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Can You Identify the Transformers Super Bowl Trailer to Which These Screenshots Belong?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (17)

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Last night during the Super Bowl, the Transformers: Dark of the Moon trailer debuted, and besides the noisy Michael Bay music being less bass-y and more electronic-y than the last Super Bowl commercial for Revenge of the Fallen, you can hardly detect any substantive differences between his approach. Take out Megan Fox and replace her with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and the elements are the same: Shia LaBeouf plus explosions. What about the Dark of the Moon teaser is meant to erase your unsatisfactory memories of Revenge of the Fallen?

Here’s a game for your afternoon pleasure. There are ten screenshots below. Five are from the Revenge of the Fallen teaser trailer, and five are from the Dark of the Moon teaser trailer, both of which debuted in their respective year’s Super Bowls. Can you identify which screenshot belongs to which movie? Bonus points if you can actually identify what the hell is going on.


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Comments

I get it! It's funny because they're formless blobs!

Posted by: Blank at February 7, 2011 4:39 PM

It was actually pretty obvious. Not that I remember the Revenge Of The Fallen trailer, because I don't.

It's just that the new trailer is totally rad. And my brain works in strange ways.

Posted by: Sam at February 7, 2011 4:44 PM

I see a couple of shot of what has to be Optimus Prime and a couple of very clear images of a douche.

Posted by: Tra at February 7, 2011 4:45 PM

I can tell the difference, but I haven't seen Revenge and won't see Dark.

Posted by: Fredo at February 7, 2011 4:46 PM

Trick question. The 1st is from Revenge of the Fallen, the 2nd is from Dark of the Moon since it's... darker, and the rest are just what Michael Bay sees when he masturbates.

Posted by: jM at February 7, 2011 4:49 PM

HEEEEEEE jM.

Posted by: Julie at February 7, 2011 5:04 PM

I have a four-year-old son who loves Transformers and as a result have seen both movies more times than I care to count ... and so any pictures of the new film just make me profoundly depressed because I know in a year's time I won't have seen any of the films up for Oscars but I'll have seen this Transformers crap into double figures. *sighs*

Posted by: lingli at February 7, 2011 5:08 PM

#1, #4 and #s 6-8 are from Revenge of the Fallen.

Specifically, 4 is from the 2nd movie's trailer when they're in China and Sideswipe is chasing another car through that industrial complex or whatever.

6 and 8 definitely have that big tire that they Optimus parachutes in on and kills in the opening as well.

1, I'm guessing, is from that ridiculous end of the movie section in the desert and Shia dies before going to robot heaven.

7 is possibly from the part where Optimus gets his ass kicked in the woods.

*note* Please tell me I'm not right. This is not something to be proud of.

Posted by: D-Day at February 7, 2011 5:08 PM

Ummm ... lessee, explosions, pasty wad of useless flesh, explosions, blurry blobs of what might be either machinery or dueling stag beetles ...

Sorry. Can't pick out one from the other.

Posted by: The Wanderer at February 7, 2011 5:19 PM

I can't tell one CGI suckfest from another-and I'm quite proud of it actually...

Posted by: Mark M at February 7, 2011 6:20 PM

Without reading the rest of the thread...

2, 3, 5, 9, 10 are clearly DotM. I can't say for certain what's going on, not having seen the movie, but I think The Beef is looking over his shoulder at something, probably a Decepticon, chasing him; Decepticons are fucking shit up; Optimus is going all "GIMME YOUR VARIOUS BODY PARTS" on various Decepticons while wearing a jetpack; robo-tentacles wrecking a street's day; and troops bailing out of a V-22 while another one goes down in the background.

I even recognized a couple from RotF without knowing that. Now knowing what they are...

In 1, The Beef is scaredy-catting of Decepticons in the big desert showdown.

In 4, a robot is getting blowed up real good. I think it looks like Optimus.

In 6, Mr. Bigwheel is charging a couple of choppers.

In 7, a closeup of Optimus's death.

In 8, Optimus jumping down onto Mr. Bigwheel as he plows through an overpass.

Do I get a prize?

Posted by: Shadowen at February 7, 2011 6:36 PM

@D-Day and Shadowen: NNNNEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDSSSSS!*

* Shouted lovingly and appreciatively, of course.

Posted by: RobP at February 7, 2011 6:48 PM

I'd claim the crown, RobP, on the basis of an hour and a half lead over my fellow nerd.

But then again, it's not like I'm writing a comic or anything...

*whispered under breath with appropriate level of well-intentioned sarcasm*

Posted by: D-Day at February 7, 2011 7:47 PM

Forgive my ignorance (I have only ever seen the last thirty minutes of the first movie in this franchise.) but just wondering: Second to last screenshot...which city is that supposed be? It looks like Chicago...

Posted by: kiyo-chan at February 7, 2011 8:05 PM

Those all look like closeups of metal things being blended on Will It Blend?

Posted by: Figgy at February 7, 2011 11:16 PM

yup. Those are totally screen grabs of CGI shit CGI blowing the CGI fuck up.

Posted by: the bees knees at February 8, 2011 1:45 AM

No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Posted by: The Mutt at February 8, 2011 6:54 AM