Sunday, February 6, 2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon gets a dynamite Super Bowl teaser, every bit as good as the 2009 Transformers 2 Super Bowl spot. Fool me once...

I'm not going to do a rundown of every single Super Bowl movie ad, primarily because there were just too many of them. Next up is the fantastic teaser for Transformers: Dark of the Moon. If you recall, I was stunned by the sheer scope and intensity on display in the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen teaser that aired during the 2009 Super Bowl. I exclaimed that it looked so epic and violent and almost frightening. Obviously, the teaser was a lie. Yet I feel the exact same way about this teaser, and the final extended shot of Optimus Prime tearing into his opponents with a long sword is a beauty. I'm sure 90% of what we see is from the third act, and we've been down this road before. So it is with extremely cautious optimism that I say that this looks like a terrific bit of science-fiction fantasy. Maybe the third time will be the charm, and we'll finally get the 'Godzilla, but with robots' carnage fest that I've always wanted. This one comes out on July 1st. We'll see...

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3 comments:

King Marvin Mugabi said...

to think it will be as flawed as the first sequel even thought that film suffered though a writers strike...and then to ignore everyone associated with the production including the director himself stating the flaws and how they intend to surpass them...and then to ignore a tone shifting announcement teaser that has confirmed footage form the film...

it's just being willfully dense if you ask me, you don't have to scream to the world that this director is maybe the best with epic action visuals and scope but don't act like it won't be better than the second just because the trailer's good.

February 7, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Scott Mendelson said...

But the teaser has the exact same dark, moody, violent, and intense tone as the Super Bowl teaser for Transformers 2 back in 2009. Go watch it and notice that it's actually cut almost identically. That's the joke. T3 had a great teaser, but T2 had an equally great and almost identical in form and style teaser.

February 8, 2011 at 7:51 AM
King Marvin Mugabi said...

to think it will be as flawed as the first sequel even thought that film suffered though a writers strike...and then to ignore everyone associated with the production including the director himself stating the flaws and how they intend to surpass them...and then to ignore a tone shifting announcement teaser that has confirmed footage form the film...

it's just being willfully dense if you ask me, you don't have to scream to the world that this director is maybe the best with epic action visuals and scope but don't act like it won't be better than the second just because the trailer's good.

May 13, 2011 at 10:44 AM

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