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post #91 of 176
2/13/09 at 5:11pm

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One thing about Bay is that he has an eye for depicting destruction and shit blowing up.
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post #92 of 176
2/13/09 at 7:28pm

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Originally Posted by Diallo B
i hope this is not one of those situations where the trailer is better than the movie.
You just described every Michael Bay film.
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post #93 of 176
2/13/09 at 10:29pm

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Originally Posted by Chuck Mayer
You just described every Michael Bay film.

:lol:
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post #94 of 176
2/14/09 at 7:55am

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Those are pretty cool looking. There's one moment in that new trailer that is WAY cool. No doubt this looks like it will have some Wow moments. Forgettable dialougue but cool moments nonetheless!
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post #95 of 176
2/14/09 at 9:50am

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Originally Posted by Chuck Mayer
You just described every Michael Bay film.

Ha! That's pretty funny. Out of his movies I've liked: Bad Boys 2, The Island and Transformers.
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post #96 of 176
2/14/09 at 4:47pm

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Originally Posted by Chuck Mayer
You just described every Michael Bay film.
Well, when the trailers are really, really good...I'll take a really good film.
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post #97 of 176
2/16/09 at 11:14am

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Just watched the trailer in HD and it looks pretty damn cool. I can't recall ever seeing a trailer with so many "money shots" and I that's probably just a fraction of what's in the actual movie. Definitely looking forward to this flick.
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post #98 of 176
2/16/09 at 2:45pm

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Originally Posted by ThomasC
Well, when the trailers are really, really good...I'll take a really good film.
Unfortunately, Pearl Harbor had one of the best theatrical trailers I'd ever seen, Thomas. And that didn't turn out so great. I believe that really good is beyond his skill!

But we'll see. If you want money shots, as Brent points out, TF2 will have lots of those.
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post #99 of 176
2/16/09 at 2:56pm

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Here's the HD trailer.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailers and video clips on Yahoo! Movies
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post #100 of 176
2/16/09 at 5:26pm

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looks awesome in hd. the amount of detail is amazing. cgi work imo, is award winning based on these clips. virtually seamless. no wonder lucas has not released any star wars hd prints yet. it would be embarassing.

i looked at the matrix on hd-dvd a few weeks ago and it looks dated cgi wise. this is stunning work.
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post #101 of 176
2/16/09 at 7:37pm

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Originally Posted by Diallo B
no wonder lucas has not released any star wars hd prints yet. it would be embarassing.
What does one have to do with the other?
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post #102 of 176
2/16/09 at 8:18pm

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Originally Posted by TravisR
What does one have to do with the other?

as we all know lucas is a perfectionist with a case of ocd. this is evidenced by his constant and consistant updates to his cash cow franchise.

anyone with a personality like that when looking at what can be done with technology today will take the opportunity to ONCE AGAIN render a cleaner cut of their films. he has already done it at least twice. whats to keep him from doing it again.

when the matrix came out it was considered state of the art. so much so, i can say without hyperbole, that it was the most copied form of action in modern movie making. (notwithstanding that the style was really taken from anime, but that is not the point) i often watch the matrix as it is one of my favorite movies. i like all three but the first two acts of the first one always hold my attention. however, the cgi and the action seem like i am watching a really old movie. it is only 10 years old.

i feel much the same way about star wars. they look dated compared to what is coming out currently. and if i think they look dated then lucas definitely feels the same way.
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post #103 of 176
2/16/09 at 8:38pm

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You're comparing apples and candy bars. Obviously the Transformers cg work is going to look superior as it's being done NOW. Anything done with current technology will look better than something that was done 25-30 years ago.
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post #104 of 176
2/16/09 at 9:11pm

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Great trailer indeed....wasn't much talking which made it great. Bay has a little trouble with talking pictures.
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post #105 of 176
2/17/09 at 12:24am

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They showed this trailer before Friday the 13th and if you guys think it's awesome on a computer screen...



It looks like a darker film than the first, both in appearance and tone.
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post #106 of 176
2/17/09 at 3:42am

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Originally Posted by Brent M
Anything done with current technology will look better than something that was done 25-30 years ago.

prequels, maybe....
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post #107 of 176
2/17/09 at 6:18am

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Originally Posted by Diallo B
prequels, maybe....
The first prequel came out 10 years ago and the last one came out 4 years ago so Transformers 2 is going to look better. I really doubt George Lucas is going to be kept up at night worrying about the comparisons between Star Wars and Transformers.

Like Brent said, there's no comparison between the two.
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post #108 of 176
2/19/09 at 1:51am

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Originally Posted by Diallo B
i can't wait to get a 720p/1080p-5.1 download of this trailer. the mood and the cuts of this trailer are amazing.

Movie-List - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Trailer Page
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post #109 of 176
4/18/09 at 10:52pm

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New clip (kinda cheesy until Megan Fox takes off her pants ) followed by an incredible montage of new footage.

This is a password protected video on Vimeo

Edit: they just password protected the clip.

Edit 2: Someone posted it on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23MXZb23CzQ
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post #110 of 176
4/19/09 at 1:16pm

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I'm amazed at how little buzz there has been for this movie with only 2 months to go.
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post #111 of 176
4/19/09 at 1:38pm

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Originally Posted by LynxFX
New clip (kinda cheesy until Megan Fox takes off her pants ) followed by an incredible montage of new footage.

This is a password protected video on Vimeo

Edit: they just password protected the clip.

Edit 2: Someone posted it on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23MXZb23CzQ
Gee that was fast. It's gone.

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post #112 of 176
4/19/09 at 3:25pm

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Originally Posted by Brent M
I'm not going to get into another debate with you that will inevitably end with us arguing over Titanic, but I still contend that Bay is better at blowing up stuff than Cameron. T2 is one of my all-time favorite films and other Cameron movies like Terminator and True Lies are better than any of Bay's work, but when it comes to pure non-stop action I still think Bay does a better job.

Cameron can blow stuff up ... anyone can, that doesn't take any special talent.

Cameron actually focuses on story, not just random things blowing up.

Action just for the sake of action IMO is tiresome anyway. If the audience doesn't have any personal stake in what's going on ... then who cares. Transformers gets away by having the novelty of robots instead of say dinosaurs or something which the audience has seen before, not because the action even is all that amazing.

I honestly couldn't even tell what the hell was going on in most of the action scenes in Transformers ... but it's two giant robots, and that's supposed to be cool I guess.
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post #113 of 176
4/19/09 at 3:45pm

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Originally Posted by Pete-D
Cameron can blow stuff up ... anyone can, that doesn't take any special talent.

Cameron actually focuses on story, not just random things blowing up.

Action just for the sake of action IMO is tiresome anyway. If the audience doesn't have any personal stake in what's going on ... then who cares. Transformers gets away by having the novelty of robots instead of say dinosaurs or something which the audience has seen before, not because the action even is all that amazing.

I honestly couldn't even tell what the hell was going on in most of the action scenes in Transformers ... but it's two giant robots, and that's supposed to be cool I guess.


We'll just have to agree to disagree then.
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post #114 of 176
4/19/09 at 3:58pm

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Originally Posted by Brent M
We'll just have to agree to disagree then.

I'd also add to that that James Cameron more than likely could take a property like Transformers (toy franchise or not) and make a better film out of it than what Michael Bay did.

He's just a better director and a far better story teller.
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post #115 of 176
4/19/09 at 7:26pm

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Originally Posted by Holadem
Gee that was fast. It's gone.

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Yup, another one got posted. See it quick.
YouTube - Transformers 2 New Footage at ShoWest 2009 (HD)
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post #116 of 176
4/19/09 at 10:33pm

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Originally Posted by Pete-D
I'd also add to that that James Cameron more than likely could take a property like Transformers (toy franchise or not) and make a better film out of it than what Michael Bay did.

He's just a better director and a far better story teller.

But is he the right guy for the job? I would say no.

This story needs to be fairly light and fun rather than dark, serious and brooding like Cameron would surely depict it. That sort of vision isn't what Transformers was and is supposed to be.

I would argue that anyone who couldn't tell which robot was which during a fight sequence wasn't paying very close attention, I had no trouble whatsoever.
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post #117 of 176
4/19/09 at 11:29pm

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Does anyone know if the new movie will be another GM lovefest or will there actually be a diverse "race" of vehicles.
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post #118 of 176
4/20/09 at 12:53am

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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!
But is he the right guy for the job? I would say no.

This story needs to be fairly light and fun rather than dark, serious and brooding like Cameron would surely depict it. That sort of vision isn't what Transformers was and is supposed to be.

I would argue that anyone who couldn't tell which robot was which during a fight sequence wasn't paying very close attention, I had no trouble whatsoever.

Since when is Cameron a brooding or dark filmmaker? The first bit of Transformers is a very poor man's version of Terminator, the second half stops the story altogether for an action sequence.

Cameron is very good at taking these "silly" summer movies and actually giving them a sound grounding in terms of story, plotting, and character (along with the big spectacle).
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post #119 of 176
4/20/09 at 3:41am

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Well, I read Cameron's script for Spider-Man, so I'm not sure if he's the right guy to direct something that is already established .
That's not to say he wouldn't make a better film out of Transformers, though. I do hold Cameron in much higher regard than Bay.
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post #120 of 176
4/20/09 at 8:59am

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While I didn't like the first one, for some reason I'm kind of looking forward to seeing this. It will be silly, and cheesy, and probably dumb, but it looks SO COOL! I just bought the first on blu-ray just for the picture/sound demo material. This one will take that and amp it up a notch.
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