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I guess you could say my buddy Psychobrick challenged me to build a Transformer. He has been cranking out some fantastic Transformers that actually transform. Make sure to check out his photostream and YouTube channel!
Bumblebee has always been my favorite of the Autobots. He does not transform, unfortunately. That's more Psychobrick's thing. ;) Don't want to steal his thunder.
Special thanks to Simon for providing some last minute feedback. :)
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Very low expectations for this. This movie is most likely not going to be good due to Transformer's terrible track record with their movies, but it isn't wrong to have a little bit of hope...This trailer was pretty cool, but I'll have to see a bit more to restore my faith in this movie. Feel free to check it out for yourself and let me know what you think!
As I wrote in one of the descriptions on the pictures I posted yesterday, I based the design of my model on an Optimus Prime toy. For the Transformers fans among you, it specifically is the Revenge Of The Fallen Voyager Class Battle Blades Optimus Prime toy, although I built mine without the actual blades. I had no idea how many different toy versions there are until I started looking into building this! Here you can see both in robot mode.
(I just noticed I forgot to fully transform the arms on the toy version. Oh well)
At 1/22 this is a large model: 45-50 cm in robot mode. It's also fairly heavy. It can actually stand up without support, though, albeit precariously. I couldn't have done this a few years ago.
It's the big one.
I've wanted to build a transformable movie version of Optimus Prime for a long time, even before I started with my movie vehicles, but never actually started building because I wasn't sure I could pull it off. I've had a look on my hard drive to see when I first made the folder with pictures of Optimus Prime; it was August 2010.
"To Optimus,
I'm having a great time on Earth. Don't wait up for me, still got half a tank left.
Peace,
Bumblebee"
I haven't done any photoshop layer merging in a LOOOOOONG time. Forgotten how much fun it was until Vince (ContactInk) got me interested in it again.
The answer to the question whether I am a big fraud who has built two models or is this one model that can actually transform?
The last step is rather large, with lots of things happening at the same time. Unfortunately that is unavoidable; the model simply won't balance properly in any of the intermediate stages. I have to support it with one hand and then manipulate everything with the other.
In truck mode I think the proportions of the toy are a bit off. Building mine in LEGO meant that I could build bits that were moulded in a single colour on the toy out of multiple colours, which adds to the realism.
On the set of Transformers 4 in downtown Detroit. The set crews did one hell of a job transforming the streets for what will be the final scene of the movie. Then, Michael Bay and Mark Wahlberg showed up... and blew it all up! :)
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I tried my best to make the truck look as much as my other vehicles, with the fact that it transforms only visible after a close inspection. I think I succeeded reasonably will, although a fair few of the innards are visible at the rear of the truck.
In case anybody was wondering whether I actually built two models ( a separate vehicle mode and a separate robot), here's a picture showing a tiny bit of the transformation. I am working on a sequence of pictures that show the full transformation, so you can consider this a preview.
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Deutschland-Premiere "Transformers - Die Rache" am 14. Juni 2009 in Berlin- Potsdamer Platz.
Regie: Michael Bay / Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
Kinostart: 24.06.2009 / Paramount Pictures Germany
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Deutschland-Premiere "Transformers - Die Rache" am 14. Juni 2009 in Berlin- Potsdamer Platz.
Regie: Michael Bay / Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
Kinostart: 24.06.2009 / Paramount Pictures Germany
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Deutschland-Premiere "Transformers - Die Rache" am 14. Juni 2009 in Berlin- Potsdamer Platz.
Regie: Michael Bay / Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
Kinostart: 24.06.2009 / Paramount Pictures Germany
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Building Bumblebee last year made me realise that there are reasonably movie-accurate toy versions of the Transformers that are actually doable. Since I also wanted to have a truck in movie vehicle collection, I decided to finally have a go.
For the build I lent a Battleblades Transformers toy from my friend Barry Bosman, who is a massive Transformers fan. This helped tremendously.
Its transformation is doable in LEGO, but it is horrendously complicated and awkward and some bits will inevitably fall off in the process. I'll likely revisit this at some point to add a more Technic structure to it.
Among Transformers fans the choice to use a conventional Peterbilt truck, rather than a cab-over from the cartoons, was a bit controversial. However, in my opinion this makes for a far more attractive truck. The length created problems with the chassis on my model which I was only able to solve by pinning parts together with the fuel tanks.
The truck mode is very much based on my older model of a conventional US truck, which itself is more modern reinterpretation of the Model Team set 5580, Highway Rig. This was by far my favourite LEGO set as a child.
At the General Motors display in the parking lot of the Athens Coney Island diner in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak during the Woodward Dream Cruise, possibly the highlight for many people was the presence of the four General Motors vehicles used as the vehicular forms of several of the most prominent Autobots.
From what I understand, under the Chevy Camaro shell, Bumblebee was actually built on the chassis of a modern Pontiac GTO.
UPDATE, July 8th, 2008: I've drawn an oil pastel drawing of the "Bumblebee" Chevy Camaro Concept car based on this photo.
COTC: Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as the "Most Interesting" photo in my photostream according to Flickr.
The Transformers from the movies are far more complicated than the ones in the eighties cartoons, but they somehow look far more machine-like.
You will find approach landing lights just outside airports and I always love how they are perfectly lined up and I always want to go and climb up and sit on them and just watch the planes…of course knowing my luck, I would end up getting in trouble.
I had to tie my shoe lace and as I looked up I saw the plane passing over the approach landing light and had a Michael Bay moment (I does this shot in most of his films, not that I am a fan, just think it looks cool, especially in Bad Boys when they have the plane flying over the Miami sign…lol).
Took it in LR and was playing around with the preset and decided to leave it on Yesteryear and add a little lens and post crop vignetting.
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Australian postcard by Avant Card, no. 3 in a series of 5. Photo: Jerry Bruckheimer Films / Buena Vista International / Touchstone Pictures. Kate Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001).
Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001) is an American romantic war drama, produced by Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. The film presented a heavily fictionalised version of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, focusing on a love story set amid the lead up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid. The film was a box office success, earning $59 million in its opening weekend and nearly $450 million worldwide, but received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the story, long runtime, screenplay and dialogue, pacing, performances, and historical inaccuracies. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in the category of Best Sound Editing. However, it was also nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture. This marked the first occurrence of a Worst Picture-nominated film winning an Academy Award.
Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett) become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale), a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and he and Evelyn and Rafe hook up. Then Rafe volunteers to go fight in Britain, and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting, suddenly one morning comes the air raid we now know as 'Pearl Harbor'. The film had a proposed budget of $208 million which Bay and Bruckheimer wanted. This was an area of contention with Disney executives since a great deal of the budget was to be expended on production aspects. Also controversial was the effort to change the film's rating from R to PG-13. Bay initially wanted to graphically portray the horrors of war and was not interested in primarily marketing the final product to a teen and young adult audience. However, even though he wanted to make an R-rated movie, Bay admitted that the problem was that young children would not be able to see it, and he felt that they should. As such, when he was ordered by Disney to make a PG-13 movie, he didn't argue. As a compromise, he was allowed to release an R-rated Director's Cut on DVD later on in 2002. Budget fights continued throughout the planning of the film, with Bay "walking" on several occasions. Dick Cook, chairman of Disney at the time, said "I think Pearl Harbor was one of the most difficult shoots of modern history." In order to recreate the atmosphere of pre-war Pearl Harbor, the producers staged the film in Hawaii and used current naval facilities. Many active-duty military members stationed in Hawaii and members of the local population served as extras during the filming. The set at Rosarito Beach in the Mexican state of Baja California was used for scale model work as required. Formerly the set of Titanic (1997), Rosarito was the ideal location to recreate the death throes of the battleships in the Pearl Harbor attack. A large-scale model of the bow section of USS Oklahoma mounted on the world's largest gimbal produced an authentic rolling and submerging of the doomed battleship. Production Engineer Nigel Phelps stated that the sequence of the ship rolling out of the water and slapping down would involve one of the "biggest set elements" to be staged. Matched with computer-generated imagery, the action had to reflect precision and accuracy throughout. The vessel most seen in Pearl Harbor was USS Lexington, representing both USS Hornet and a Japanese carrier. All aircraft take-offs during the movie were filmed onboard the Lexington, a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas. The aircraft on display was removed for filming and replaced with film aircraft as well as World War II anti-aircraft turrets. Other ships used in filler scenes included USS Hornet, and USS Constellation during filming for the carrier sequences. Filming was also done onboard the museum battleship USS Texas located near Houston, Texas.
Disney chose to premiere the film inside Pearl Harbor itself, aboard the active nuclear aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, which made a six-day trip from San Diego to serve as "the world's largest and most expensive outdoor theater". More than 2,000 people attended the premiere on the Stennis, which had special grandstand seating and one of the world's largest movie screens assembled on the flight deck. The guests included various Hawaii political leaders, most of the lead actors from the film, and over 500 news media from around the world that Disney flew in to cover the event. The party was estimated to have cost Disney $5 million. Pearl Harbor grossed $198,542,554 at the domestic box office and $250,678,391 overseas for a worldwide total of $449,220,945, ahead of Shrek. The film was ranked the sixth highest-earning picture of 2001. Pearl Harbor received mostly negative reviews from critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one and a half stars, writing: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them." Ebert also criticized the liberties the film took with historical facts: "There is no sense of history, strategy or context; according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve. Would going to war restore the fuel sources? Did they perhaps also have imperialist designs? Movie doesn't say." In his later "Great Movies" essay on Lawrence of Arabia, Ebert likewise wrote, "What you realize watching Lawrence of Arabia is that the word 'epic' refers not to the cost or the elaborate production, but to the size of the ideas and vision. Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God didn't cost as much as the catering in Pearl Harbor, but it is an epic, and Pearl Harbor is not."
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WOW... this thing is super cool. This one is a new character in Transformers, the name is Galvatron. The dented Audi on the right with Chinese plates was doing some chase scenes before this.
Ok, I saw the new Transformers movie last week and thought I would share my thought on it with you guys.
For the most part it was a disappointment to me. It's a shame because I think there were some really good ideas in this movie, but they threw in all kinds of stupid things that detracted from it.
I'm breaking it down by what I considered to be "good" and "bad" about it.
The “Good”:
1)The Autobots have teamed with human soldiers who are part of a team called “NEST” (what the heck does that stand for? Does anyone know?). I thought this was a good idea which seems to have no precedent in other Transformers fiction. Hey, if they can’t give us a live action GI Joe/Transformers crossover, this is the next best thing. I like the idea of the Autobots having official human allies, although generally having too many human characters in the mix annoys me, this is an exception at least these guys serve a purpose and they did a nice job of portraying the bond between these soldiers and the Autobots.
2)Agent Simmons was used well in this film, I liked the idea that he saw himself as a patriot who was betrayed by his government when they shut down Sector 7, but was still willing to go to bat for his country when it needed him. I love the idea of this guy being a legend in his own mind. His dropping trou in every film seems to be a running gag. The Rail Gun he uses to destroy Devastator was a great homage to G2, where Megatron gets a rail gun to replace his fusion cannon.
3)There was a pretty cool shot through a hole in the wall of a building that Sam and Mikela are hiding in.
4)The battle where Prime was killed was excellent! Seeing Prime take on a bunch of ‘Cons al at once was awesome. Megatron only kills him by sneaking up on him from behind like a chump. Definitely one of the best ‘bot vs. ‘bot fights I’ve ever seen!
5)Ravage and Soundwave were both executed well. They might be the only toys from this movie I bother to buy. Sure, the fact that Soundwave lacked his characteristic voice modulation was a disappointment, but I still enjoyed him nonetheless. Having him be a communications satellite was an appropriate alt mode considering that Bay’s determination to avoid size-changing Transformers means we’ll never see him as a tape deck or Mp3 player on the big screen. Ravage was just awesome all around. If only they had worked Rumble into it somehow!
6)In general, I was happy with how the Decepticons were handled in this movie as compared to the last one. They had more lines (in English!) and had a lot more personality this time around. We got to see Megatron smacking Starscream around several times, as he should. Megatron looked better in this film; it’s nice to see him in his tank mode, although I wish he had a REALISTIC earth tank mode. At least he uses his arm cannon a lot in the film. I was also happy that the concept of switching sides was introduced in this film.
7)the plot of this movie was a bit more interesting than the last one.
8)The pretender who is disguised as a girl at Sam’s college was pretty cool. Although it scared the crap out of my 5 year old son! Oh well, maybe it’ll discourage him from tongue kissing girls anytime ion the near future!
9)Nice homage to the comics to have Sam get the knowledge of the Allspark in his head, very similar to when Buster Witwicki had Prime put the knowledge of the Matrix in his mind in the Marvel series.
10)Good continuity to have Melaka’s criminal dad in one scene.
11) The Matrix! Even though it serves a different purpose, it‘s still nice to see a version of it in the movie continuity. Sam’s near death experience nicely echoes when Rodimus Prime enters the Matrix to consult with the wisdom of the spirits of Primes past!
12)The movie ‘bots DO run off of Energon as all proper Transformers should!
13)The Fallen is cool. I like the idea of bringing this character into the movie continuity. One can only hope that his evil is a result of being tainted by a movieverse Unicron. His pseudo-Egyptian look rocks!
14)Supermodes! Prime gets a “power up” from Jetfire and kicks much butt.
The Bad:
1)Characters from the first movie such as Ironhide and Ratchet only have a few lines and zero character development! New (to the movie franchise) characters that seem very cool like Sideswipe and Arcee similarly get barely any screen time.
2)The Twins!! They’re just awful! In his infinite wisdom, Bay has given us not just one, but TWO “Jar-Jars”! And just like Jar-Jar, they have been accused of being racist stereotypes, and I have to admit that this does seem a pretty valid charge. Sure there have been Transformers in the past that seem to be “black” like Jazz and Blaster, but these characters were never portrayed as being complete idiots “We don’t do much read’in!” – gimme a break! Obviously I don’t think the filmmakers intended for these characters to be perceived as racist, it was a misguided attempt to market to the very audience they are insulting. Most real life gangstas have at least more street-smarts than these characters do and are more useful in a fight, although I must admit that I actually enjoyed the scene where the twin that was “eaten” by Devastator busts out and smashes up his face from the inside – that was the ONLY cool thing any of them did in the entire movie. I was even happier when Bumblebee walks in and smashes them into each other and tosses them out of the room. One strange thing about this movie is that they seem to put in lots of characters who are deliberately annoying and even visibly annoy characters in the film (Sam’s roommate is another example) so that the audience will be happy when they get knocked out. I’m especially mad that the Twins get so many lines and screen time that other, better characters could be using. The only “Twins” I wanted to see in this movie were Sideswipe AND Sunstreaker. Instead, Sideswipe gets barely any screen time and Sunstreaker is completely absent. Instead of making up crappy new characters, they should’ve given us more movie versions of fan favorite characters like Wheeljack, or Perceptor, or Hot Rod, or Ultra Magnus or Prowl, or…I could go on and on! I’m sure many fans would’ve much rather seen any of these characters in the film than these ridiculous new characters.
3)Megan Fox is just eye candy. Sure she’s pretty, but her performance is pretty flat. I’d love to see an actress who can act in this role for a change, instead of a walking pin-up. There is no fire in her belly, no spark in her eye. She should’ve never been cast to begin with, but I guess we’re stuck with her now.
4)While I admit that most of the comedy in this film got at least a chuckle out of me, I think they overdid it. It’s like they have to turn every scene with the human characters into a comedy routine so we will tolerate the boringness of having all these fleshlings polluting a film that should mainly be about giant robots beating the tar out of each other. In doing so they run the danger of turning the whole thing into a giant farce. It was far too obvious that this film was written to appeal to 12 year olds and older people who are hopelessly mired in that mindset. It has all of the raunchiness of South Park, but lacks the brilliant social satire that redeems that show.
5)The language was much fouler than in the first film. I’m certainly no prude, but as the parent of a young child, it sucks to bring your kid to something like this and worry about hearing that your kid had been repeating lines from the movie in daycare or school. C’mon guys! It’s based on toys that are sold to children! You can find ways to make it seem more sophisticated and adult without resorting to such language so often – like maybe giving us a better story? Or decent character development? In the first movie the “bad” language was more natural, like the real reactions someone would have to seeing a car suddenly stand up and turn into a robot – but it’s more forced and pointless in this movie.
6)Lots of cornball moments in the movie. Did anyone really think that Sam was really dead? But the director milks that moment for all it’s worth (and then some!)even though you’d have to be brain dead to buy it. Excessive use of slow motion is a crime!
7)Megatron is The Fallen’s bitch? WHAAAAT??? Megatron is NOBODY’S servant or disciple! That is the main thing I like about the character! Even when faced with the ultimate bad guy, Unicron, he only accepts his overlordship at the last moment to preserve himself just long enough to figure out a way to betray him. I didn’t enjoy seeing Megs play second fiddle to The Fallen. He seemed genuinely crestfallen when The Fallen is killed, like he’d just lost his hero. Megatron is his own hero! He follows no one! That said, I did like his attempts to sway Optimus to his side during their battle by trying to persuade him that the future of their race depended on them exploiting the new energon source found on earth. This rang true to my perception of the character – that as evil as he appears to be, he actually does believe that he is doing the right thing for the survival of his race.
8)I don’t like the fact that so many characters in this film had wheels in place of legs. Sure, it makes some degree of sense in that one can imagine that they would move faster in ‘bot mode with wheels for legs, but only over normal terrain. There are many DISADVANTAGES to having a wheel instead of legs, like it makes it impossible to climb things and makes jumping very hard – and what on earth do they do when they get a flat? Plus I think it just looks bad. It makes it seem like the designers got bored halfway though creating the ‘bot mode of the characters. It makes me feel cheated somehow. Sure there is a precedent in Transformers lore (Hello, Beast Machines!) but it still sucks!
9)Devastator looked like a pile of trash.
10) Much of the action is too fast and choppy to properly follow upon a single viewing. This is a general problem with many modern action films.
The Just Plain Confusing (AKA food for thought):
1)Why couldn’t a bunch of Primes kill The Fallen? If “it takes a Prime to destroy The Fallen” (the equivalent of “fighting fire with fire” since The Fallen was once a “Prime”), surely 5 of them were up to the job! It seems stupid for them to sacrifice themselves to create a tomb to hide the Matrix in and leave someone so powerful and dangerous at large and leave nobody else around who is strong enough to take him on. And how did they go on to “father” Optimus if they all transformed into a tomb? Jetfire seems amazed that there is a “living Prime” around so obviously there wasn’t one( that he was aware of) around before he left Cybertron. So where the heck DOES Optimus come from exactly? I guess it makes SOME degree of sense if they couldn’t find The Fallen and were so terrified of the concept of him getting the Matrix and using it to make our sun go nova or whatever unless they locked it up good ASAP. It still seems like bad strategizing to me.
2) TFs reproduce sexually? Jetfire mentions having both a mother and a father! It’s not quite as silly as it seems since TFs seem to mimic most biological functions mechanically presumably using nanobots the same way we organics use cells. I just wish they would come out and clarify it already. Hey, it’s not as ridiculous as it seems, in G2 it was revealed that TFs once reproduced asexually in a process similar to cellular division.
Maybe that would explain the presence of female ‘bots in the movie – or in general? Why couldn’t ‘bots combine parts of their Sparks to forma unique new one, or their robotic equivalent of DNA (made up of nanobots) ? The background info for the first movie states that Megs and Prime are brothers (which Primes actually says in dialogue from the first movie, although he could’ve been speaking metaphorically) and that Megs killed their Father. So this info although not explicitly stared in the films themselves and therefore of dubious canocity, seems to back up this concept. Of course if this is true, why isn’t Megs “a Prime”?
2) What is up with those protoforms or whatever they are that the Decepticons are keeping in their ship? The ones Starscream says are too weak to mature without enough energon? Where did they come from? How did the Decepticons get them? Did the Allspark spit them out before it was launched into space? Or if Transformers do reproduce sexually as the movie implies, do they lay eggs (these things seem to be in some sort of transparent eggs)? If so, SOMEBODY had been getting a lot of action!
3) The Primes created the Allspark? The movie seems to imply that if they didn’t create it, then at the very least they kept it charged up with Energon extracted from suns. If they DID create it, it implies that the Primes are older than Cybertron since Optimus Prime says in the first movie that the Allspark is older than Cybertron. It also implies that the Primes created the rest of their race. Of course if you look at the Allspark Cube as just a physical artifact used to interface with a movieverse equivalent of Primus this makes sense. Perhaps Primus is the TRUE Allspark which as this movie states cannot really be destroyed, with the cube just being a man(or more accurately TF) made object used to access and channel his power. So maybe movieverse Primus makes the Primes and gives them the knowledge to create the Allspark Cube and keep it charged up? This is similar to the Beast Machines concept of the Allspark being a dimension that Primus resides in.
4) I still don’t get why the Allspark and its fragments only seems to create Decepticons, or at the very least Transformers whose first instinct upon birth is to shoot up everything in sight.
5) Optimus seems to know absolutely nothing about The Fallen when his name is first mentioned in the film. He claims that the Allspark held all the history of their race and when it was lost, so was that history. C’MON! Like being the leader of one half of the Transformer race means you can get away with having absolutely no knowledge for your own history? Who put Prime in charge if he is so damned ignorant? Every Decepticon in the film seems to be aware of the Fallen! You mean to say that even a rumor or legend of him was never been extracted from a single Decepticon in interrogation in all their countless years of battling each other? Yet once Optimus is revived by the Matrix he seems to be suddenly aware that the Primes were the brothers of The Fallen. Huh? Did the Matrix give him a sudden infusion of historical data? Did he have an awesome near death vision like Sam did that we were not privy to? WTF?
So overall what did I think of this movie? Well, I do feel that the first film was better, although there are many things in this movie that I think were improvements, there were just as many problems with it. I was entertained throughout, which after all is the goal of a movie such as this. While I am no great fan of Michael Bay (the only other movie of his I enjoyed was Independence Day, corny as it was), I do think he gets unfairly bashed. There is a reason why major studios keep on giving him millions of dollars to crank out movies like this. They are entertaining to a vast number of people! I think critics know this and can’t stands this fact because they know that he entertains primarily by playing to the lowest common denominator in human nature and they can’t stand this, or the fact that it is so consistently successful. It shatters their intellectual hubris that we are somehow progressing as a species and have evolved beyond the point of being still be entertained by stupid caveman humor and lots of explosions. It makes them realize that they are surrounded by “idiots” and they hate to be reminded of this - of how truly isolated they are from the general mindset of the great unwashed masses and makes them want to slink back into their intellectual ivory towers and hide there forever.
Sure it sucks! I’d rather see almost anyone else in charge of bringing the Transformers to the big screen, almost anyone would do a better job - but you also can’t deny that despite its many, many flaws, the final product is still pretty entertaining and is therefore still successful on some level. I am not so divorced from the passions of the “common man” (whatever the hell that means) to deny this. Parts of it will annoy you, but unless you’re a complete tool, you will be entertained which is the main reason we went to see movies the last time I checked. There are worse ways to spend a few hours. This is hardly a great piece of movie making but neither is it the steaming turd some critics would have you believe it is. It’s worth checking out for a laugh if you’re feeling bored. The Transformers franchise deserves better – but you knew that already when you saw the first film. If Hasbro itself doesn’t believe that – how do you think we’ll ever convince anyone else?
What do I know? I'm just some guy. Go see it for yourself and make up your own mind. Or don't. I don't care.
I'm now done talking about this- forever!
Deutschland-Premiere "Transformers - Die Rache" am 14. Juni 2009 in Berlin- Potsdamer Platz.
Regie: Michael Bay / Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
Kinostart: 24.06.2009 / Paramount Pictures Germany
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Deutschland-Premiere "Transformers - Die Rache" am 14. Juni 2009 in Berlin- Potsdamer Platz.
Regie: Michael Bay / Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
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mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
Kinostart: 24.06.2009 / Paramount Pictures Germany
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mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
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German postcard. Photo: Touchstone Pictures / Bueno Vista International. Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001).
Tall and handsome Ben Affleck (1972) has the looks of a matinee idol and the résumé of an actor who honed his craft as an indie film slacker before flexing his muscles as a Hollywood star. Affleck became a star when he and Matt Damon wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting, winning a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for their work.
Ben Affleck was born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt in Berkeley, California in 1972 to a schoolteacher mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), and a drug rehab counselor father, Timothy Byers Affleck. His middle name, Géza, is after a Hungarian family friend who was a Holocaust survivor. His younger brother, Casey (1975), also became an actor. When he was very young, Affleck's family moved to the Boston area, and it was there that he broke into acting. His first acting experience was for a Burger King commercial. At the age of eight, he starred in PBS's marine biology-themed The Voyage of the Mimi (Richard Hendrick, D'Arcy Marsh, 1984), endearing himself to junior high school science classes everywhere. The same year he made Mimi, Affleck made the acquaintance of Matt Damon, a boy two years his senior who lived down the street. The two became best friends and, of course, eventual collaborators. After a fling with higher education at both the University of Vermont and California's Occidental College, Affleck set out for Hollywood. He began appearing in made-for-TV movies and had a small role in School Ties (Robert Mandel, 1992), a film that also featured Damon. Further bit work followed in Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993) and Mallrats (Kevin Smith, 1995). Around this time, both Affleck and Damon were getting fed up with the lack of substantial work to be found in Hollywood, and they decided to write a screenplay that would feature them as the leads. Affleck's brother Casey introduced them to Gus Van Sant, who had directed Casey in To Die For (1995). Thanks to Van Sant's interest, the script was picked up by Miramax. (According to IMDb, it was friend Kevin Smith who took the script to the head of Miramax in 1997). Their story of a troubled mathematical genius living in South Boston became known as Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997). Before the film's release, Affleck starred in Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997) that same year. The tale of a comic book artist (Affleck) in love with a lesbian (Joey Lauren Adams), received good reviews and showed Affleck to be a viable leading man. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997) was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and won two, including the Best Original Screenplay Oscar awarded to Affleck and Damon. This success effectively transformed both young men from struggling actors into Hollywood golden boys. Having won his own Golden Boy, Affleck settled comfortably into a reputation as one of the industry's most promising young actors. His status was further enhanced by widespread media reports of an ongoing relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow.
The following year, Ben Affleck could be seen in no less than three major films, ranging from his self-mocking supporting role in the Oscar-winning period comedy Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998) to the thriller Phantoms (Joe Chappelle, 1998) to the big-budget box-office monster Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998), starring Bruce Willis. In 1999, Affleck continued to keep busy, appearing in a dizzying four films. He could be seen as a dull bartender in 200 Cigarettes (Risa Bramon Garcia, 1999), an errant groom opposite Sandra Bullock in Forces of Nature (Bronwen Hughes, George Casey, 1999), a supporting role as a ruthless stockbroker in the crime drama The Boiler Room (Ben Younger, 1999), and a supporting cast member in Billy Bob Thornton's sophomore directorial effort, Daddy and Them (1999). Finally, Affleck reunited with Smith and Damon for Dogma (Kevin Smith, 1999), starring with the latter as a pair of fallen angels in one of the year's more controversial films. In 2000, he would appear as an ex-con trying to mend his ways in the action thriller Reindeer Games (John Frankenheimer, 2000), with Charlize Theron. Re-teaming with Armageddon cohort Michael Bay again in 2001 for another exercise in overbudgeted excess, Affleck flew into action in Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001) Despite unanimous lambasting from critics, Pearl Harbor blasted to number one at the box office, earning $75.2 million on its Memorial Day weekend opening and beginning a summer-2001 trend of high profile films with precipitous box-office runs. Following a self-mocking return to the Smith collective in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith, 2001) and spearheading, along with Damon, the innovative HBO series Project: Greenlight, Affleck returned to the Hollywood machine with roles in the thrillers Changing Lanes (Roger Michell, 2002) with Samuel Jackson, and The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson, 2002) with Morgan Freeman. Filling the shoes of Harrison Ford as a green version of Ford's famous Jack Ryan persona, The Sum of All Fears contemplated a radical group's plan to detonate a nuclear weapon at a major sporting event during a time of particularly sensitive public distress at such an idea. With the massive success of Spider-Man (2002) prompting numerous comic-book superhero revivals, Affleck would next suit up for the role of Daredevil (Mark Steven Johnson, 2002), with Jennifer Garner. As a lawyer turned into a true public defender following a mishap involving radioactive waste, Daredevil's incredibly enhanced senses enable him to get the jump on New York City evil-doers, and with his athletic physique and heroically protruding chin, Affleck seemed just the man to suit-up for the job. Rebecca Flint-Marx at AllMovie: "The lukewarm performance of that particular effort would hardly compare to the critical lashing of his subsequent efforts Gigli, Paycheck, and Jersey Girl. A notorious flop that couldn't be mentioned to movie lovers without fear of derisive laughter, Gigli alone would have likely sunken the career of a lesser star. Though Hollywood gossip rags were indeed talking about Affleck, it was more the result of his turbulent relationship with singer and Gigli co-star Jennifer Lopez than it was anything to do with his acting career."
After his relationship with Jennifer Lopez had ended, Ben Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005. Affleck subsequently skewered Hollywood materialism in the showbiz comedy Man About Town (Mike Binder, 2006) with John Cleese, before making a cameo in pal Smith's eagerly-anticipated sequel Clerks II (Kevin Smith, 2006). By this point, Affleck strapped on the famous red cape to portray original television Superman George Reeves in the Tinseltown mystery Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter, 2006) with Adrien Brody. As the 2000s rolled onward, Affleck appeared in a number of films that garnered a lukewarm reception, like Smokin' Aces (Joe Carnahan, 2006), He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009), and State of Play (Kevin Macdonald, 2009), starring Russell Crowe. He would reverse that trend with a vengeance, directing and writing the critically acclaimed crime thriller Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, 2007), starring his brother Casey Affleck. He followed that up by directing and starring in the crime thriller The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010), which put Affleck back into audiences' good graces. He immediately got to work on his next big project, working both behind and in front of the camera once again for the political thriller Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012). It garnered strong reviews, solid box office, and nabbed Affleck his second Oscar, as a producer of the film. Affleck played a romantic lead in Terrence Malick's experimental drama To the Wonder (2012), appeared in the poorly-reviewed thriller Runner, Runner (Brad Furman, 2013), opposite Justin Timberlake, and played the accused husband in the hit Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) with Rosamund Pike. He starred as an autistic accountant in the action thriller The Accountant (Gavin O'Connor, 2016), which was an unexpected commercial success. Affleck also starred as Bruce Wayne/Batman in the superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder, 2016) opposite Henry Cavill, briefly reprised the character in Suicide Squad (David Ayer, 2016) and did so again in Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2017). In 2015, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner separated, and in 2018, they divorced. They have three children. Recently, he received praise for his performance as a recovering alcoholic in the sports drama The Way Back (Gavin O'Connor, 2020). The themes of the film were "close to home" for Affleck. He relapsed during pre-production in 2018 and the film was shot in the days after he left rehab. Affleck agreed to put his salary in escrow and was accompanied to set by a sober coach. In 2021, Affleck will star opposite Ana de Armas in Adrian Lyne's thriller Deep Water, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel. He has a supporting role in the Ridley Scott-directed The Last Duel and co-wrote the film's screenplay with Matt Damon and Nicole Holofcener. During the COVID-19 pandemic, production of Robert Rodriguez's action thriller Hypnotic, in which Affleck plays a detective, was postponed. Affleck will star in an adaptation of the memoir The Tender Bar, directed by George Clooney. In addition, both Affleck and Michael Keaton have agreed to reprise their roles as Batman in The Flash (2022).
Sources: Rebecca Flint Marx (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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German postcard. Photo: Touchstone Pictures / Bueno Vista International. Josh Hartnett in Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001).
Handsome American actor Josh Hartnett (1978) made his feature film debut in the slasher film Halloween H20: 20 Years (1998). Later, followed by teen roles in films such as the Sci-Fi horror film The Faculty (1998) and the drama The Virgin Suicides (1999). He also starred in the war films Pearl Harbor (2001) and Black Hawk Down (2001).
Joshua Daniel Hartnett was born in 1978 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His parents were Wendy Anne (Kronstedt) and Daniel Thomas Hartnett, a building manager. He has three younger siblings: Jessica, Jake, and Joe. Josh was raised for the most part by his father, Daniel, and stepmother, Molly. His mother moved back to San Francisco after divorcing his father. Josh attended Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul Minnesota before attending South High School. After graduating from South High School in 1996, he attended the Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film at SUNY Purchase in New York. Wikipedia: "Although the series was cancelled after sixteen episodes, Hartnett had made a name for himself." In 1997, he was offered the role of Michael Fitzgerald in the short-lived but acclaimed drama series Cracker (1997-1998). Josh started off doing small plays and national commercials but broke into the film business with his starring roles in the horror films Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (Steve Miner, 1998) playing the son of Jamie Lee Curtis, and The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez, 1998). Director Sofia Coppola directed Hartnett in The Virgin Suicides (1999) with Kirsten Dunst.
Josh Hartnett played the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001). He appeared as Hugo, the film's version of Iago, in the romantic drama O (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001), an update of Shakespeare's 'Othello'. The film is set in an upper-class prep school, and centered around basketball player Odin (Mekhi Phifer). One of his best films is the war drama Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001) with Ewan McGregor and Eric Bana. Hartnett was chosen as one of Teen People magazine's "21 Hottest Stars Under 21" in 1999, Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars under 25", and one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People", both in 2002. He was also voted Bliss magazine's "3rd Sexiest Male", and in 2003 PETA named him the Sexiest Vegetarian Alive, as chosen by voters. Then followed the crude romantic comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights (Michael Lehmann, 2002) in which he played a young man who vows to stay celibate for forty days, but then finds the girl of his dreams. He co-starred with Diane Kruger in the romantic mystery Wicker Park (Paul McGuigan, 2004). He was one of the many stars in Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, 2005), followed by Mozart and the Whale (Petter Næss, 2005), a love story between two savants (Hartnett and Radha Mitchell) with Asperger's syndrome. Hartnett reunited with Paul McGuigan for the excellent crime drama Lucky Number Slevin (Paul McGuigan, 2006), with Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman. Less successful was the Neo-Noir thriller The Black Dahlia (Brian de Palma, 2006), with Scarlett Johansson and based on the crime novel by James Elroy. He played a detective investigating the notorious real-life murder of Elizabeth 'Black Dahlia' Short. From 2004 to late 2006, Josh Hartnett was the boyfriend of Scarlett Johansson. Hartnett co-starred with Samuel Jackson in the sports drama Resurrecting the Champ (Rod Lurie, 2007). That same year, he starred in the graphic novel–based vampire horror film 30 Days of Night (David Slade, 2007). After some forgettable films, he starred in the action film Bunraku (Guy Moshe, 2010) opposite Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson.
In 2011, Josh Hartnett co-starred in the romantic comedy-drama Stuck Between Stations (Brady Kiernan, 2011). Since 2012, he is in a long-term relationship with actress Tamsin Egerton. They have two daughters, Thisbe (2015) and Roxanna (2017). A flop was the action film The Lovers (Roland Joffé, 2015) in which Hartnett and Egerton co-starred. From 2014 to 2016, he starred as Ethan Chandler in the horror TV series Penny Dreadful, for which he was nominated for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award. He co-starred with Michiel Huisman in the historical war drama The Ottoman Lieutenant (Joseph Ruben, 2017) and was in the Japanese-American comedy-drama Oh Lucy (Atsuko Hirayanagi, 2017), starring Shinobu Terajima. Recently, he starred in the TV series Paradise Lost (2020) with Barbara Hershey and Nick Nolte, and Die Hart (Eric Appel, 2020) starring Kevin Hart and John Travolta. 20121 seems a promising year for Hartnett. Upcoming films are Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie, 2021) with Jason Stratham and Ida Red (John Swab, 2021) with Melissa Leo. Josh Hartnett lives in Surrey, England, with Tamsin Egerton and their children.
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At the General Motors display in the parking lot of the Athens Coney Island diner in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak during the Woodward Dream Cruise, possibly the highlight for many people was the presence of the four General Motors vehicles used as the vehicular forms of several of the most prominent Autobots.
Second picture by the Approach landing lights…with this one I wanted to get as much of the approach landing light in as possible. I had to step back into the road to get it and it took me a few attempts as there was a lot of traffic.
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German postcard by Edgar Medien AG. Photo: Touchstone Pictures / Bueno Vista International. Kate Beckinsale and Josh Hartnett in Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001).
Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001) is an American romantic war drama, produced by Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. The film presented a heavily fictionalised version of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, focusing on a love story set amid the lead up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid. The film was a box office success, earning $59 million in its opening weekend and nearly $450 million worldwide, but received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the story, long runtime, screenplay and dialogue, pacing, performances, and historical inaccuracies. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in the category of Best Sound Editing. However, it was also nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture. This marked the first occurrence of a Worst Picture-nominated film winning an Academy Award.
Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett) become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale), a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and he and Evelyn and Rafe hook up. Then Rafe volunteers to go fight in Britain, and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting, suddenly one morning comes the air raid we now know as 'Pearl Harbor'. The film had a proposed budget of $208 million which Bay and Bruckheimer wanted. This was an area of contention with Disney executives since a great deal of the budget was to be expended on production aspects. Also controversial was the effort to change the film's rating from R to PG-13. Bay initially wanted to graphically portray the horrors of war and was not interested in primarily marketing the final product to a teen and young adult audience. However, even though he wanted to make an R-rated movie, Bay admitted that the problem was that young children would not be able to see it, and he felt that they should. As such, when he was ordered by Disney to make a PG-13 movie, he didn't argue. As a compromise, he was allowed to release an R-rated Director's Cut on DVD later on in 2002. Budget fights continued throughout the planning of the film, with Bay "walking" on several occasions. Dick Cook, chairman of Disney at the time, said "I think Pearl Harbor was one of the most difficult shoots of modern history." In order to recreate the atmosphere of pre-war Pearl Harbor, the producers staged the film in Hawaii and used current naval facilities. Many active-duty military members stationed in Hawaii and members of the local population served as extras during the filming. The set at Rosarito Beach in the Mexican state of Baja California was used for scale model work as required. Formerly the set of Titanic (1997), Rosarito was the ideal location to recreate the death throes of the battleships in the Pearl Harbor attack. A large-scale model of the bow section of USS Oklahoma mounted on the world's largest gimbal produced an authentic rolling and submerging of the doomed battleship. Production Engineer Nigel Phelps stated that the sequence of the ship rolling out of the water and slapping down would involve one of the "biggest set elements" to be staged. Matched with computer-generated imagery, the action had to reflect precision and accuracy throughout. The vessel most seen in Pearl Harbor was USS Lexington, representing both USS Hornet and a Japanese carrier. All aircraft take-offs during the movie were filmed onboard the Lexington, a museum ship in Corpus Christi, Texas. The aircraft on display was removed for filming and replaced with film aircraft as well as World War II anti-aircraft turrets. Other ships used in filler scenes included USS Hornet, and USS Constellation during filming for the carrier sequences. Filming was also done onboard the museum battleship USS Texas located near Houston, Texas.
Disney chose to premiere the film inside Pearl Harbor itself, aboard the active nuclear aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, which made a six-day trip from San Diego to serve as "the world's largest and most expensive outdoor theater". More than 2,000 people attended the premiere on the Stennis, which had special grandstand seating and one of the world's largest movie screens assembled on the flight deck. The guests included various Hawaii political leaders, most of the lead actors from the film, and over 500 news media from around the world that Disney flew in to cover the event. The party was estimated to have cost Disney $5 million. Pearl Harbor grossed $198,542,554 at the domestic box office and $250,678,391 overseas for a worldwide total of $449,220,945, ahead of Shrek. The film was ranked the sixth highest-earning picture of 2001. Pearl Harbor received mostly negative reviews from critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one and a half stars, writing: "Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them." Ebert also criticized the liberties the film took with historical facts: "There is no sense of history, strategy or context; according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve. Would going to war restore the fuel sources? Did they perhaps also have imperialist designs? Movie doesn't say." In his later "Great Movies" essay on Lawrence of Arabia, Ebert likewise wrote, "What you realize watching Lawrence of Arabia is that the word 'epic' refers not to the cost or the elaborate production, but to the size of the ideas and vision. Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God didn't cost as much as the catering in Pearl Harbor, but it is an epic, and Pearl Harbor is not."
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Intended to have all your living needs in a single location (why would you ever want to venture out and explore Chicago is beyond me!), Chicago's Marina City also stands out as one of city's most recognizable pieces of architecture. The cloud-viel during this evening offered additional illumination.
Sure glad Michael Bay was able to repair all the damage he did to the buildings in one of the Transformer movies.
"Alright, but make it quick. I've got a universe to protect!"
Brooklyn Optimus Prime, while filming "Optimus Prime in Coney Island" for youtube.
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Mercedes Unimog military tactical vehicle transformer or the 'Hound' is seen here on Market st, Newcastle.
Deutschland-Premiere "Transformers - Die Rache" am 14. Juni 2009 in Berlin- Potsdamer Platz.
Regie: Michael Bay / Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
Kinostart: 24.06.2009 / Paramount Pictures Germany
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Deutschland-Premiere "Transformers - Die Rache" am 14. Juni 2009 in Berlin- Potsdamer Platz.
Regie: Michael Bay / Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
Kinostart: 24.06.2009 / Paramount Pictures Germany
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Deutschland-Premiere "Transformers - Die Rache" am 14. Juni 2009 in Berlin- Potsdamer Platz.
Regie: Michael Bay / Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg
mit: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas u.a.
Kinostart: 24.06.2009 / Paramount Pictures Germany
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