transformers revenge of the fallen

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First things first: I have yet to hear any news about a CD release of the score from Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which was once again masterfully composed and orchestrated by Steve Jablonsky. A bunch of readers have been asking me about this for the past several months (and quite often more than once!). No word either on the rumored box set that would have Jablonsky’s complete score from all three Transformers movies, which I would gladly plunk down serious coin for and based on the enthusiasm I’ve been observing, so would many others out there.

Until we have something more substantial to go on (and I tend to believe that it will be coming sooner than later) here’s something ya might wanna check out: Music from the Transformers Trilogy!

Performed by London Music Works, this CD includes 16 tracks from the three movies: six ...

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Two years ago, an online petition drive spun out of this very blog and may or may not have convinced The Powers That Be to release a CD of Steve Jablonsky’s amazing score for the motion picture Transformers.

In 2009, Warner Bros./Reprise did release a CD of Jablonsky’s score for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. And everything was cool this time, right?

Well…

A LOT of folks have written in here over the past few weeks about how much of Jablonsky’s score for the new movie is missing from the current CD release. And we know for certain that there were plans to publish the full score (or a much bigger chunk of it than we have now anyway) but now, those plans have been officially dashed. It’s currently not set to happen.

But now, a warrior has arisen “to light our darkest hour”!

Mike Casteel, a ...

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Between it’s massive opening last week and the run-up to the Fourth of July weekend over the next few days, expect Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to scarf down an unconscionable amount of coin (much like Devastator, left), its place as one of the top grossing movies of 2009 well assured. That’s regardless of how it is also one of the worst reviewed movies of the year!

Breitbart.com has the somewhat humorous story of how wide the gulf is between movie-goers and professional movie critics. Personally, I don’t care that it’s got so many problems artistically. It’s giant transforming robots beating the crap out of each other with lots of earth-trembling explosions. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is everything you’d expect from a Michael Bay summer popcorn flick. What more is it supposed to be?! 🙂...

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That was the question I was asking everyone late on Tuesday night at the Palladium in High Point when we were there to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The crew from 107.5 WKZL FM was there giving out prizes during a Transformers trivia contest. Phillip and Matt and I were sitting up around the top rows of the theater and one of the 107.5 guys asked “What does Barricade transform into?”

I raised my hand and shouted “Police car!” Which was the right answer. So I ran down to collect my reward.

Which turned out to be this…

A copy of Britney Spears’ new CD Circus!

And I thought I was gonna get a Transformers t-shirt, or somethin’…...

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I’m going to say that I immensely enjoyed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen despite a lot of problems possessed by this movie.

I saw it at midnight on Wednesday night (meaning the wee hours of yesterday morning) along with fellow bloggers Phillip Arthur and Matthew Federico. And I am compelled to echo the sentiments that just about every reviewer on the planet is saying about this movie: that it’s far too long, it’s much too juvenile and there’s way too much to expect a viewer to take in.

I anticipate that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is going to become a textbook example of how a movie demands good editing, because there’s a ton of material that could have been left on the cutting room floor that would not only not be missed, but would have made for a much tighter and more enthralling film. Some of this stuff ...

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Praise be the Allspark, we do NOT have to go through this crazy mess a second time…

Good friend of this blog Kartik Kaul has passed along the word that Steve Jablonsky’s score soundtrack CD for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will go on sale June 23rd! Also on the same day will be a “Music From…” CD for the movie. Which is all well and good but uhhh… as most people know it’s the orchestral score that we are mostly interested in on this blog 😛

Here’s the link to the score CD’s page on Amazon.com where you can pre-order it. Which I’ve already done for mine 🙂...

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Officially, it’s being hosted at Yahoo! Movies. Un-officially however, you can find it pretty much anywhere on the ‘nets tonight. I snagged it in high-definition from YouTube.

However it is that you see it, make sure to catch the third trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen…

That’s Constructicon combined gestalt bad-‘bot Devastator scarfing down a wazoo-load of Saharan sand, trying to suck in and chop Optimus Prime to slivers. By the way, Devastator is now said to be the most complex digital construct that Industrial Light and Magic has ever done in its entire thirty-some years of existence!

I also feel led to comment that based on this trailer alone, it looks like the second Transformers movie is going to be much more intense in the way of plot than the first film… along with a hella lot more action (and presumably more ...

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It was already fairly well known that Steve Jablonsky would be returning to score Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, just as he did the original in 2007. But in the past few days the word has come that Linkin Park and Hans Zimmer are also contributing to the film’s score. Linkin Park had some stuff on the Transformers soundtrack album (the one with all the songs, not the score that Yours Truly went more than a little nuts for :-P).

And if Hans Zimmer rings a bell, it’s prolly ‘cuz he has worked on the scores for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, and a ton of other good movies.

Just from a musical perspective, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is sounding pretty epic. Can’t wait to see – and hear – it come June....

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Japanese website ACTOYS has posted the first good image of the Fallen from this coming summer’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen…

And guess what else ACTOYS has snagged? I hate hate hate that Michael Bay wasted the name “Devastator” on a mere army tank in Transformers, so I’m betting they’ll stick another name on the Constructicon combiner.

Whatever it’s gonna be called, the Constructicons gestalt is one pure angry design that looks hella kewl!

Seibertron.com has a lively discussion going on now about the Fallen and, ahem…, “Devastator”.

I just hope it won’t require a Masters degree in engineering to put the toy of that thing together....

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