Transformers

By Rodney Can you see him floating there, on the left, right below the huge arrow that I also missed when I saw the movie? That’s obviously him, a fact that has been confirmed to me by one of the movie’s sequence supervisors at Industrial Light & Magic—the same guy who said this previous sighting w...

By Rodney The truly, truly, truly outrageous rock star is making a big comeback at Hasbro that will include a new toy line and the possibility of a live-action movie. Why now? Well first, Hasbro is flush with cash after the successes of both TRANSFORMERS and GI JOE. Second, it turns out the rights to the...

By Rodney But judging from this candid DVD extra, even Bay thinks Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen veered on excessive, and he’s promising to scale back when he tackles #3. As we speak, Bay is combing through the Transformers lore that Hasbro has sent him and pondering who or what will be smashing...

By Rodney Standing exactly 16 feet 10 7/8 inches tall and weighing 3200 pounds, this screen-used hero Bumblebee robot is an incredible feat of engineering craftsmanship. Built by renowned special effects company FXperts, Inc. (a.ka. John Frazier Special Effects), Bumblebee was the result of a dir...

By Rodney The score of a film can solidify its message, bridge logic to emotion, and punctuate impact in a way that gives you chills. So even with popcorn summer blockbusters, they want to make sure they get it right. Linkin Park’s “What I’ve Done” was a good match for Transformers, and so Michael Bay [...]

By Rodney Michael Bay is nearly done post production on Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, but there is still one thing missing. The Fallen lacks a voice. The fans all anticipated that Leonard Nimoy, who voiced Galvatron in the Transformers Animated Feature Film, would reprise his role (speculat...

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Megatron will be in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. But fanformums like TFW2005 have had Transformers co-writer Roberto Orci answering those pressing questions from the fans and he broke silence on the Megatron question insisting Megatron was in the film.

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) A toy entitled ‘The Fallen’ has surfaced via Transformers in China, TF08. Its head matches the face seen on the Revenge of the Fallen poster and now confirms that ‘The Fallen’ is indeed a character, rather than a reference to a downed Megatron or Optimus Prime.

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) By now everyone has seen the Superbowl Teaser for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. You haven’t? Well go look.. I will wait here. Well speculation was that the massive bot (from which we see Optimus Prime dangling like a toddler) from was our first peek at Devastator - the combined effort of t...

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) With Megatron making appearances all over toy packages and even with his own figure, speculation is abound that Megatron could in fact be in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. This is just a glimmer of hope that we might see the short lived Decepticon leader on screen again. /Film rants: M...

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Just start your blogging there for a month or two and get an idea of what direction you’re going to go in… find your voice… figure out if you’re going to stick with it more than 2 weeks or not. An Open Letter To Michael Bay Re: Transformers 2 4 Rules Before Making A Remake

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Hey there folks! Welcome to the Monday installment of The Movie Blog: Uncut Podcast. Today the whole gang is here, so join us at Doug, Darren, Bruxy and I discuss: 1) Early Incredible Hulk buzz 2) The possibility of Jumper 2 3) Transformers 2 “Fallen” ideas 4) Disaster Movie 5) WGA Strike fin...

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Hey there folks! Welcome to the week ending installment of The Movie Blog: Uncut Podcast. Join in as Doug and I discuss: 1) Kung-Fu Panda 2) Using celebrity voices in animated films instead of voice actors 3) You Don’t Mess With The Zohan 4) Sam Raimi returning for Spider-Man 4 5) Transforme...

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Hey there folks! Welcome to the weekly Monday round table installment of The Movie Blog: Uncut Podcast. Join as Doug, Darren and I discuss: 1) Movies that have bombed so far in 2008 2) The voice of the Hulk 3) Transformers winning the 2008 MTV Movie of the Year Award 4) Sex and the City results 5...

By John So join us as Doug and I discuss : 1) Some Patrick Swayze updates 2) A Rocky 7 Movie?!?! 3) RoboCop remake in 3d 4) Rainn Wilson in Transformers 2

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Transformers 2 is going to be talked about a lot here, and it is just beginning. Filming locations and reports are coming in from all over and we reported two current locations that are soon to be invaded. Bethlehem Steel will become an industrial Japanese locale, and Philidelphia is going t...

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Thanks for checking out our Iron Man Review. If you’d like, you can watch the video version of our Iron Man review at the bottom of this post: The only other bad thing I can say about Iron Man is that it may have set the bar so high for comic book movies this summer that it may ruin the rest of them.

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Podcast #1) PRE-SHOW SPECIAL OSCAR PODCAT Podcast #2) Jon Stewart Doing pretty well Podcast #3) Ratatouille Wins! Podcast #4) Transformers do NOT win Best special effects?!?! WTF!?!?!

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) 1) The new Indiana Jones 4 trailer 2) Suggestions to Michael Bay for Transformers 2

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) I am glad Breaker is in the film, he is a classic character and a communications expert is always appreciated in this day and age. With so much bad news circling this project however, it gets more and more difficult to remain optimistic. I was very let down with Transformers and it looks like G.I....

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) The Paramount issue was a flare shot into the sky. The online Movie Community was now a significant presence and studios would now… for the first time… really have to start being cautious about how they dealt with online sites. To their credit, Paramount did what they could to make up for the i...