Being optimistic that a
Transformers sequel will actually be a good movie is like hoping that a blind date will turn out to be good - yeah, there's always a possibility, but nine times out of ten, it'll be boring as hell with a person you can't stand and you'll want it to end sooner rather than later.
Anyway, a few random thoughts based on this newest trailer:
- So instead of a bespectacled anal-retentive d*ck of a government representative who's bossing around the main characters, it's a bespectacled snobbish b*tch of a government representative? Way to be progressive, Bay...
- Oh hey, they actually got Shockwave in this and they managed to update his design pretty nicely.
- Am I the only one who thought the shot of the green-roofed building by the bay was
too on the nose with all the American flags blowing in the breeze?
- Ugh... they have to have the shot of Sam screaming "Optimus!!!" yet again? It's not like Optimus Prime is a tiny little Pokemon that Sam can summon whenever he's in trouble, he's a friggin' giant alien robot military leader.
- Double Ugh for this new heroine (Carly, right?)... I'm sorry, but she's just looks so damn UGLY to me. Bay, why can't you get a normal-looking actress to play your leading heroine? Why must they always look like they're two steps away from appearing in a cheap smut magazine? She looks even more ridiculous than Megan Fox did in the previous film, which isn't helped by the fact that she's has a constant expression of "blankness/vacantness".
- On the plus side, the music in this trailer is pretty exciting (though I doubt this will be reflective in the films score) and it looks like the cinematography of the action scenes will be a bit more coherent than the last movie.
- Oh hey, they also have Laserbeak too... hopefully that means that Soundwave will be back.
- Wait... so the Autobots are abandoning the humans to the Decepticons invasion? (based on Optimus's dialogue in the trailer)
If so, they'd better not disappear for 2/3rds of the movie only to reappear at the end (like, you know, the majority of
Revenge of the Fallen...)