Transformers: Age of Extinction Trailer Deconstructed
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As nice as the trailer looks, I'm not feeling it. I've been burned too many times by Bay and his Transformers movie to put any faith and/or trust into Age of Extinction. Judging from the posters and the trailer, it looks like the humans might be getting more screen time than the actual robots. The designs, despite the new versions of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, are pretty much the same mess from the first 3 movies. And just because the trailer doesn't show off the bad qualities of the past movies (the unnecessary humor, unlikeable characters, zero character development, the racist stereotypes, etc) doesn't mean it won't be in the movie. Trailers have the tendency of showing us what the studios want you to see rather than any major flaws it might have.
These are just my opinions and the final version of the film might prove me wrong. Until then, I'm not gonna get excited for a trailer that may only be giving us false hopes and empty promises.
These are just my opinions and the final version of the film might prove me wrong. Until then, I'm not gonna get excited for a trailer that may only be giving us false hopes and empty promises.
I was getting that feeling too. Most people don't actually know the difference between a bullet slug and its casing. The casing stays in the gun guys, it is not what is shot out the barrel! So long as Michael Bay doesn't make that mistake (which he SHOULD know better, being a military fan) I'll forgive him for whatever cheasy reason he gives, because robot dinosaurs.walsfeo said:
Three things I took from this trailer:
1)--Bay is getting less subtle about his disregard for this franchise, if "We don't need you anymore!" being emphasized in the trailer is any indication. Not that we needed any reminding but Bay only got this gig because Hollywood thought if anyone would get a kick out of a franchise like this it would be the wartoy-fetishizing man-child that is Michael Bay. Even if he doesn't phone in his directorial efforts, I expect to see more "military does it better" and "get over these goddamn robots" mantras being spouted at me in the finished film.
2)--I anticipate Mark Wahlberg's character to be less dorky teenager and more dorky nostalgia-obsessed over-30 man-child to be ironically appealing to the fans who did the most complaining about this franchise. Bay likely set out to make Cade(!!!) into a kind of parody of all those guys who grew up with Transformers, but it will have the reverse effect of making him really popular with said nostalgia fans.
3)--I have the shaking suspicion that Grimlock does not speak or transform in this film. He's just a quasi-sentient T-rex robot like the scorpion from the first films.
Ultimately, play the Cybertron series of Transformers (War For and Fall Of, specifically). In fact, here's the trailer that they released for Fall of Cybertron. Bay's movie suddenly seems like the over-hyped Triple A nonsense gamers complain about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1N91LyATF0
1)--Bay is getting less subtle about his disregard for this franchise, if "We don't need you anymore!" being emphasized in the trailer is any indication. Not that we needed any reminding but Bay only got this gig because Hollywood thought if anyone would get a kick out of a franchise like this it would be the wartoy-fetishizing man-child that is Michael Bay. Even if he doesn't phone in his directorial efforts, I expect to see more "military does it better" and "get over these goddamn robots" mantras being spouted at me in the finished film.
2)--I anticipate Mark Wahlberg's character to be less dorky teenager and more dorky nostalgia-obsessed over-30 man-child to be ironically appealing to the fans who did the most complaining about this franchise. Bay likely set out to make Cade(!!!) into a kind of parody of all those guys who grew up with Transformers, but it will have the reverse effect of making him really popular with said nostalgia fans.
3)--I have the shaking suspicion that Grimlock does not speak or transform in this film. He's just a quasi-sentient T-rex robot like the scorpion from the first films.
Ultimately, play the Cybertron series of Transformers (War For and Fall Of, specifically). In fact, here's the trailer that they released for Fall of Cybertron. Bay's movie suddenly seems like the over-hyped Triple A nonsense gamers complain about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1N91LyATF0
Sorry, but no; fuck everything about this film. It will take the resurrection of Christ and Budda and their personal guarantee that this movie is good for me to even consider spending money or time on it.
Yep, looks just like the other three (which for me is a good thing btw). Only this time the protagonist is one of my favorite actors. Can't wait for this film.
Edit: Though I should say Grimlock better play a bigger role than the giant T-rex Prime destroys. Him and his team are the coolest Transformers
Edit: Though I should say Grimlock better play a bigger role than the giant T-rex Prime destroys. Him and his team are the coolest Transformers
I'm gonna need more than an alright looking trailer before I give any transformers movie the time of day!
actually Bob, its been confirmed that gunface is the character Lockdown, originally introduced in "Transformers Animiated" as a bounty hunter not specifically aligned with either the autobots or decepticons, and took weapons and tools from his catches as trophys to upgrade himself with.
Galvatron has been confirmed to be this guy
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/e/e7/AOEGalvatron.jpg/350px-AOEGalvatron.jpg
Galvatron has been confirmed to be this guy
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/e/e7/AOEGalvatron.jpg/350px-AOEGalvatron.jpg
If they follow the route in the original cartoon movie I can confirm this movie is going to be awesome. Bumblebee likely filling the Hotrod role.
Damn, I'm actually pretty stoked for this movie. Looks like Bay may have known he dropped the ball in previous iterations and has decided just to go for it.
Damn, I'm actually pretty stoked for this movie. Looks like Bay may have known he dropped the ball in previous iterations and has decided just to go for it.
I don't want to be the downer here, but I'm willing to bet the Dinobots have been on Earth since the age of the actual Dinosaurs and were here keeping an watchful eye on the planet to see how it was going to evolve. The extinction of the dinosaurs was actually caused by Decepticons that were worried that dinosaurs were about to evolve into a higher form of consciousness so they decided to destroy them before they could and send the Earth back millions of years in evolutionary terms.
I'm sorry but that's the sort of cheese that you just come to expect in a movie like this.
I'm sorry but that's the sort of cheese that you just come to expect in a movie like this.
I can't judge the film by the trailer because for all his faults Bay does make really nice trailers. When something has to be short and to the point like a trailer does then Bay finds a way to shine.
But then full length films are filled all sorts of padding because either he doesn't understand the concept of cutting stuff for a better flow or his ego is just so massive he thinks everything he shoots is worth being in a film. The bad humor and horrible stereotypes also don't make it into the trailers, but ouch he seems happy to put such cringe worthy stuff in the movies.
I would love to be wrong and this was a well written film without needless padding that had interesting characters and great film villains, but after three films of overpowered Autobots and Team America stomp all over paper tiger Decepticons I get the feeling it's another film where the trailers are better than the finished film.
But then full length films are filled all sorts of padding because either he doesn't understand the concept of cutting stuff for a better flow or his ego is just so massive he thinks everything he shoots is worth being in a film. The bad humor and horrible stereotypes also don't make it into the trailers, but ouch he seems happy to put such cringe worthy stuff in the movies.
I would love to be wrong and this was a well written film without needless padding that had interesting characters and great film villains, but after three films of overpowered Autobots and Team America stomp all over paper tiger Decepticons I get the feeling it's another film where the trailers are better than the finished film.
I imagine it might happen if Optimus is in a tough fight and ends up on his back then fires his gun in a way that the ejected casings land on his chest. Then he transforms and his chest ends up being the interior with casings inside.walsfeo said:
Then he powers down until Marky Mark defibrillates him, and now it's the movie.