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[morgan1098]

Nezpop, on 21 May 2010 - 07:46 AM, said:

Bay an unpleasent mysogynist? No way.

I'd say the guy's dislike for women beyond their "aesthetic value" is pretty clearly on display in most of his films.

No kidding. Check out the acting credentials of Megan Fox's replacement:

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Huntington-Whiteley previously worked with Michael Bay in a commercial he directed for Victoria's Secret, but she has no other acting credits to her name. She has appeared on the past four installments of the "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show," and was a guest on "Britain's Next Top Model." She's also reportedly dating "Transporter" star Jason Statham.

New 'Transformers 3' Star: Rose Huntington-Whiteley
(This article also notes that Bay mispelled the poor girl's last name while making the casting announcement on his blog...

[Peter T Chattaway]

Next 'Transformers' is due for a switch
Bay is not one for mea culpas, but he says he can do better. "This one really builds to a final crescendo. It's not three multiple endings," the director says.
Bay calls the second film's villain, The Fallen, "kind of a (expletive) character." The new movie's foe is certain to make fans of the original '80s incarnation smile: Shockwave, the robot cyclops-turned-laser-cannon, who became dictator of their home world of Cybertron after the other Autobots and Decepticons journeyed to Earth.
"One thing we're getting rid of is what I call the dorky comedy," Bay adds. So the twins, the two bumbling, slang-spewing robots? "They're basically gone," he says, though John Turturro returns for comic relief. . . .
Plot details are under wraps, but it delves into the space race between the U.S.S.R. and the USA, suggesting there was a hidden Transformers role in it all that remains one of the planet's most dangerous secrets. "The movie is more of a mystery," Bay says. "It ties in what we know as history growing up as kids with what really happened."
While Optimus Prime, Megatron and even Sam all have died and been resurrected, di Bonaventura says this film will have no do-overs: Die, and that's it.
Bay hints that there may be a lot of that. "As a trilogy, it really ends," he says. "It could be rebooted again, but I think it has a really killer ending."
USA Today, June 10

[Thom Wade]

Peter T Chattaway, on 11 June 2010 - 03:18 AM, said:

Next 'Transformers' is due for a switch

"One thing we're getting rid of is what I call the dorky comedy," Bay adds. So the twins, the two bumbling, slang-spewing robots? "They're basically gone," he says, though John Turturro returns for comic relief. . . .

Huh. I called it racist humor.

[Persona]

You can't get anywhere in downtown Chicago right now, this film is being shot all over the place and they are literally ripping up city streets in the process. It's the talk of the town, but I find it annoying. On Sunday you couldn't even walk across Michigan Ave. to get to the lake. These Transformers have yet again found another way, a brand new approach, to annoy me.

[Peter T Chattaway]

Persona wrote:
: You can't get anywhere in downtown Chicago right now, this film is being shot all over the place and they are literally ripping up city streets in the process.

Are these streets that they would have had to fix anyway? Like, has the city found a way to get the filmmakers to save the taxpayer a few pennies?

[Persona]

I haven't heard of anything like that happening. But I don't read all that much on Transformers typically anyway.

Today's Sun-Times had an article which I just found online Here. Bay is slightly interviewed as well, and he calls Chicago's skyline "the most beautiful skyline in the world..." I've seen quite a few skylines and agree with this statement.

[Peter T Chattaway]

Persona, on 20 July 2010 - 06:41 PM, said:

You can't get anywhere in downtown Chicago right now, this film is being shot all over the place and they are literally ripping up city streets in the process.

Hmmm, I wouldn't mind if they did to Vancouver what they do to Chicago in the video below. But then, I don't live downtown any more, do I.

[Persona]

Last week they were only a block away from the Gene Siskel Arts Center. I wonder if they even stopped in and said "Hi."

[Thom Wade]

Bay is just filming there to give Ebert the finger, right?

[Persona]

Nezpop, on 28 July 2010 - 01:54 PM, said:

Bay is just filming there to give Ebert the finger, right?

Heh. Chicago, like Michigan and other places in the midwest, is trying to make filming in their cities more attractive. It generates the moolah.

[Persona]

Peter T Chattaway, on 28 July 2010 - 11:39 AM, said:

Persona, on 20 July 2010 - 06:41 PM, said:

You can't get anywhere in downtown Chicago right now, this film is being shot all over the place and they are literally ripping up city streets in the process.

Hmmm, I wouldn't mind if they did to Vancouver what they do to Chicago in the video below. But then, I don't live downtown any more, do I.

Somehow I think that clip will be more exciting than the film. Once they add in the overbearing music, I'm gone.

I think I might have seen Shie Lebeuf or whatever his name is standing on a huge pile of debris. I almost want to see T3 to see if I'm right. But then I'd have to see the other two. Oh, the tangled web...

[Buckeye Jones]

You don't need to see the other two. Robots fight. Megan Fox is tight. Shia LeBouf is not the same character from the cartoon. John Turtullo is embarrassingly bad. There's some parents who are stupid. Robots fight again.

Done. You're ready to see Three.

[Persona]

Buckeye Jones, on 28 July 2010 - 03:33 PM, said:

You don't need to see the other two. Robots fight. Megan Fox is tight. Shia LeBouf is not the same character from the cartoon. John Turtullo is embarrassingly bad. There's some parents who are stupid. Robots fight again.

Done. You're ready to see Three.

You know the nature of a completist. Even if it means he has to watch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Stall.

[Peter T Chattaway]

'Transformers 3' wraps early in Chicago after an extra is injured
The production company filming “Transformers 3” scrapped plans to film its final scenes in Chicago after a bank teller working as an extra was critically injured this week, a city official said Friday.
Filming of the action movie was scheduled to be completed Thursday, with final scenes being shot at Millennium Park, the city said. Those plans were canceled after 24-year-old Gabriela Cedillo was struck in the head Wednesday night during filming in Hammond, Ind. . . .
Cedillo was injured as the movie crew filmed a scene in Hammond that involved drivers moving along a busy highway as explosions went off in the opposite lane. A metal object smashed through the windshield of her car and struck her in the head. Her car continued moving, skidding along the inner median concrete barrier for about a mile before coming to a stop, Indiana state police said. . . .
Los Angeles Times, September 3

[Peter T Chattaway]

It occurs to me, on watching this teaser, that Neil Armstrong is still alive. I wonder what HE makes of seeing this pivotal moment in his life fictionalized like this:



David Poland: "Bringing Anthony Breznican’s Twitter joke – 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon gets a teaser. Is that an F. Murray Abraham-bot?' – to you in living color."

[Nathan Douglas]

The HD teaser is up at Apple.

Which brings us to...




Teal and Orange Neil Armstrong!

Not to mention,




T & O Kronkite! Woohoo!

Edited by N.W. Douglas, 09 December 2010 - 07:05 AM.

[Peter T Chattaway]

[Clint M]

After seeing both the teaser trailer (in front of True Grit, of all things) and the Super Bowl spot (the movie one, not the one posted above), I'm a bit disappointed. With a title like Dark of The Moon, there would have been great excitement towards using Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon or Ozzy Osbourne's Bark At the Moon as a backing soundtrack.

But no, instead we get Transformery farts.

Edited by Clint M, 07 February 2011 - 02:44 AM.

[Buckeye Jones]

Peter T Chattaway, on 09 December 2010 - 12:27 AM, said:

It occurs to me, on watching this teaser, that Neil Armstrong is still alive. I wonder what HE makes of seeing this pivotal moment in his life fictionalized like this:

Neil Armstrong lives just north of Cincinnati--he taught engineering for years after his NASA work here at the University of Cincinnati. I've never ran into him, but from all accounts I've heard, he's pretty grumpy in general.

[Persona]

"Not Lupus"

That is awesome.

Buckeye Jones, on 07 February 2011 - 08:22 AM, said:

Peter T Chattaway, on 09 December 2010 - 12:27 AM, said:

It occurs to me, on watching this teaser, that Neil Armstrong is still alive. I wonder what HE makes of seeing this pivotal moment in his life fictionalized like this:

Neil Armstrong lives just north of Cincinnati--he taught engineering for years after his NASA work here at the University of Cincinnati. I've never ran into him, but from all accounts I've heard, he's pretty grumpy in general.

I'm somewhat certain he has a museum in his name somewhere out by Sidney, OH...