Showing posts with label Age Of Extinction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Age Of Extinction. Show all posts
Monday, July 7, 2014
Could The Dinobots Return For TRANSFORMERS 5? Cast And Crew Share Their Thoughts
Transformers: Age Of Extinction has been out for little over a week and has taken the world box office by storm, raking in over $520 million. While the film may be the most successful in the franchise financially it appears that the critics have found the film to be worse than, dare I say it, Revenge Of The Fallen and Dark Of The Moon. However, when has negative feedback ever stopped Michael Bay before?
Recently, Total Film caught up with the cast and crew behind Age Of Extinction to chat about future sequels and some plots that could pop up next time around. When asked about the Dinobots and if we could see Grimlock and his crew return in part 5, producer Ian Bryce said "There's likely a candidate," While co-producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura said "We hope so, they're fun characters." Di Bonaventura also added "There's a lot more to do with them."
The cast of the new film also had somethings to say including Lucky Charms himself, Jack Reynor, who stated "I wouldn't mind shooting somewhere in Africa," While co-star Nicola Peltz suggested Paris as an ideal setting. Did somebody say French Transformer! Please, oh Lord, don't give Michael Bay that idea. Imagine an Autobot wearing a buret. Reynor also suggested Australian icon Ayers Rock as a potential setting.
Monday, June 30, 2014
'Transformers: Age of Extinction' Film Review
Finally, Mark Wahlberg brings some legitimacy to the world of the “Transformers" movie franchise. Now that Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are gone from the world of “Transformers," Wahlberg is able to bring a fresh nerdy action hero to the latest in the “Transformers" cinematic franchise, something that that LaBeouf struggled to do in the previous three movies. Wahlberg does a nice job of bringing a fresh and upbeat hero to this franchise and the performance is finally believable. With that being said he is unable and simply cannot save this movie from the horrible script issues, a movie that struggles with pace and suffers from a lackluster final act.
Back in the director's chair for his fourth outing is Michael Bay, who is one of the best director's when it comes to executing a solid action flick, but that is all that he is able to bring to the table with this franchise. Again in this latest movie, all Bay and writer Ehren Kruger care about is the action set pieces that are thrown together. These two just simply do not care about any logical story beats or a compelling narrative.
They don't even flesh out a cast of characters that make you root for them throughout. Majority of the characters that were written for this movie did not have believable motivation or justification for the things that they were doing, and it made no sense whatsoever. Wahlberg is the only character in this movie who had an actual character arc that you cared about. While Kelsey Grammar and Stanley Tucci's characters just doesn't do enough to make you care about what is going on in this movie.
All anyone cares about including the filmmakers in this movie is the action sequences, which are some of the
“Transformers: Age of Extinction” runs 165 minutes and the movie drags in so many places. This flick should have been about 30-45 minutes shorter. Having three editors on a movie and a skilled action director in Bay, one would think that this movie would have had a lot tighter of a final product. Unfortunately this movie goes into crawl space whenever Jack Reynor and Nicola Peltz are on screen. Even their roles are so underwritten it hurts to watch them deliver dialogue and view the lack of the chemistry and motivation that the two of them have throughout this flick.
However, it was nice to see a pissed off Optimus Prime face off against humans, and Lockdown throughout the movie.
If you are looking for a compelling summer movie, with an understanding plot this is not the movie for you. If you are looking for a movie that will deliver on the action head to your local theatre now and view “Transformers: Age of Extinction.”
If you are looking for a compelling summer movie, with an understanding plot this is not the movie for you. If you are looking for a movie that will deliver on the action head to your local theatre now and view “Transformers: Age of Extinction.”
Saturday, June 28, 2014
'Transformers: Age of Extinction' Limited Edition Blu-Ray with Optimus Prime atop Grimlock
Even though the movie just hit theaters this weekend Paramount has released via Amazon that a special edition version of the Transformers: Age of Extinction Blu-Ray can be bought for $79.99 featuring a stand-y of Optimus Prime atop the Dinobot Grimlock! The release date on the DVD & Blue-Ray has yet to be announced...
:: Click the Image to Pre-Order ::
Transformers: Age of Extinction DVD & Blu-Ray Release Date is TBA
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Let's Imagine Some Dragons With TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
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So apparently Michael Bay wanted to make me even more excited for Transformers: Age Of Extinction? He succeeded.
In what comes as fantastic news for everyone, Grammy Winning, American Rock band, Imagine Dragons have officially announced that they have created a brand new song for the fourth instalment in the epic Transformers series. The song entitled, 'Battle Cry' will be apart of the soundtrack for the new film and will be included in "critical points of the film." In addition to the new song, Imagine Dragons have worked closely with composer Steve Jablonsky on the score for the latest film. In Bay's prior three films, Linkin Park worked closely with Jablonsky, but it seems like Imagine Dragons have taken over the mantle. Imagine Dragons won the Grammy Award this year for best Rock Performance for the song, 'Radioactive' which topped multiple charts the world over. This is the third time the band has worked on a blockbuster film, following last year's Iron Man 3 and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
You can check out a small glimpse at the new song below:
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
EDITORIAL: Why The X-Files: Season 10 is a MUST-READ!
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"If you've ever watched an episode of The X-Files, this series is a must-read." - Comic Vine
For those of you who don't know what The X-Files is, it was an extremely popular television series that ran from the early 1990's until the early 2000's. It spun two films, one that fans love and one that fans hate (personally I enjoy both), two spin-off series (both short lived), and more than one comic book series. The series starred David Duchovny as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully, the series was created by Chris Carter.
The series was a horror, science fiction, drama that featured who FBI agents (Mulder & Scully) trying to solve the FBI's unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena aka "X-Files". However, the main focus of the series, a story taking up over 90 episodes of the nine season (202 episode) long series and one of the two films, was Mulder finding out the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials and what their plans are for the planet Earth.
Now, if this doesn't intrigue you to at least watch the "Pilot" episode of The X-Files, I don't know how I can ever convince you to read the comic! But nevertheless, I will do my best!
The X-Files: Season 10 picks up 5 years after the second film (The X-Files: I Want To Believe) leaves off. The series is written by Joe Harris (who does an amazing job at keeping the series alive) and is "executive produced" by series creator Chris Carter. The first arc "Believers" is drawn by Michael Walsh (who is fantastic) and the current arc (only in it's first chapter as I write this) is drawn by Elena Casagrande with Silvia Califano (also great). The series is published by IDW and because of that is going to have a (I believe out-of-continuity) crossover with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles early 2014.
Here's the thing, there are only a handful of books that I absolutely HAVE to pick up every month: Scott Snyder's BATMAN, Jeff Lemire's GREEN ARROW, Geoff Johns' JUSTICE LEAGUE, and Joe Harris/Chris Carter's THE X-FILES: SEASON 10. I don't HAVE to read Superman, I don't HAVE to read Hulk, I don't HAVE to read All-New X-Men, Aquaman, or The Flash (even though I do and I love those books dearly), but I do have to pick up the top four, and the fact that The X-Files is on that list means a lot.
Issue 1 is surprisingly a great jumping in point for new fans. Don't let the "Season 10" subtitle scare you, the book should really just be called "The X-Files". The photo below this paragraph is a simple summary of the past nine seasons and two films as it gives some backstory to the characters you will be following in the book. More backstory is of course included in the comic, but these are the basics:
To be fair, while I think that Issue 1 is a good jumping point for new fans and a great way for people to get into the X-Files some may still be confused as to who some of the characters are, events that are being referenced to and so on. To that I would say you can do one of three things. 1. Look online for information on what the characters are referencing or who some of the characters are. That's totally ok for you to do if you're lost and want the full story. This actually leads me to my second point, which is (2.) watch the series! The X-Files (all nine seasons) are currently on Netflix, the films are there as well (unfortunately not to stream, but there nonetheless), and it's a great series to get into, one that's hard to stop watching once you start. But finally, my third (3.) option for you is, leave it be! Sometimes it's fun not to know certain things so you can find them out later. This is definitely not the case for most people, but for some this is the way to go.
"But I shouldn't have to do research or work if you're telling me I can jump in." Well, yes and no. I never said you wouldn't have to, in fact I never said anything close (seeing as I just said you may want to do some research or watch the series), but I did say you could just jump into the series head-first. This series is definitely written for those who followed the show, who enjoy the series and films and comics that came before, but I also do believe it's very reader friendly.
"So why is this a must-read?" So glad you asked! All I've done up until this point is try my best to explain The X-Files and how easy it is to get into this series, but I haven't actually told you why it's great. Well, that's a loaded question...
Mystery, conspiracy, shadow, and science fiction. If you love to read, watch, or enjoy any of those things in a fictional format, then this book is for you. Why is this book great? Well, to be frank, it just gets the characters! Fox Mulder has always been one of my favorite characters on television, ever since I first saw The X-Files I've looked up to that character, and his translation from screen to panel is just as flawless as Stephen Amell's translation of Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow from panel to screen. I mean really, every time I read Mulder's dialogue in the book, I feel like it's David Duchovny delivering his lines on the show. This may not entice you all who never watched the series, maybe it will, but it definitely means a lot to me.
What's cool about this book is that it's both action AND story heavy. There's a good amount of gun shooting, shape-shifting, alien fighting violence in this book that never ceases to impress. Not only that, but other characters including Mulder's computer hacking friends (The Lone Gunman), the mysterious Smoking Man, Walter Skinner, Agents Doggett and Reyes, and a host of other characters make the story move forward at a pace that gets me through each issue in under 5 minutes leaving me begging IDW to send me the next issue tomorrow.
It's hard for me as a comic book reader to get into "cop" books, or any police procedural book, TV show, whatever, so if that's your fear for this book, don't worry about it! While the characters in this book are FBI agents (Chuck, Alias, and Supernatural fans are now all laughing, but trust me, these guys are good), this is most certainly not a "cop" book. In fact, there are occultists, alien/human hybrids, parasitic monsters, space ships, and much more to make sure that this book does not becoming a police procedural.
On that note, it's also not constantly a book about the paranormal as Mulder and Scully have dramatic, character building scenes as these characters still (for the most part) have every-day lives. Scully has to deal with a decision that she made a decade ago to give up her and Mulder's son for adoption for example. These are "real people" (I put quotes because they're still fictional) who have to deal with real problems while fighting the paranormal and unexplained.
The first arc, "Believers", is a 5 issue arc that continues the alien conspiracy plot-line that the series started 20 years ago. The second and current arc, "Hosts", goes back to a classic X-File from Season 2 which brings back an old villain, who has been waiting for almost two decades for it's "revenge" on Mulder. Every exciting stuff to jump into, and like I said, easy to jump into.
Let me say this, The X-Files: Season 10, thus far, is a book that tells the story of two people who are in search of the truth. While part of this truth was most certainly discovered by the end of the series, there is still much more that needs to be not only revealed but fulfilled. If you're interested at all in aliens, the supernatural, the paranormal, or even if you just want to add a good comic book that keeps you reading every month to your pull list, The X-Files: Season 10 is for you!
Michael J. Petty
Monday, November 25, 2013
First Official Look At Optimus Prime From TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION
Michael Bay's Transformers franchise is responsible for many things, Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf becoming an ass and Chevrolet. Earlier today, Empire Magazine showcased the brand new and revamped Optimus Prime from next year's Transformers film, Age Of Extinction. While some have called the film a reboot, the film will take place 5-10 years after the events of Dark Of The Moon, and will feature brand new characters. Honestly, I am a fan of this new Optimus Prime, I don't really care that much about how he looks, but if this is how he's going to look? Fine, fantastic, good luck to 'em. You can check out Transformers: Age Of Extinction star, Jack Reynor in Vince Vaughn's new movie, Delivery Man (out in theatres now) or you can wait until June to see him bust up some robot ass.
Transformers: Age Of Extinction hits theatres June 2014.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Bumblebee's New Design On TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Clapperboard!
Attention Autobots and Decepticons!
An image on a Transformers: Age of Extinction clapperboard has surfaced online! It shows a robot that resembles the new design of Bumblebee, as seen in licensing artwork.
TRANSFORMERS 4 is scheduled to hit US theaters June 27th, 2014!
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