The New Transformers Movie

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The movie coming out is called, "Dark Side Of The Moon" right? Well I've heard a rumor that Sam starts to turn into an Autobot in this movie, but it doesnt confirm or deny this on the movies wikipedia page. Can someone tell me if this is true?

Um...the subtitle is "Dark of the Moon."

From the preview, the new movie looks much better than the second one.

I have no clue if Sam indeed turns into an Autobot...and how would he turn into an Autobot?

Sam turns into an Autobot?? Hmm... that echoes this classic movie moment
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHjlarr85nQ[/youtube]

I put this in another thread about Transformers:DOTM, and I apparently killed that thread. I'll copy and paste it here, and see if I can kill this thread as well (there's a bit of info about Sam at the end):

I bought the new Transformers Vault book--which is excellent, by the way--and it has a rough plot for the new movie:

"It turns out that the race to the moon launched by President Kennedy was prompted to investigate Transformer activity. Optimus Prime's predecessor, Sentinel Prime, had developed a dangerously powerful weapon. Rather than risk it falling into Decepticon hands, Sentinel fled the battlefield only to crash his ship, the Ark, into Earth's moon. Optimus and the Autobots are briefed on this history by a firsthand witness--Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin makes an appearance as himself in the movie.

The Decepticons and Autobots race to claim this lunar weapon, known as the Space Bridge, but a treacherous Sentinel Prime emerges alive, corrupted with visions of conquest. Optimus and Megatron must team up to defeat the turncoat before he can use the Bridge's powers of teleportation to transport Cybertron into Earth's orbit: the move would destroy Earth, releasing a massive wave of energy that Sentinel Prime plans to use to save Cybertron. The film's climax includes multiple battles with the largest cast of robot characters yet. Even Sam Witwicky acquits himself well in combat as a shape-shifting gauntlet built by the Autobots gives him some much needed defensive firepower against the Decepticons."

I skipped the 2nd movie but I'm kind of interested in this one.

Even if the plot's horrible, I'm still going to go see it in IMAX 3D and enjoy the eye and ear candy.

Am I the only person who liked the second movie? Well apart from the fight scene that went on for like 2 hours and gave me motion sickness...

Bring on the third!

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I've read the film is suppose to be better than the first two and thats alright with me. I'm not expecting an oscar nominated film here but just a good decent one. There have been alot of positive reviews and also a few negatives saying that it's loud and not enough plot or something. I've read the review in the Sunday Mirror giving it 4 stars out of 5 and that good enough for me but other reviewers like Empire Magazine gave it 2 stars but I shouldn't really let something like that worry me. Remember when films like Spider-man, Iron Man and J.J. Abrams Star Trek came out. They had good write ups, but also a few bad ones, but to this day they are considered great films. Hell Empire Magazine only gave Iron Man 3 out of 5 stars, and look how good that film turned out. I faintly remember reading the Daily Mirror years ago when they reviewed Spider-man 2 and was only given 3 out of 5 stars and look how good that turned out, and they even gave 5 whole stars to Spider-man 3. Considered a bad movie and the Mirror seemed to like it. Maybe they'll feel the same about DOTM, but I seriously doubt that, 4 stars is good enough for me but still I seriously doubt it. i'm not a Bay fan. The only films of his I've seen from start to finish are the 2 Transformers movies and only the first one was awesome.

I'm starting to believe Michael Bay is the highest paid second unit director. I was bored with the movie. I actually yawned during the explosion scenes... and there were plenty of them. So many in fact that I just sort of zoned out...

Anyhow there was only one scene I truly enjoyed involving Simmons' butler Dutch (portrayed by Firefly favorite Alan Tudyk). If memory serves he's asked to translate Russian into English, or visa versa, and says something like "I can't understand Cyrillic! It looks like the keys you never press on a calculator!" The way it was delivered by Alan Tudyk got a huge LOL from me.

I saw it this afternoon, and it was what I went to see: Big, loud, dumb fun. I enjoyed it, and it was easily superior to Revenge of the Fallen. No Decepticon testicles, dogs humping, marijuana brownies, senile old Autobots--in other words, all the things that made ROTF so painful at times. There was still a lot of unfunny humor, but the big battle scene at the end was so awesome that I'll forgive it.

The audience I watched it with was decidedly non-geeky. I seemed to be the only one who caught Sentinel (Leonard Nimoy) Prime's Star Trek joke. I laughed out loud and everyone sitting close turned to look at me.

I saw it yesterday and thought it was fantastic! I also noticed something in the movie before anyone else. The sign for Chernobyl. See I can read Cyrillic so I worked out what it said before anyone else!

The only thing I didn't like about the film was 1. that Chernobyl's worker town of Pripyat was laid out completely wrong and had the wrong kind of architecture... (of course only a derelict building nerd like myself would notice that though!) and 2. that Sam had a different girlfriend... I think it was something to do with the actress not wanting to do a third movie or something but still I thought it was a bit weird since he was SO in love with her in films 1 and 2.

Apparently I was the only one who liked the humour too because no one else except me was laughing...

And no I didn't spot the Star Trek joke

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I had the opportunity of seeing it yesterday evening, and i thoroughly enjoyed it. It's also vastly superior to the crapness of Revenge of the Fallen, but why oh why did it have to be two hours long? Total Fim gave it 3 stars, praising the back-story but criticising Rosie-Huntington Whitley's acting.

The good:
Less of the stupid toilet humour.
Laserbeak being an absolute bad-ass when he assassinates all the people connected to the Russian and US space missions.
Sentinel Prime's Spock reference.
The highway battle/chase between Bumblebee, Sideswipe, Dino and The Dreads. (Poor Simmons!)
Megatron's rendezvous with Starscream, Soundwave and Laserbeak in Africa. (All hail Megatron!)
The Wreckers. (Better and less-annoying than the Twins)
Decepticons ACTUALLY killing humans.
Starscream's nose-dive towards the Autobot shuttle before he destroys it.
Megatron desecrating the Abraham Lincoln Statue in Washington.


The bad:
Ironhide's death (Shocking)
Starscream dieing in a ridiculously gay manner. (Sam blinding his optics, REALLY?!?)
Bumblebee killing Soundwave and Laserbeak. (That literally ENRAGES ME. Little yellow bastard....)
Brains and Wheelie (Ugh, annoying to the extreme)
Ken Jeong's paranoid conspiracy theorist.
Shockwave being made to look weak before he dies.
Megatron doing nothing until he attacks Sentinel near the end.

Still, DotM is 10 times better than RotF.