Michael Bay Offering $25,000 To Whoever Can Spot The Twins In Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Michael Bay Offering $25,000 To Whoever Can Spot The Twins In Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

Yes, you read the headline right. Apparently fed up by the questions as to whether or not the Twins (Skids and Mudflap) will return for his third Transformers film, Michael Bay is offering $25,000 to whoever sees them first when the film comes out. More after the jump!

By PaulRom - May 15, 2011 10:05 AM EST
Source: Tformers.com



In a somewhat desperate attempt to end the rumors of the presence of Skids and Mudflap in Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, director Michael Bay goes to his official site, Shoot For The Edit, to offer a high reward to whoever sees them in the film. From TFormers.com:

"After the Internet posting of a nice review by someone who saw [the film], the writer had not been clear on one thing," Mr. Bay writes. "He misstated that the Twins are in the film. They are not."

"So I am offering a $25,000 REWARD to anyone who can find them performing in Transformers 3, on July 1, when the movie opens," he proclaims.

The posting does not state how to claim this reward, is proven.

Mr. Bay explains the sightings of Mudlfap and Skids in the trailer: "Trailer houses sometimes use shots that are not in the movie! End [of] story I'm done wasting my time this!"

Pretty ridiculous, huh? Anyways, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon hits theaters July 1st, later this summer!
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InSpace
InSpace - 5/15/2011, 10:41 AM
I just found an easy way to make an easy quarter million =D
ckirk8
ckirk8 - 5/15/2011, 10:45 AM
@InSpace Yeah, because $25,000 is a quarter of $1,000,000...
ComicbookmovieF4Lfe
ComicbookmovieF4Lfe - 5/15/2011, 10:54 AM
@Inspace you better you that "Quarter of a million" and go to school. Lol
Anyways I'm not buying Michael bay on this one. I'll wait till the movie comes out.
InSpace
InSpace - 5/15/2011, 10:55 AM
i misread the article gosh -_______-
ThreeBigTacos
ThreeBigTacos - 5/15/2011, 11:02 AM
.... hmm he seems pissed
ckirk8
ckirk8 - 5/15/2011, 11:16 AM
@ComicbookmovieF4Lfe "You better you"? Perhaps you should fix your own grammar before suggesting to someone that he should go back to school...

@InSpace I was just kidding around, I didn't mean to say that in an insulting manner.
Jagfan28
Jagfan28 - 5/15/2011, 11:43 AM
Awww, I liked Skids and Mudflap, especially since Tom Kenny voiced Skids, oh well maybe he will return for the voice of Wheelie.
CraptainAmerica
CraptainAmerica - 5/15/2011, 12:46 PM
MAN ALIVE Bay can't wait to be done with this shit...
Spilox
Spilox - 5/15/2011, 12:53 PM
Didn't i see them in the trailer?!
blacksad
blacksad - 5/15/2011, 1:28 PM
I dont belived that the twins are going to apear, i think this a way to make people go see the movie.
tjbpinkfloyd
tjbpinkfloyd - 5/15/2011, 1:43 PM
AintItCoolNews just posted their review and said that they're in the film
Urban8er
Urban8er - 5/15/2011, 3:58 PM
He's just desperate for people to see the movie now. offering people money to see it.
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 5/15/2011, 5:59 PM
ComicbookmovieF4Lfe lol That's exactly what Bay is annoyed with. He just told you the twins are NOT in the movie and for some reason, you don't believe him. What would he gain by lying? The movie is going to make money weather they're in it or not.

Urban8er The franchise is successful even when it's retarded, and people are going to go see the movie regardless. I doubt Bay is desperate. And he doesn't intend to give away any money. He's sending idiots on a wild goose chase for simplely not taking his word.

I mean, it's really silly to think the man is trying to sell an already successful movie by omitting two characters. I'm sure directors and actors think most geeks are just friggin stupid.
Draco2824
Draco2824 - 5/15/2011, 8:13 PM
Bay's a jackass
DirkDiggler97
DirkDiggler97 - 5/15/2011, 8:20 PM
No he's a...
eleven59
eleven59 - 5/15/2011, 8:36 PM
He seems to know a good bet when he sees it; I noticed he didn't mention a reward challenging people to find the bad script, bad acting, bad dialogue, bad humor or bad plot...
113
113 - 5/15/2011, 8:43 PM
Maybe you shouldn't of put racist stereotypes in robot form in the 2nd movie in the first place Mr. Bay, you douche.
GoddamnBatman
GoddamnBatman - 5/15/2011, 8:43 PM
The twins gotta come back. Patrick Star is gonna be in this one
PurpleHaze92
PurpleHaze92 - 5/15/2011, 8:56 PM
You know what i hate more than michel bays movies? His Face. Its just god awful....
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 5/15/2011, 9:19 PM
Funny thing is; after all the crying, EVERYONE HERE is going to see the movie.

Turn the lights off on your way out.
molee
molee - 5/15/2011, 9:24 PM
25000 isn't quarter of a milllion guys.. O_O
its a quarter of 100,000!
jesus! your maths sucks guys..
Ceejay
Ceejay - 5/15/2011, 9:27 PM
The Twins are NOT in the film, the early review that Capone posted on AintitCoolNews mislead the initial readers. Capone had to edit the review to make it clear that the "street wise robots" he was referring to WERE NOT the twins but the smaller robots Wheelie and others.

Bay's just so annoyed that the misleading reference has already spread like wild fire and so he states he'll give $25,000 to anyone who can spot them. Naturally you can't win that cash becasue they aint in the movie!

That said, Capone's review was pretty damn positive to the max, he absolutely loved it even though he don't give a damn about Transformers. Looks like the worlds in for a big summer treat and the G1 moaners are gonna be back online jerking off into the same cup again about how much they love the originals and hate this new stuff! Hasbro must laugh themselves silly every time they sanction a new comic, cartoon or movie to sell another toy line. I doubt they believe these G1 die hards would be so sad for so long even though they've been reinventing Transformers since 1988. Guess some of us just find excuses to never grow up and deal with stuff!
Rexgabe
Rexgabe - 5/15/2011, 9:28 PM
Haha I was going to say something about how much suck and racism the twins brought to Transformers 2, but then I read @InSpace's comment about a quarter million and now I'm just happy.

Funny guy.
JigJRod55
JigJRod55 - 5/15/2011, 9:35 PM
They're by the huge [frick]in' explosion, pay up.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 5/15/2011, 9:40 PM
Just for the record Capone's review PART ONE...

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

Hey everyone. Capone here.

It's very late in Chicago right now, and I contemplated getting a decent night's sleep before tackling this review. But I'll be honest, the way my brain is spinning right now with thoughts of images I've just seen and the sheer destruction I've just experienced, sleep ain't happening. You see, I've just come from seeing TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, the third and easily best entry in the Michael Bay-directed franchise, and all I wanted to do when I left the theater was gaze upon my beautiful city, just to make sure it was in one piece.

Let me say two quick things before I dive into this review. The first is that, as a kid growing up, I could not have cared less about Transformers--the toys, TV show, or animated movie. When it was first announced that a live-action TRANSFORMERS movie was being made, directed by Bay, I couldn't have cared less, not because I didn't dig Bay's work but because I simply didn't care about the subject matter. Second, and perhaps more directly relevant to this discussion, the only nightmares I remember having as a child (we're talking Reagan-era 1980s) involved the destruction of the city I was living in at the time, Washington, D.C. I didn't know how many nuclear missiles the Russians had, but I knew damn well that a whole bunch of them were pointed at the nation's capital. Seeing WAR GAMES for the first time as a teen did not do me a bit of good.

Make no mistake, D.C. takes a hell of a beating in DARK OF THE MOON, but it was in the final hour of this TRANSFORMERS chapter that I simply forgot to breathe; there isn't a spare second to do so. For a solid hour, Bay and his CGI-created robot buddies decimate Chicago. And I won't lie: seeing it so realistically and utterly leveled was almost more than I could handle. Granted, people outside of Chicago probably won't have the same reaction I did (I didn't even get a little misty eyed watching California sink into the Pacific during 2012, or New York die in countless sci-fi stories), but our city has never been the victim of an alien hate crime like this before. And as much as it hurt to see, I also loved watching it happen.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 5/15/2011, 9:41 PM
Just for the record Capone's review PART TWO...

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

Let me also add, in the interest of total disclosure, that the version of DARK OF THE MOON that I saw was not in 3D, probably because some of the effects weren't completely done, which would have forced the film to go in and out of 3D since the unfinished effects wouldn't have been in 3D. But there were definitely a few times watching this movie, where the 3D potential was very clear. As a reminder, Bay shot this movie in 3D, and it will likely look awesome. In addition, the sound mix and design wasn't quite done, so some parts seemed especially loud to the point where voices were buried when they clearly were meant to be heard. But considering that the film doesn't come out until July 4 weekend, it looked remarkably complete.

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON begins with a great concept and a cool backstory (the screenplay is credited to Ehren Kruger on imdb.com, but in the print I saw, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's names were credited as well; since the credits weren't finished, these may have been a temp credits pulled from the last movie): When the war on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons appeared lost to the Autobots, their leader, Sentinal Prime, attempted to launch a craft from the planet, loaded with technology that would have saved their people. Instead, it crashed on earth's moon and the Autobots were forced to flee to earth. Coincidentally, this moon crash happened when John F. Kennedy was president, and he immediately made his famous promise to the nation to put a man on the moon (specifically, an American man, so that we would beat the Russians to investigate the crash; see how that works?). In fact, according to this film, every NASA moon landing was actually an investigation of this wrecked spacecraft.

The first hour and a half of DARK OF THE MOON focuses primarily on story (with brief fight and chase sequences pepperd in), but it's actually a cool story about the Autobots finding out that the technology that was supposed to save their race and planet has been sitting on the moon the entire time they've been on earth and nobody bothered to tell them; Optimus Prime is not amused. Naturally, we also get the continuing adventures of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), who has now graduated college and is desperately looking for his first job. He has a new girlfriend, Carly (supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), who doesn't need an occasion to dress in the tightest clothes imaginable. Bay has a great deal of fun shooting Rosie like he's directing a Victoria's Secret commercial (which he probably did on his days off).
Ceejay
Ceejay - 5/15/2011, 9:42 PM
Just for the record Capone's review PART THREE...

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

Sam is upset that he's even looking for job, since he believes he should be working side by side with his Autobot friends, going on missions, and helping save he world. The Autobots are now firmly in place as part of America's military, as we see from a brief mission in the Middle East early on. They would have killed Bin Laden years ago. A few Decepticons are still around, including a severely beaten down Megatron, who's especially creepy in DARK OF THE MOON because half of his head is missing and these little spider-like robots crawl in and out of the place where his brain circuitry may have been at one time. He plucks them out, almost without noticing, which somehow makes it worse. Still, Megatron is in good spirits because a plot hatched long ago is coming to fruition.

The clever script manages to find new ways to place Transformers into world events, including one particularly nasty "accident" at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, which was actually the result of some of the moon technology being experimented on. And I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that Optimus finds a way to retrieve Sentinal Prime's body from the moon wreckage and revive him (voiced to perfection by Leonard Nimoy). I don't feel right talking too much more about the twists and turns that lead to the Chicago showdown between a small group of humans and a massive alien robot army, but when Sam says to the Nest team "Chicago is ground zero!," I got a [frick]ing chill.

Let's talk characters and performances. LaBeouf is LaBeouf; you either dig him or you don't. I happen to dig the guy a great deal, and he seems especially focused in DARK OF THE MOON, as well as broader in the shoulders. Huntington-Whiteley is actually pretty good here and certainly miles better than Megan Fox, if only because she's actually got something to do here beyond just looking like a million bucks. I wouldn't say Carly has a major players in this movie, but at least she's allowed to contribute. Also returning are Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson as Nest team leaders Lennox and Epps, an shockingly enough there's little attention paid to personal growth in either of their cases.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 5/15/2011, 9:42 PM
Just for the record Capone's review PART FOUR...

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

And let's not forget John Turturro as former agent Simmons, who has written a book about aliens on earth and become a rich eccentric, trying desperately not to get sucked back into the alien game. Many of his scenes are with a fellow Coen Brothers regular, Frances McDormand, as Charlotte Mearing, the defense department commander in charge of missions involving the Autobots. She's kind of hard ass who couldn't care less that Sam wants to keep playing with his robots. "You're not a soldier; you're a messenger," she rightfully reminds him.

New to the cast are such dignitaries as John Malkovich, largely wasted (but still funny) as Sam's boss at a tech company where he eventually gets hired; Ken Jeong as co-worker with much-needed information on the moon project; Alan Tudyk, very good as Simmons right-hand man; and Patrick Dempsey, as Dylan, Carly's boss and perhaps competition for her affections. Oh, and he also harbors a desire for world domination. I'll thank whatever movie gods I have to that Sam's annoying parents are barely in this TRANSFORMERS installment. Without fail, they take us out of the action on the drop of a dime, they aren't funny, and we don't need comic relief like this anyway when we've got street-smart little robots to entertain us. Yes, they're back too, but let's just say they're toned down. [Hey, everyone. Just to be 100 percent clear, I'm not referring about the "The Twins" here; they are most definitely not in this film. I'm talking about Wheelie (Tom Kenny, who also voiced Skids in REVENGE OF THE FALLEN) and other similar smaller robots, who act like streetwise teenagers.]

So what about the scenes of Chicago's destruction? These sequences are cool for a few reasons, but let me talk about them purely from a purely action standpoint. Because the Decepticons (who have taken over the city for reasons that involve restoring their planet) can detect machines coming into their airspace, the military can't send planes to bomb them. As a result, small teams of Nest soldiers much base jump into the city using suits that effectively make them able to fly. As much as some of you might think this was accomplished with visual effects, guess again. I saw these guys jump off the Willis Tower and the Trump Tower. Those guys [frick]ing flew, then pulled their chutes, then landed. In watching most of the action sequences, it appeared to me that Bay opted to go practical a lot more than he has with this franchise in the past. Pretty much the only totally artificial element in DARK OF THE MOON are the robots, and what a colossal difference it makes.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 5/15/2011, 9:43 PM
Just for the record Capone's review PART FIVE...

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

And there's something about scaling things down somewhat in the Chicago scenes that proves far more rewarding than piling on large numbers of troops and artillery. There's one scene where Sam and Lennox are fighting a single Decepticon alone, and they manage to bring it down after a long, hard fight. Somehow, that small moment resonates so much louder than bombs and explosions that take out several bad-guy robots and half a city block at once (oh, don't worry, there's plenty of that as well). It's nice to see Bay act globally by thinking locally. The other thing that happens in DARK OF THE MOON that's spooky is that during the Chicago invasion sequence, civilians actually die…in large numbers, leaving behind a pile of clothes and a stripped down, scattered skeleton (it sounds silly, I know, but it's actually kind of traumatizing).

I think I'm going to leave TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON for a while, at least until I can see it again in 3D (maybe IMAX to boot, just to really blow out my eyes and mind). So, there may be a follow-up review come July 1 or thereabouts. But, I have to admit, I'm genuinely surprised what a strong effort this film is, not just in terms of its scope, but also in its pacing, performances, and ideas. This one dares to go dark from time to time, and that helped me find the often-lacking component of many Bay films: emotion. You probably won't shed any tears watching DARK OF THE MOON, but you will care when certain lives are lost or in peril. This one might actually rock you a little to your foundation; get excited about that. The summer keeps getting incrementally better from where I'm sitting.
TrollHunter
TrollHunter - 5/15/2011, 10:05 PM
I'm gonna have to call shenanigans Mr. Bay. Not only did I stand less than a foot away from two cars that looked almost identical to the twins while you were filming downtown Chicago, but you can also see those exact same cars in the newly released trailer. The cars aren't exact but they have the same body shape and the orange and green used in each cars paint job is the exact same color as the twins. Coincidence? I think not! You can see the two cars in the way back of the hangar around the :44 second mark of the trailer. They are a lot easier to see if you watch the 1080p trailer off of itunes.
Rodimus9
Rodimus9 - 5/15/2011, 10:41 PM
Transformers: DOTM will be this summers winner.
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 5/15/2011, 11:38 PM
TrollHunter

"Trailer houses sometimes use shots that are not in the movie!

- Michael Bay

krzfter
krzfter - 5/15/2011, 11:44 PM
My question is can Bumblebee talk yet?! It is ridiculous if still can't.
MrBlueSky
MrBlueSky - 5/16/2011, 2:01 AM
@DirkDiggler97

My thoughts exactly.
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