Transformers 3 News
Recently Michael Bay had a little press snippet with some folks and also Paramount Pictures released a new promo image of Optimus Prime, looking ready for battle in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (AKA Transformers 3).
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Transformers 3 Press Junket
The scene described is that Shia LeBeouf is on the top floor of a building that’s getting squeezed into an hour-glass shape by a huge burrowing Decepticon.
That short description that I just wrote already sets the idea of a tone from the new Transformers 3 film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. This kind of destruction is what we’ve come to love from these awesome popcorn movies. But this time, is the term “popcorn movie” undercutting director Michael Bay‘s vision for this third chapter of Bay’s trilogy?
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This is a movie review from a pay-per-view cable viewing of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. I finally got around to watching Wall Street 2! In a word, it’s compelling to a degree because of the subject matter and a great watch, but bring popcorn and get ready to be confounded in the end.
Oliver Stone once again brings us Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), twenty-three years after we first saw him in Wall Street. The movie starts out with Gekko getting out of prison and to make a point to the uninitiated as to how long he was in, when he retrieves his belongings from prison one of the items is his cell phone from 1987, that looks the size of a small book!
The sad part is that no one is there to pick him up while all the other released folks meet friends and family.
We’re then introduced to Jake Moore (Shia LeBeouf), a young and aggressive Wall Street trader, then to Gekko’s daughter, Winnie Gekko (Carey Mulligan) and one of the focal points underlying the movie, Loius Zabel, played by Frank Langella, who is the head of a long-established Wall Street bank. Josh Brolin plays a key part as Bretton James, a well connected competitive banker, whom we see, had a hand once in a bad spell for Louis Zabel’s company, and doesn’t help it any now, during the financial crisis that’s coming as Zabel’s company starts to go under.
Gekko’s daughter wants nothing to do with Gordon as she blames him directly for things that happened in the family while Jake Moore, who is dating Winnie, is very fascinated with her dad. That sounds like a fine mix for a dramatic relationship.
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