Movie: Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon

[Penner]

So, i only made this because i read in this article (http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/17192/labeouf-talks-tudyk-joins-transformers-3-) the following:

"Meanwhile Paramount Pictures has revealed that Alan Tudyk has also joined the cast, though details of his role are being kept under wraps."

I will watch this movie even if it sucks complete ass, for the sole purpose of him being in it.

[Animeniax]

I don't recognize him. Is there any reason you like him so much (as an actor)?

Here's hoping LeBeouf is right about the 3rd movie. He got it dead on about the 2nd movie: "unless you have those relationships, then the movie doesn't matter. Then it's just a bunch of robots fighting each other."

[UChessmaster]

Transformers 3? pass.

[Animeniax]

Transformers 3? pass.

Even after reading LaBeouf's comments concerning getting back to basics and making it less of a special effects mess and more relationship based?

[Penner]

I don't recognize him. Is there any reason you like him so much (as an actor)?

He played "Wash" in Firefly, even if this was his only merit, it would be enough for me to watch anything he is in (the same goes for most of the other cast members of Firefly aswell)

He's been in a few movies and tv shows, he was in the movie "A Knight's Tale" and he recently played "Alpha" on the show Dollhouse, and he was awesome in both.

Also, he was "Steve the Pirate" in Dodgeball ;D

[UChessmaster]

Even after reading LaBeouf's comments concerning getting back to basics and making it less of a special effects mess and more relationship based?

I never liked part 1 to begin with.

[Animeniax]

I never liked part 1 to begin with.

I imagine one of the biggest draws for fans was Megan Fox, but what with your preferences, that doesn't work on you.

http://www.beyondhollywood.com/posterx/transformers-megan-fox-070518-1.jpg

[Pandadice]

Then it's just a bunch of robots fighting each other.

I wish the movies were just a bunch of robots fighting each other. Then I might have actually enjoyed them to some extent.

[UChessmaster]

I imagine one of the biggest draws for fans was Megan Fox, but what with your preferences, that doesn't work on you.

Well there`s that, but guess what? Megan Fox won`t be drawing you either... cause she`s not in. (http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/michael-bays-revenge-no-more-megan/)

[Penner]

Good riddance, the only thing she had going for her anyway was her looks.

[Testarossa Autodrive]

That letter about Megan from the two crew members was hilarious. Whether any of the allegations were true, although it looks as if at least some of it could have been, I'm just glad she's not going to be in the third flick. She was there as eye candy and nothing more. Maybe the third one will be less shitty and all the explosions and loud noises will make up for it.

[Animeniax]

Well there`s that, but guess what? Megan Fox won`t be drawing you either... cause she`s not in. (http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/michael-bays-revenge-no-more-megan/)

She never was a draw for me, not my type. She worked well in the first movie and had some awesome scenes early in the second movie, but was pretty much worthless after that. I won't miss her in the third movie. But it looks like there will be another love interest for Chip.

I like the idea of seeing Megan's character squished by Megatron (or any Decepticon) early in the movie.

[Penner]

I like the idea of seeing Megan's character squished by Megatron (or any Decepticon) early in the movie.

Me too, but that will probably be limited to wishful thinking since i doubt they would fork out the money needed to get her to do it.

[Pandadice]

lol, they could use a crude CGI model of her xD

or maybe edit old footage of her xD

[Splash!]

Both the first and second movies were just awful.

Nonsensical plots, cheesy dialogue and bad acting weren't the biggest problems for me. My biggest gripe was that even with all that CGI, the robots looked like shit. Walking pieces of scrap metal and trash sewn together....

For a movie focusing on robots, I felt that they were poorly executed. I remember complaining about this for the first movie and people shrugging it off as "complex machines with lots of moving parts look more realistic than simple elegant designs".

Since then, there have been movies like District 9, Iron Man and Terminator Salvation that have pulled off the elegant and simple look brilliantly.

[Sapphire]

I heard Megan Fox won't be in movie 3.

Too much shit talking about Michael Bay.

[Penner]

It does indeed look like she's out.

Theres also this rumor going around now: New Transformers 3 female lead? (http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9395:transformers-3-female-lead-is-rosie-huntington-whiteley&catid=41:news&Itemid=71)

[XanBcoo]

I heard Megan Fox won't be in movie 3.

Too much shit talking about Michael Bay.

Michael Bay is a truly awful director and everything she said about him is accurate.

Good for her. I actually sort of respect her now.

[TwisT]

Also i heard it wasn't Bay that fired him but rather she that quit because Michael Bay is abusive to women on the set. And several sources backed it up (including several other female actors who have worked with him).

Never know where the truth lies. Both Bay and Fox are gonna wanna make it look like it was their decision. But i have no problem believing it was all Megan Fox's decision from what i have read about Michael Bay before.

[Sapphire]

Megan Fox is too (http://thesuperficial.com/2010/05/megan_fox_is_talking_again.php) hilarious.

[Penner]

HA, that is just fantastic!

I especially loved this part:
"I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself. I think I could survive a week without eating."

Good stuff :D

Also, i do like Michael Bay alot more than i like Megan Fox, because say what you want about his newer movies, the dude has made some earlier ones that i really do like, like these:

Bad Boys (1 and 2)
The Rock
Armageddon
Pearl Harbor
The Island

[Penner]

It would appear the rumors were true regarding the new lead female in Transformers 3.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley set for Transformers 3 (http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/17325/huntington-whiteley-set-for-transformers-3-)

[Animeniax]

Disappointing that they chose a waifish lingerie model for the role instead of a real actress. Not like there aren't a lot of hot young actresses who deserve the role more than an underwear model.

Personally I'd like to see Oksana Akinshina (Irena Neski in the Bourne Supremacy) in the role but her English isn't great.

[Penner]

Yeah why can't they just pic people who are actual actresses, instead they just pick "random" goodlooking women and give them acting gigs, in major blockbuster movies no less.

I guess they go for unknown people because they only have to pay them a fraction of what a more established/good actress would cost...

[Testarossa Autodrive]

This isn't the kind of movie that's looking for an even remotely bearable performance by the love interest (or the main protagonist for that matter). It's a summer action flick for eye candy and not a whole lot more. If Bay was going for a memorable performance, he'd find someone who was capable of delivering one, but he's not looking to snag an award for great script writing/acting, so aspects like that tend to suffer.

[Animeniax]

If LaBoeuf wasn't just trying to sell the movie with his words, then Transformers 3 will rely heavily on story and on the acting ability of the leads, including the love interest. Transformers 2 was a special effects mess with a weak story line that did not let the actors shine, and that's why it was a disappointment for most.

I think the special effects will take a backseat to the storyline in the 3rd movie. Unfortunately this might mean more "human" roles for the Transformers themselves, which is something that always bugged me about the cartoons. It was hard to like arrogant Lamborghinis, whiny-bots, and soldier-bots who didn't follow orders (the aero-bots).

[Pandadice]

I just really hope they take those two racist autobots out Actually, screw it. I'm probably not gonna see the movie.

[Penner]

Assuming you mean those two "twin" cars, i read somewhere that they won't be appearing in the 3rd movie :P

[Animeniax]

Yes those two ghetto-bots were terrible, a bit of the Jar-Jar Binks touch to try to reach a new audience that failed miserably in the eyes of the core fans.

[Penner]

Thing is, even if they go back to a 'relationship' basis for the 3rd movie thats not necessarily a good thing (my opinion) because the only reason i watch Transformers is just because it is TRANSFORMERS, i really don't give a shit about most of the humans in the movies, with a few exceptions like Anthony Anderson (hilarious) and John Turturro.

If i had my wish, they would make a Transformers movie about the war on Cybertron and the relationships of the Autobots/Decepticons and how the war started, and it would all take place on Cybertron.

That shit would be so awesome if done right :P

[UChessmaster]

If i had my wish, they would make a Transformers movie about the war on Cybertron and the relationships of the Autobots/Decepticons and how the war started, and it would all take place on Cybertron.

Yes please!

[Animeniax]

Did you guys not see the cartoon version of all of that already? I think it would be a huge CGI-fest that I wouldn't want to see. There would be no human movie stars present so it won't happen.

[Penner]

I wouldn't mind movies made entirely with CGI, if it's done good they can do it, and they could use whatever technology Cameron used in Avatar and it would look awesome.

Though I'm not sure how much it costs to actually create the Avatar quality CGI, they should be able to afford it since they only need actors for the voices and not any on-screen performances :P

Still, it probably won't ever happen :(

[iMUSTbeTHEdevil]

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/705326/Michael-Bay-Drops-Details-On-Transformers-3-Last-In-The-Series.html

Some info on the villain, how Bay felt about the second film, and the reports about this being the last film.

[Penner]

Shockwave!!

[darkshadow]

Mini review, trailer refers to youtube trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPFURb5S_sQ&feature=share):



Just saw Transformers: Dark of the moon IMAX 3D

**disclaimer, I did not see any material related to the movie before watching, and found the experience to be far greater, so watch the trailer at your own risk, the comments have tons of spoilers, review has the absolute minimum of spolers**

This movie was one epic thrillride. I loved the first one, but found Transformers 2 to be pretty dissapointing. Sure it had some good action sequences and the VFX were nice, but overall it was just very very messy; thankfully Dark of the Moon is more like the first one, heck because it had even less goofs than the first movie it's just plain better.

First of, Megan Fox being booted out of the cast was a good decision. The new girl, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, is not only a better actress (which granted isn't that big of a feat), but is also simply hotter; overall her presence on screen was just better than fox's was.

The story was much better than the one that was hardly present in that mess of a second movie, giving ample screentime to humans and individual bots alike and coupled with proper pacing this ~155 minute movie didn't feel like a drag at all.
I especially liked the inclusion of the historical apollo mission and JFK. Without spoiling too much, the only thing that bugged me about the story was how....gullible huminaty supposedly was....you stand your ground and fight goddamit! >_<

There was also a bunch of comedic moments, one with sam kicking the engine of his car, which was so damn funny for some reason, and a bunch more with people I didn't even expect to be in Transformer 3.

Now ofcourse the big selling point of Michael b.... I mean the Transformers franchise are the awesome action sequences and great VFX; Dark of the Moon definitly did not dissapoint in this aspect.
The graphical fidelity was just insane, best I've seen so far. I really tried hard to find errors...but honestly there were none. In fact I was already blow away with the opening sequence on cybertron. Now that's how you start a fucking movie...
Until we generate truly photorealistic graphics, this is definitly as good as it gets. Big part of that is cause of how grand and epic the scale of the movie is; Transformers and Revenge of the Fallen's sequences are actually quite small ( aside from the first movie's highway sequence ofcourse D: ). This time around it feels massive....it feels like how a war between giant ass robots should be.

Also the 3D effects were good, but where Thor might've been too strong with them, here they seemed like they could've been a bit stronger. But they did use the layering type of 3D I love..so yeah.

The audio didn't dissapoint at all either, it was more inline with Transformers, but better, not just loud like Revenge of the Fallen.

As for character specific stuff: Soundwave, Shockwave, Sideswipe and Sentinel (hey look at that, 4 S's ;P) were badass as hell! Too bad out of the 4 only Sentinel had some major screentime.
This time around I felt there weren't any annoying bots, like the ghetto twins in Fallen, so that's good..right?

Overall great audio, good pacing, superb AFX/VFX and a good story, bots and ppl alike die and it ends without any melodramatic bullshit, like it should..cause in the end this is an action movie where you just want to see lots of action accompanied by lots of explosions ;].

Highly recommended, blu-ray day 1 purchase! Go check this shit out! ;D

[Yukimura]

Just saw this as well. Definitely better than Fallen and I'm torn about considering it better than the first one as I think the first one would win on humor and in universe 'realism' (e.g. Transformers being immune to all but the most powerful and exotic human weapons and completely outmatching nearly all human technologies). The new sexy chick was pretty good, I'm not sure if I liked or disliked her massive pouty lips but I kept looking at them either way. Shia LeBouf was pretty consistent and Alan Tud(Firefly guy)'s was a great addition to the John Turturro random gag factory. But no one watched this movie for the humans, the robot action was intense and there was plenty of it without it feeling boring and repetitive like the pitched battle in Fallen. All in all this was definitely worth the sight.

[Assassin]

this movie blew chunks

[UChessmaster]

So.... i heard this movie is good from several sources, is it true? should i bother or am i falling into another special effects filled no original story at all trap?

[Pandadice]

I wouldn't even bother watching it bro. I tried to like it, and I might say it's better than the first two (especially the second one), but overall its really just more of the same crap.

I was looking forward to Shockwave as the bad guy, but he only shows up like 2 or three times in the movie. And what was that worm/snake robot thing he had? And it's probably just my fanboy said talking, but I really wish Laserbeak... was cooler? I dunno, I hated everything about laserbeak in this movie, despite him being one of the coolest.. I enjoyed Ravage in the second movie, but just couldn't like Laserbeak. And I wish Soundwave, not necessarily had a bigger part, but was just like.. Transformed into a cassette player/radio. Maybe a CD player. Or an MP3 player.. I just wanted to see Laserbeak transform into a disc/tape and go inside soundwave, that would've made the movie for me. (But that's really just fanboy ranting)

The plot was cool cause it was (almost) straight out of the old TV series, but I was disappointed when cybertron came close to earth and earth wasn't being ripped apart (like in the TV series)

I used to think these movies would be great if it was just tformers going at it, and there weren't any humans, but even when they do get that in the movies, it just looks so lame. I guess I thought the fighting would make up for it in the previous movies, but in this movie I just couldn't get past the hideous designs for the tformers.

[DayoftheDante]

Soundwave


Did they fix his voice in this one? I was horrified in the 2nd when he didn't speak entirely in chords.

[gos27]

Heard pretty bad things about this movie, might get around to watching when its out on DVD/Bluray.

@Penner : If you like Alan Tudyk, i suggest you watch a film called 'Tucker and Dale Vs Evil', he's excellent in it, and also plays a major role to the film. Oh and of course it's a brilliant, and funny film :)

[Pandadice]

Did they fix his voice in this one? I was horrified in the 2nd when he didn't speak entirely in chords.
Mm, I don't remember if he spoke at all in this one.. He might've, and if he did it was probably the same voice as from the 2nd film, which was really lame. Laserbeak spoke in this one a lot, and I don't remember him speaking at all in the show, but I really didn't like his voice.