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I just set up the Transformers score by Steve Jablonsky CD online petition.

Why?

Here are some of the comments that people have made on this post and on its followup in recent days …

“I love original score to movies and Transformers caught my ear as soon as the movie got 20 minutes in. Im hoping they release an original score soundtrack, if they don’t, it would be a crime.”

“Yup, I absolutely LOVED the score and I’m dying for it to come out! I’ve seen the movie twice, and I would absolutely go again just to listen to the score!”

“i saw it 3 times and the last two where just to listen to the score. i am a very big movie score kind of guy and i have to say it was the best on e out of any that i have heard in any movie.

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A lady named Shirley Skidmore, who is apparently from somewhere in east Texas, sent me the following e-mail. This must be in reference to my recent post about Focus on the Family disapproving of Transformers. Here’s Shirley’s letter…

Subject: What Are You Transformed By?

Chris, Chris, Chris!

You have to be dead to the things of Christ to approve of this filtly liscensious movie. The teen starlet was dressed as a whore . Every move, every direction, every word on her account was conformed to the gutteral nature of a Godless culture. You areyond believabilty to deny that lust was the drawing card for much of the film. Pornographic techniques were used to the max here. The lanquage in both subject and vanacular was Godless. It transformed eveyone who watched it to a place farther from Christ’s standard.

Only blind and naked Christians could possibly support this film

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I haven’t struggled this hard with thoughts about a movie since writing my review of Peter Jackson’s King Kong.

It was good, but too much of the book was missing for me to be completely satisfied.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is my favorite book of them all in the series (so far). It’s also the one that I happen to be in the middle of reading as part of my quest to read all of the Harry Potter books before the release of the final one next Saturday. So maybe those things factored into how much I liked it. I’ve no doubt that if I had never read the Harry Potter books, I would have a whole different feeling about it’s movie adaptation.

Tonally, they got this movie right so far as how it captures the spirit of the book. Especially with how corrupt ...

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TRANSFROMERS score by Steve Jablonsky CD online petition!

Here’s an MP3 – courtesy of Burger King’s promotional tie-in site – of the Decepticons theme music from Transformers.

I’m making this post to convey the following information: that in the past day or so this blog has received a heavy amount of traffic. It’s much more than usual. And looking at the logs, right now the vast majority of it is from searches for “transformers” along with “score” and usually “jablonsky” or “cd” or “soundtrack”, and that’s taking them to this post that I made yesterday about how much I’d love to buy a CD of the movie’s score.

I can only assume that many, many people out there are wanting a soundtrack CD of Steve Jablonsky’s orchestral work from Transformers. At least four people have told me personally that they want to see ...

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Don’t know if I’ll see it more times than I saw Independence Day in the theater when it came out, but I caught Transformers (here’s my original review) again this afternoon at the Grande in Greensboro and this movie… just keeps getting better and better! Think that after you give your brain a few days to absorb the “shock and awe” of the first time seeing it, that you can relax and enjoy it a bit more the next time. Once again, I almost cried at the scene where the Autobots come together for the first time: I definitely think that’s a beautifully orchestrated sequence, made all the more powerful by the awesome musical score by Steve Jablonsky (I will gladly buy this background score CD the day it comes out… if it comes out at all, still no word on that).

Something that should be noted: ...

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I’m barely keeping up with this project. Mostly ‘cuz I want to be as un-spoiled about it as possible, I guess. I managed to do that fairly well with Revenge of the Sith and I really went into Transformers as “virginally” as possible (at least so far as already being a childhood fan of the toys goes, anyway). I want to see Indiana Jones and the … (whatever #4 is called) next May in the theater, with the person who I’ve seen every other Indiana Jones movie with: my Dad. And enjoy it for the first time along with him.

That said, this news, if true… raises my eyebrows bigtime. And leaves me wondering about just what direction this is going to be taking.

Click here if you want to know more. It has to do with the character that John Hurt is now said to be playing....

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There was so much good to say about Transformers that I forgot to mention something very important: the awesome, epic orchestral score composed by Steve Jablonsky. If you haven’t seen the movie yet (and you really should if you want to experience your jaw hitting the theater floor) it might surprise you that the original “Transformers” theme song isn’t used anytime during the movie, unless it came during the tail end of the credits that we didn’t happen to catch. Here again, even in its music, Transformers has grown up with this movie.

I am dying to have a soundtrack CD of Jablonsky’s score! But right now the only album from the movie is Transformers: The Movie Album, which has a collection of songs in the movie by artists like Linkin Park and Smashmouth. Which ...

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I’ve mentioned this once or twice before on this blog. I’ll do it again right now: I almost went to work for Focus on the Family.

It was several years ago. And I was a Christian still young in the faith, full of “spice and vinegar” as they say and eager to use whatever talents I have for the service of the Lord.

My my my, the myriad of ways in which we spiritually grow.

People who know me have said that my faith has come a very, very long way. But along the journey I’ve become a lot more disillusioned with many of the things that we perceive as “properly Christian”. If we are going to follow Christ, then let us follow Christ for His sake, and not because we want a measure of political power out of the deal.

The Chris Knight of 1999 would have gladly gone ...

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For well over a year now, I haven’t heard much of anything at all about Transformers except for how it would suck donkey’s balls to no end (my personal epithet for something that is as bad as possible and can’t get any worse) when it came out.

Let’s see, since early 2006 there’s been: “Bumblebee is a Beetle not a Camaro”, “this movie must have Soundwave”, “Megatron should transform into a gun”, “the script is lousy”, “damn you Michael Bay!”, and the ubiquitous “flames on Optimus equals rubber nipples on Batman” argument. Along with literally dozens of other reasons about why Transformers, the 2007 live-action movie, was doomed to fail. How it was T.I.N.O. (“Transformers In Name Only”).

You know what? I don’t want to hear another bloody word about how Transformers is supposed to be a crap-tacular waste of celluloid and computer-rendered carnage. Because I just spent two ...

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Going to see it on Wednesday. It will be Lisa, me, and my life-long friend Chad Austin.

When he and I were ten years old we would be up all night during sleepovers fantasizing about what a live-action Transformers movie would be like. Wondering just how could technology of the mid-1980s pull off giant robots morphing into vehicles. I think that just like Star Wars fans spent decades seeing The Duel being fought in their minds before seeing it actually happen in Revenge of the Sith, so have Chad and I had our own “perfect Transformers movie” in our imagination this whole time.

To say that we grew up as die-hard fans of old-school Transformers would be a severe underestimation of things. So this movie has a lot to live up to.

And then there is Lisa, who mostly knows about Transformers from her younger brother. All told, ...

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