TRANSFORMERS 3 to be called...

[Cicero]

Recommended reading:
iO9 Movie Review: Transformers 2: Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie

I agree with the review in one respect:

"Transformers: ROTF has mostly gotten pretty hideous reviews, but that's because people don't understand that this isn't a movie, in the conventional sense."
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I think that's correct. More than a traditional movie, Revenge of the Fallen is a children's action figure game given big-screen life (for an older audience). I don't think that anything is necessarily wrong with that. It's certainly a different approach, but it's one that seemed very effective last year.

I do find the review's focus on male audience member interesting, given my sister's ebullience whenever she has the opportunity to discuss Revenge of the Fallen. (A web search suggests that the movie's audience was nearly half female, so she probably isn't alone.) I think the reviewer may have missed the point.

 

[captcalhoun]

it's not a movie, it's a 2hour toy commercial masquerading as a movie.

and i have no problem with that. and i am not guilty about any pleasure i derive from watching either Transformers films or the GI Joe movie.

 

[zakkrusz]

Nothing much beats giant robots blowing stuff up, enjoy the simple things in life. I say bring on film 3, I'll be there on opening weekend.

 

[Brent]

I've loved every single Transformers movie so far. Looking forward to this one.

 

[Aragorn]

Armond White loved Revenge of the Fallen, so you know it's good.

 

[STR]

I think the reviewer may have missed the point.

I think you might have missed the point. T2 was ridiculously absurd, on almost all levels. The writer felt the only appropriate response was an equally ridiculous review. The forays into Freudianism is just means to an end.

 

[Whofan]

Transformers is no stranger to criticism-the 80's animated movie got horrible reviews, too....of course, it's like a masterpiece compared to Bay's films.


Anybody play the new video game, War for Cybertron? Like Star Wars' Knights of the Old Republic games, it's a better outlet for the franchise than the movies.

 

[Admiral_Young]

"War for Cybertron" is how the first movie should have been. They used the movie designs better than Bay did.

 

[Whofan]

Actually, WFC doesn't use the movie designs (Transformers: Prime on the other hand, has designs that are clearly inspired from the Bay movies). I would describe the WFC designs as sort of a mix between the various incarnations of Transformers.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Fair enough. I wish we would have got to have seen Orci and Kurtzman's first draft for "Transformers 2" there were some pretty epic scenes planned (including a homage to TF: The Movie where they had Starscreams coronation) and a big battle between him and Megatron...and best of all, no Fallen. What I hated about the Fallen is that he made Megs look weak, ineffective, and irrelevant. It had a sort of Galvatron/Unicron thing going on about it but worse than that.

 

[Saul]

^ Isn't Unicron unique among TF characters in that he is exactly the same in all the various continuities? Indeed, there is only *one* Unicron, which exists simultaneously in all such universes.

I vaguely remember reading something like that before but isn't that only in the Universe Continuity or the old dreamwave Armada comics? I don't think it's been mentioned on screen.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Yes it's something like that and the seeds for Primus and Unicron appearing kind of were set up when Tyreese's character asks aloud I wonder who made them or something to that effect. I seriously doubt that Unicron will appear in this movie, I know that Orci and Kurtzman wanted to include him but left the project. I think Bay has mentioned him in a previous interview or maybe one of the audio commentaries he did.

 

[Whofan]

It looks like....

Spoiler: Transformers 3

The plot will involve time travel of some sort. Lebouf and Huntington have been spotted in what appears to be another alt mode for Bumblebee, a 1960s car (Not a camero, I don't think) but with Bumblebee's familiar paint scheme. They did say at some point in publicity Bumblebee would gain a new form, I guess this is it. Also there have been a lot of rumors that at least part of the film is set in the 60s. Certainly, the franchise is no stranger to time travel-several original series episodes had it, as did Beast Wars.

 

[T'Baio]

The space race, the moon landings, and John F. Kennedy figure prominently into the movie. This is already known.

 

[Candlelight]

I think the worst title would be Transformers: Wheelie Comes Home

Anyone that has seen the original movie and cartoon knows of Wheelie.

Wheelie does appear in this movie apparently.

Don't forget he was in ROTF (rolling on the floor?) as well, last seen trying to hump Megan Fox's leg.

 

[Candlelight]

The space race, the moon landings, and John F. Kennedy figure prominently into the movie. This is already known.

I had no idea.

 

[B.J.]

Looks like someone took Bumblebee out:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2EbSd3i50g[/yt]
And for me, the coolest thing about that video was noticing that Optimus was pulling a trailer, and the trailer had a stripe on it similar to the original 1984 version.

 

[captcalhoun]

didn't anyone tell that cop they were filming?!?!

 

[Ruaidhri]

There was a red car behind Bumblebee. Cliffjumper?

 

[Trekker4747]

Or tell the driver of the Camaro to, you know, react?!

It didn't even look like he tried to avoid the accident!