Two New TV Spots for the movie - these are amazing!

[Tycho]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oID=2018734202

and

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=2018804403

Discuss!

[plasticfetish]

Saw that second one on TV just a bit ago, and story aside (because it's hard to really tell), it looks great.

[kidhuman]

I saw one during 24, looks like carp if ya ask me.

[El Chuxter]

Showed one during Colbert last night.

Not only did it look mediocre, but advertising a movie this heavily three full months before the release seems desperate in this day and age.

[Tycho]

Showed one during Colbert last night.

Not only did it look mediocre, but advertising a movie this heavily three full months before the release seems desperate in this day and age.

In general, movies in theaters are not doing so well on the whole. Even Flags of Our Fathers didn't perform as well as everyone hoped. The DVD market for home theater owners is now where the market is at.

Look at all the extra scenes, cut footage, etc. and behind the scenes material that every film is now generating for its DVD release.

It seems movies stay in theaters for the shortest amount of time.

For this reason, even now I'm predicting that Transformers real test for success will be in the video release market after its theater run.

[El Chuxter]

I have a feeling there will be far more rentals than actual movie attending. Last night they aired a spot during American Idol, and even my wife said it looked sort of cool, but definitely wasn't Transformers.

[plasticfetish]

but definitely wasn't Transformers.

If you (and not to single you out, because I could be talking about a lot of people) are basing your opinion on how this looks compared to that crummy old '80s cartoon, then I can see how you'd say that. But I think it would have been silly, or maybe even miserable if they had tried to make a live version of that show, so I don't fault them for reworking the idea some.

What will make or break this film is how the story plays. I think the audience will buy a new more modern looking Transformers, considering that most people don't remember or care about how the old one looked, as long as the basic concept and spirit, which is what made the old show fun, is still there. If so, then I'm guessing that this film will do very well.

If the story sucks... then, well... the film will only make 100 million instead of 200.

[El Chuxter]

I dunno. It still looks like large alien robots that happen to use names like Optimus Prime and Starscream, not actual Transformers. I'm not 100% a fan of the old show (I prefer the Marvel comic by a long, long shot), but there are enough things that have been "sacred" in every incarnation of Transformers that Bay seems to have completely tossed aside for his "giant alien robot" movie that he stuck a famous name on to get more recognition and higher opening weekend box office receipts in light of the ever-dwindling returns of these stupid, brainless movies in recent years.

I still stand by what I said at SSG about three months ago:

Right now, from what I'm seeing and hearing, only one thing could possibly redeem this movie: if it ends with Prime deciding to keep his Autobots stationed on Earth, but he requests reinforcements. Right before the end credits roll (to the tune of Lion's version of the theme song), a large, burly Autobot steps out of a space bridge (or shuttle, but under no circumstances should he be a frigging meteorite), and says, "Me Grimlock kick butt!"

Seriously. That has to 100% be the ending for me to like this. Otherwise this movie will suck so bad I'm not even going to make a Slicker's Mom joke about how badly it will suck.