Transformers 2 opens: An epic guy flick, but replace the Camaro with a hot car
Megan Fox is still hot. Chevy Camaro as Bumblebee is not.
Initially, Michael Bay changed the character of Bumblebee in Transformers from a VW Beetle to a Chevy Camaro because the VW reminded him too much of Herbie the Love Bug. That worked in 2007 when GM was a viable company. However, making Bumblebee a 2010 Camaro today is like giving the lead to Robert Redford.
Redford is a great actor, but certainly not an action hero anymore. GM was once a great car manufacturer, and their Camaro was once a superstar hot car. Today, however, it's passé. They need to wake up and make the star car something that get great mileage and still goes fast and is manufactured by a company that is not in debt to the American taxpayer.
My recommendation is the Mini Cooper S. Something a bit more obscure but sexier would be the Tesla Roadster. Both of these vehicles are small muscle cars of the future, and that's what Transformers is all about – fictionalizing the future.
Megan Fox will be hot for many more sequels, but Bumblebee needs to be updated.
May we all enjoy such fantasy films and continue to be aware that most people on the planet are suffering without adequate food, water or housing. It's time to upgrade their standard of living to match the fictional movies.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
On Movies: "Transformers" producer recalls Philadelphia shoot
This time last year, Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf and the rest of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen cast were zipping around Philadelphia, shooting inside Eastern State Penitentiary, in Fairmount Park, at Drexel and Penn, dressing up City Hall's courtyard to look like a Parisian cafe.
A Parisian cafe that gets blown to bits.
"It was great," says Ian Bryce, the sequel's producer, who's worked with blockbuster maestro Michael Bay on both Transformers. "We were in Philly for two weeks, had wonderful cooperation throughout the city, from the mayor's office, the film commission, and everybody that we dealt with."
By phone from London, where the megahit-to-be had a prerelease premiere this week, Bryce is catching his breath after working on the Autobots vs. Decepticons spectacle for nearly two years. The film, a follow-up to the $708 million-grossing Transformers (that's global box office), opens everywhere Wednesday.
"This one was quite an adventure, because when we started there was no script," Bryce acknowledges. "So, as Mike and the writers were busy writing, we essentially had a seven-page treatment that we knew was going to represent the script - and we had to start preparing the movie physically from that document.
"That included making a blueprint for where we thought we were going to shoot. We started scouting locations before we had a real solid idea of what was going to be in [the movie]. . . . Mike said, 'Look, it feels like we need this . . . kind of location.' He's great about that. He's very pragmatic about making those choices.
"And as you'll see when you watch the film, there were lots of locations, we shot on four continents, and so it was very challenging logistically and operationally."
Indeed, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was filmed in Cairo, in Paris (yes, the real Paris), in Philadelphia, in Princeton, in Hawaii and in other U.S. locales. The Industrial Light & Magic-produced CG effects - with intergalactic robots based on the Hasbro toys morphing into giant metal machines and moving vehicles - are "more complex and sophisticated," says the producer.
Bryce describes the tone of Transformers 2 as "slightly more grown-up." There are scenes in a strip club, and, according to an early review from Variety, a glimpse of actor and Heineken spokesman John Turturro in a G-string. ("Well, there's a moment of that, yeah - a very light moment," Bryce confirms. "If you blink you'll be OK. . . . It gets a good laugh, which is obviously the intention.")
There are no shots of Fox in a G-string, alas. Fox, a virtual unknown, rocketed to stardom thanks to the first Transformers. She's now signed on for the female lead in the comic book adaptation Jonah Hex, is being rumored for a Buffy the Vampire remake, and has the title role in Jennifer's Body, the Diablo Cody horror flick.
"She deserves it - she's got star quality," Bryce says, "as does Shia. They've got great chemistry together, so sometimes a movie will do that. It just propels people into the limelight, and gives them a jump start on their careers."
Bryce, whose credits as a producer include Saving Private Ryan (he nabbed an Oscar nomination for that one) and the first Spider-Man, was circumspect when asked about the next Transformers film. Describing himself as "superstitious," he didn't want to venture thoughts about a second sequel until this one proves itself.
(Like there's a chance it won't: MovieTickets.com reported this week that advance sales for Transformers: ROTF are outpacing sales for the original Transformers by almost 3-to-1 at the same point in the sales cycle - eight days prior to each film's release. And the IMAX ticket sales at MovieTickets.com are, well, huge.)
"I don't like to go there, but the preliminary tracking for the film is quite nice," he concedes.
So, a trilogy?
"I think there's enough material there that you could do any number of movies," he says. "It's sort of like Harry Potter that way. There's just a vast cast of characters. So I think the possibilities might certainly extend beyond three - but that would be foolish to speculate on at this point."
Perhaps a part 3 is necessary for this.
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This time last year, Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf and the rest of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen cast were zipping around Philadelphia, shooting inside Eastern State Penitentiary, in Fairmount Park, at Drexel and Penn, dressing up City Hall's courtyard to look like a Parisian cafe.
A Parisian cafe that gets blown to bits.
"It was great," says Ian Bryce, the sequel's producer, who's worked with blockbuster maestro Michael Bay on both Transformers. "We were in Philly for two weeks, had wonderful cooperation throughout the city, from the mayor's office, the film commission, and everybody that we dealt with."
By phone from London, where the megahit-to-be had a prerelease premiere this week, Bryce is catching his breath after working on the Autobots vs. Decepticons spectacle for nearly two years. The film, a follow-up to the $708 million-grossing Transformers (that's global box office), opens everywhere Wednesday.
"This one was quite an adventure, because when we started there was no script," Bryce acknowledges. "So, as Mike and the writers were busy writing, we essentially had a seven-page treatment that we knew was going to represent the script - and we had to start preparing the movie physically from that document.
"That included making a blueprint for where we thought we were going to shoot. We started scouting locations before we had a real solid idea of what was going to be in [the movie]. . . . Mike said, 'Look, it feels like we need this . . . kind of location.' He's great about that. He's very pragmatic about making those choices.
"And as you'll see when you watch the film, there were lots of locations, we shot on four continents, and so it was very challenging logistically and operationally."
Indeed, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was filmed in Cairo, in Paris (yes, the real Paris), in Philadelphia, in Princeton, in Hawaii and in other U.S. locales. The Industrial Light & Magic-produced CG effects - with intergalactic robots based on the Hasbro toys morphing into giant metal machines and moving vehicles - are "more complex and sophisticated," says the producer.
Bryce describes the tone of Transformers 2 as "slightly more grown-up." There are scenes in a strip club, and, according to an early review from Variety, a glimpse of actor and Heineken spokesman John Turturro in a G-string. ("Well, there's a moment of that, yeah - a very light moment," Bryce confirms. "If you blink you'll be OK. . . . It gets a good laugh, which is obviously the intention.")
There are no shots of Fox in a G-string, alas. Fox, a virtual unknown, rocketed to stardom thanks to the first Transformers. She's now signed on for the female lead in the comic book adaptation Jonah Hex, is being rumored for a Buffy the Vampire remake, and has the title role in Jennifer's Body, the Diablo Cody horror flick.
"She deserves it - she's got star quality," Bryce says, "as does Shia. They've got great chemistry together, so sometimes a movie will do that. It just propels people into the limelight, and gives them a jump start on their careers."
Bryce, whose credits as a producer include Saving Private Ryan (he nabbed an Oscar nomination for that one) and the first Spider-Man, was circumspect when asked about the next Transformers film. Describing himself as "superstitious," he didn't want to venture thoughts about a second sequel until this one proves itself.
(Like there's a chance it won't: MovieTickets.com reported this week that advance sales for Transformers: ROTF are outpacing sales for the original Transformers by almost 3-to-1 at the same point in the sales cycle - eight days prior to each film's release. And the IMAX ticket sales at MovieTickets.com are, well, huge.)
"I don't like to go there, but the preliminary tracking for the film is quite nice," he concedes.
So, a trilogy?
"I think there's enough material there that you could do any number of movies," he says. "It's sort of like Harry Potter that way. There's just a vast cast of characters. So I think the possibilities might certainly extend beyond three - but that would be foolish to speculate on at this point."
Perhaps a part 3 is necessary for this.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Entertainment Geekly: Transformers 2 Film Review
Entertainment Geekly: Transformers 2 Film Review
transformers-2-reviewAt the Australian premiere of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen on Tuesday night, Aussie Home & Away graduate Isabel Lucas (who stars in the film) said that there are double the explosions compared to the first film. She was wrong – it’s more like quadruple the amount. And that’s not including the nuked fridge… (Warning: Lots of spoilers follow!)
The truth about Transformers 2 is that it’s a BIG movie, in every sense of the word. Michael Bay likes making shit explode, and he has a field day with this film. The robots are huge, the explosions are massive, the gratuitous shots of Megan Fox’s body are frequent and the laughs are solid. Even the running time is big, running at 147 minutes. By the time you walk out of the cinema, you feel like you’re coming down from an insane Red Bull binge.
The film starts off relatively modestly with a scene from about 20,000 BC where cavemen and primitive Transformers battle it out to the tune of an Optimus Prime voiceover about how our two races have a history. Then it cuts to present day China, where the Autobots and the US military are rounding up and hunting down Decepticons. Cue massive explosions, robot-on-robot battles and other special effects eye-candy. This is where the film excels: the special effects do look magnificent – you believe every moment of the robots transforming and battling it out on the streets of Shanghai.
So far so good. We move from Shanghai to Shia LaBeouf and his move to college, and the plot starts moving forwards. There are some nice comedic moments, some Megan Fox skin, some Isabel Lucas skin and then BAM! Isabel Lucas is a Transformer! A hot, college student Transformer! Because Transformers can now transform metal into skin…
To be honest, while actually watching the film, I took this turn of events in my stride. But afterwards it stood out like a geeky tech journalist at a film premiere – a machine made of metal can’t transform into a human – that’s just stupid. At best, they’d be able to transform into a Terminator-like skeleton thing, not some hot young chick who tries to get into Shia LaBeouf’s pants before killing him or something. Fortunately, that sequence is over fairly quickly and the film moves on, but not before it leaves a salty flavour in the back of your throat that tastes like logic being overthrown by the allure of hot chicks and fire.
The film moves on with some more explosions, battles, Transformers, Megan Fox and explosions. I’m not going to spell it all out for you here. Instead we’re going to skip forward to near the end of the movie where Bay decides to throw in a (figurative) nuked fridge. Let’s put it simply: Shia LaBeouf dies, and is then visited by a bunch of Transformer angels who tell him it’s not his time to die and bring him back to life.
What. The. Fuck.
It was literally like Michael Bay was sitting behind me in the theatre with a cold bucket of water, waiting to pour it over me at that precise moment to completely rip me from any suspension of disbelief. Transformer Angels? What the hell were they thinking? Just like in the last Indiana Jones film when Lucas nuked the fridge and Shia LaBeouf became Tarzan, you end up so shocked by the absurdity of this moment – even in a film about transforming robots – that it almost completely ruins the entire film.
And that’s just the problem. Transformers 2 was never going to have the strongest plot. It was never going to have the best acting performances. It was never going to have you leaving the cinema thinking “well that was an intelligent film”. What it was going to do was give you enough action and robot porn, plus a few laughs along the way, to make you forget about the world for a couple of hours. And when a single scene in a two hour movie is so bad that you actually turn to the person next to you and ask them “What the fuck”, it’s going to taint the entire movie experience.
And that’s what that one scene did for me. On the whole I managed to ignore the gaping plot holes and cliches and enjoy the robot CGI and explosive action ride. There are a couple of things – like the Matrix of leadership and the Devastator – which reminded me of the original Transformers cartoon movie and my youth playing with the toys that I thoroughly enjoyed. But even after a couple of days trying to come to terms with it, I still find myself thinking about the absurdity of Transformer angels bringing Shia back to life. I can’t help but think it would have been much better for him to just stay dead…
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transformers-2-reviewAt the Australian premiere of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen on Tuesday night, Aussie Home & Away graduate Isabel Lucas (who stars in the film) said that there are double the explosions compared to the first film. She was wrong – it’s more like quadruple the amount. And that’s not including the nuked fridge… (Warning: Lots of spoilers follow!)
The truth about Transformers 2 is that it’s a BIG movie, in every sense of the word. Michael Bay likes making shit explode, and he has a field day with this film. The robots are huge, the explosions are massive, the gratuitous shots of Megan Fox’s body are frequent and the laughs are solid. Even the running time is big, running at 147 minutes. By the time you walk out of the cinema, you feel like you’re coming down from an insane Red Bull binge.
The film starts off relatively modestly with a scene from about 20,000 BC where cavemen and primitive Transformers battle it out to the tune of an Optimus Prime voiceover about how our two races have a history. Then it cuts to present day China, where the Autobots and the US military are rounding up and hunting down Decepticons. Cue massive explosions, robot-on-robot battles and other special effects eye-candy. This is where the film excels: the special effects do look magnificent – you believe every moment of the robots transforming and battling it out on the streets of Shanghai.
So far so good. We move from Shanghai to Shia LaBeouf and his move to college, and the plot starts moving forwards. There are some nice comedic moments, some Megan Fox skin, some Isabel Lucas skin and then BAM! Isabel Lucas is a Transformer! A hot, college student Transformer! Because Transformers can now transform metal into skin…
To be honest, while actually watching the film, I took this turn of events in my stride. But afterwards it stood out like a geeky tech journalist at a film premiere – a machine made of metal can’t transform into a human – that’s just stupid. At best, they’d be able to transform into a Terminator-like skeleton thing, not some hot young chick who tries to get into Shia LaBeouf’s pants before killing him or something. Fortunately, that sequence is over fairly quickly and the film moves on, but not before it leaves a salty flavour in the back of your throat that tastes like logic being overthrown by the allure of hot chicks and fire.
The film moves on with some more explosions, battles, Transformers, Megan Fox and explosions. I’m not going to spell it all out for you here. Instead we’re going to skip forward to near the end of the movie where Bay decides to throw in a (figurative) nuked fridge. Let’s put it simply: Shia LaBeouf dies, and is then visited by a bunch of Transformer angels who tell him it’s not his time to die and bring him back to life.
What. The. Fuck.
It was literally like Michael Bay was sitting behind me in the theatre with a cold bucket of water, waiting to pour it over me at that precise moment to completely rip me from any suspension of disbelief. Transformer Angels? What the hell were they thinking? Just like in the last Indiana Jones film when Lucas nuked the fridge and Shia LaBeouf became Tarzan, you end up so shocked by the absurdity of this moment – even in a film about transforming robots – that it almost completely ruins the entire film.
And that’s just the problem. Transformers 2 was never going to have the strongest plot. It was never going to have the best acting performances. It was never going to have you leaving the cinema thinking “well that was an intelligent film”. What it was going to do was give you enough action and robot porn, plus a few laughs along the way, to make you forget about the world for a couple of hours. And when a single scene in a two hour movie is so bad that you actually turn to the person next to you and ask them “What the fuck”, it’s going to taint the entire movie experience.
And that’s what that one scene did for me. On the whole I managed to ignore the gaping plot holes and cliches and enjoy the robot CGI and explosive action ride. There are a couple of things – like the Matrix of leadership and the Devastator – which reminded me of the original Transformers cartoon movie and my youth playing with the toys that I thoroughly enjoyed. But even after a couple of days trying to come to terms with it, I still find myself thinking about the absurdity of Transformer angels bringing Shia back to life. I can’t help but think it would have been much better for him to just stay dead…
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Movies have transformed Tyrese Gibson's life
Movies have transformed Tyrese Gibson's life
LOS ANGELES — Every day Tyrese Gibson admires a framed photo that sits on his desk at his Los Angeles office.
In it, his two acting heroes Will Smith and Denzel Washington are posed together. Each time he glances at it, he's reminded of why he's so picky with film projects.
Gibson's dream is to create a career that combines the best of Washington's and Smith's — a mix of gut-wrenching acting and explosive adrenaline-rush projects.
"Denzel works really hard and keeps a lot of people on edge on movie sets because he's so focused and he expects the best from everybody," Gibson says, pointing to Washington in the photo.
"And Will, his approach has been very global: to be the biggest movie star in the world," he says, placing the photo back in its spot.
"I definitely want to be Tyrese," he says. "But if I had it my way, my goal would be to try to be somewhere in the middle of those guys."
Gibson's on his way.
The 30-year-old actor returns to the big screen Wednesday in the hotly anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He reprises his role as Air Force Technical Sergeant Robert Epps, who has recently been promoted to master sergeant.
The action film is a departure from Gibson's previous work. With the exception of 2003's 2 Fast 2 Furious, Gibson has performed in smaller films such as 2005's Four Brothers and 2006's Waist Deep.
"I always want to be associated with something that's going to have people feeling good, motivated, have people walking away saying 'Man, I thought my life was rough, but it's nowhere near as rough as that,' " he says. "What you decide to do in these films does have an impact on the people."
Being a part of the big-budget Transformers franchise has allowed the actor and singer to pursue other projects. He sings a Babyface-penned duet with Jewel on the Transformers soundtrack, and he'll produce an upcoming reality TV show about firefighters for BET. Gibson's company, HQ Entertainment, also will produce a new comic series with Image Comics called Mayhem.
Gibson says that when he first signed on for Transformers, he had no idea it would perform as well as it did. Worldwide, it was the highest-grossing non-sequel movie in 2007, earning more than $708 million.
He shakes his head for a few moments in disbelief, thinking about the possible magnitude of the sequel.
"This is a real monster right here," he says. "I believe that people are going to love Transformers 2. I think the chemistry among the cast is so much better in the sequel. Everybody had a job and we all came there to do it. I really believe that people are going to walk away enjoying this movie."
In his office — which many days doubles as his home — the divorced dad of 1-year-old Shayla allows his eyes to fall over the relics of his career. There are pictures of him with A-listers (Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Luther Vandross, to name a few) on a wall of fame near his in-office studio. Framed movie posters and notes from famous friends decorate the place.
"It's only by the grace of God that I've been able to go from a 30-second commercial when I was 16 to somehow figuring out a way to still be relevant in 2009. To show up and hear any kind of screams and have anybody happy to see me is a very big deal," he says.
"All I wanted was to be able to go shopping and spend over $50 a month on clothes for school and get this phone number of a girl who lived up the street. I had no goals. I just can't get used to it. And I don't want to."
Very Artistic man.
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LOS ANGELES — Every day Tyrese Gibson admires a framed photo that sits on his desk at his Los Angeles office.
In it, his two acting heroes Will Smith and Denzel Washington are posed together. Each time he glances at it, he's reminded of why he's so picky with film projects.
Gibson's dream is to create a career that combines the best of Washington's and Smith's — a mix of gut-wrenching acting and explosive adrenaline-rush projects.
"Denzel works really hard and keeps a lot of people on edge on movie sets because he's so focused and he expects the best from everybody," Gibson says, pointing to Washington in the photo.
"And Will, his approach has been very global: to be the biggest movie star in the world," he says, placing the photo back in its spot.
"I definitely want to be Tyrese," he says. "But if I had it my way, my goal would be to try to be somewhere in the middle of those guys."
Gibson's on his way.
The 30-year-old actor returns to the big screen Wednesday in the hotly anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He reprises his role as Air Force Technical Sergeant Robert Epps, who has recently been promoted to master sergeant.
The action film is a departure from Gibson's previous work. With the exception of 2003's 2 Fast 2 Furious, Gibson has performed in smaller films such as 2005's Four Brothers and 2006's Waist Deep.
"I always want to be associated with something that's going to have people feeling good, motivated, have people walking away saying 'Man, I thought my life was rough, but it's nowhere near as rough as that,' " he says. "What you decide to do in these films does have an impact on the people."
Being a part of the big-budget Transformers franchise has allowed the actor and singer to pursue other projects. He sings a Babyface-penned duet with Jewel on the Transformers soundtrack, and he'll produce an upcoming reality TV show about firefighters for BET. Gibson's company, HQ Entertainment, also will produce a new comic series with Image Comics called Mayhem.
Gibson says that when he first signed on for Transformers, he had no idea it would perform as well as it did. Worldwide, it was the highest-grossing non-sequel movie in 2007, earning more than $708 million.
He shakes his head for a few moments in disbelief, thinking about the possible magnitude of the sequel.
"This is a real monster right here," he says. "I believe that people are going to love Transformers 2. I think the chemistry among the cast is so much better in the sequel. Everybody had a job and we all came there to do it. I really believe that people are going to walk away enjoying this movie."
In his office — which many days doubles as his home — the divorced dad of 1-year-old Shayla allows his eyes to fall over the relics of his career. There are pictures of him with A-listers (Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Luther Vandross, to name a few) on a wall of fame near his in-office studio. Framed movie posters and notes from famous friends decorate the place.
"It's only by the grace of God that I've been able to go from a 30-second commercial when I was 16 to somehow figuring out a way to still be relevant in 2009. To show up and hear any kind of screams and have anybody happy to see me is a very big deal," he says.
"All I wanted was to be able to go shopping and spend over $50 a month on clothes for school and get this phone number of a girl who lived up the street. I had no goals. I just can't get used to it. And I don't want to."
Very Artistic man.
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Transformers 2 takes revenge on its audience, leaves us exhausted Part 2
Transformers 2 takes revenge on its audience, leaves us exhausted
Part 2
The pounding relentless ferocity of the action gets so much at times, that our heads started to hurt. And this comes at the expense of a better story and characters unfortunately.
Truth be told, the audience was warned from the start of the film by Aussie starlet Isabel Lucas to 'strap in'. And right she was. If you enjoyed the first, you'll probably hoot and holla for the second. This is Michael Bay's Top Gun meets the Road Warrior and we swear that as a huge compliment to director George Miller. Thats if you can imagine Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson getting chased around by giant robots.
The bass roars, the explosions are ear piercing and half of Egypt ends up destroyed by the end. But the pyramids have never looked better than in a Bay sunset. Seriously, Tourism Austalia needs Michael Bay to do their next campiagn.
In fact, barely a moment goes by when something isn't blowing up, smashed apart or hacked into tiny robot pieces. And hardly a nanosecond passes when the hero Sam (played by Shia LaBeouf) isn't yelling, puffing or running away from something shooting at him.
Megan Fox does her best to play Megan Fox, but that isn't saying much - her acting ability is on par with most of the souped up military hardware on display (it felt like the whole US Army was on screen), and if we ever see another slow-mo shot of her racing through the sands of Giza, it won't be too late.
Fortunately, Isabel Lucas does a decent job playing a sexy Deceptacon with the ability to morph into a college-aged femme fatale. Her 6 foot long robot tongue isn't the least of this films worries or surprises - but it's definitely one of the stranger bits.
As a kind of a sassy Terminatrix, Lucas' character is half machine, half Natasha Hentridge from 1995's Spieces.
However, if Transformers could disguise themselves as sexy humanoids, it makes you wonder why other sneaky deceptacons didn't try that trick before to get at the good guys. It's one of those scriptwriter moments that suddenly 'jumps the shark' in a kind of "Hey guys, let's makes one of the bad robot warriors turn into a hot chick. Brilliant!"
Speaking of screenwriting brain freezes, most of the film could have done without the incessant backstory.
Memo to Screenwriters: We understand you want this to feel huge and epic. We get it. We know you wanted to kill Optimus to make us feel sad and behave like eight year olds as though its 1984 all over again. And we know you want us to weep like babies when Sam is shot and killed, only to be shortly returned to life by a bunch of Transformer deities in some form of meandering Obi Wan mentor sequence.
But we don't need to be told over and over again how somebody stole the Matrix key or that Optimus is the very last of the Primes or that so and so is the only way out and hope for survival. We heard it the first time. It's not a Bond film; and you aren't Blofield telling us your evil plans. Although it felt like it at times, with its endless narration on the history and existence of transformers.
Through the talking and gabbering on, we actually missed the classic Bayisms and those glorious close-ups at sunset. Bay was clearly in control, but his writers were leading us further astray. It would take a rail gun and a squadren of tanks and ships to get us back on side again.
Even so, some Transformers are solely introduced to chit chat or just for a sitcom style laugh - a tired device to fill in the blanks, while describing long passages of dense and heavy Transformers mythology.
Quick, get to the cool part where a transformer shoots something! It feels like Bay and his writers saw the Star Wars prequels and wanted the Transformers to share the same sense of mycological pathos. But after a while, it was the audience sharing the pathos...of boredom. Oh dear. You know you're in trouble when the audience just wants to see more cool explosions.
In fact, the only thing missing Bay's take on the Lucas paradigm are robot Jedis, though the presence of Transformer angels (yes, angels!) and annoying jive-talking Autobots (in the guise of comic relief, ala R2D2 and C3P0), had us wondering whether the script was just an excuse to lead us to the bits where robots go BOOM! And boom they do.
But as robot war films go, Michael Bay's Bot spectacular is a balls-to-the-wall, visually intense action flick that will either make you shed a tear for the more delicate character driven original (if there could be such a way to describe that film) or cheer on the action pounding sequel.
Either way, at over 2hours and 20 minutes long, this is one film to dazzle and exhaust the senses, though for some, thats already far too much. Autobots, roll out!
A super fantastic movie!
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Part 2
The pounding relentless ferocity of the action gets so much at times, that our heads started to hurt. And this comes at the expense of a better story and characters unfortunately.
Truth be told, the audience was warned from the start of the film by Aussie starlet Isabel Lucas to 'strap in'. And right she was. If you enjoyed the first, you'll probably hoot and holla for the second. This is Michael Bay's Top Gun meets the Road Warrior and we swear that as a huge compliment to director George Miller. Thats if you can imagine Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson getting chased around by giant robots.
The bass roars, the explosions are ear piercing and half of Egypt ends up destroyed by the end. But the pyramids have never looked better than in a Bay sunset. Seriously, Tourism Austalia needs Michael Bay to do their next campiagn.
In fact, barely a moment goes by when something isn't blowing up, smashed apart or hacked into tiny robot pieces. And hardly a nanosecond passes when the hero Sam (played by Shia LaBeouf) isn't yelling, puffing or running away from something shooting at him.
Megan Fox does her best to play Megan Fox, but that isn't saying much - her acting ability is on par with most of the souped up military hardware on display (it felt like the whole US Army was on screen), and if we ever see another slow-mo shot of her racing through the sands of Giza, it won't be too late.
Fortunately, Isabel Lucas does a decent job playing a sexy Deceptacon with the ability to morph into a college-aged femme fatale. Her 6 foot long robot tongue isn't the least of this films worries or surprises - but it's definitely one of the stranger bits.
As a kind of a sassy Terminatrix, Lucas' character is half machine, half Natasha Hentridge from 1995's Spieces.
However, if Transformers could disguise themselves as sexy humanoids, it makes you wonder why other sneaky deceptacons didn't try that trick before to get at the good guys. It's one of those scriptwriter moments that suddenly 'jumps the shark' in a kind of "Hey guys, let's makes one of the bad robot warriors turn into a hot chick. Brilliant!"
Speaking of screenwriting brain freezes, most of the film could have done without the incessant backstory.
Memo to Screenwriters: We understand you want this to feel huge and epic. We get it. We know you wanted to kill Optimus to make us feel sad and behave like eight year olds as though its 1984 all over again. And we know you want us to weep like babies when Sam is shot and killed, only to be shortly returned to life by a bunch of Transformer deities in some form of meandering Obi Wan mentor sequence.
But we don't need to be told over and over again how somebody stole the Matrix key or that Optimus is the very last of the Primes or that so and so is the only way out and hope for survival. We heard it the first time. It's not a Bond film; and you aren't Blofield telling us your evil plans. Although it felt like it at times, with its endless narration on the history and existence of transformers.
Through the talking and gabbering on, we actually missed the classic Bayisms and those glorious close-ups at sunset. Bay was clearly in control, but his writers were leading us further astray. It would take a rail gun and a squadren of tanks and ships to get us back on side again.
Even so, some Transformers are solely introduced to chit chat or just for a sitcom style laugh - a tired device to fill in the blanks, while describing long passages of dense and heavy Transformers mythology.
Quick, get to the cool part where a transformer shoots something! It feels like Bay and his writers saw the Star Wars prequels and wanted the Transformers to share the same sense of mycological pathos. But after a while, it was the audience sharing the pathos...of boredom. Oh dear. You know you're in trouble when the audience just wants to see more cool explosions.
In fact, the only thing missing Bay's take on the Lucas paradigm are robot Jedis, though the presence of Transformer angels (yes, angels!) and annoying jive-talking Autobots (in the guise of comic relief, ala R2D2 and C3P0), had us wondering whether the script was just an excuse to lead us to the bits where robots go BOOM! And boom they do.
But as robot war films go, Michael Bay's Bot spectacular is a balls-to-the-wall, visually intense action flick that will either make you shed a tear for the more delicate character driven original (if there could be such a way to describe that film) or cheer on the action pounding sequel.
Either way, at over 2hours and 20 minutes long, this is one film to dazzle and exhaust the senses, though for some, thats already far too much. Autobots, roll out!
A super fantastic movie!
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Transformers 2 takes revenge on its audience, leaves us exhausted Part 1
Transformers 2 takes revenge on its audience, leaves us exhausted
Part 1
Only director Michael Bay could have made a film like Transformers: Revenge of the fallen. It's a head-ringing, ear-crunching and ultimately exhausting experience, filled with more than two hours of constant robot destruction.
Transformers: Revenge of the fallen is still a mouthful of a title, but as robot sequels go (and that includes the lumbering Terminator Salvation pic that came out last month) - it's the mother of all robot war films. We're still trying to wrap our earthly brain cells around the film we saw last night at the exclusive Sydney premiere.
The film is best summed up as a ludicrously thrilling adventure, bent towards complete and utter craziness. The B-grade romance feels tacked on, while everything else is flawlessly Bay.
MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW: More than meets the eye
It's really hard to accurately describe this film without taking into account the type of audience who are going to be seeing this. There are those diehard Transformer fans who will still believe that the original 80s cartoon series is better. And if that's the case, then forty foot Autobots firing rail guns possibly isn't your thing. But casual fans of the orginal are probably going to love it.
The script, if you could call it that, takes a backseat to the huge array of new robots in this film, as director Bay turns up the action quotient up to 11. More robot characters from the original cartoon series turn up, theres a pleasant homage to the original Transformers film of 1984 and of course, there is no shortage of visual eye candy: the CGI rendering is a big step-up from the last film and it seamlessly blends from one shot to another.
But its not all chocolates and roses.
The GM vechiles are starting to look a little tired by the second film. Nobody expected miracles with these fine products of American manufacturing, but the recent GM restructuring is going to make some of the autobots wish they originally landed in Italy or Germany.
We actually started to feel bad for the autobots. Design styling certainly wasn't their strong point. Where are the Ferrari and BMW transformer models when you need them?
And, remember when fanboys complained about the lack of action in the original film? If Michael Bay had added any more three-second shots to this film, they would of required one of those dire warnings you see on theme park rides.
to be continued ....
Part 1
Only director Michael Bay could have made a film like Transformers: Revenge of the fallen. It's a head-ringing, ear-crunching and ultimately exhausting experience, filled with more than two hours of constant robot destruction.
Transformers: Revenge of the fallen is still a mouthful of a title, but as robot sequels go (and that includes the lumbering Terminator Salvation pic that came out last month) - it's the mother of all robot war films. We're still trying to wrap our earthly brain cells around the film we saw last night at the exclusive Sydney premiere.
The film is best summed up as a ludicrously thrilling adventure, bent towards complete and utter craziness. The B-grade romance feels tacked on, while everything else is flawlessly Bay.
MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW: More than meets the eye
It's really hard to accurately describe this film without taking into account the type of audience who are going to be seeing this. There are those diehard Transformer fans who will still believe that the original 80s cartoon series is better. And if that's the case, then forty foot Autobots firing rail guns possibly isn't your thing. But casual fans of the orginal are probably going to love it.
The script, if you could call it that, takes a backseat to the huge array of new robots in this film, as director Bay turns up the action quotient up to 11. More robot characters from the original cartoon series turn up, theres a pleasant homage to the original Transformers film of 1984 and of course, there is no shortage of visual eye candy: the CGI rendering is a big step-up from the last film and it seamlessly blends from one shot to another.
But its not all chocolates and roses.
The GM vechiles are starting to look a little tired by the second film. Nobody expected miracles with these fine products of American manufacturing, but the recent GM restructuring is going to make some of the autobots wish they originally landed in Italy or Germany.
We actually started to feel bad for the autobots. Design styling certainly wasn't their strong point. Where are the Ferrari and BMW transformer models when you need them?
And, remember when fanboys complained about the lack of action in the original film? If Michael Bay had added any more three-second shots to this film, they would of required one of those dire warnings you see on theme park rides.
to be continued ....
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Transformers 2: Megan Fox and Shia Labeouf Talk Trilogy
Transformers 2: Megan Fox and Shia Labeouf Talk Trilogy
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Transformers 2: Megan Fox and Shia Labeouf Talk Trilogy
I don’t know about you, but I personally loved the film “Transformers” and thought that it was a great movie. And I will certainly make time to see the sequel “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” It will be interesting to see if the sequel impresses as much as the first did.
According to mtv.com, the people behind the movie franchise are now talking trilogy. Star of the film Shia LaBeouf, who plays Sam Witwicky, said that he enjoys making the movies. And Megan Fox, who is also a star of the film, said that she would come back for a third if asked.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who wrote the first two movies, are not definite whether they will return for “Transformers 3.” And it seems as though the stars Fox and LaBeouf have jam packed schedules too. So, would you watch “Transformers 3” if it comes out?
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Transformers 2: Megan Fox and Shia Labeouf Talk Trilogy
I don’t know about you, but I personally loved the film “Transformers” and thought that it was a great movie. And I will certainly make time to see the sequel “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” It will be interesting to see if the sequel impresses as much as the first did.
According to mtv.com, the people behind the movie franchise are now talking trilogy. Star of the film Shia LaBeouf, who plays Sam Witwicky, said that he enjoys making the movies. And Megan Fox, who is also a star of the film, said that she would come back for a third if asked.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who wrote the first two movies, are not definite whether they will return for “Transformers 3.” And it seems as though the stars Fox and LaBeouf have jam packed schedules too. So, would you watch “Transformers 3” if it comes out?
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Transformers 2 Sneak Peek
Transformers 2 Sneak Peek
Paramount Home Entertainment will offer consumers who purchase Transformers on Blu-ray or DVD access to an exclusive sneak peek at the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, via a secure Internet site. Beginning June 16, 2009, new Transformers DVDs will include an access code to a secure site and Blu-ray discs will offer the content via BD-Live. The footage includes two additional sneak peeks at the new film and more than 25 minutes of bonus materials from the original film, including never-before-seen deleted scenes, Megan Fox's audition tapes and more.
Transformers made more than $700 million worldwide during its theatrical run and went on to become the top-selling DVD of 2007, as well as one of the best-selling Blu-ray discs to date. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is due in theaters on June 24.
The full list of bonus content includes:
* Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Sneak Peek – Footage from the new film
* From the set of Revenge of the Fallen: Day 1 – An exclusive inside look at the first day of shooting
* From the set of Revenge of the Fallen: A Day in the Shade –A comical look at the differences between Megan and Shia's on-set treatment
* Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes from Transformers
* Fly on the Set: Pentagon – On the set filming of the Pentagon Military Command Center
* Music and Mayhem – Renowned special effects house ILM deconstructs the blockbuster action of Transformers
* Metal in Motion – Special effects tests and early robot animation
* Stunts 101 – An in-depth look at the amazing stunts in Transformers
* Choose Your Weapon –A fly on the wall glimpse into the selection of weapons and how they were used by the film's soldiers
* The Man in the Ice – From design to production, watch the Arctic come to life on various sets in Los Angeles, California
* Voices – The voices behind the Autobots and Decepticons
* Audition Tapes: Megan Fox – Megan's original Transformers audition
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Paramount Home Entertainment will offer consumers who purchase Transformers on Blu-ray or DVD access to an exclusive sneak peek at the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, via a secure Internet site. Beginning June 16, 2009, new Transformers DVDs will include an access code to a secure site and Blu-ray discs will offer the content via BD-Live. The footage includes two additional sneak peeks at the new film and more than 25 minutes of bonus materials from the original film, including never-before-seen deleted scenes, Megan Fox's audition tapes and more.
Transformers made more than $700 million worldwide during its theatrical run and went on to become the top-selling DVD of 2007, as well as one of the best-selling Blu-ray discs to date. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is due in theaters on June 24.
The full list of bonus content includes:
* Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Sneak Peek – Footage from the new film
* From the set of Revenge of the Fallen: Day 1 – An exclusive inside look at the first day of shooting
* From the set of Revenge of the Fallen: A Day in the Shade –A comical look at the differences between Megan and Shia's on-set treatment
* Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes from Transformers
* Fly on the Set: Pentagon – On the set filming of the Pentagon Military Command Center
* Music and Mayhem – Renowned special effects house ILM deconstructs the blockbuster action of Transformers
* Metal in Motion – Special effects tests and early robot animation
* Stunts 101 – An in-depth look at the amazing stunts in Transformers
* Choose Your Weapon –A fly on the wall glimpse into the selection of weapons and how they were used by the film's soldiers
* The Man in the Ice – From design to production, watch the Arctic come to life on various sets in Los Angeles, California
* Voices – The voices behind the Autobots and Decepticons
* Audition Tapes: Megan Fox – Megan's original Transformers audition
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Linkin Park’s “New Divide” From ‘Transformers 2′ Now Streaming
Linkin Park’s “New Divide” From ‘Transformers 2′ Now Streaming
Mike Shinoda stated in an official press release “the opportunity to be creatively involved with one of the most anticipated films of the summer is pretty exciting.” “It’s one thing to shoot a video that matches sound and vision, but making music that’s built for the big screen is a completely different challenge and we ran with it.”
“New Divide” debuted at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 marking this Linkin Park’s highest debut on the charts and their third Top 10 entry.
Opening in theaters on June 24, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro, will be Linkin Park’s second project with Bay. The first Transformers film, an Oscar®-nominated hit from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, featured “What I’ve Done,” which rocketed to No. 1 on both Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts.
“New Divide” will also appear on the Warner Bros. Records soundtrack album, which arrives in stores on June 23, 2009. A great song there is.
Mike Shinoda stated in an official press release “the opportunity to be creatively involved with one of the most anticipated films of the summer is pretty exciting.” “It’s one thing to shoot a video that matches sound and vision, but making music that’s built for the big screen is a completely different challenge and we ran with it.”
“New Divide” debuted at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 marking this Linkin Park’s highest debut on the charts and their third Top 10 entry.
Opening in theaters on June 24, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro, will be Linkin Park’s second project with Bay. The first Transformers film, an Oscar®-nominated hit from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, featured “What I’ve Done,” which rocketed to No. 1 on both Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts.
“New Divide” will also appear on the Warner Bros. Records soundtrack album, which arrives in stores on June 23, 2009. A great song there is.
Box Office Tracking: Transformers 2 Could Take $175 Million In First Five Days
Box Office Tracking: Transformers 2 Could Take $175 Million In First Five Days
Rival movie studios are claiming that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is tracking to open huge at the box office. According to Nikki Finke’s sources, the movie might open with a high $175 million 5-day opening when the big giant robots are unleashed on Wednesday June 24th. If this number turns out to be true, it could be the second biggest 5-day opening of all time. Which film claims the 5-Day record? Answer after the jump.
The Dark Knight claims the #1 spot with $203.7 million. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith holds the #2 record with $172.8 million, with a mid-May 2005 release. The first Transformers opened on a Monday night, and made $133.2 in its first five days of release (which due to the strange release date, doesn’t include a $22.1 million Sunday)
Paramount will likely deny reports of high-level tracking to better manage expectations. Opening weekend is key, and surpassing tracking expectations is very important. Is it possible that rival studios are leaking unrealistically high expectations to water down Transformer’s box office victory? Yeah. But the end of June, early July is a hot time period for Hollywood releases: Spider-Man 2 made $152 million in its first five days on the same week in 2004. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest pulled in $152 in its first 5 days in July 2006. It is very possible that Transformers 2 will hit $160 million+.
Rival movie studios are claiming that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is tracking to open huge at the box office. According to Nikki Finke’s sources, the movie might open with a high $175 million 5-day opening when the big giant robots are unleashed on Wednesday June 24th. If this number turns out to be true, it could be the second biggest 5-day opening of all time. Which film claims the 5-Day record? Answer after the jump.
The Dark Knight claims the #1 spot with $203.7 million. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith holds the #2 record with $172.8 million, with a mid-May 2005 release. The first Transformers opened on a Monday night, and made $133.2 in its first five days of release (which due to the strange release date, doesn’t include a $22.1 million Sunday)
Paramount will likely deny reports of high-level tracking to better manage expectations. Opening weekend is key, and surpassing tracking expectations is very important. Is it possible that rival studios are leaking unrealistically high expectations to water down Transformer’s box office victory? Yeah. But the end of June, early July is a hot time period for Hollywood releases: Spider-Man 2 made $152 million in its first five days on the same week in 2004. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest pulled in $152 in its first 5 days in July 2006. It is very possible that Transformers 2 will hit $160 million+.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Will Transformers 2 Be The Perfect Movie?
Will Transformers 2 Be The Perfect Movie?
Here's our first look at Alice, the co-ed with a secret, in Transformers 2. After a whole summer of wannabe Michael Bay films, we're finally going to get the work of Bay himself. It'll be ludicrous, fiery, splodey, car-crazy and slapsticky. In short, the perfect film. Spoilers and pics below.
I never expected to be saying this, but I'm actually sort of eager to see Transformers: Revenge OF the Fallen. I actually liked the first one, which was a fun, silly romp as long as you took it on its own terms. But I held fairly low expectations for TF2, whose script Michael Bay allegedly worked on during the writers' strike. It's like the first one, only sequel-ier. So I wasn't that pumped.
But the more I've seen of the summer's other movie offerings, the more they've felt like Michael Bay foreplay. (Bayplay?) I'm being teased by faux Bays.
The mark of the Bay-manqué is the explosion as mission statement: every movie I've seen lately, pretty much, has had like two or three really amazing action set-pieces, and then nothing else going on. Knowing? There was the plane crash and the train crash, and some stuff going boom towards the end, and the rest of the movie was just Nic Cage emoting with his forehead. Wolverine? There was the awesome African strongman-pwnage, the helicopter-motorcycle-truck dance, and some fun super-fighting towards the end, and the rest was all jaw-acting. Terminator had a couple of helicopter smashing bits, the truck-motorcycle-hunter-killer dance, and the rest was people shouting. And so on.
I was thinking to myself the other day, the thing these movies all had in common is that they had a few really killer action bits, which obviously consumed most of the director's attention, and probably most of the budget as well. And those bits get heavily featured in the trailers, so we'll think the whole movie is like that. And I was thinking, maybe in five years, the whole movie will be like that. They'll make CG effects cheap enough, or they'll be clever enough, to have the whole movie be just trucks and helicopters and motorcycles and maybe guitars smashing into each other and going BWATHOOM!. And then I thought, who would be able to make a movie like that? Pretty much only Michael Bay.
In Transformers 2, there will be crazy explosions. People will possibly be peed on. There will be sexy chicks, some of whom — spoiler alert — will turn out to be robots in disguise, with tentacles. (Including the one above.) Airplane carriers will be tossed like bath toys. What's not to love?
But also, there's another factor at work. I've noticed something about our recent crop of movies: they divide into two categories, fun and ohmygodthepainwhy. In the first category, you have films like Star Trek, which may have the occasional serious moments but are basically just a fun ride with good guys defeating bad guys and exhibiting some smidgen of personal growth along the way. In the latter category, there are movies like Terminator 4 and (yes, I'll say it) Watchmen. Even Wolverine seemed to be trying too hard to be taken seriously.
This year, the fun movies have seemed better than the movies that have groped for gravitas in the dark. Maybe that's because I'm willing to give more of a free pass to movies that just want to be a fun ride, and I'm harsher on movies that demand to be viewed as something grander. Or maybe it's just because this year's crop of dark, serious films hasn't been that interesting? Last year, The Dark Knight was possibly the year's most fascinating movie, and Iron Man had some real darkness among the hijinks. But I haven't been feeling the weighty science fiction films of 2009 so far — maybe it's the recession, maybe it's the writers' strike, maybe it's just randomness.
Whatever the reason, I'm enjoying fun fluff more than weighty journeys into the darkness of the human soul lately. And I'm actually feeling a bit pumped for another helping of giant smashing robots with urinary incontinence. Including an ice-cream truck robot and a pink lady motorcycle robot (whom Bay kills off because hates lady robots, bah) and a bunch of robots representing new car models that you probably won't ever be able to buy because the auto industry is being eaten by Decepticons. And Shia LaBoeuf gets tortured, although probably not enough.
And of course, it's written by the Star Trek scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (plus Bram Stoker nominee Ehren Kruger, and whatever demented scribblings Bay did while Orci and Kurtzman were on strike.) I'm cutting Orci and Kurtzman a lot of slack right now.
Plus, Michael Bay blows up the pyramids! The actual pyramids, in Egypt! He's destroying our precious cultural heritage for our momentary amusement! How could there possibly be anything wrong with that?
But seriously, I'm actually kind of excited for Transformers 2, and every time I walk out of a movie that feels like an inferior Bay knockoff, I get a little bit more Transformed by excitement.
ANd it will be a great movie this year!
Here's our first look at Alice, the co-ed with a secret, in Transformers 2. After a whole summer of wannabe Michael Bay films, we're finally going to get the work of Bay himself. It'll be ludicrous, fiery, splodey, car-crazy and slapsticky. In short, the perfect film. Spoilers and pics below.
I never expected to be saying this, but I'm actually sort of eager to see Transformers: Revenge OF the Fallen. I actually liked the first one, which was a fun, silly romp as long as you took it on its own terms. But I held fairly low expectations for TF2, whose script Michael Bay allegedly worked on during the writers' strike. It's like the first one, only sequel-ier. So I wasn't that pumped.
But the more I've seen of the summer's other movie offerings, the more they've felt like Michael Bay foreplay. (Bayplay?) I'm being teased by faux Bays.
The mark of the Bay-manqué is the explosion as mission statement: every movie I've seen lately, pretty much, has had like two or three really amazing action set-pieces, and then nothing else going on. Knowing? There was the plane crash and the train crash, and some stuff going boom towards the end, and the rest of the movie was just Nic Cage emoting with his forehead. Wolverine? There was the awesome African strongman-pwnage, the helicopter-motorcycle-truck dance, and some fun super-fighting towards the end, and the rest was all jaw-acting. Terminator had a couple of helicopter smashing bits, the truck-motorcycle-hunter-killer dance, and the rest was people shouting. And so on.
I was thinking to myself the other day, the thing these movies all had in common is that they had a few really killer action bits, which obviously consumed most of the director's attention, and probably most of the budget as well. And those bits get heavily featured in the trailers, so we'll think the whole movie is like that. And I was thinking, maybe in five years, the whole movie will be like that. They'll make CG effects cheap enough, or they'll be clever enough, to have the whole movie be just trucks and helicopters and motorcycles and maybe guitars smashing into each other and going BWATHOOM!. And then I thought, who would be able to make a movie like that? Pretty much only Michael Bay.
In Transformers 2, there will be crazy explosions. People will possibly be peed on. There will be sexy chicks, some of whom — spoiler alert — will turn out to be robots in disguise, with tentacles. (Including the one above.) Airplane carriers will be tossed like bath toys. What's not to love?
But also, there's another factor at work. I've noticed something about our recent crop of movies: they divide into two categories, fun and ohmygodthepainwhy. In the first category, you have films like Star Trek, which may have the occasional serious moments but are basically just a fun ride with good guys defeating bad guys and exhibiting some smidgen of personal growth along the way. In the latter category, there are movies like Terminator 4 and (yes, I'll say it) Watchmen. Even Wolverine seemed to be trying too hard to be taken seriously.
This year, the fun movies have seemed better than the movies that have groped for gravitas in the dark. Maybe that's because I'm willing to give more of a free pass to movies that just want to be a fun ride, and I'm harsher on movies that demand to be viewed as something grander. Or maybe it's just because this year's crop of dark, serious films hasn't been that interesting? Last year, The Dark Knight was possibly the year's most fascinating movie, and Iron Man had some real darkness among the hijinks. But I haven't been feeling the weighty science fiction films of 2009 so far — maybe it's the recession, maybe it's the writers' strike, maybe it's just randomness.
Whatever the reason, I'm enjoying fun fluff more than weighty journeys into the darkness of the human soul lately. And I'm actually feeling a bit pumped for another helping of giant smashing robots with urinary incontinence. Including an ice-cream truck robot and a pink lady motorcycle robot (whom Bay kills off because hates lady robots, bah) and a bunch of robots representing new car models that you probably won't ever be able to buy because the auto industry is being eaten by Decepticons. And Shia LaBoeuf gets tortured, although probably not enough.
And of course, it's written by the Star Trek scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (plus Bram Stoker nominee Ehren Kruger, and whatever demented scribblings Bay did while Orci and Kurtzman were on strike.) I'm cutting Orci and Kurtzman a lot of slack right now.
Plus, Michael Bay blows up the pyramids! The actual pyramids, in Egypt! He's destroying our precious cultural heritage for our momentary amusement! How could there possibly be anything wrong with that?
But seriously, I'm actually kind of excited for Transformers 2, and every time I walk out of a movie that feels like an inferior Bay knockoff, I get a little bit more Transformed by excitement.
ANd it will be a great movie this year!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Linkin Park's Song for 'Transformers 2' Soundtrack Gets Release Date
Linkin Park's Song for 'Transformers 2' Soundtrack Gets Release Date
Linkin Park's never-before-heard song 'New Divide', which is recorded for 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' soundtrack, is going to be released on radios around mid May.
Linkin Park's Song for 'Transformers 2' Soundtrack Gets Release Date
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As previously reported, Linkin Park were working on "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen theme song, and it was recently confirmed that the track will be released on radios worldwide on May 18. Titled "New Divide", it will also be available for download on iTunes on the particular day.
In regard of their involvement in scoring music for the film, the band's member Mike Shinoda wrote on their MySpace, "The opportunity to be creatively involved with one of the most anticipated films of the summer is pretty exciting." He elaborated more, "It's one thing to shoot a video that matches sound and vision, but making music that's built for the big screen is a completely different challenge and we ran with it."
As for the movie's director Michael Bay, he said, "I love Linkin Park." He noted, "This is the second film we've worked on together and the fact that they're huge 'Transformers' fans makes it all the better. They really delivered with 'New Divide' - it's a great song that perfectly matches the film's intensity."
Linkin Park had indeed contributed to the soundtrack of the first "Transformers" movie back in 2007. At the time, they crafted "What I've Done" for the film.
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" itself is slated to be outed in U.S. on June 24. It features the likes of Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas and Rainn Wilson.
Linkin Park's never-before-heard song 'New Divide', which is recorded for 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' soundtrack, is going to be released on radios around mid May.
Linkin Park's Song for 'Transformers 2' Soundtrack Gets Release Date
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As previously reported, Linkin Park were working on "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen theme song, and it was recently confirmed that the track will be released on radios worldwide on May 18. Titled "New Divide", it will also be available for download on iTunes on the particular day.
In regard of their involvement in scoring music for the film, the band's member Mike Shinoda wrote on their MySpace, "The opportunity to be creatively involved with one of the most anticipated films of the summer is pretty exciting." He elaborated more, "It's one thing to shoot a video that matches sound and vision, but making music that's built for the big screen is a completely different challenge and we ran with it."
As for the movie's director Michael Bay, he said, "I love Linkin Park." He noted, "This is the second film we've worked on together and the fact that they're huge 'Transformers' fans makes it all the better. They really delivered with 'New Divide' - it's a great song that perfectly matches the film's intensity."
Linkin Park had indeed contributed to the soundtrack of the first "Transformers" movie back in 2007. At the time, they crafted "What I've Done" for the film.
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" itself is slated to be outed in U.S. on June 24. It features the likes of Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas and Rainn Wilson.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Did Hans Zimmer Help With The Transformers 2 Score?
Did Hans Zimmer Help With The Transformers 2 Score?
It’s already established that Steve Jablonksy is scoring the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, as he did with the first film. He gets the title ”Original Music” all to himself in the credits, which is kind of surprising considering the size of film this is undoubtedly going to be (following suit from the first).
However he’s clearly not going to be going at it entirely on his own…
Jablonsky is actually part of famous film composer Hans Zimmer’s (The Dark Knight, The Simpsons Movie and the two Pirates sequels, amongst many others) team Media Ventures, and the two of them work together all the time. So quite logically it seems that Jablonsky is getting a helping hand from Zimmer with keeping the music production side of things on track. Here’s what Jablonsky had to say recently:
“…I am [still] the composer on this film. It has all gotten rather complicated. The film is BIG, and now that we’ve got Linkin Park involved, Hans has kind of been helping me keep the production on track, because I’m so focused on writing the score at the moment.”
Jablonsky mentions Linkin Park as they are reportedly working on a new song with him for Revenge of the Fallen - if you remember, a version of their song “What I’ve Done” was used in the credits of the first movie. Just to expand on his overall thoughts of the score, here’s what Jablonsky added:
“In a nutshell, Michael Bay sent the new Linkin Park song over to my studio. Hans and I had a listen, and we both thought it was really cool, and it might be interesting to try incorporating some of those elements into the score. So we got the guys from the band down to the studio and talked about how to do that. They’re all really cool guys and really excited about adding some of their sounds to the score.”
Of the things which the first Transformers did right, the score was one of them. The score to Michael Bay’s movies are usually reflect the movies themselves - they are loud, brash, in-your-face and the furthest thing away from subtle as you could imagine (see Armageddon, The Rock and Pearl Harbor as prime examples of this). But for some reason that wasn’t so with Transformers, or at least not to the same degree.
I don’t think the score to the sequel will differ drastically from the first movie, so at least we’re pretty much guaranteed that something will be good about it…
and it will be a great movie to watch given a beautiful score for the movie.
It’s already established that Steve Jablonksy is scoring the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, as he did with the first film. He gets the title ”Original Music” all to himself in the credits, which is kind of surprising considering the size of film this is undoubtedly going to be (following suit from the first).
However he’s clearly not going to be going at it entirely on his own…
Jablonsky is actually part of famous film composer Hans Zimmer’s (The Dark Knight, The Simpsons Movie and the two Pirates sequels, amongst many others) team Media Ventures, and the two of them work together all the time. So quite logically it seems that Jablonsky is getting a helping hand from Zimmer with keeping the music production side of things on track. Here’s what Jablonsky had to say recently:
“…I am [still] the composer on this film. It has all gotten rather complicated. The film is BIG, and now that we’ve got Linkin Park involved, Hans has kind of been helping me keep the production on track, because I’m so focused on writing the score at the moment.”
Jablonsky mentions Linkin Park as they are reportedly working on a new song with him for Revenge of the Fallen - if you remember, a version of their song “What I’ve Done” was used in the credits of the first movie. Just to expand on his overall thoughts of the score, here’s what Jablonsky added:
“In a nutshell, Michael Bay sent the new Linkin Park song over to my studio. Hans and I had a listen, and we both thought it was really cool, and it might be interesting to try incorporating some of those elements into the score. So we got the guys from the band down to the studio and talked about how to do that. They’re all really cool guys and really excited about adding some of their sounds to the score.”
Of the things which the first Transformers did right, the score was one of them. The score to Michael Bay’s movies are usually reflect the movies themselves - they are loud, brash, in-your-face and the furthest thing away from subtle as you could imagine (see Armageddon, The Rock and Pearl Harbor as prime examples of this). But for some reason that wasn’t so with Transformers, or at least not to the same degree.
I don’t think the score to the sequel will differ drastically from the first movie, so at least we’re pretty much guaranteed that something will be good about it…
and it will be a great movie to watch given a beautiful score for the movie.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Transformers 2: Two and a Half Hours of Awesome
According to Michael Bay, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be "four minutes longer than the last one," which means it should clock in at around 147 minutes or so. Bay had this to say about the duration of cinematic features:
"I don’t ever talk (to executives) about run times,” he grinned. “Studios always ask, ‘What’s the run time?’ And I’m like ‘If you enjoy the movie, do you care?"
While Bay's point of an enjoyable film's duration not being of great importance is a valid argument, if Revenge of the Fallen is anything like the original film then it probably wouldn't hurt to have some of the film trimmed down a bit. When people think Transformers, they think giant robots. So that's what they want going into the film and when the humans have been given more screen time than the robots have, it kind of hurts the film overall. I really enjoyed the first film, but there definitely could have been more of the Autobots and Decepticons, a little less of Sam's and other human's backstories, and/or some things being left out entirely. A few snips here and there would have made the film that much better.
Megatron is said to be back in Revenge of the Fallen, as well. Bay said this about Megatron returning:
“[Megatron would only be seen] from the long lost past. We go way back in time as this movie explains the mythology of the Primes. He is not a tank like everyone suggests, but an alien vehicle. But sadly he does not has much screen time.”
It seems as though Bay could have been trying to throw fans for a loop as Megatron's role may be larger than he's letting on. The information on the back of some of the new toys for the film hint that "Revenge of the Fallen" could be referring to not only the new character, "The Fallen," but also Megatron himself. Check out the full article over at ScreenRant for a glimpse at what Megatron will look like in the film along with what kind of capacity he'll appear in the film.
Bay also said that he invited Steven Spielberg to screen the film and Spielberg was quoted as saying, "It's awesome." You can read the full story to that over at ScreenRant, as well. The juiciest piece of information from that article is that we'll be getting the next full length trailer with X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 1st.
"I don’t ever talk (to executives) about run times,” he grinned. “Studios always ask, ‘What’s the run time?’ And I’m like ‘If you enjoy the movie, do you care?"
While Bay's point of an enjoyable film's duration not being of great importance is a valid argument, if Revenge of the Fallen is anything like the original film then it probably wouldn't hurt to have some of the film trimmed down a bit. When people think Transformers, they think giant robots. So that's what they want going into the film and when the humans have been given more screen time than the robots have, it kind of hurts the film overall. I really enjoyed the first film, but there definitely could have been more of the Autobots and Decepticons, a little less of Sam's and other human's backstories, and/or some things being left out entirely. A few snips here and there would have made the film that much better.
Megatron is said to be back in Revenge of the Fallen, as well. Bay said this about Megatron returning:
“[Megatron would only be seen] from the long lost past. We go way back in time as this movie explains the mythology of the Primes. He is not a tank like everyone suggests, but an alien vehicle. But sadly he does not has much screen time.”
It seems as though Bay could have been trying to throw fans for a loop as Megatron's role may be larger than he's letting on. The information on the back of some of the new toys for the film hint that "Revenge of the Fallen" could be referring to not only the new character, "The Fallen," but also Megatron himself. Check out the full article over at ScreenRant for a glimpse at what Megatron will look like in the film along with what kind of capacity he'll appear in the film.
Bay also said that he invited Steven Spielberg to screen the film and Spielberg was quoted as saying, "It's awesome." You can read the full story to that over at ScreenRant, as well. The juiciest piece of information from that article is that we'll be getting the next full length trailer with X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 1st.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Steven Spielberg Thinks "Transformers 2" Is "Awesome"
Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Steven Spielberg says the "Transformers" sequel is "awesome." The movie industry mogul has praised "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" when director Michael Bay first showed the product in director's cut to him.
Bay shares to the film's fans the executive producer's reaction to the film, which proved to be highly favorable.
He wrote on his webpage: "Steven Spielberg sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony today. There were 98 empty seats. The light cam up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen."
"He turned to me and said 'It's awesome.'"
"He felt this movie was better than the first - and probably my best, who knows - at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it. I'm going to start putting it in front of audiences in a few weeks - no you are not invited, yet."
He added that they only have 60 days left to finish the highly anticipated sequel.
and it will be a great movie too.
Bay shares to the film's fans the executive producer's reaction to the film, which proved to be highly favorable.
He wrote on his webpage: "Steven Spielberg sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony today. There were 98 empty seats. The light cam up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen."
"He turned to me and said 'It's awesome.'"
"He felt this movie was better than the first - and probably my best, who knows - at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it. I'm going to start putting it in front of audiences in a few weeks - no you are not invited, yet."
He added that they only have 60 days left to finish the highly anticipated sequel.
and it will be a great movie too.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Megatron Spotted In Transformers 2?
One of the big questions still hovering around Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is whether or not Megatron will show up in it. There’s been evidence to suggest he is, but Michael Bay recently squashed those rumors when he stated unequivocally: “He’s not in this movie.”
Or maybe he’s a liar.
Earlier in the week here we ran Transformers 2 ShoWest footage released by Michael Bay, to promote the film. Suddenly, and rather inexplicably, a few hours after posting theVimeo embed of the video on Cinema Blend, it stopped working and generated a notice insisting that we did not have permission to embed the video on Cinema Blend. This was somewhat confusing, since the video had been specifically posted on Bay’s own site, with permission to embed it enabled.
A quick trip to back to MichaelBay.com revealed the video was now entirely gone. Baffled, I moved on.
It seems they may have pulled it, because the video contained something Bay didn't want you to see. According to the sharp eyes at The Cinema Source the ShoWest video contained a huge spoiler, one which counterdicts everything Bay’s been telling us. They say the video showed a rather clear picture of Megatron, front and center, much the same as he looked in the original Transformers. See if you can spot it in the flash encode of the original ShoWest video, below, or click over to TCS for a detailed explanation. I think I spotted it at around 2:22, but it’s hard to tell. Is it there, or are they just blowing smoke?
I just hope megatron show up, or the movie will not be as interesting as it should be.
Or maybe he’s a liar.
Earlier in the week here we ran Transformers 2 ShoWest footage released by Michael Bay, to promote the film. Suddenly, and rather inexplicably, a few hours after posting theVimeo embed of the video on Cinema Blend, it stopped working and generated a notice insisting that we did not have permission to embed the video on Cinema Blend. This was somewhat confusing, since the video had been specifically posted on Bay’s own site, with permission to embed it enabled.
A quick trip to back to MichaelBay.com revealed the video was now entirely gone. Baffled, I moved on.
It seems they may have pulled it, because the video contained something Bay didn't want you to see. According to the sharp eyes at The Cinema Source the ShoWest video contained a huge spoiler, one which counterdicts everything Bay’s been telling us. They say the video showed a rather clear picture of Megatron, front and center, much the same as he looked in the original Transformers. See if you can spot it in the flash encode of the original ShoWest video, below, or click over to TCS for a detailed explanation. I think I spotted it at around 2:22, but it’s hard to tell. Is it there, or are they just blowing smoke?
I just hope megatron show up, or the movie will not be as interesting as it should be.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Transformers' Sequel Is 'Bigger, Badder, Better,' Cast Says
New castmembers Ramon Rodriguez and Isabel Lucas share 'Revenge of the Fallen' details.
Fill up that bucket of popcorn and order 64 ounces of your favorite soda — the summer movie season has nearly begun! As always, MTV News has it covered for you every which way with our annual Summer Movie Preview Week! Keep checking MTVNews.com all week for exclusive interviews and clips from "Terminator Salvation," "Harry Potter," "Star Trek," "Inglourious Basterds" and more.
Last we heard from Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), he'd just helped his Transformer buddies save the world. Now, as the much-anticipated sequel picks up, all Witwicky wants is to quit being a hero for a while and become a regular college kid. This being a Michael Bay film, however, don't expect Witwicky's hopes for peace and quiet to last very long.
How exactly that tranquility will be interrupted — and what exactly will transpire as "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" gets going — is anything but clear at this point. Plot details are still very much under wraps. But two of the film's co-stars, Ramon Rodriguez and Isabel Lucas, gave MTV News some fresh insight into what we can expect when the film hits theaters June 24.
"It's bigger, it's badder, it's better," said Rodriguez, who plays Leo Spitz, Witwicky's roommate at Princeton University and the proprietor of a Web site about conspiracy theories, from aliens to robots.
Quickly, though, Leo finds out that all this conspiracy mumbo-jumbo isn't just the stuff of paranoid fantasy. "I end up getting sucked into [Sam's] crazy world with real robots and finding out he's involved in the real thing," Rodriguez said. "My complete world is flipped."
Lucas plays Alice, another Princeton student who takes an immediate liking to Sam, even though he's still in a relationship with his hometown girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). "The character of Alice is more the seductress," Lucas said. "She's got mysterious intentions that we don't really know about."
Of course, when it comes to "Transformers," what we really want to know about are, well, the Transformers. Bay has already told us that two of his favorite new bots are Mudflap and Skids, Autobots based on eco-friendly Chevrolet cars Trax and the Beat. He also revealed that Arcee, a pink female Autobot, will be killed off during the movie.
Rodriguez talked enthusiastically about a Decepticon named Demolishor — "Makes [Optimus Prime] look like a roach" — but went on to rave about another massive bot. "There's one even bigger than him," he said, referring to Devastator, a massive construction formed when several Decepticons come together. "It's crazy!"
Indeed, for Rodriguez, "crazy" was the primary description of working with the explosion-happy Bay. "He's like a big kid with a lot of toys," the actor said. "When it comes to blowing stuff up, that's when he gets really excited."
Bay brought a couple of industrial-size fans to the Egyptian desert that blew 100-mile-per-hour, sand-filled winds at Rodriguez's face. He ended up dislocating his shoulder and needed to have his eyes flushed out for 45 minutes. Another time he had to sit perfectly still as a huge metal spike pierced the roof of his car, perilously close to his head. In those moments, he was not so much acting as reacting to a very real sense of fear.
"It's really borderline getting hurt, but you're still safe," he said with a laugh. "But you could get hurt."
its a very exciting movie. people should watch it.
New castmembers Ramon Rodriguez and Isabel Lucas share 'Revenge of the Fallen' details.
Fill up that bucket of popcorn and order 64 ounces of your favorite soda — the summer movie season has nearly begun! As always, MTV News has it covered for you every which way with our annual Summer Movie Preview Week! Keep checking MTVNews.com all week for exclusive interviews and clips from "Terminator Salvation," "Harry Potter," "Star Trek," "Inglourious Basterds" and more.
Last we heard from Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), he'd just helped his Transformer buddies save the world. Now, as the much-anticipated sequel picks up, all Witwicky wants is to quit being a hero for a while and become a regular college kid. This being a Michael Bay film, however, don't expect Witwicky's hopes for peace and quiet to last very long.
How exactly that tranquility will be interrupted — and what exactly will transpire as "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" gets going — is anything but clear at this point. Plot details are still very much under wraps. But two of the film's co-stars, Ramon Rodriguez and Isabel Lucas, gave MTV News some fresh insight into what we can expect when the film hits theaters June 24.
"It's bigger, it's badder, it's better," said Rodriguez, who plays Leo Spitz, Witwicky's roommate at Princeton University and the proprietor of a Web site about conspiracy theories, from aliens to robots.
Quickly, though, Leo finds out that all this conspiracy mumbo-jumbo isn't just the stuff of paranoid fantasy. "I end up getting sucked into [Sam's] crazy world with real robots and finding out he's involved in the real thing," Rodriguez said. "My complete world is flipped."
Lucas plays Alice, another Princeton student who takes an immediate liking to Sam, even though he's still in a relationship with his hometown girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). "The character of Alice is more the seductress," Lucas said. "She's got mysterious intentions that we don't really know about."
Of course, when it comes to "Transformers," what we really want to know about are, well, the Transformers. Bay has already told us that two of his favorite new bots are Mudflap and Skids, Autobots based on eco-friendly Chevrolet cars Trax and the Beat. He also revealed that Arcee, a pink female Autobot, will be killed off during the movie.
Rodriguez talked enthusiastically about a Decepticon named Demolishor — "Makes [Optimus Prime] look like a roach" — but went on to rave about another massive bot. "There's one even bigger than him," he said, referring to Devastator, a massive construction formed when several Decepticons come together. "It's crazy!"
Indeed, for Rodriguez, "crazy" was the primary description of working with the explosion-happy Bay. "He's like a big kid with a lot of toys," the actor said. "When it comes to blowing stuff up, that's when he gets really excited."
Bay brought a couple of industrial-size fans to the Egyptian desert that blew 100-mile-per-hour, sand-filled winds at Rodriguez's face. He ended up dislocating his shoulder and needed to have his eyes flushed out for 45 minutes. Another time he had to sit perfectly still as a huge metal spike pierced the roof of his car, perilously close to his head. In those moments, he was not so much acting as reacting to a very real sense of fear.
"It's really borderline getting hurt, but you're still safe," he said with a laugh. "But you could get hurt."
its a very exciting movie. people should watch it.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Michael Bay talks up Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 3:00p.m.
video
Michael Bay is opening up about his much-anticipated Transformers sequel.
The action movie specialist returns, along with stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox and a ton more giant alien robots, for the sequel to his 2007 hit.
"It feels very different than the first one," the director said. "It starts two years after the last movie. Now Shia's going to college. It unfolds into this epic story. And it travels around the world. The scope of the movie is huge. The acting level of the robots - we were just touching the surface last time in what they are capable of doing. This time, it's just - they really emote. It's been a lot of fun directing the animation."
Also starring in the movie are Rainn Wilson, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson.
And Bay says the expectations on him are different this time around.
With the first film, he was just out to prove a toy could translate to the big screen and remain cool.
"There was pressure because it was unproven. It was going into new territory," Bay said. "My friends I remember when I got the movie they were like 'Oh, why are you doing that? That sounds kind of lame.' It's like a lot of people didn't get it. A lot of studios turned down the idea. I remember doing the Scorpinox scene. Because my thing was make it as lifelike as possible. Push the limits of the effects."
He certainly did that - the film won a number of special effects awards and nominations.
So will Bay adapt to the latest much-touted technology - 3D - for the already-anticipated Transformers 3? Not a chance.
"I think 2D is pretty fine, OK? I think 3D might be a gimmick," Bay said. "We'll see. I'm excited to see (James) Cameron's movie (Avatar) but I don't know. You know, they talk about, they talk about. Here's the thing. The glasses - it's still your periphery and it affects it. Whereas on this Transformers we did three scenes in full IMAX. So you go to an IMAX theatre, you know, that's your entire periphery."
Placed on any screen, i'm sure the movie will deliver the punch like the first outing.
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 3:00p.m.
video
Michael Bay is opening up about his much-anticipated Transformers sequel.
The action movie specialist returns, along with stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox and a ton more giant alien robots, for the sequel to his 2007 hit.
"It feels very different than the first one," the director said. "It starts two years after the last movie. Now Shia's going to college. It unfolds into this epic story. And it travels around the world. The scope of the movie is huge. The acting level of the robots - we were just touching the surface last time in what they are capable of doing. This time, it's just - they really emote. It's been a lot of fun directing the animation."
Also starring in the movie are Rainn Wilson, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson.
And Bay says the expectations on him are different this time around.
With the first film, he was just out to prove a toy could translate to the big screen and remain cool.
"There was pressure because it was unproven. It was going into new territory," Bay said. "My friends I remember when I got the movie they were like 'Oh, why are you doing that? That sounds kind of lame.' It's like a lot of people didn't get it. A lot of studios turned down the idea. I remember doing the Scorpinox scene. Because my thing was make it as lifelike as possible. Push the limits of the effects."
He certainly did that - the film won a number of special effects awards and nominations.
So will Bay adapt to the latest much-touted technology - 3D - for the already-anticipated Transformers 3? Not a chance.
"I think 2D is pretty fine, OK? I think 3D might be a gimmick," Bay said. "We'll see. I'm excited to see (James) Cameron's movie (Avatar) but I don't know. You know, they talk about, they talk about. Here's the thing. The glasses - it's still your periphery and it affects it. Whereas on this Transformers we did three scenes in full IMAX. So you go to an IMAX theatre, you know, that's your entire periphery."
Placed on any screen, i'm sure the movie will deliver the punch like the first outing.
Monday, April 20, 2009
New 'Transformers 2' Clip: Megan Fox Strips and More!
The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen footage that was screened at ShoWest a couple weeks ago has just made its way online, and it's a pretty good taste of what we should expect from the larger-than-life sequel. The clip merges the cutesy robot-relationship stuff from the first film, as Sam tries to convince Bumblebee that college is a good thing while Megan Fox rushes to take off her clothes for some reason -- and then we get the good stuff: a 30-or-so second montage of giant f**king robot action shots that should either pump you up for the new movie or leave an "eh, looks like the first one with more robots" taste in your mouth. Curious to see what you all think of that cranky old man robot; seems like he has the potential to either play good comic relief or suffer from annoying Jar Jar comparisons.
Megan Fox is so hot that it makes the transformers "transform" into a big blockbuster.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Michael Bay Says 'Transformers 2' is Michael Bay's Best Film
You mean it's better than The Island? Director Michael Bay has been making brief stops on his blog the past few days to tell the entire universe two things: 1) He's not on Twitter, and thinks it's a waste of time, and 2) Transformers 2 is f**king awesome. The Bay held a private screening of his current cut for Steven Spielberg the other day, and after the two cuddled up next to one another for a little over two hours, Bay ran over to his site to blog all about it.
Here's the message from Bay: "Steven Spielberg sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony today. There were 98 empty seats. The lights came up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen. He turned to me and said "It's awesome." He felt this movie was better then the first - and probably my best, who knows - at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it. I'm going to start putting it in front of audiences in a few weeks - no you are not invited, yet."
Right now I'm not sure which is bigger: The explosion in my pants or Michael Bay's ego. He later adds that they just finished a new trailer which will arrive in front of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (I heard it's a pretty kickass trailer that includes roughly two minutes of Michael Bay desperately trying to physically kiss his own ass. Fantastic!). So good news for you fans: Spielberg thinks the film is "awesome" and Bay feels that Spielberg might think it's Bay's best film yet ... who knows, maybe!
if a person as great as Steven Spielberg says its a great film, then he must be saying a great deal of truth about it.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Spielberg Says Transformers 2 is Michael Bay's Best Movie.
Spielberg Says Transformers 2 is Michael Bay's Best Movie.
Laugh all you want, I'm fuckin' excited for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen! Michael Bay just posted a "60 Day" update on his official forums and talked briefly about showing the movie to executive producer Steven Spielberg for the first time. "[He] sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony today. There were 98 empty seats. The lights came up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen. He turned to me and said 'It's awesome'. He felt this movie was better then the first - and probably my best, who knows - at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it."
Bay added that with 60 days left, they're racing to finish. "It's 12 at night and we are still working here in the edit room. Everyone at ILM and [Digital Domain] are killing themselves right now, they are doing a stellar job on the effects." He also mentions that the next full trailer will be on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so make sure you head to theaters on May 1st, if at least just to see the new trailer, which we're sure is going to be awesome.
i definitely agree. but the remark must be off-time for this young director.
Laugh all you want, I'm fuckin' excited for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen! Michael Bay just posted a "60 Day" update on his official forums and talked briefly about showing the movie to executive producer Steven Spielberg for the first time. "[He] sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony today. There were 98 empty seats. The lights came up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen. He turned to me and said 'It's awesome'. He felt this movie was better then the first - and probably my best, who knows - at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it."
Bay added that with 60 days left, they're racing to finish. "It's 12 at night and we are still working here in the edit room. Everyone at ILM and [Digital Domain] are killing themselves right now, they are doing a stellar job on the effects." He also mentions that the next full trailer will be on X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so make sure you head to theaters on May 1st, if at least just to see the new trailer, which we're sure is going to be awesome.
i definitely agree. but the remark must be off-time for this young director.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Michael Bay Reveals ‘Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen’ Runtime, Longer Than First Film
Michael Bay Reveals ‘Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen’ Runtime, Longer Than First Film
'Transformers'Michael Bay’s movies are big. His explosions are enormous. His robots are gigantic. Now, his runtime for the next “Transformers” movie is also getting bigger.
A little while back, our pal Frosty at Collider had a very revealing interview with the blockbuster director in which he said that the length of his upcoming “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was over 2 hours as he was editing it in early February. So, when we spoke with him recently, we made sure to get an update.
“It’s four minutes longer than the last one,” explained Bay, saying that the runtime was locked. “So, go figure it out.”
Well, our crack research team here at MTV News has gotten to the bottom of the mystery – and by that, I mean that I walked over to my DVD shelf just now and looked at the back of my copy. It says that the 2007 “Transformers” was 143 minutes, which means that “Revenge of the Fallen” will run…drumroll please…yep, 147 minutes.
That’s a good value for your entertainment dollar, in terms of extra time with Megan Fox’s hotness, Bay’s new robots, and the sleek cars that should make the “Fast and Furious” vehicles look like Richard Farnsworth’s “The Straight Story” tractor.
Nevertheless, Bay said that Hollywood puts too much emphasis these days on the runtime of movies. “I don’t ever talk (to executives) about run times,” he grinned. “Studios always ask, ‘What’s the run time?’ And I’m like ‘If you enjoy the movie, do you care?’”
All 147 minutes of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” will hit theaters everywhere June 24th.
Are you of the opinion that the more “Transformers” the better? Or is the thought of 147 minutes already making your butt numb?
I would prefer that more useful characters be present in the movie as it will entail more fun and action.
'Transformers'Michael Bay’s movies are big. His explosions are enormous. His robots are gigantic. Now, his runtime for the next “Transformers” movie is also getting bigger.
A little while back, our pal Frosty at Collider had a very revealing interview with the blockbuster director in which he said that the length of his upcoming “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was over 2 hours as he was editing it in early February. So, when we spoke with him recently, we made sure to get an update.
“It’s four minutes longer than the last one,” explained Bay, saying that the runtime was locked. “So, go figure it out.”
Well, our crack research team here at MTV News has gotten to the bottom of the mystery – and by that, I mean that I walked over to my DVD shelf just now and looked at the back of my copy. It says that the 2007 “Transformers” was 143 minutes, which means that “Revenge of the Fallen” will run…drumroll please…yep, 147 minutes.
That’s a good value for your entertainment dollar, in terms of extra time with Megan Fox’s hotness, Bay’s new robots, and the sleek cars that should make the “Fast and Furious” vehicles look like Richard Farnsworth’s “The Straight Story” tractor.
Nevertheless, Bay said that Hollywood puts too much emphasis these days on the runtime of movies. “I don’t ever talk (to executives) about run times,” he grinned. “Studios always ask, ‘What’s the run time?’ And I’m like ‘If you enjoy the movie, do you care?’”
All 147 minutes of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” will hit theaters everywhere June 24th.
Are you of the opinion that the more “Transformers” the better? Or is the thought of 147 minutes already making your butt numb?
I would prefer that more useful characters be present in the movie as it will entail more fun and action.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Megatron-optimus Prime Face off
Prime transforms into a fire engine, and can convert into a secondary flight mode, or merge with his trailer into Super Mode. Later using the matrix of leadership replacing the role of the combination spark, he combines with his fellow Autobot Leobreaker to form Savage Claw Mode (Liger Convoy) , and with Wing Saber to from Sonic Wing Mode (Sonic Convoy) though the autobots claim when prime and leobraker combine for the first time, " i didn't know autobots could do that:.. Whether he or Galvatron are the stronger, or if both are in perfect balance is unknown, as although Prime did ultimately destroy Galvatron in one final blow, it was with Vector Prime's sword, given to him in the last few seconds before they clashed for the last time. His Cyber Key Power makes his cannons more powerful ("Galaxy Cannon: Full Burst!). As Liger Convoy, his Force Chip special attack was Liger Grand Break; as Sonic Convoy, it was Sonic Double Impact.
Megatron is a triple changer, transforming from a Batmobile-like dragster into a Cybertronian jet. He can project devastating electrical blastst from his hands, and his Cyber Key activates many powers, including vehicle-mode thrusters, a claw shield (Death Claw) and his deadly "Death Machine Gun," (Death Machine Gun) with which he fatally injured Hot Shot, Red Alert and Scattorshot. He could also combine with Nemesis Breaker to form Dark Claw Mode (Liger Megatron) for a short period of time, with a similar Cyber Key power to Optimus Prime's Savage Claw Mode Cyber Key attack (Liger Death Strike).
As Galvatron, he retained all his previous attacks, could project dark energy, and shape it into a sword. In his final battle with Optimus Prime, he gained a new transformation in which his back wings/cape formed a cannon on his chest, which fired dark electrical energy (Death Cannon). His armor can also restore him.
With these, all Optimus can do is to use his wits and skill to defeat the evil megatron.
Megatron is a triple changer, transforming from a Batmobile-like dragster into a Cybertronian jet. He can project devastating electrical blastst from his hands, and his Cyber Key activates many powers, including vehicle-mode thrusters, a claw shield (Death Claw) and his deadly "Death Machine Gun," (Death Machine Gun) with which he fatally injured Hot Shot, Red Alert and Scattorshot. He could also combine with Nemesis Breaker to form Dark Claw Mode (Liger Megatron) for a short period of time, with a similar Cyber Key power to Optimus Prime's Savage Claw Mode Cyber Key attack (Liger Death Strike).
As Galvatron, he retained all his previous attacks, could project dark energy, and shape it into a sword. In his final battle with Optimus Prime, he gained a new transformation in which his back wings/cape formed a cannon on his chest, which fired dark electrical energy (Death Cannon). His armor can also restore him.
With these, all Optimus can do is to use his wits and skill to defeat the evil megatron.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Seeing Megatron at a distance
We all know all about Optimus prime and his Autobots. Time to look at the protagonists: Megatron and his Decepticons
- Megatron/Galvatron (Master Megatron/Master Galvatron) - Trapped within an energon sun at the conclusion of Transformers: Energon, Megatron was freed from his imprisonment when the sun collapsed into the massive black hole that threatened Cybertron. Having absorbed the remnants of Unicron's armor and power into his own body, Megatron is now arguably the most powerful Decepticon, and seeks to use the power of the Cyber Planet Keys to remold the universe in his own image. Despite recruiting natives from all the different worlds that the Transformers visited, Megatron was continuously met with failure, but upon his defeat by Metroplex on Gigantion, his Armor of Unicron tapped into the world's Cyber Planet Key and upgraded him into the insanely powerful Galvatron. He won more battles as Galvatron and stole the completed Omega Lock for many episodes.
- Megatron is a triple changer, transforming from a Batmobile-like dragster into a Cybertronian jet. He can project devastating electrical blastst from his hands, and his Cyber Key activates many powers, including vehicle-mode thrusters, a claw shield (Death Claw) and his deadly "Death Machine Gun," (Death Machine Gun) with which he fatally injured Hot Shot, Red Alert and Scattorshot. He could also combine with Nemesis Breaker to form Dark Claw Mode (Liger Megatron) for a short period of time, with a similar Cyber Key power to Optimus Prime's Savage Claw Mode Cyber Key attack (Liger Death Strike).
- As Galvatron, he retained all his previous attacks, could project dark energy, and shape it into a sword. In his final battle with Optimus Prime, he gained a new transformation in which his back wings/cape formed a cannon on his chest, which fired dark electrical energy (Death Cannon). His armor can also restore him.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
GM's troubles deprive 'Transformers 2' of crucial horsepower
GM's troubles deprive 'Transformers 2' of crucial horsepower
Detroit's not the only one reeling from the collapse of General Motors. There are a few executives bummed out on the Paramount Pictures lot as well.
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Eleven weeks before the release of its expensive summer sequel "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen," the studio can't count on its key promotional partner to support a marketing blitz that helps drive mass awareness of Hollywood's big popcorn movies.
The struggling automaker, whose new Chevy Camaro is one of the stars of director Michael Bay's action film in which vehicles morph into giant robots, has sharply throttled back its contribution to the advertising campaign tied to the sequel's release June 24.
The reduced spending by GM comes at a tricky time for Paramount, which needs all the promotional backing it can muster for "Transformers" in what looks to be one of Hollywood's most competitive summers ever. A dozen big-budget "event" films, including "Star Trek" and sequels to "Harry Potter" and "X-Men," will be elbowing one another into theaters.
"There's so much competition out there for the entertainment dollar that studios and filmmakers really can't open big, $100-million movies without the assistance of partner alliances that can help generate awareness and sell movie tickets," said Norm Marshall, chief executive of NMA Entertainment, a brand marketing firm that's been involved in movie "tie-in" campaigns for "Mama Mia!," "Iron Man" and "Matrix Reloaded."
For the Hollywood studios, which are under pressure to keep a lid on marketing costs, a promotional tie-in can spell millions of dollars of advertising underwritten by consumer giants like GM or fast-food chains McDonald's and Burger King.
The tie-ins take various forms, including advertisements of the company's products alongside the movie, in-store promotions, direct mailings, product placement and online campaigns.
"It can be extremely valuable," said Adam Fogelson, president of marketing and distribution for Universal Pictures, whose upcoming June release "Land of the Lost," a sci-fi adventure comedy starring Will Ferrell, has a "huge" media and in-store campaign with promotional partner Subway.
Studios can spend more than $100 million to market their "franchise" movies around the world. But as the studios try to rein in marketing costs, the tie-in campaigns with big advertisers become more important.
"Major media promotions can exceed $10 million," Fogelson said. "All of our media budgets are under pressure, and having substantial media money coming from a promotional partner can reduce the sheer amount of dollars you spend."
Still, Paramount, which spent some $180 million to produce "Transformers," will lay out more than $150 million to market and distribute the film.
The studio has other major tie-in deals for the sequel, including Burger King, wireless phone company LG Mobile, retailer Kmart and a yet-to-be-announced candy company and convenience store chain -- all footing extensive media buys.
"Our marketing partnership campaign on this movie is already bigger than the first 'Transformers' with or without GM," said LeeAnne Stables, Paramount's executive vice president of worldwide marketing partnerships.
On the original film, Paramount had five partners: GM, Mountain Dew, Burger King, EBay and Kraft, which collectively spent more than $40 million on TV, print, radio and online advertising.
"The reason we do these partnerships is not to defray our media spending," Stables said. "It's like a delicious gravy on top of the studio's marketing campaign that connects us to audiences in places traditional media can't buy -- like inside a car dealership or Burger King."
Given the huge success of the first "Transformers" -- the sales of $708 million in tickets worldwide and 14 million DVDs in the U.S. -- the loss of GM's ad dollars may not affect the box-office sales of the sequel because it is largely "pre-sold" to audiences. Nonetheless, the pullback may hurt the studio's chances of reaching out to car buffs it might not otherwise reach through ordinary marketing.
In the upcoming DreamWorks-produced film, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, five of Chevy's cars are characters -- including the one known as "Bumblebee" -- known as Autobots, which are good robots battling evil Decepticons bent on avenging the universe.
Officials from GM said the company's financial crisis prompted a change in plans. For 2007's "Transformers," GM backed a massive tie-in campaign, which even included TV commercials directed by Bay.
"We've pulled back on all of our marketing and advertising for obvious reasons, and spending is down dramatically," said Terry Rhadigan, communications director for Chevrolet, GM's biggest division. "It stands to reason that 'Transformers' would fall under that umbrella."
The timing couldn't be worse for the carmaker since its 2010 Camaro is just now rolling off assembly lines and being shipped to dealers. Rhadigan said although the relaunched Camaro was only a concept car and not available for sale when the first "Transformers" opened, its association with the film was highly beneficial. "It translated into awareness and boosted the overall image of Chevy," he said. "It's cool to be associated with a hot movie."
Detroit's not the only one reeling from the collapse of General Motors. There are a few executives bummed out on the Paramount Pictures lot as well.
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Eleven weeks before the release of its expensive summer sequel "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen," the studio can't count on its key promotional partner to support a marketing blitz that helps drive mass awareness of Hollywood's big popcorn movies.
The struggling automaker, whose new Chevy Camaro is one of the stars of director Michael Bay's action film in which vehicles morph into giant robots, has sharply throttled back its contribution to the advertising campaign tied to the sequel's release June 24.
The reduced spending by GM comes at a tricky time for Paramount, which needs all the promotional backing it can muster for "Transformers" in what looks to be one of Hollywood's most competitive summers ever. A dozen big-budget "event" films, including "Star Trek" and sequels to "Harry Potter" and "X-Men," will be elbowing one another into theaters.
"There's so much competition out there for the entertainment dollar that studios and filmmakers really can't open big, $100-million movies without the assistance of partner alliances that can help generate awareness and sell movie tickets," said Norm Marshall, chief executive of NMA Entertainment, a brand marketing firm that's been involved in movie "tie-in" campaigns for "Mama Mia!," "Iron Man" and "Matrix Reloaded."
For the Hollywood studios, which are under pressure to keep a lid on marketing costs, a promotional tie-in can spell millions of dollars of advertising underwritten by consumer giants like GM or fast-food chains McDonald's and Burger King.
The tie-ins take various forms, including advertisements of the company's products alongside the movie, in-store promotions, direct mailings, product placement and online campaigns.
"It can be extremely valuable," said Adam Fogelson, president of marketing and distribution for Universal Pictures, whose upcoming June release "Land of the Lost," a sci-fi adventure comedy starring Will Ferrell, has a "huge" media and in-store campaign with promotional partner Subway.
Studios can spend more than $100 million to market their "franchise" movies around the world. But as the studios try to rein in marketing costs, the tie-in campaigns with big advertisers become more important.
"Major media promotions can exceed $10 million," Fogelson said. "All of our media budgets are under pressure, and having substantial media money coming from a promotional partner can reduce the sheer amount of dollars you spend."
Still, Paramount, which spent some $180 million to produce "Transformers," will lay out more than $150 million to market and distribute the film.
The studio has other major tie-in deals for the sequel, including Burger King, wireless phone company LG Mobile, retailer Kmart and a yet-to-be-announced candy company and convenience store chain -- all footing extensive media buys.
"Our marketing partnership campaign on this movie is already bigger than the first 'Transformers' with or without GM," said LeeAnne Stables, Paramount's executive vice president of worldwide marketing partnerships.
On the original film, Paramount had five partners: GM, Mountain Dew, Burger King, EBay and Kraft, which collectively spent more than $40 million on TV, print, radio and online advertising.
"The reason we do these partnerships is not to defray our media spending," Stables said. "It's like a delicious gravy on top of the studio's marketing campaign that connects us to audiences in places traditional media can't buy -- like inside a car dealership or Burger King."
Given the huge success of the first "Transformers" -- the sales of $708 million in tickets worldwide and 14 million DVDs in the U.S. -- the loss of GM's ad dollars may not affect the box-office sales of the sequel because it is largely "pre-sold" to audiences. Nonetheless, the pullback may hurt the studio's chances of reaching out to car buffs it might not otherwise reach through ordinary marketing.
In the upcoming DreamWorks-produced film, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, five of Chevy's cars are characters -- including the one known as "Bumblebee" -- known as Autobots, which are good robots battling evil Decepticons bent on avenging the universe.
Officials from GM said the company's financial crisis prompted a change in plans. For 2007's "Transformers," GM backed a massive tie-in campaign, which even included TV commercials directed by Bay.
"We've pulled back on all of our marketing and advertising for obvious reasons, and spending is down dramatically," said Terry Rhadigan, communications director for Chevrolet, GM's biggest division. "It stands to reason that 'Transformers' would fall under that umbrella."
The timing couldn't be worse for the carmaker since its 2010 Camaro is just now rolling off assembly lines and being shipped to dealers. Rhadigan said although the relaunched Camaro was only a concept car and not available for sale when the first "Transformers" opened, its association with the film was highly beneficial. "It translated into awareness and boosted the overall image of Chevy," he said. "It's cool to be associated with a hot movie."
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, coming in 51 days
Yep, the movie were waiting will arrive in 51 days. In line with that, let's talk about Optimus Prime, The leader of the Autobots.
- Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots in the Generation 1 continuity family. Before he became Optimus Prime, he was named alternatively Orion Pax or Optronix in certain continuities.
Optimus Prime is the awe-inspiring leader of the Autobot forces. Originally a civilian, he was chosen by the Matrix to command, the first in a number of heavy burdens he has been forced to bear. Another is his bringing of the Transformers' conflict to Earth. The complete opposite of his mortal enemy Megatron, every casualty, human or Cybertronian, weighs heavily on his spark. He does not show this side to his soldiers, and he never succumbs to despair. The Autobots need a decisive, charismatic leader, and that is what he gives them. It was that leadership which turned the tide of the Great War.
On the battlefield, there are few who rival Optimus Prime's prowess. His ion blaster and his energon-axe are deadly weapons, though lacking when compared to others. He is easily the strongest of any Autobot his size, and what he lacks in raw firepower he easily compensates with guts. He would sacrifice his life to protect his fellow Autobots or those under their care, and has on a few occasions. His compassion for other sentient beings is his only real weakness, and one the Decepticons have taken advantage of time and again... though it's also the source of his strength!
Prime (usually) carries within him the Matrix of Leadership.
Before being rebuilt into a Powermaster his robot mode split into three components:
- A sentient robot module, the Brain Center.
- A wheeled drone module known as Roller.
- A Combat Deck.
Although Optimus Prime can function as three independent modules, injury to any one module is felt by the other two.
| “ | Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. | ” |
| —Optimus Prime's most common bio quote | ||
- Nicknames: Autobot commander / Chief / Big Boss / Roller[1]
- Pre-Prime name (cartoon): Orion Pax
- Pre-Prime name (Dreamwave): Optronix
- Japanese name: Convoy
- Japanese name (Return of Convoy): Star Convoy
- Japanese name (Combat Hero): Convoy Missie Trailer
- Japanese name (Laser Rod): Battle Convoy
- French-Canadian & Chzech name: Optimus Primus
- Hungarian name (The Movie): Optimusz Fővezér / Optimusz Prájm (pronounced: prīm)
- Italian name: Commander
- Portuguese name (Portugal comics): Optimus Supremo ("Optimus Supreme")
- Portuguese name (Brazil cartoon): Líder Optimus ("Leader Optimus")
- Portuguese name (Brazil comics): Supremus Absolutus
- Russian Tv dub name (6th channel): Оптимус Прайм
- Taiwanese name: Tīh-ghŭ (鐵牛, literally "Iron Ox" or "Iron Bull", a kind of vehicle in early days and rural area)
- Chinese name (Taiwan): Jr-tsūn (至尊, "Prime")
- Cantonese name: O Baak Man (柯柏文)
- Chinese name (China): Qing Tian Zhu (擎天柱, "Pillar Proping the Sky")
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Character profile
Much has been said about the world of Transformers but there are a lot of heroes and villains that makes up this totally awesome creation. Gear up as i take you to meet the autobots and decepticons.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, coming in 52 days
The battle for Earth has ended but the battle for the universe has just begun. After returning to Cybertron, Starscream assumes command of the Decepticons, and has decided to return to Earth with force. The Autobots believing that peace was possible finds out that Megatron's dead body has been stolen from the US Military by Skorpinox and revives him using his own spark. Now Megatron is back seeking revenge and with Starscream and more Decepticon reinforcements on the way, the Autobots with reinforcements of their own, may have more to deal with then meets the eye.
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