Transformers Full Theatrical Trailer Available

roelbj writes "The full trailer for Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers movie is now finally available on Yahoo. Unlike the teaser trailers that have only hinted at what the final effects would deliver, we can at long last get a much better feeling for how the live-action CGI Transformers will look."

I'm Sold.

[AbsoluteXyro]

At first I wasn't sure about this. The designs of the Transformers, when I first saw them, seemed way too busy and overcomplicated. Now that I've seen it in motion, especially the awesome transformation sequences, I'm sold on this film.

From the previews, it seems to me the weakest part of this flick may not be the robots in disguise, but their human counterparts.

Re:I'm Sold.

[WebCrapper]

Yea, I was the same. When the helicopter transformed though, I was hooked.

Re:mixed feelings

[bigstrat2003]

Also, have you seen some stills of Optimus Prime? He doesn't look like his cartoon incarnation at all, imo. I understand that done "properly", Optimus wouldn't go over so well in the movie... but come on, can they at least get the faceplate right? Not to mention that Optimus doesn't have flames, I'm sorry. Call me a purist, but he's only the most iconic character from that franchise, you'd think they'd REALLY WANT to get him right.

Re:I'm Sold.

[ErikInterlude]

I used to be a huge Transformers fan (the original series before the movie, and the movie. I wasn't too into everything that came after). It's sort of left me split on how to feel about this movie. On the one hand, it's clearly got action, great visuals, and I like that they're keeping that sound the Transformers make when they change form (it's a small point, I know).

On the other hand, this is a Michael Bay film. I heard he got his start as a director of music videos, so that might serve him well in a film like this. The problem is he goes for big explosions and fancy camera shots over good storytelling. And the purist in me kinda wishes they stayed with the original designs.

That said, it's pretty much a given that I'm going to go see it.

Re:I'm Sold.

[SvnLyrBrto]

> but then I realize that it's being produced by spielberg,

If Spielberg were directing instead of producing, and michael bay were in no way whatsoever involved; I might agree. I have too much of a suspicion that, even with Spielberg looking over his shoulder, michael bay will find some way to royally fuck it up. This is a wait-for-HBO one for me.

> Same thing with pirates of the caribbean...I hate most jerry bruckheimer
> movies, but johnny depp sort of cancels him out too.

Meh. I must be one of the freak few who didn't care for POTC. Not that it was appallingly bad; but I don't think it was anything special. And even Johnny Depp couldn't change that. Maybe if they'd had Tim Burton direct...

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Re:Disappointed

[bm_luethke]

At this point that explanation seems kinda strange - yea they were involved with Hitler but so was pretty much every single German company around then. It doesn't bother me a bit to take Bayer Aspirin even knowing what went on then - todays company has little to do with back then. Not only that, but a vehicle for every person was one of the good idea's that Nazi Germany had that much of the rest of the world followed - the US's interstates were a derivative of what they saw with the Autobahn and I bet pretty much every USian drives on them.

I could understand a reluctance to be a Decepticon - not only does the name suck from a marketing point of view but so does being the bad guy. However, for you car to be one of the freaking saviors of the world *ought* to be a good thing. Given what I have seen in the past from VW I could see a VERY successful campaign - then again given their current commercials I can also see why they felt it was bad to be one of the saviors of the world.

This was a fairly ignorant move on the part of VW. I have fairly happy memories of playing with the VW beetle transformer in my sandbox as a kid. They are missing out on a great opportunity here because of some idiotic notion that few people buy into.

Re:mixed feelings

[suv4x4]

Not to mention that Optimus doesn't have flames, I'm sorry. Call me a purist, but he's only the most iconic character from that franchise, you'd think they'd REALLY WANT to get him right.

I'll quote the director losely (from memory):

"At first we went with designs that looked much more like the original cartoon designs. Simpler, blocky, faceplates and all that. We all agreed they looked terrible in a live actions set. There are things that look perfectly fine in a cartoon or a comicbook but need to be modified to be believable in a live movie."

Trust me, they want to make money on this film. If they could take the original designs and it'd be fine, they'd just do it. Why would they waste so much money on creating totally new designs, much more complex mechanics and try to animate all this?

Because they're "evil" right? Wanna destroy your childhood memories. Them bastards.

Re:I'm Sold.

[xero314]

The designs of the Transformers, when I first saw them, seemed way too busy and overcomplicated.

Having seen all the trailers and a number of stills I have to say that I still don't like the Robots. The Japanese artists that designed the characters that The Transformers were based on, as well as all the incarnations of The Transformer Toy line, put alot of care into making sure that their transformations were realistic. Most of the original Transformer Line could have transformed without need for unrealistic physics. Working versions of The Transformers, as well as most Japanese Mecha, are physically possible (with the possible exception of the aerodynamics of the flying ones). You can't say this about the versions in the upcoming Movie. It won't stop me from seeing it, but it will bring down my enjoyment a bit. And when they finally do put out a toy line for the movie, and they will, the units will look cheap and the transformations will be both unrealistic and only a weak simulation of the movie.

Re:This movie is doubly insulting to me

[Aqua OS X]

"This movie is doubly insulting to me"

More insulting then a half hour commercial, I mean cartoon, designed to sell toys?

Re:Robot speech?

[NBarnes]

The basic problem with this movie is going to be, and I'm telling you this now and you can admit I'm right later, is that the creative team feels the need to have humans running around that we can 'identify' with instead of trusting their writing, directing, and SFX to make the Transformers themselves the main characters. And no matter what else they get right (and that 'Exclusive' trailer was very damn cool), that will be the major failing of the movie.

The movie is not 'The Kids That Pal Around With Transformers', the movie is 'Transformers'.

Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman

[ystar]

Hope all you want, but you'll probably be let down. The two human actors seem like they're going to be the ones that really drag the movie into the dirt. Awkward lines, awkward romance, annoying quips...all in just a few seconds of the trailer. I haven't watched much of the transformers series (before my time) but the original movie was interesting...I think Welles really captured the insensitivity, the lack of compassion, that really makes a robot a robot. And yet there's so much humanity in the autobots. I don't mean to get all deep, I'm just saying these are some of the themes that would undoubtedly make the movie GOOD, not just actiony, the latter of which seems to be all Michael Bay is concerned with.

Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman

[CmdrGravy]

I'm old enough to remember the original cartoon and young though I may have been I could still see marketing driven drivel when I saw it. Seriously it was a rubbish cartoon designed to make people buy the toys.

Has everyone forgotten?

[Darth_brooks]

I see so much interest in this film. Lots of summer blockbuster "buzz" and eager fanboys awaiting the release of the film. I just have to say it. I have to rain on the parade. I have to be the buzz kill:

Michael Bay directed and co-produced Pearl Harbor.

The man sat down and, with what I'm assuming was a straight face, said "let's take one of America's greatest military defeats and make it a love story starring Ben Affleck." Read that over a few times. Then remember that the same guy thinks a love story should have a goodbye scene in a train station, especially when your protagonist is leaving New York for F%$#ing London, is directing a film adaptation of a beloved story from your childhood.

I'd like to be wrong....but I'm not holding out a lot of hope.

Re:Sorry...

[Rakshasa Taisab]

As I was reading your post, it sounded like a movie I would want to leech... Until you ruined the ending. ;(

Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman

[Shihar]

Here is the one problem.

Michael Bay is a fucking idiot.

Michael Bay embodies all that is good and bad about Hollywood. This movie will have kick ass special effects for sure, but at the same time it is going to have a fucking stupid romance that has no place in the movie and will surely result in the IQ of the audience dropping a few points. Hollywood loves to jerk off to its own cliches, and a quick glance at the movie trailer shows that it goes through a Hollywood check list to make sure all that is cliche and irritating about Hollywood got thrown in, no matter how utterly inappropriate it is for the movie. So yes, go see this movie for the eye candy, but keep a loaded .45 ready to save yourself from the horrible mind numbing romance and Hollywood cliche that will quickly follow.

"Man, we can't have action movie about space robots without a horrible romance or else girls wouldn't like it!"

Yeah Hollywood, I bet all the girls out there that don't want to watch sci-fi noticed the romance in the preview and are now dying to go see this movie.

Fucking idiots.

Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman

[saboola]

Dude.. it's just a movie. There are far worse things in the world to be upset about.

Re:I'm Sold.

[icepick72]

IMHO the robot that transformed out of the guy's old yellow car at the beginning of the movie looked like a lot more metal than the car originally had in it. Maybe it's just an optical illusion because of "camera angle".

Re:Sorry...

[Agripa]

Correct orbital mechanics (eg, thrust behind made the robot go up instead of ahead)

The pilot for Firefly had this also: the Reaver ship thrusts forward to enter the atmosphere. I almost jumped up to cheer.

Re:The sound !!!

[Overzeetop]

Those of us over thirty don't need geek cards - we invented geek. Anyone who has learned to code in assembly by poking two hexadecimals into an 8 bit computer will never - I repeat - never have to fear that his or her geekiness might be questioned by someone who was born after Apple created their first computer.

Re:I'm Sold.

[xero314]

The scaling issues, such as with Soundwave, were due to the fact that the original toy line was not supposed to represent giant sized robots but were actually life size. Yes Bumblebee was supposed to be a toy car, and Megatron was a standard sized guy, and their robot forms were measured in inches not feet. This is also why in later versions of the Transformers those characters where either changed into different forms (Megatron became a cannon and not a gun) and a good thing that the move chose to not use those forms of the characters. But disregarding the scaling issue of the cartoon, Soundwave, and the cassettes that came with him were fully transformable.