I’m watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for the umpteenth time because I have HBO and HBO on Demand allows you to select items over, and over, and over and… Well, you get it.
I love the little homage paid to Cloverfield and Bad Boys in the movie, (Posters in Sam’s short used dorm room.) and to Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks (Radio snippet used by BumbleBee communicating with Sam)
Some of the fighting scenes in slightly slowed motion coupled with the majestic music filling the room makes for some great moments in the movie.
Though I don’t know exactly how those… “twins” came into being in the Autobot universe. And agent Simmons.. come on, I can’t help that one!
Still, Transformers 2 is a fun movie.
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Today I rushed home to crank up my television and watch NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying from Bristol on ESPN. This season has been a resounding good time with television coverage and I had forgotten about all the preempting from last season with ABC and ESPN when it came to baseball and such as far as coverage of NASCAR was concerned.
But today I turned into the tube to watch NASCAR qualifying and instead I found myself watching a little league baseball game that still had one inning to go and the score was 10-4. When the opponents made it 10-8, I was cringing. I was stunned that I played up my day for this. THIS? Yes, this.
I was stunned and I stayed stunned for 23 minutes while ESPN continued to cover the exhilaration that was little league baseball. Shades of America’s Funniest Videos! (Fans I mean really, I think the last thing ESPN needs is to be reminding people about past misdeeds… indeed.
Though I went to my backup NASCAR media coverage, called Twitter.
Twenty-three minutes later the qualifying coverage started and ESPN cranked it up from the first qualifier, so I didn’t miss anything. In fact they showed every qualifier and did some fancy editing until they caught up to the live mode. Not sure when/how they did it, but they did. I saw that the first 3 qualifiers came at us 1 per minute so they definitely made up some time there. When Denny Hamlin qualed, then instantly he was coasting down pit road… so there were spots I caught where they were playing catch up. It was smooth.
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I caught the Saturday night Syfy Channel movie titled Screamers: The Hunting. It was made in 2008 and I have to say that it wasn’t bad compared to what they usually have. It felt like a real movie and from how it seemed, it was a sequel to the 1995 Screamers.
Despite feeling like a real movie, it still had some flaws. The ending did not surprise me at all. Throughout the movie it had the feel of the Alien sequel, Aliens. Which oddly, was on Syfy just before this. (Were they sending us a secret message?) And the guy that survived all the screamer attacks, tell me, if you saw this movie, that it didn’t feel like Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation, who was played by Sam Worthington? (Crap, did I just spoil it for anyone?)
All aside, the movie was put together rather well. The story stayed compelling and the effects weren’t the usual hokey, but were reasonable to decent.
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Terminator Salvation with Christian Bale and Sam Worthington seems to have mixed reviews around the web. Some say it was terrible while others liked it. Over on IMDB, after 70+ thousand votes, it sits at a rating of 6.9/10.
For those who are looking for literary excellence and academy award winning results in all their films, the movie is rated at 32% after 249 ratings over on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sometimes I head into a movie with expectations and sometimes I don’t.
I had seen previews of some of the action few months prior to the movie’s release and the action looked cool. Sam Worthington’s cause seemed obvious and if you weren’t spoiled, would most understand where he popped up from? If I had not been spoiled, he might have confused me… or at the very least, had me wondering or guessing at his motivations in the front 1/2 of the movie.
As it stands, if you are a Terminator franchise fan and all you need is some more Terminator mythos extended in your day from McG, then you’re in luck and this is a fun flick that fills in yet one more paragraph or chapter with Terminator Salvation.
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So I was watching Terminator Salvation and I really liked Sam Worthington’s take on his character and I’m looking forward to watching him in Avatar.
But where the heck did he come from?
Well, technically, he was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK on August 2nd, 1976.
But seriously, his first professional role was that of Arthur Wellesley in the Belvoir Street Theatre production Judas Kiss.
Some of his past films include Rogue (2007), Macbeth (2006), The Great Raid (2005), Somersault (2004) & Hart’s War (2002).
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The following are the new DVD & Blu-ray releases that are coming out on Tuesday, December 1st.
There are some hot items in the list and we trimmed back the bucket load of exercise DVD’s that came out!
New and Re-Released Films & Movies
• White Out
• Paper Hearts
• Terminator Salvation (widescreen)
• Night at the Museum 2, Battle of the Smithsonian
• Aaron,,, Albeit a Sex Hero
• Bellamy
• Blood Equity
• The Boy with the Sun in his Eyes
• Brooklyn Heist
• Daydreamer
• Death Warrior
• Deader Country
• Dead Line
• End Game
• Flame & Citron
• Frat Party (Unrated Version)
• The Frog Prince
• The Girl in the Park
• Gunslinger Girl-II Treatino OVA
• Gordon Liu: 4 Film Collection
• In The Hands of Gods
• Into the Storm
• Katt Pack
• Knife of Ice
• Letters From Eddie
• Legend of the Dragon
• Little Red Devil
• Poker Run
• Pale Force
• Raging Inferno
• Secretaries in Trouble
• Siblings
• Sahara Cross
• Silent Night, Deadly Night Compilation
• Staggered
• Sticks and Stones
• Sins of the Father
• The Stranger
• The 13th Day: The True Story of Fatima
• The Jazz Singer (30th Anniversary Edition)
• The Wizard of Oz, (Emerald Edition)
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First the news on the Terminator franchise:
The rights to the Terminator franchise (Sand the first 2 projects) are being sold by its present holder, Halcyon Company. Halcyon has previously filed for Chapter 11.
Halcyon put out the latest Terminator chapter, Terminator: Salvation. It cost them $200 million to make and the worldwide gross hit $371 million. $125 million of that coming from the U.S..
Tidbit Today: The movie’s present box office performance level puts it at 64th in the list of movies out.
Right now, Sony Pictures is at the top of the heap of studios drooling on themselves to scoop it up. But don’t be fooled. Everyone is looking at the franchise.
Joss Whedon Throws His Hat In The Ring
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