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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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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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TRANSFROMERS score by Steve Jablonsky CD online petition!

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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I said in my post about getting Transformers toys for the first time in a long while that my favorite Transformers character was Bumblebee (with Brawn a close second). There was another one that I almost mentioned, but didn’t because I wasn’t sure how many people would even vaguely remember: I mean, Bumblebee and Brawn were in practically all the episodes of the original cartoon. But since there’s something of a “Transformers renaissance” going on leading up to the release of the Transformers movie a few weeks from now, I thought it would be fun (and enlightening) to recollect who I think was the greatest leader the Decepticons ever had…

The first time I’d heard of Bludgeon, it was in the pages of Transformers: Generation 2‘s issue #1 from Marvel Comics, way back in the early Nineties. There’s a scene where Optimus Prime is reflecting on the Autobot-Decepticon ...

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My “inner geek” is starting to have a really positive feeling about Transformers, the upcoming movie based on the classic toys. I was 10 when these things first hit America and to say that they had a huge impact on our young lives would be a massive understatement. So I’ve got a little fondness for the concept. Guess if you wanted to peg me on the map so far as where my sympathies lie for which “canon”, I’d have to say that I’m a fan of the Generation 1 Marvel Comics continuity (I still have a copy of Transformers #1 in pretty good condition, too!). But I was also a faithful viewer of the cartoon series with the voices of Peter Cullen (who will return as Optimus Prime in the live-action movie), Frank Welker (the hardest working man in show business, bar none), Chris Latta (great talent, ...

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