Based on what I've seen of the various designs floating around out there, I'd say this Shockwave is more like Energon Shockblast with Bay-verse design influences.
'Transformers 3' Casting, Rumors, Pics till release
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I watch both movies every now and then for the camp value. They're not well written but they pass time.
I wouldn't even call the first one written poorly, let alone bad. The second one however is written incredibly horrid. I don't even own it. The die hard TF fan in me will not let me buy it yet. Maybe if I find it for $5 or a crazy Black Friday price of $2-3.
I so want DOTM to be good but ROTF proved that yes, good looking trailers can disguise crap.
How can you possibly claim that? He's written two movies (with a third in development). One which was a wildly successful, award nominated comedy, and the other was a franchise film that was besieged by studio demands clearly outside his (and his director's) control.
First full-length trailer for Dark of the Moon is now on apple.com.
It's been said elsewhere, but what I enjoy most is that it looks like an alien invasion movie with Autobots and Decepticons, something I think the first two films have been leading up to.
I agree the designs are overly cluttered, as a result of CGI making it easy for artists to be total bitches and replace actual talent and thought with endless greeblies and superfluous details. This isn't a problem limited to the Transformers movies, sadly, and if you look at the action figures (which necessitate simplifying the movie designs) they actually work quite well.
That said it's bloody well fucking obvious who Optimus is, and "rebooting" Transformers is the dumbest thing I've read today; we're already doomed to endless rehashings of G1 as it is, what fool would encourage that behavior?
It did and that is what scares me.
I know Bay says this is going to better than ROTF but those trailers disguised bad humor, crappy dialogue and a host of problems.
Fool me once...
I want this to be good, please Bay let it be good.
DAM...thats just, well there is not a word for that 
The trailers have all looked great so far. It's the story that still concerns me and Kruger is not one to inspire confidence. I'm also eagerly anticipating Steve Jablonsky's score!!! It was one of the few good things about "Revenge of the Fallen".
I agree with you about Kruger. Not to be mean and this is gonna sound pretty harsh but she looks like a poor man's Cameron Diaz circa The Mask, but with botched lip injections.
Hasbro, Takara Tomy and many other companies involved in Transformers would. "Transformers" has been rebooted many times. Only recently has there an attempt been made to consolidate the various bits of its history into something cohesive via the "War for Cybertron" video game and fiction. Series like "Armada" and "Transformers Prime" in many ways are reboots (though they largely use elements of G1 but add to them).
That trailer was great but a little lite in the new footage department. Some stuff on the moon was taken from the first trailer, Prime blitzing the cons came from the Super Bowl spot.
Glad to see Steve Jablonsky is doing the score again. Love his work. My Name is Lincoln from The Island is one of my favourite pieces.
Glad to see Steve Jablonsky is doing the score again. Love his work. My Name is Lincoln from The Island is one of my favourite pieces.
^ Mine too.
^ I'm not sure how you can make any comment on the story having depth from action based trailers.
From whatever they showed so far.
The score and album are already up on Amazon for pre-order. They've a release date for June 7th.
