Transformers: Age Of Extinction Trailer Unleashed
March 6, 2014 by brennon
The Transformer franchise is continuing like Optimus Prime stuck on autopilot and the next entry is named Age of Extinction. This time around the Transformers are going to be dealing with an Earth that no long requires their services, until something arrives to make humanity think again.
The trailer for the film is above and shows the old and battered Optimus Prime now hanging around with Mark Wahlberg. I have to say that considering the rather unfortunate films we've had in the franchise so far I do hope this one can make a bit of a difference and provide us with a film with a bit more depth.
What could possibly save this franchise? Well Dinobots of course. The one above happens to be Grimlock being straddled by Optimus Prime holding that rather cool looking sword.
As I've said I don't hold out 'much' hope for this film but with a different cast and hopefully more emphasis on the actual Transformers we could have a much better film.
Will you be watching?
This is just visual spectacle with occasionally great soundtrack sections – that is all I expect from it and the previous Transformers films – there are some good one liners scattered here and there among them.
After all, it is based on a toy/cartoon (not sure which came first really).
so technically the toys were first, they were brought from Japan (Diaclone and microman lines. in fact a select few figures destined to become transformers were available in California under a Diakron line) US regulations at the time prevented cartoons being made about a toyline so Hasbro commissioned Marvel to create a comic book and Sunbow to create a cartoon to promote the comic book… which just happened to have toys coming to shelves near you.
Is Michael Bay directing this one? If so then this is another Transformers movie I won’t be watching. It’s about time his films were classified as human rights abuses.
Megan Fox + giant battling space robots = winning
Marky Mark + giant battling space robots = crudcow
Bay is indeed directing this steaming pile. I doubt it will be any different from the poor excuses the other flicks were. I remember back in 2006 when DeSanto leaked some of the preproduction concepts for the bots to TFW2005…. they were an immediate turn off. I’ll stick to the actual items of quality, the Masterpiece line, most of the generations figures (barring the movie toys now) and the occasional comic/cartoon series. Prime is an excellent example of what the movie Aesthetics could have been… that would have at least made up somewhat for the poor direction and choppy story. hell even the Beast Wars graphics (fantastic for when it came out go Mainframe studios) are better than the current crop of Movie crap… ok slight exaggeration the actual technical powers of the animation is better but sure doesn’t look appealing.
The only good thing I can say about the movie is it at least brings in the money to allow the good stuff to actually be made. yay for exploitation of the ignorant masses.
I think it was Botcon 2011 where Hasbro installed Michael Bay as a member of the Transformers hall of fame. I recall hearing that there was a thunderous amount of booing that occurred when he took the stage. That would have been interesting to see
Won’t be long till Bay tries to direct My Little Pony (Equestrian girls version of course, Bay has to have the boobies) vs the Care bears, the battle for Care-o-lot castle.
Me Grimlock not too sure about this…
The first movie was an excellent popcorn alien invasion movie, it was not, however, a transformers movie. The second one was plothole city and pretty awful (writers strike though remember) – but gave plenty of material for GW to actually adapt and put into their Necron retcon.
The Third Movie was GREAT (as much as we can expect from Bay who should have filmed the GI:JOE movies, not a Transformer movie)! The Dark Side of The Moon featured roughly three of the plots for the cartoon, paid homage to a lot of Transformers stuff and basically had the Decepticons going genocide on the human race in quite a grizzly fashion. Bay said it was an apology for the past two movies and I think he made good his promise. Mindless robot violence that put some of the more famous plots from the cartoon into a movie. You could tell, this time, they had sat down and watched the animated series.
Say what you one, weirdly the Transformers movies are some of the only movies i’ve seen to treat the military intelligently, and with respect so thank you Bay for that. And Optimus Prime’s character is still in tact as a badass who won’t think twice before putting a bullet in your head. Bay could have been an idiot and portrayed Prime as a p*ssy, he didn’t. So thanks Bay again.
But it was time for a series reboot from someone who wanted to use the mythology to tell a sci-fi story, not just make an action movie. Didn’t need a 4th Bay movie.
And Michael Bay has only made a hand-full of movies including Bad Boys and The Rock, both solid movies.
Just wanted to defend Bay’s Third transformers movie. For me, it was the cartoon brought to life.. Which was what Bay should have done from the start.
Bad Boys is hands down one of the worst movies I’ve ever paid money to see. Two decades on and the scars still haven’t left me.
Have to say a lot of people won’t agree with you on that :p
Will Smith = Sigmar
The problem I had with the first two Transformer movies,* is that it was incredibly hard to tell what was is going on in fights; some of them look like someone has emptied a cutlery draw down a hill.
*if someone tells me that they managed to sort out the aesthetics in the 3rd film, then great.
The confusing, jarring action first started in Gladiator and has been copied by most. It’s in countless films and really annoys me. Why do they do it?
From the start of the third movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrqWvQsxUFA
I’m no fan of the quick-cut, close-up action scenes either. Time was you only saw them in a Steven Seagal movie because his particular martial art wasn’t very cinematic. Now movies are plagued with it. Even Jet Li was subjected to it in The Expendables (which is the second of my top three worst movies I’ve ever paid to see) and that guy is a stick of dynamite.
Oh, for Pete’s sake, stop milking that corpsified cow of a franchise already… Well, I don’t really expect someone like Michael “exploding stuff instead of scenario” Bay to listen to any sort of reason anyway.
I wont be able to watch it because I know, when the giant battling space robots and battling and the humans are cowering away…… Marky Mark isn’t gonna turn round to somebody and say “FEEL THE VIBRATIONS!!!” when we all know damn well he should. Plus, the Funky Bunch haven’t been cast either. Boo!
Good lord, what is Stanley Tucci doing in this drivel?
Bay retconning what the matrix does, and all vehicles are Amuricun vehicles.
Who will be the Hot Rod director to shine in our darkest hour and save us all.
From that clip it looks as if they have mashed the scripts from Avengers & skyline/Batlelship together to make this.
Wasn’t Optimus a Kenworth not a Mack truck?
You know Avengers came out AFTER Transformers 3, and Avengers has a pretty similar plot to T3. And Battleship/Skyline all ripped off Transformers which is what, 2005 the first movie?
That will save money on scripts/writers plus photocopiers don’t strike.
Just rip out the title page & of you go.
To be honest when was the last film that didn’t have bites that may have been borrowed from something else.
PS I’ll still watch it (it doesn’t mater what critics say if its good or not that’s their opinion)