I didn’t really see anything in there I didn’t see in the first one. I’m not a hater, I really liked the first one, but this looked just more of the same. I don’t understand your excitement… or was it sarcasm?

No, no sarcasm. I’m a visual guy, it’s not too hard to get me impressed by something. Usually I can get over-hyped on a movie by one still frame or by a film’s poster.

And this TRANSFORMERS 2 trailer worked on that level for me. Seeing this universe on a much grander scale really worked for me.

Thats fair enough. Personally I really dont see how they can expand the series from the first film. The main dramatic point is going to be the reveal of Megatron – who everyone already knows comes back and wasn’t an engaging character in the first one anyway.

I really don’t see how they could make a decent sequel out of this – especially Michael Bay of all people. I’m a Michael Bay fan but I really can’t imagine him pulling this one off.

“TRANSFORMERS 2 trailer might be the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen”

You have GOT to start getting out more!

Well, it looks like Bay is attempting to improve on the first film’s editing problem a little bit. TRANSFORMERS had way too much fast editing, which prevented the audience from becoming immersed or “wowed” by the effects.

Compare TRANSFORMERS to something like Spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS, for example. Even though WOTW had fewer effects shots than TRANSFORMERS, it had quite a few “wow” moments (Cruise racing away as the collapsing bridge destroys his neighborhood … the rise of the first machine) that Spielberg lingers over and holds for long periods of time, allowing the audience to drink in the scene and become immersed. Bay did nothing like that at all in the first film.

It looks like he is attempting to trust his shots a little more and let the scenes play out for maximum effect. I wonder if Spielberg said anything to him between movies.

The Superbowl TV spot felt more exciting. I realized that the trailers make the films look a lot darker than they really are. Don’t see this film being that much darker than the first.

Hopefully none of the TFs will be wasted on “comedy” like that lawn scene.

Ok, I don’t see the big deal about the trailer. Maybe because I just woke up and am still kind of tired, but that trailer felt very boring to me. Probably because of that shitty music, or sound or whatever it was in the background during it.

It looks the same as the first; whole bunch of effects to make up for the fact that Bay is a shitty director that can’t tell a story to save his life.

I think it looks awesome. What more could you ever want? It’s aircraft carriers blowing up and giant robots wrecking havoc filmed gorgeously. Transformers has been realized as a spare no expense gigantic tentpole. It’s amazing and people complain. This is the best it could ever be. Fans are lucky.

Let me get this straight. . . I’m supposed to feel lucky that one of the most incompetent directors of this generation is helming the film series based off of my favorite comic/cartoon series from my childhood? Are you that dense to believe that Bay is actually a DECENT director? Not great, not even good, just decent. He can’t tell a story. He’s horrible at building suspense and he doesn’t bring the best out of his actors (seriously Shia Lebouf really isn’t that bad of an actor). He just uses a bunch of special effects and explosions to push his movies along.

Frankly, maybe it’s because I actually am old enough to remember what Transformers was, but what he has done to this franchise just makes me sad. He took a comic/cartoon that actually DID have a story to it, just turned it into a huge explosion basically. Its sickening. And the fact that people actually think that this is what Transformers should be is even more horrible.

What should it be? Should the robots that turn into planes and cars not be fighting one another? Bay can shoot spectacle.

I see nothing wrong with Michael Bay’s directing at all.
At the end of the day he directs blockbusters. If you want intensive emotion provoking story go see a Woody Allen film.
If you want special effects with plots driven by explosions and characters as deep as your mothers foot spa, go see a Michael Bay movie.
It’s a toss up of one over the other, there are not many directors who can pull off both in the same film and still make it entertaining. Hell, there are probably not many writers who can put something like that together in the first place.

Thanks for the trailer. I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.

These Michael Bay haters are fucking ridiculous to me. I don’t love the guy, but I LIKE some of his movies.

Yet… people who seem to HATE Bay, like to go watch his movies, click on his trailers, etc — just to bitch and talk bullshit.

WHY??? Are you retarded or something?

Transformers looks EXACTLY how I thought Bay would make it, and I thought that for a movie about talking robots who turn into GM cars, it was entertaining and I liked it.

If you didn’t like the first one, or Bay movies in general, why bother now… jesusfu–

ShatteredH, if you want to see what blockbuster movies should be just watch Terminator 2, Spiderman 2, Iron Man, Die Hard, The Dark Knight – the list of greats goes on and on. Don’t think that just because something is meant to be big and spectacular that we should just accept poorly written, poorly acted, poorly edited crap. Lots of action is not an excuse to just abandon all the other things that make a good film. It’s not blockbusters in general that anyone is complaining about; it’s inexcusably shitty blockbusters based on franchises that deserve better.