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New Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Trailer: Welcome To the Next Kaboomaganza

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (20)

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Oy. I don’t know what to make of Michael Baynis’ newest kaboomaganza, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. It actually looks kind of exciting. It actually looks kind of cool. There are some pretty damn impressive shots in the trailers, and the newest are no exceptions. Bay seems to be avoiding one of the things that made the prior two films rather unbearable — at least it’s not (at least, based on the two minutes of footage below) edited to absolute death. It still looks like it’s gonna give people headaches, but there are a couple of shots — Optimus rampaging through some bad guys, Bumblebee rescuing guys falling off of a destroyed building — that are just a single shot. One of my numerous gripes about the last film was that the editing was so hyperactive that I simply had no fucking idea what was going on, and you could never really get a good picture of what the robots actually looked like in action.

The thing that’ll sink it, inevitably, will be the dialogue, which will in all likelihood be clunky, painfully trite, and completely lacking in subtlety. I can live with that, as long as there isn’t too much of it, and the trailers, wisely perhaps, are eschewing too much dialogue and just showing cuts of the above mentioned kaboomapalooza. The story, about Transformers buried beneath the surface of the moon for decades and coming down to rain blammo down upon Chicago, doesn’t really matter.

Watch the newest trailer, and judge fo’ yo’selves:

So yeah, it’s possible that they’ve learned a couple of lessons from the prior films. Then again, the prior films made a smadgebagillion frillion dollars, so why fuck with it? Who knows. All I know is, the trailers? Not that bad. And I’m excited to see Chicago get leveled, because hey, better them than New York for once.









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Comments

I like it, but I just can't get over Megan Fox's replacement's face. If anything, she'll be the one to ruin the movie for me.

Posted by: chad at May 23, 2011 11:37 AM

MMMmmmmm sweet kaboomaganza mmmmm

Posted by: ChickaBoom! at May 23, 2011 11:43 AM

I agree with Chad, those lips belong one someone else/needs to given back to the bees. You'd think with their budget, they could CGI Statham's gf some normal sized lips.

She better have a scene where she kicks some ass/shoots a gun. Nothing bugs me more than when the woman just cowers in the corner. At the beginning fine, but she needs to grow some lady balls.

Posted by: kilmo at May 23, 2011 11:49 AM

I keep thinking she's CGI. Seriously, I can't believe that's an actual human being. She's failing the Turing Test big time.

Posted by: Joker at May 23, 2011 11:56 AM

I'm not falling for this again. Decent trailers and even some coworkers' positive reviews couldn't undo the disappointment of the first one, and the trailer for the second looked decent and that was by all means Bay's worst film yet. I'll be waiting for this on Netflix.

Posted by: Markus at May 23, 2011 11:58 AM

My big issue: Does anyone really buy Shia LaBeouf as an action star?

Posted by: Robert at May 23, 2011 12:00 PM

Aaaaaah, smell that?

That's the smell of damp sticky ass.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 23, 2011 12:13 PM

Nothing is over until we say it is, Tyrese!

Posted by: Protoguy at May 23, 2011 12:29 PM

BarbadoSlim wins one free internet for the swamp-ass joke.

Posted by: The Wanderer at May 23, 2011 1:00 PM

Some of those sets look recycled from Armageddon. I may see this only because it's set in Chicago (Chicago + robotic things = hooray).

Posted by: kiyo-chan at May 23, 2011 1:08 PM

Hate to admit it, but this looked pretty damn impressive in the theater. Amazing what a difference a giant screen and surround sound makes.

Posted by: Dingles at May 23, 2011 1:46 PM

they better have a gud explanation for why the sleeping robots didn't show up in the first two movies.

also, i hope they explain Megan Fox's disappearance. Maybe start the movie off with Shia crying in front of her tombstone or something. They din explain wat happened to Thandie Newton after Tom Cruise spent the entire time saving her in MI:2 and that really bothered when I was trying to enjoy MI:3.

Posted by: haplo at May 23, 2011 2:31 PM

No matter how dramatic music may be during a trailer I still wait until DVD. And hate Fox as much as you want but I would have much rather have her in this 3rd one. Not hating on the new girl but I hate when they replace....

Posted by: The Minn at May 23, 2011 4:42 PM

Kaboomorgasmic is more like it. Who is that dude that replaced Megan Fox?

Posted by: James S at May 23, 2011 6:39 PM

A "damp stinky swamp ass" wins the internet wanderer. You really must be the dumbest sumbitch alive. Hey, head on over to 4chan and let the guys know about that would ya champ? Honestly "fucktard" has never been more appropriate.

Posted by: JackRandom at May 23, 2011 8:11 PM

I found the music really, really annoying.

Posted by: Amy at May 23, 2011 8:29 PM

Posted by: JackRandom at May 23, 2011 8:11 PM

U mad?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 23, 2011 8:36 PM

Uh-oh, someone called out BarbadoSlim.

Bitch I have a POWER RING and *I* don't call out BarbadoSlim!

Maaaaaaan...

Posted by: Green Lantern at May 23, 2011 9:14 PM

Hey, I called out BarbadoSlim one time and look what happened to me.

Posted by: Hope and Change at May 24, 2011 6:48 AM

I'm diggin' the long camera shots. Michael Bay is learning.

Posted by: Vick at May 25, 2011 7:58 PM