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The skydiving stuff is going to be stellar in 3D, can't wait to see this in 3D IMAX

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paramount has pushed the release date up to june 29th

it's funny i was just looking at the release schedule for the summer and TRANSFORMERS has a lot of breathing room and this just gives it even more. also this normally means the studio has faith in the film.

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Well even though the previous film was panned by critics and fans alike, it made a boatload of money so it's a safe bet for them.

Oh and...

Sounds good for a heavy action fix.

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Not that it matters, but I'm guessing that moving the film up to Wednesday will guarantee that this film won't break TDK's opening weekend record.

But it certainly may very well break TDK's 5-day opening of $203 mil. Revenge of the Fallen almost did with $200 mil. The trailers have been exciting and with the 3D premium, it should be the new champ.

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Nice additions here and there. Looks like Prime and BB go to the ship on the moon?

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That last shot was pretty badass.

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yeah that shot for sure would benefit from 3D.

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That final shot, god damn. I don't need any more proof to know that Bay learned his lesson.

This is going to be massive.

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Yep, massive shit.

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Looks bad ass..way better than Fallen

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I think they did it so it has an extra week to make money and reduce any threat from the final HARRY POTTER movie.

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-screwy-

the scenes in the trailer look great for the most part. Let's see some more story than we can fully justify if it is shit. The tone that it gives seems a more serious departure than the other ones. Which is good. Stakes are higher, shit will obviously be blown..let's hope it's better than TF1 and not as bad as TF2.

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New poster:

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I heard about this...was wondering if they were going to show it. This discussion is much shorter than what I heard....missing a lot of tech speak that people who were present and talked about spoke of.

Those fly suit guys in Chicago...crazy cool stuff.

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Wow, look at the shit eating grin on MBs face when Cameron said he liked the film :) Its like he's in disbelief, guess he wasn't just being polite when he referred to JC as one of his idols earlier in the clip.

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Let's be honest, TF1 was not that great. And TF2 may be one of the worst movies of all time. Even if TF3 is twice is good as TF2, that's not much of an upgrade. If we get a Grimlock cameo I may upgrade my opinion of this movie.

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I can't help but wonder if this will get a Pirates 4 reaction of people who thought the previous one or two sucked, yet will still partake in a viewing of this one and say it sucks as well. :)

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Still don't get the Transformers 2 hate. It was pretty much the same thing as the first one. Maybe I'm too ignorant to tell the difference cause it's all the same to me.

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Agreed. They are both equally terrible.

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The first one was, as Bay characterized it, "a boy's first car" story. There's an instantly accessible coming-of-age theme that lets us the audience into the story. The second one had some genuinely terrific action sequences, but it had no heart, no unifying theme (save possibly the nature of sacrifice and being The Chosen One, which just seems self-important).

Plus, the final act in the desert took way too long. Just getting across the campsite took about half an hour of real time. It was fatiguing. By the time they finally had Optimus Prime going after the Decepticons on the pyramid, I was just ready for it to be over so much I didn't even care that the final battle itself was lame. When you've got a movie built exclusively on spectacle and action and the audience is checking their watch, you've done something wrong.

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Ah, I get it when it's brought up that way but I never saw it that way. I just equated Sam getting his first car with Sam goes to college. And then all that robot stuff happened. Yeah there were definitely issues with the sequel but I thought the first one had issues as well.

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Well, Sam going to college was supposed to be the next stage in his growth, but it was entirely lost in the convoluted story concepts. It could have been a film about Sam, who had experienced fantastic events in the first film, growing into his own as an adult. Except Sam isn't really any different at the end of the film than he was at the beginning. He carries guilt for a while over Optimus, but he atones for that later. Slate clean.

It could have been about a lot of different themes, several of which were suggested but none of which were prominent. The Matrix became little more than a McGuffin with deus ex machina powers, which I felt cheapened the entire point of the story theme of sacrifice. The only scenes at college that actually matter are Sam's freak-out in class, and the Pretender seduction. Everything else is a tiresome attempt at an Apatow production. The NEST team is fine, but I get the sense that Bay would just as soon make a movie about them as to make a movie about Transformers.

There's just too much going on, vying for our attention, but none of it seems to actually mean anything except setting up the context for the next sequence.

On a side note, the night that bin Laden's death was reported, Megatron trended for a while on Twitter as everyone reacted to finding out his corpse had been jettisoned into the ocean. Some entertaining stuff that night.

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Michael Bay just used Sam going to college as an excuse to have his mom smoke pot. ;)