Movie News, Reviews, & Reactions 2010

[Mister Andersen]

The Beaver -- this strikes me as the life of Arnold Wesker in a world without Batman

[Desertpuma]

Coming from Dreamworks in 2013: Me and My Shadow

"Me and My Shadow tells the story of Shadow Stan, an extremely frustrated shadow who yearns for a dynamic life but happens to be stuck with Stanley Grubb, the world's most boring human. Finally pushed to the brink, Shadow Stan breaks the singular rule of the Shadow World ("They lead, we follow"), and takes control of Stanley!"

Color me interested.

Sounds like a variation of Cool World with Gabriel Byrne, Bob Hoskins, Kim Basinger, Christopher Lloyd....

[Crafty_Pat]

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige Talks Upcoming Movie Plans

[Desertpuma]

There is also a link to the Teaser Trailer for Thor as well.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/112106-the-thor-trailer-is-here

[mathey]

Heard some good preview reviews for Tron Legacy. They said it was dumb - but GOOD and fun dumb.

[glimmerrat]

So, Transformers 3: the Dark of the Moon.

Before I drop these spoilers, bear in mind that I never saw Revenge of the Fallen. I refused to watch it after seeing the first one.

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1) A new Autobot - Dreadbox - will turn into a Ferrari. He will have an Italian accent.
2) Sentinel Prime will be in it, turning into a Firetruck. He will be Optimus Prime's 'father'...
3) The Wreckers are in it. As a team of Chevrolet Impala NASCARs.
4) Wheelie is in it, as an R/C monster truck. And now he's a former Decepticon who switched sides.
5) Megatron's alt-mode has been switched out for a tanker truck.
6) Wheeljack will be making an appearance, with a robot form that looks like Albert Einstein.
7) Sam will possess a 'power glove', but the details are sketchy.
8 ) John Malkovitch will have a bit-part as Sam's boss.

All in all, i'm glad i'm not bothering. I just thought the folks that liked it would want a heads-up.

[Desertpuma]

Reminds me of the TransMech stuff from 2.0.

Crafty Crew, makes me wonder if you are going to convert over any of the pdfs you had done like Fragile Minds, TransMech, Agent X, etc and upgrade them for MC in the future.

[Sletchman]

So, Transformers 3: the Dark of the Moon.

Before I drop these spoilers, bear in mind that I never saw Revenge of the Fallen. I refused to watch it after seeing the first one.

(click to show/hide)

1) A new Autobot - Dreadbox - will turn into a Ferrari. He will have an Italian accent.
2) Sentinel Prime will be in it, turning into a Firetruck. He will be Optimus Prime's 'father'...
3) The Wreckers are in it. As a team of Chevrolet Impala NASCARs.
4) Wheelie is in it, as an R/C monster truck. And now he's a former Decepticon who switched sides.
5) Megatron's alt-mode has been switched out for a tanker truck.
6) Wheeljack will be making an appearance, with a robot form that looks like Albert Einstein.
7) Sam will possess a 'power glove', but the details are sketchy.
8 ) John Malkovitch will have a bit-part as Sam's boss.

All in all, i'm glad i'm not bothering. I just thought the folks that liked it would want a heads-up.

I'm honestly not sure if these are real or this is you making a hilarious joke about the upcoming film.

[Mister Andersen]

So, Transformers 3: the Dark of the Moon.

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2) Sentinel Prime will be in it, turning into a Firetruck. He will be Optimus Prime's 'father'...

This one is pretty much confirmed by the teaser trailer, though they seem to have borrowed slightly from Alpha Trion's facial features.

4) Wheelie is in it, as an R/C monster truck. And now he's a former Decepticon who switched sides.

Yeah, he was in TF2. Got pussywhipped by Megan Fox. There is just no end to the fail that a transformer with that name is heir to.

5) Megatron's alt-mode has been switched out for a tanker truck.

Oh well, he's hada huge number of alt forms since his days as a Walther, but this feels like attempting to hype the whole evil brother idea.

6) Wheeljack will be making an appearance, with a robot form that looks like Albert Einstein.

If he doesn't have the rabbit ears, he aint Wheeljack.

[glimmerrat]

I'm honestly not sure if these are real or this is you making a hilarious joke about the upcoming film.

This is no joke. The stereotype twins are back too.

If he doesn't have the rabbit ears, he aint Wheeljack.

Try telling that to Michael Bay.

[Mister Andersen]

I didn't hate the first film because it arguably played these giant robots as alien horrors, but the franchise utterly lost me with the unmitigated crap that was the 2nd

[mathey]

I really never understood the appeal of Transformers as a kid. I was a big sucker for G.I. Joe, though. In no way shape or form does this mitigate the fact that the films for both have been terrible, incoherent, stupid piles of garbage that don't even serve as commercials for plastic toys. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say I started to wish they'd get back to the two dogs humping in the Transformers sequel after the string of grotesque and/or racist stereotyped characters started filing on in.

Just awful.

[MilitiaJim]

It's been brainless action sequences.  At least the second one wasted less time on the people, and Sam just makes me wish someone would accidentally squish him, that is probably not the emotion your "main" "character" should elicit, but oh well.

I enjoyed the first two in the theater, but I won't waste my time seeing them anywhere else.  (The best scene in both movies was at the end of the second, watching Autobots and Marine tanks shoot it out with the Decepticons, especially when the cameras "moved" out to a couple kilometers away.)
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Yup, G.I. Joe was another brainless action flick to be enjoyed in the theater and ignored on DVD.

[mathey]

I love a good action sequence.

The truck chase in Raiders.

The gunbattles in The Killer and Hard Boiled.

The asteroid sequence in Empire.

The drug lab fight in Enter the Dragon.

The shaky-cam rooftop chase in Bourne Ultimatum.

The intense military action in Black Hawk Down.

The ridiculous finale of Hot Fuzz.

These are all worth watching and genuinely exhilarating.

What Michael Bay does, however, is not action. Its random cuts of close ups that seem to suggest movement but don't make any goddamn sense. There's no context. No placement. No investment. Just glossy edit after blurry edit while the sound system subwoofer flutters; visual noise.

 I watched Transformers 2 on an average sized HDTV with friends (and Rifftrax) and I have NO clue how people could follow what was going on if they saw that movie on a big screen. There's entire sequences where the framing is somebody's ANKLES.

[MilitiaJim]

Which is most of why I won't bother to watch them on a screen smaller than 160".  And yes, he needs to zoom out.  I don't actually care how many gears are in Ironhide's ankle.