Its pretty stupid. The first movie says the robots learned to speak through the internet. The "racism" complaints really annoy me because of that.
If they were supposed to black, many of the complaints are still dumb. Illiteracy? That was a joke, the other twin quickly points out its ancient text the autobots don't know. Violent? Compared to Ironhide, who needs lecturing on why he isn't any better than humans in the first movie? Gold teeth...that one probably would be offensive, if they were supposed to be black, but they're not, they're alien robots, aren't exposed gonads worse?
Modified Ura-nage, Torture RackThe original was alright on the level of cheesy summer action. But Revenge of the Fallen epitomized the worst reaction I can have to a film: I had a splitting, boredom-induced headache, and I didn't remember a single thing that happened in the entire two and a half hours I sat in the theater. So I'll probably be skipping this.
Or maybe I'll see it to see if the series will hit some zenith of bad movies in which it suddenly becomes a masterpiece in its eighth hour of mindlessness.
Seventh Sanctum's superhero name generator, in case you were wondering.Speaking of Skids an Mudflap, here's Bay's response to all those saying they will be in Dark of the Moon.
You just gotta love this guy sometimes.
I'm actually kind of curious to see how the reception of the Wreckers are going to be, because all signs are pointing towards being stereotypical white-trash redneck NASCAR fans. The potential Double Standard of critics would be interesting, if they're okay with white stereotypes but you can't touch the black ones.
I initially looked at the Twins as being obnoxious kids trying to act cool and tough, and looking at media the black characters are almost always portrayed as being cool (ie the Black Best Friend). A cool white person is either like Fonzie (laid back) or a grizzled action hero a la John McClane. The actual "Wigger" personality I take it as being from someone older (teens to 20's) who are trying to fit in with the urban crowd. Like with a lot of things if someone was offended by it I can understand why, I just get annoyed when people think I should be as offended as they are.
edited 17th May '11 4:02:55 PM by KJMackley
Some interesting videos recently released by ILM, One
and Two
. Not regarding Transformers 3, just stuff from the first movie, but simply put you can't fault the technical aspect of these movies. I liked the joke that the secret to good FX is to make things dark and blurry, basically hiding the zipper on the monster costume.
Although something I did kind of notice but it never really took hold, but 75 percent of the action sequences are done in broad daylight. There's little room for faking it. Plus every action scene is done using real environments, actual explosions and sometimes even model work. Megatron and Optimus flying through that building was done using a 1/4 scale miniature of the building, damn!
I really only watch it for the big shootouts, anyway. This looks like there's going to be a REALLY big battle at the end...
The 3D edit. That last shot is ridiculous.
edited 20th May '11 8:01:54 PM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI'm not big on the 3D craze, but this movie is probably the only one I would bother just to see how it looks. I enjoy Transformers enough and this particular part of the franchise to pay the extra few bucks, while the average other movie doesn't hold my attention as much.
And again, I come across enough movie trailers where I know how the story will go blow by blow. This trailer doesn't spoil anything, the whole movie may just be Stuff Blowing Up but I get a sense of a mystery and questions that need to be answered.
I was never a big fan of the Bayformers (both the look and Bay's tendency for shallow Stuff Blowing Up movies), but I enjoyed the first film for being mindless popcorn fun. The second one left a really bad taste in my mouth, though, so I'll hold out for reviews before deciding on this.
—R.J.
Fascinating video
with Michael Bay and James Cameron talking about the 3D. At around 6 minutes Bay explicitedly said that he had to slow down his normal editing style to accomodate the 3D format and at some points leave out the 3D altogether just because certain shots won't work like a Whip Pan. It was also interesting that Cameron was explaining that him pushing 3D is to try and get more interest back into the theaters, offering a full cinematic experience that you can't replicate at home.
I won't be watching this one in 3D, but if it cuts down on the Jitter Cam, I'm glad Bay is shooting for it.
I saw Green Lantern in 3D (which I enjoyed, not perfect but fun and the 3D was good). But I got the chance to see the Transformers trailer in 3D and everyone I was with agreed it was exceptionally well-done, especially compared to the other 3D trailers like Conan The Barbarian. What made it work so well was recognizing what the point of focus was and where to use the 3D; for example when the ship is crashing on the moon you see the background, the ship in center and only a handful of particles are thrown in front, even then it sprayed off to the side and not in your face.
Particularly, the scene where Optimus ejects a shell and it bounces away was really visceral, as well as Bumblebee catching some people in a backflip and Optimus flying under the tentacle thing while firing. It was all very clear and smooth, and only cemented my resolve to watch the actual movie in 3D.

Limited to the US? I dunno, it depends on the perspective and awareness of it.