7 Things We Learned From the Transformers 2 Teaser
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 2, 2009
While other sites — including our friends at /Film — are spending their time trying to break down the Superbowl commercial for Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen frame-by-frame, trying to peel back every high resolution layer to see what doesn’t meet the eye, we’ve decided to just watch said teaser a few times and come away from the experience with lessons learned. And in our research, we’ve found seven themes that might become relevant as future trailers are released. Trailers that will eventually spawn an entire film, which we are told comes out on June 26th.
So with that in mind, please prepare yourself by checking out the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen teaser spot and watching it a few times (we would recommend a three count, at least). And come along with us as we break this thing down, one discovery at a time.
7. This film will contain no dialog…
Because let’s face it, who needs dialog and “character development” when we can get plenty of boom with a side of Megan Fox?
6. McG and Michael Bay are kindred spirits…
Similar music, same method of cutting together a teaser trailer. These two guys aren’t competing with each other, they are passing cinematic love notes across the classroom.
5. There will be big, nasty, ugly Decepticons…
My one goal: find out where this thing came from and never go there.
4. Optimus Prime is still sort of a bitch…
Remember the end of the first movie when Optimus Prime was getting his ass whipped by Megatron, only to be saved by some random puny human? Yeah, it would appear as if Prime’s softer side is back as we see him get bitch slapped in the trailer. Though we imagine he takes it like a champ.
3. Shia LaBeouf will be chased and subsequently pinned to a car… again…
Oh Shia, if it isn’t swinging from vines with Monkeys its being pinned to cars by giant robots in disguise, isn’t it? Side note: we hate you, purely for petty, jealous reasons.
2. The Devastator is at least this big…
Is this the big, bad Devastator, or just one of its pieces? The discussion rages on. Either way, it is awesome.
1. Michael Bay still has a direct connection to the G-Spot…
All at once, the geeks of the world had a collective orgasm upon watching this for the first time. I received several text messages right after it aired in HD during the Superbowl, each with some sort of orgasm-related comment. In other news, sales of Shamwows have gone through the roof in the last 12 hours.
More on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as more details are released — as in, we are expecting another trailer in 2 weeks. You bring the beer, we’ll bring the chips.
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