Transformers 3 Mercy Killing: The Twins

Few geeky big-screen franchises have fallen as quickly as that of Transformers. I remember going to the first chapter and gigling my socks off, waiting with bated breath for the moment when Optimus Prime would make his grand entrance.

Then I saddled up to Transformers 2 - the clanging, cluttered, convoluted sequel that somehow thought we wanted to take this whole intergalactic war seriously. Whatever laughs there were in part one were replaced with labored CG battle scenes that went on. And on. And on.

And then there were the appalling, borderline crude, twins: Skids and Mudflap. Caricatures who spoke in slang, and gave Jar Jar Binks a run for its money in offering a racist flair to a purely CG affair.

Anyway, Michael Bay confirmed over at his official message board that the twins will not be back for the third installment. No word yet on if he’s planning on injecting any fun back into the thing.

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Wow. Michael “Boom!” Bay has more directoral savvy than George Lucas.
appsbyaaron

Outside of the twins I LOVED T2. The first time through I didn’t really mind the twins but it got real old after that. Thanks MB for axing them.
gum0nshoe

>> appsbyaaron: Thanks MB for asing them

Don’t thank MB for anything. That’s like thanking a mass murderer for apologizing for killing 20 children who had the nerve to touch a can of play dough.

I doubt the third movie will be worth a penny out of my wallet after what the last two movies were. I do find it hilarious that the second movie was so bad that it’s already caused a lack luster first movie to be appreciated. Maybe after the third one is released we’ll all be hailing the first sequel as a masterpiece as well.
richardsrussell

Yeah, what Gum said!
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i’m big FAN! of the Transformers world.. soon new movie.. yahooo!!