Transformers: Dark of the Moon. It’s either a giant robot movie or the next Twilight film. Now we’ve got a full-length trailer that answers that question.
Shia LaBeouf is back to periodically interrupt all the anthropomorphic car action with nervous stammering and John Turturro is back to finish the job of burying all the good memories we had of him in Coen Brothers films from the 90s. Megan Fox is not back. I’m sure we’ll all miss… whatever it is she did in the first two movies. All I recall is that she arched her back in front of a car one time.
So what do we have in this new trailer? Transformers. On the moon. Except when they’re in DC blowing up monuments. We also get music that sounds suspiciously like a mashup of the film scores from various Christopher Nolan movies.
What we don’t get in this trailer is cutesy Shia LeBeouf quips. Maybe he won’t talk much in this one? Maybe we’ll get less boring human stuff and more repetitive Optimus Prime robot punching?
That’s the genius of Michael Bay. He answered one question only to leave us with more. See it July 1.
Lets hope it is better than transformers 2. Thank Gandalf that they got rid of megan fox, but lord knows why they keep Shia. I think he must be somebody’s love child in hollywood.
“See it July 1.”
Or, you could spend July 1st on the beach, and go see Herzog’s Chauvet Cave doc today, and in 3D too…
Chucky, pitting Michael Bay against Werner Herzog is hardly fair. Bay fires his actors. Herzog threatens to shoot them. That’s a level of film making passion that’s difficult to equal.
“Chucky, pitting Michael Bay against Werner Herzog is hardly fair.”
True, on so very many levels.
I enjoy my share of summer popcorn action movies, but I just think Bay is awful at the genre. He ends up boring the audience for stretches, which is a crime in the genre. But de gustibus non est disputandum. If you enjoy, go enjoy.
Herzog, on the other hand, has quietly become the best documentarian of his era over the past twenty years. Grizzly Man is the one everyone knows, but he’s done some other pretty amazing docs, especially in the past ten years. And the Chauvet Cave is pretty much the first movie that our species ever made, and they haven’t ever let anyone have free roam of the cave with a camera and lights before they let Herzog in, and it’s in 3-D. If you don’t see it before it (quickly) disappears from cinemas, you either don’t live near civilization, or you are making bad cinemagoing choices.
Pitting Bay’s current against Herzog’s current is like pitting a 6th grade girls basketball team against the Miami Heat…
As one of a few people who thought Transformers 2 was better than Transformers 1 (so-so origin story versus giant robot battles… it’s really an easy choice), I’m very stoked about Transformers 3. Was intrigued by first trailer and second trailer makes it clear Bay is going for a more gritty, realistic tone.
Megan Fox’s absence is really inconsequential — I can’t imagine Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Victoria’s Secret model) can do worse acting. And for all the claims from Fox that it was her choice not to do the third movie, it seems she _was_ fired and lost the role in the only successful project she’s been involved in.
Chucky, I’ve very specifically requested KC emphasize flicks of this nature and I’m sure he wouldn’t entirely disagree with you. Maybe we need to balance it with the occasional roundup post of worthwhile movies, including those that may not have been on everyone’s radar.
“it seems (Fox) _was_ fired and lost the role in the only successful project she’s been involved in.”
Whoever terminated the deal, Fox is a pretty good special effect who has single-handedly made some other less big-budget movies “successful” as movies.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and Jennifer’s Body were both pretty good entertainments that really wouldn’t have worked without the special effect of Megan Fox. She’s got more zazz than the average top Victoria’s Secret model of the day…
“Chucky, I’ve very specifically requested KC emphasize flicks of this nature”
No doubt a wise choice. And like I say, I do enjoy my fair share of big summer event movies.
I just already have my tickets reserved for a sold-out showing of the Herzog movie tonight, and I’m geeked for it.
I honestly was a little disappointed. This movie needed more action. Had A GREAT plot but needed more action other then the final battle scene. Transformers 2 was EPIC, sure the plot wasn’t super but who cares the trailer itself made you wonder how they got to all those places. But Transformers 3, 80% of the footage all happened in Chicago. We needed more forest scenes and desert scenes.