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Vuelve Freddy Krueger y su pesadillaaa...
Nuevamente tenemos de vuelta a Freddy Krueger, y su "A nightmare on Elm Street", reiniciando la historia como ha sucedido con muchos personajes y películas ultimamente, como novedad tras un secretismo absoluto se develó una nueva cara para Freddy que podemos ver entre sombras en el trailer, pero ya vemos en el trailer (y seguramente en la película) que no nos trae más novedades que no sean efectos ampliamente mejorados.
Su reparto esta compuesto por Jackie Earle Haley (Freddy Krueger), Rooney Mara (Nancy Thompson) y Kyle Gallner (Quentin), el resto de personajes no los nombro ya que de seguro mueren en el minuto 2 de la película, la dirección esta a cargo de Samuel Bayer, y para asegurar que sea el blockbuster de halloween supervisa como productor Michael Bay.
Se estrena el 30 Abril de 2010 en EEUU pero aún no tenemos fecha para España.
How Sketch Can You Get: Michael Bay filmed Megan Fox washing his Ferrari as part of her Transformers audition?!
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Click above for image gallery
Michael Bay may never win the Best Director Oscar, but he sure does know how to get the most out of his actors during their auditions. U.K. broadcaster Jason Solomons wrote in a recent column that Bay had Ms. Megan Fox wash his (unspecified) Ferrari at his home as part of her audition for her role in the first Transformers movie. And since Bay was doing "official" auditions, he apparently recorded every minute of it.
Solomons reportedly asked Fox if she knew where the footage was, and he says she was unsure where the footage was, adding that she was "concerned" as to where it may be. According to Solomons, Bay all but confirmed the tape's existence, allegedly saying "Er, I don't know where it is either" when asked by the broadcaster. Hmmm.
Since the role of Mikaela Banes required Fox to act as sexy as she already looks, we can see why Bay chose for her to wash a Ferrari as part of the audition, but the fact that the 'audition' took place at his home and the tape has gone missing does seem a bit "casting couch" to us. That said, we can think of few things we'd rather see than Megan Fox, a Ferrari, and a bunch of suds. What we don't understand, though, is why this footage wasn't part of our bonus footage in our special edition Transformers DVD.
'Skip to the End' Film Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
As this is my first 'Skip to the End Review' i thought i'd explain.... i'm gonna ramble in my reviews but if you just want the quick details.... well... skip to the end! hope this works out!
I was stood outside the cinema with my mate G last night. Basking in the sun and just wondering why the hell we were gonna sit in a darkened room for the next couple hours when the UK is having a mini-heatwave and people have done the inevitable thing of switching from complaining about the cold to complaining about how hot it is. Humans just can't be happy! ....and this leads me to say why we were there. Transformers. Big huge-ass mechanical, robotic, alien things that ...well.... transform, but not just into a Breville or something. Big huge trucks and fighter jets. Yeah, this is a typical male thing who just LOVE toys, especially big ones with rockets and jets and engines and....well... you get the idea. This is one of those franchises that many will remember growing up with including myself which is why we were there.
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is the sequal to the Transformers movie released in 2007, both produced and directed by Michael Bay who has done other films such as The Island, Armagedden, and Bad Boys.
SYNOPSIS the film starts with a bunch of cavemen following a 'asteroid' and guess what? they find a load of transformers. They're alright just harvesting some power from the sun, no worries, then theres this one guy known as 'The Fallen' who, guess what? wants to use it for evil, whowuddathunkit? anyway, the 'Elder Primes' (something like that anyway...) sacrifice their bodies to hide the key' which switches on the harvesting device. Skip to the present day and the decepticons are trying to get megatron back and switch this machine on under instructions from the weakened fallen.
That is basically the premise of the story, good vs evil again, with an 'innocent kid' cought up in it all but sometimes you're chosen and destined to right the world... that kinda thing.
Whilst watching the film I noticed a couple .... peculiarities... I think these were added to make the film be more topical. e.g. there are two OBVIOUSLY overdubbed bits in between scenes where there is dialogue which blatently wasn't in the original script. One mentions Obama, the other swine flu. These seem pointless and added absolutely nothing to the already mediocre storyline.
Other than this i gotta say, the SOUND was pretty good, i mean, even the opening sequence with the paramount pictures thing coming up sounded good! Low end sweeteners, high twinkly metalic sounds spinning around you, crazy FM Synthesis or whatever other kind of synthesis was used. Thats some good sounds. During the film action sequences were big. Some things made me snigger though like really stereotypical 'things in filght' sounds like a cow moo, car alarm, etc.
I didn't really feel any connection to any CHARACTERS or care for them (until one part which is shocking but you can still kinda guess the outcome, either way sad times...), to be honest when i say that i mean the main character Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). I thought he was a bit of a prick. I mean, fine... you discovered an alien race and helped defeat the Decepticons AND you ended up with a really hot chick, Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) BUT theres no need to become an arrogant twat. He's trying to become 'a normal college kid' in this one, the premise of many a film. As for Mikaela i felt for her *high five* giddigy. I digress.
The ACTION SCENES THIS is what this film is about. They. Were. Awesome! robots flying around, gigantic cannons, rockets, machine guns, fast cars, and did i mention big F'ing robot fights ripping into each others mechanical guts! pulling out parts from their very souls. Well good! one particular fight to mention is when Bumblebee is trying to save Sam, i mention this one in particular cos the fight is awesome but also there is a small amount of emotinal attachment to him and you never see him do much apart from drive Sam about.
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END so, this film was ok about a 7/10. What lets it down is the storyline and some poorly overdubbed scenes and poorly executed comedy (perhaps the comedy woulda appealed to someone younger). However, the action is immense, everytime there are huge robotic transforming aliens on screen the film is awesome, every time they're not you just wanna see Megan Fox. ha.
I would say the film is definitely worth seeing, as i thought it was better than the first one and its frickin' Transformers! The action scenes definitely redeem this film for some of its AWFUL jokes, which, many-a-girl would say were pretty funny so... i guess the film has something very everyone.... date movie, family movie, geeks movie(not geeky enough perhaps actually)...
CONCLUSION Transformers are cool, everything and everyone surrounding them are not.
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RELEASED 19 June 2009 (UK)
RATING 12A
DIRECTOR Michael Bay
STARRING Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Rainn Wilson, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel
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in future this bit won't exist but like i said at the beginning, my first STTE (Skip to the End) review i just wanted to say i hope that was alright and if you have any suggestions on what you would change, other aspects of a movie i should have mentioned, or just general remarks please feel free to sound of in the comments!
peace mofos. :P
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)
I'm surprised that I forgot to write any mention of the movie. I went to see it last Friday with my brother and we loved it. Personally I wasn't as hyped about it as I was at the first movie, but I didn't expect much from a sequel. Revenge of the Fallen did show some improvements, and its attempt to portray the history of the Decepticons and Autobots with Earth and the cause for their war affair. Isaac told me he doesn't think this was part of the original canon, so despite the surprisingly probable concepts surrounding "Prime" and "Fallen" they're likely fantasies stirred up by Michael Bay for his film series.
To the positive side, Bay's cinematography decisions during fight scenes showed more aerial shots and allowed the audience a better perception of exactly what was happening. This was the greatest failure of the first film, as the majority of robot throw downs were shot through Sam's (Shia LeBeouf) eyes. The Cloverfield effect is something I enjoyed, but many other viewers were displeased with the overwhelming nature of this style. I guess the shiny metal on metal was enough to satisfy me, but this film did a great job of backing up and letting you see just where the punches were landing and how the victim robots were beheaded, crushed, or de-spined.
Megan Fox showed a matured role as Mikaela, instead of being simply thrown into the movie as the "girl next-door" she was given the opportunity to support Sam and provide intel through easily capturing a small Decepticon with her mechanic-earned skills. The amount of fan service in this film didn't hit its peak until the desert dash, which probably was the only scene that annoyed me. Shia's performance is more amusing than in the first movie, but constantly poking fun at the character seemed to diminish his ability to convey the source of courage and strength needed to fulfill his role towards the end. Sam's heated relationship with Mikaela is barely scratched in this film, and despite Megan's improvement, the pair doesn't hold the chemistry we'd expect from these characters. Even their acting, though this is entirely the director's fault for being responsible for cutting scenes: is choppy. There's a few scenes where Mikaela is running left, Sam is going right, and the next clip they're holding hands and running somewhere together. These were easy errors that could have been corrected, and ones that you'd usually miss, but their frequency in the human acting of the film makes them visible.
Then there's the twin robots, that I'm only going to tell you were the most annoying and pointless part of the film. They brought down the movie with high production costs and low contributions to the plot. Their sort of, "we're stupid, oh, oops! Did I do that?" performance in the film while playing off a mixed stereotype could have been completely removed from the movie. I honestly do not know why they were created or used in the movie at all. They were nothing but offensive, and never amusing at all. I think the car maker that granted Bay licensing to use their automobiles for these idiots ought to be pissed off at the film. The cars come off as low-performance flashy, and disgusting. Not the kind of image you want to sell to your consumers.
Finally, there was Wheels, aka "Wheelie". Sure, he has one moment where the writers hit a low note and repeated the awful display of "dog on dog" humping a the beginning of the film. However, I enjoyed his presence, and it's too bad the idea of Mikaela having a Decepticon pet in the form of a transforming RC monster truck couldn't be used to a fuller extent. Perhaps the production costs from including the idiot duo removed any possibility for his role in the film–ironic, because I'm sure racing an RC truck around the set was cheaper than the two Chevrolets.
Not much else to mention that wouldn't spoil the film, so you'll have to see it yourself. It is worth the money, if only for the beautiful effects.
Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie. Brilliant piece of film criticism, makes me want to see the movie, in a bad way.
via io9.com
This might be the best piece of film critique I've ever read. This is true decimation of a film, and it's so highbrow that I'd be willing to bet that someone who liked the movie wouldn't really get that this review is panning it like few movies have been panned. Really devastating. Quite enjoyable.
Transformers writers talk process
The dynamic duo of Hollywood writing, Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman, spoke at Transformers expo Botcon about their grueling efforts to finish the script for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Only days away from the writer's strike, the pair, along with Ehren Kruger, rushed to get an outline done before the strike shut them down completely (hmm, maybe there's a story in that). Once the strike was over, things went into full gear:
"For several months, said the writers, they were repeatedly locked in a hotel suite with Mr. Kruger, with whom they divided the work. Mr. Kurtzman and Mr. Orci wrote pages. Mr. Kruger wrote pages. They swapped. Mr. Bay dropped by once in a while to demand: “What are you guys doing?”
As if that wasn't enough, Orci and Kurtzman were also working on Star Trek and a couple other scripts. Gee, no pressure.
