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Friday, May 18, 2007

TRANSFORMERS trailer... Flash style!

Don't have Quicktime handily installed on whatever 'puter you're on? Here's the new Transformers trailer (found on Michael Bay's website):

And here's the original link to the Quicktime version on Yahoo!

The more I watch this trailer, the more stoked I'm getting to see this movie. I keep thinking about how much I started looking forward to Independence Day after that now-legendary commercial during the 1996 Super Bowl. Transformers is going to be that kind of outrageous good fun too, I hope.

Something also that I first realized with the movie's teaser, and this trailer reinforces the notion for me, that I hadn't thought of ever since the Transformers hit the scene in 1984: the Transformers are not "robots". They are living alien organisms from a world far removed from Earth. They just happen to be living organisms that are composed of metal and not carbon molecules. And that gives them some mechanical attributes and abilities, but otherwise these are things with a spark of conscience. The Transformers, at their best, are characters with souls. And it looks like this movie is going to tap into that (I hope so anyway).

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