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Michael Bay brings his signature “everything in the shot must be moving and the camera must be moving and something must also be exploding” style back to the Transformers franchise. He keeps promising to stop making these. I wish he would.
If you’re of a certain age, the modern Transformers films leave a very bitter taste in the mouth. Michael Bay’s re-imagining of the classic characters has robots with ridiculous racial stereotypes, body designs that are far too busy to be memorable, and fights that largely leave you confused and disorientated.
Well, filmmaker Harris Loureiro has spent the best part of a year making a film with his Optimus Prime and Constructicons fighting the way we always imagined as we threw our fantastically colourful and chunky toys across the playground. Watch!
Continue reading “Watch This Stop-Motion Transformers Battle And Forget About Michael Bay”
It’s been a few weeks thanks to recent June related events but we’re back with a new episode of Awesome Friday! We have a lot to talk about in this episode including Simon’s impressions of E3, Matt’s new LaserDisc player, 22 Jump Street and How To Train Your Dragon 2, 60 Second Shooter, and the just released Transformers: Age of Extinction.
It’s a lot to get through so get yourself comfy and let’s get started.
There’s going to be a vocal contingent that argues that Age of Extinction is the best Transformers movie. It isn’t. It’s not the worst (here’s looking at you Revenge of The Fallen) but it’s really not the best either. That whole discussion is kind of ridiculous though because when you stop and think you’ll realize that you’re arguing which f these terrible movies is the least terrible. If you think that’s _Age of Extinction more power to you because the movie does fix a few of the problems that the previous three had but it also introduces a bunch more problems to deal with.
Continue reading “Review: Transformers: Age of Extinction Is Bad”
2016 is going to be a big year for things we’ve seen before.
Continue reading “Transformers 5 Is Already Greenlit For 2016 Along With A Slew Of Other Sequels”
Holy shit this actually looks good.
Continue reading “Transformers: Age of Extinction Trailer: We Need A New Army”
I wouldn’t normally wouldn’t post publicity stills but one of them is kind of amazing.
Continue reading “Here Are A Few New Transformers: Age of Extinction Photos + Poster”
There’s a few posters for Transformers: Age of Extinction and they’re kind of boring but also have a few interesting tid bits to mull over. Let’s take a look!
Continue reading “Transformers: Age of Extinction Posters Are Interesting AND Boring.”
Transformers 4 is happening and now there’s some marketing so we can get a sense of whether the people selling it are any good at sales. They kinda are. Let’s watch.
Continue reading “Transformers: Age of Extinction Trailer + Viral Poster Are Getting My Hopes Up”
Empire Magazine’s latest issue has Optimis Prime on the cover alongside Marky Mark and two other people. Let’s take a look.
Continue reading “Gaze Upon The New Optimis Prime And Despair”
Transformers 4 is still a thing that’s moving forward, and now it has a subtitle and a teaser poster. Let’s take a look!
Continue reading “Transformers 4 Teaser Poster and Title Revealed! Oh, and Dinobots!”
Transformers 4 is supposedly part reboot, part sequel. Don’t ask me how that works. In fact, don’t ask me how anything works in a Michael Bay film.
Anyway, a new image of Bumblebee has been released and it’s a brand new Camero Concept. Let’s take a look.
Continue reading “Not Awesome: New Camero for Bumblebee in Transformers 4”
