In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new trailer for Transformers: Extinction out (aka, Transformers 4). Watch it after the jump:
Lots to talk about here.
First, who doesn’t love Mark Wahlberg?
Whatever you thought of the Funky Bunch, he’s proved he’s a solid actor these days. And he was in the very awesome but underrated Pain & Gain last year WHICH WAS A MICHAEL BAY FILM, YOU GUYS! You put Marky-Mark in a movie and I’m going to be excited.
Second, there’s a plot.
Here’s where our hope begins to swell. So WATCH OUT! Previous Transformers films also seemed to have plots, especially in the trailers. The Beef even went to college in one – and as much as we try, we can’t forget that that plotline gave us a super-hot-female-transformer-robot-college-student that made not an ounce of sense and robot testicles.
So does it matter that the world is a sort of post-Transformers-trilogy world where people actually know about them and have created technology to fight them? No. Michael Bay isn’t going to do anything with that concept.
Third, Dinobots.
Dinobot. DINOBOTS. My inner 9-year-old has been irrationally shrieking for Dinobots in a Transformers film since the first one. That same inner child is convinced that there’s no way they can mess up Dinobots.
Of course, that same child stubbornly insisted the same thing about Transformers in general, only to be beaten into whimpering submission by the first three films.
Maybe Michael Bay thinks Dinobots will keep me from asking where the Decepticons got yet another huge fleet of warships, while the Autobots can only find a few more carbots to throw at bullets and lasers.
Don’t be fooled. This movie will be terrible. I wish it weren’t true. I hope it’s not true. But it’s fact. Get used to it.
At least the trailer’s cool. And it has dinosaurs in it.
9 replies on “The Transformers 4 Trailer Paradox”
I have never seen any of the previous Transformer movies. Not a one. And yet… this one gets me a interested. I’d be willing to give it a shot.
It is a little weird that the last Transformer who is fighting Grimlock (is that Optimus Prime, I can’t really tell them apart very well in the movie versions?) can see his breath? Do the Transformers breathe?
Anyway. I’ll give it a shot. Unless the reviews universally pan it. In which case: Transformers 5 should be out soon.
I never understood the Transformers movie hate. There’s plot holes sure, and they are kinda goofy but I always had fun watching. I never went to one and left and thought, “well I didn’t expect that”.
There’s tons of worse sci-fi actiony type movies out there that get let off the crap movie hook. I think they’re just fun for the sake of giant robots smashing into eachother! And now with DINOBOTS! Grimlock looks gggrrrrrrrrrrreat
I doubt I’ll see this movie in theaters and/or ever. I do like Wahlberg a lot but does that outweigh how much I don’t like Bay? Transformers 3 was a waste of time and money for me.
Why does whoever is fighting Grimlock have BREATH???
Is that Optimus Prime?
My biggest problem with the Transformers are the fans of
Transformers. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been wide-eyed fan of Transformers
movies, comic books, and television shows since Generation One, and as I’ve
gotten older I have, like so many other fans, have come to realize two things.
First, the Transformers cartoon is nothing more than a toy commercial. Can we
stop acting like the plight of the Autobot is akin to Kafka? Can we stop
performing shock and awe when the Decepticons struggle for Earth doesn’t unfold
like the narrative in an Ibsen play? It’s a toy commercial, let’s all calm
down. Secondly, Michael Bay is the perfect director for Transfomers because
Michael Bay just gets paid to blow stuff up. “Hello, Mr. Bay. Here’s an exorbitant
amount of money. Could you do us a favor and film stuff blowing up so we can
make more money?” I have to imagine that this is the conversation that
proceeds Mikey B (that we call him on the streets) signing on the dotted line
of any contract. Criticism of Transformers movies (I pretend the second one
doesn’t exist…what with its racially problematic caricatures and robot
genitals) is about as crucial as criticism of GI Joe motion pictures. Let’s all
agree that the best Transformers movie was the one from 1986, and come to terms
with the fact that sometimes while trudging through our own character arcs that
are oft times shaped by cynicism and gratuitous criticism…we just need to sit
in a theatre, turn off our mind grapes for a ninety minutes, and wallow in a
little bit of toy commercial idiocy.
But it could be so much better! All I’m asking for is a coherent plot. Believe me… the my standards for plot in a blockbuster are LOW (hello, I LOVED Pacific Rim). But the Transformers films are a whole different level of incomprehensible. It’s almost abstract art. :/
Well if nothing else
we can come together on our love for the marriage of absurdity and magnificence
that was Pacific Rim. I just wonder if there are times when the desire to ground
something in “reality” can sully the “integrity” of the
franchise at hand. When you look at the differences between “Superman
Returns” and “Man of Steel” what you have is a charm-less,
muted, joyless spectacle with Man of Steel. And, despite the fact that Nolan’s
hand can oft times only churn out that which is bleak, taking Superman too
seriously quells a good bit of that charm I look for in the Superman mythos.
And yes that desire for charm and joy might come from some Christopher
Reeve ghosting whenever I watch Superman films, but I don’t feel like I should
see Nolan’s Batman when I look at Snyder’s Superman. So I guess for me, and
this could be total and complete nonsense, I need my Transformers movies to straddle
the line between “not too grounded” (the first one) and “not too
ludicrous” (the second one…or anything with Megan Fox in it).
I heard Transformers 2 was better than Pacific Rim.