hell of a lot more toys. Sadly I can’t see that happening as long as these things keep making money off of nothing more than bayplosions.
nerosday - 11/1/2009, 9:30 PM
While it is insulting to say that everyone who enjoyed Transformers ROTF( by the way do you think anybody stopped bay during the filming and pointed out to him that the acronym ROTF has poor connotations online?)was unevolved, it is also ridiculous to stand by the popcorn defense. Make an actual stand, state why you liked the movie without using the phrase,"lower your expectations", because that's poor judgment, you should have high expectations for a movie. If they spent millions of dollars making it the movie should have a compelling story as well as awesome visuals and anything less should be disappointing.

I'm not going to call out people who enjoyed the film, I'm just saying that you can have a movie that is fun, and "for the kids" and still have a good story. Look at pixar, their movies are, "for the kids" and they tell amazing stories, is it to much to ask for that every director should put that kind of emphasis on story? I don't think it is. I think Bay could have all his 'splosions(which are cool, you won't hear me complain about the level of spectacle the man has that down beautifully) and a meaningful sci-fi story.
Like Nero pointed out stories sell just as well as pure spectacle, I don't think Disney has a hard time selling toy story action figures.
We deserve more from a movie than cool effects, and there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!
thwhtGuardian - 11/1/2009, 11:52 PM
Amen, Guardian. Is it too much to ask for a well written script and some real plot and gravity to a story? Are there no decent writers left save for the few big names in sci-fi? Are there no directors who can show us more than flash and leg humping, parachute farting, wrecking ball nutted, hyper stereo typed robots? As long as the general audiences are happy with Bay’s “humor” and continue to shell out big box office, I don’t think we’re going to get anything better. That’s what bugs the piss outta me.
nerosday - 11/2/2009, 2:25 AM
All things considered Summer 2009 was a helluva bad year for movies. It just seemed to be a year when nothing lived up to expectations with the exception of Watchmen and maybe Star Trek, but T4, Wolverine, GI Joe, they all fell short of impressing most folks. I just hope 2010 and 2011 churn out some great flicks.
nerosday - 11/2/2009, 2:30 AM
As an original Transformers fan i didnt see much wrong with the movie at all... Great classic storyline for them really. If you did actually watch and enjoy the orignal show than u would realize that the movie was taken right from an episode. If u didnt u fail and need to move on. If i must ill whip out the dvds and screenshot the many things followed from the original.
hbk82287 - 11/2/2009, 1:03 PM
Well i liked both movies...and i actualy found them to be quite fitting with the tv show.One of the main reason is the missis....she hates transformers but i made her see the first one and she loved it simply cus it wasnt too serious, i think it could be quite boring if they made it the way alot of people are shouting for...anyway so she realy wanted to see ROTF which for me was great cus she never wants to see the same stuff. I like movies that take a genre and make them real and serious but i also like movies to entertain me on a purely fun basis and this did it for me.

Am i dumb or unevolved?.....who gives a [frick] if i am :D
teabag - 11/2/2009, 6:25 PM
well I certainly wouldn't call you unevolved tea, they have their appeal. I just hate how bay and some fans defend them, it annoys me something fierce when ever someones tells me I have to lower my expectations to enjoy something.
thwhtGuardian - 11/2/2009, 7:18 PM
my expextations were high for this movie. and i also took into account that michael bay was directing this film so i wasn't disappointed. i liked almost every minute of it.
minus the dogs and wheelie humping. really that was uncalled for.

but this movie had a lot of problems because of the writers strike. that really dented the filmmaking process a bit.
mr. bay actually had to assume some writing responsibilities until ehren kruger came in.

and bay had the opportunity to push back the release date but he wouldn't accept it.

for the circumstances that were shoved in this movie's face, michael bay managed to create an epically humorous adventure film that doesn't ask much of it's audience.

minus a few errors in geography, i honestly dont know what people are complaining about.
20 years ago this was a pipe dream in the eyes of fans and now that the dream has become a reality fans around the world are wondering how it could have been better.

i honestly know it could have been much much worse.
and i know y'all do too.
Wadey09 - 11/2/2009, 11:11 PM
here here Wadey :P

thwht@ I know the lower expectations thing is a cop out :)...why cant people just admit they liked it because it gave them what they were looking for...a good blockbuster of entertainment...going to the cinema is about being transported to another world where you can forget your troubles for a couple of hours...it certainly did it for me..humping and all :P
teabag - 11/3/2009, 5:53 AM
you had me till you said it could have been worse wadey. Wolverine COULD have been worse too, it doesn't mean it should be applauded for averting being completely unwatchable. I think that he should not have tried to take some of the writing responsibilities, he's not a good writer he's an action director I think the movie could have been much better if he had pushed it back and let the writers do their jobs.
That's just me though. There were to many things that took me out of it, you mentioned them above the leg humping ect. it was sloppy to me. when I walk out of a cinema I don't want to have to apologize for parts of a movie, I don't a laundry list of it was great but... And you can have block busters where that doesn't happen. I've seen them, I know they can be made.

But if you enjoyed it because it's a part of childhood, and you were just excited to finally get a chance to see it on the big screen I get that. We all have movies that we love despite their quality. I freelly own up to the fact that I love 80's flash gordon movie, because I loved watching the old serials with my grandfather. However, I know that the effects of the movie were bad and the acting and writing were terrible, I don't apologize for it, I don't say it was great except for this, this, this and this. I just say I enjoyed it because it was an important part of my childhood.
thwhtGuardian - 11/3/2009, 3:21 PM

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