What happens when some double-jointed guy with a knack for engineering decides to draw inspiration from the Transformers franchise and make a Bumblebee costume? EPIC AWESOMENESS!
I bet if Hasbro gave him a license to do it, this dude would make a fortune mass-producing this getup....
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 ...
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?! 🙂...
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 ...
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 🙂...
The good crew at Seibertron.com have made note that this is a special weekend for Transformers fans. It was twenty-five years ago yesterday, on May 8th 1984 that The Transformers issue #1 was published by Marvel Comics.
It was the first product ever released for the Transformers franchise.
A quarter-century later with bajillions of toys sold, not to mention multiple television series and comic books and video games and a third motion picture arriving in theaters later next month, well… hard to believe it all started with a seventy-five cents comic book, eh?
Happy Birthday Transformers! And to quote that old Cybertronian proverb: “May your luster never dull and your wires never cross.”...
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 ...
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....
Found tonight by my friend Phillip Arthur…
...
Giant transforming sentient robotic organisms and lots of Michael Bay-hem signature carnage and ‘splosions (with a soundtrack by Steve Jablonsky). What more could you ask for?!