Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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Alien Spaceships Resemble Giant Lobsters!!!

"Flying saucers are too generic to base a spaceship on. What doesn't look like a saucer?" "A lobster?" "Fantastic!"

All Explosives Make Huge Fireballs

Some directors seem to think that all forms of explosives make giant balls of fire, making no distinction between high explosives and incendiaries.

Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions

Cool guys keep on walking when something explodes behind them.

Double Cross

A plot device in which a character switches allegiances at the last moment. Most double crosses end badly for the double crosser.

Exploding Cars

When a car falls off a cliff or careens into a brick wall at speed it will inevitably explode into a beautiful orange blossom of fiery death. I thought they recalled the Ford Pinto years ago...

Friend Leaves But Comes Back to Save the Day

The partner leaves his/her friend to die only to come back and save them.

Giant Blue Light-Beam Shoots Up into Sky!!!

A giant blue light-beam shoots up into the sky!!!

Good Guy Turns Out to be a Bad Guy

We've all seen it: a friend, relative, or associate of the good guy seems to be a loyal supporter, may even kill a few bad guys along the way. But at the worst possible moment, he reveals that he's been working for (or even leading) the villains all along!

Gratuitous Female Nudity

Oh, she takes off her clothes before hopping into the shower like any other person? I never would have guessed that unless you showed me. Thanks, director.

Ignoring Orders To "Do The Right Thing"

In which soldiers, police officers, or someone in another kind of strict hierarchical organization is given explicit orders from a superior, only to ignore, disobey, or explicitly rebel against those orders because they believe that following them would be wrong.

Invincible Ear Drums!

When the effects to the ear drum of having a catastrophic explosion occur right next to you ranges from nothing to a ten second ringing sound.

Invincible Make-Up

When a character is clearly wearing eye shadow, but it doesn't smear.

It's Always Winter In Russia!

Russia has eternal winters in western movies!

Last-Second Handhold

The hero is about to fall off that cliff, but at the last second, he manages to grab his teammate's hand/the edge of the precipice!

Last Second Save

A ton of movies have a very cliche scene where somebody ends up falling to what would seem to be inevitable death, be it off a building, a cliff, or what have you. Naturally, our timely protagonist (not always the case, however...) manages to dive and grab the falling persons hand just in time, saving them.

Machines Have Feelings

This is up for debate.

Mother...

Clusterf--

"Oh my God!"

A character expelling his disbelief of an event he is seeing or experiencing by using the Lord's name in vain. Variations of this include: "Good God!," "Oh God," "My God," and "Oh My Lord."

Presumed Dead

We all remember "those" parts of movies where someone falls off of a bridge or something equally horrific and everyone assumes that the person is died, yet they come back later.

Red Eyed Evil Robots

Whether they are from the future or another planet, almost every evil robot in movies has red eyes.

Shirtless!

Cool guys have muscles and they just love to show them off. The only way to do that is to take off their shirts and flex. These are the films that help them do that.

Slow Motion Dramatic Emphasis

The troops are rallied, the weapons are equipped, the enemy is at the gates, and you can clearly see every detail as the drama crawls slowly across the screen.

US Government is Corrupt

Blames ridiculous occurances on the US Government. Specific to the US Government.

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Name Transformers: Dark of the Moon
US Release June 29, 2011
UK Release July 1, 2011
AUS Release June 30, 2011
Runtime 153
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Rating PG-13
Alias(es) Transformers 3
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  • In today's dollars
    Domestic $352,390,543
    Foreign +771,356,453
  • = total worldwide gross $1,123,746,996
  • - a reported budget of $195,000,000
  • = a 476.3% net profit of $928,746,996
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