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Independence Day for Transformers Live Action
An anonymous reader writes "Transformers, the long-planned, live-action movie based on the robot-morphing cartoon, comic and toy franchise, will roll into theaters July 4, 2007, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures announced Wednesday.
Michael Bay (The Island, The Rock) will direct;
Steven Spielberg will executive produce.
"
Oooo, you know it will be good then.
With Spider-Man 3 (May 2007) and the Transformers (July 2007) coming out in the same summer, it looks like I'll be spending a lot of time in the theatre in 2007!
Yes, precisely. I'd estimate about 4 hours, which beats the crap out of the number of hours I've spent at the theatre this summer.
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Speilberg's reason looks like this:
Mr. Speilberg, $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,00.00 has been deposited to your account. Thanks for the Transformers movie.
[http://it-tastes-so-good.blogspot.com] Are you hungry?
Spider-Man 3
You watch comic book movies? No wonder women wont suck your cock.
Why all these remakes of crap shows? Why can't they do cool shows from the Olde Days like Falcon Crest or Knott's Landing?
> You watch comic book movies?
> No wonder women wont suck your cock.
Your double-entendre kung fu is stronger than mine.
Well done.
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Next will be Thundercats!
Stop Global Warming!
Just say no to irreversible processes!
At first glance, I didn't parse "The Rock) will direct; " very well. Man was that a scary moment.
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It was little loved by my brother, who woke up crying every night for days because Optimus died. On the other hand, it is one of the most quotable movies of all time. They just don't write scripts like they used to...
The world's only surviving livewriter.
The movie ends with a Mac laptop uploading a robot-killing virus into the decepticon network.
From Team America: World Police:
I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark
when he made Pearl Harbor. I miss you more than that movie missed the point,
and that's an awful lot girl.
And now, now you've gone away,
and all I'm trying to say
is Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school,
he was terrible in that film.
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part,
he's way better than Ben Affleck.
And now, all I can think about is your smile
and that shitty movie too.
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you.
Why does Micheal Bay get to making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked
just a little bit more than I miss you.
After all, I am strangely colored.
So, how long before we get Optimus Prime's blog up on that site! It would be awesome:
Planning For The Trip
Monday, July 11th, 2005
My bags are packed and I have an Energon snack pack since the trip to the space bridge is a couple of ours by way of Jetfire. Got another message from Elita-1 which says that it will be good to have me home. I don't know. You know the old Cybertronian saying, "You can't go home...". I have never felt that as being more true than right now. I am so nervous, my energy storage unit is backed up into my Matrix of Leadership....
Damn it Spike
Sunday, July 10th, 2005
I swear I don't know what I am going to do with that human. Just as I issued the orders to roll out, he hopped into Bumblebee and came on the last defensive of the human's oil refinery. Sure enough, he gets caught in an explosion and almost fell into the Earthen sea. I hate to do it, but I think I will have to make Bumblebee his care taker from now on. That goldbug has been asking for a promotion anyways...
Energon
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
God, I love energon. Just thought I would let you guys know that.
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bah. You kids and your bandwidth hogging HTML pages. I actually visited the Mosaic offices when they were working on the first internet browser. "Pictures? You know how long it takes to download pictures over a modem? And look how much space those markups are taking up."
Yeah, if only we could go back and live in 1993 forever man.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
OK, so we know Michael Bay has done The Island and The Rock, but what movies has Steven Spielberg done?
mbbac
But just think, if it is like TMNT, we'll be blessed with Vanilla Ice coming out and doing the Transformer Rap! Go Optimus, Go Optimus Go!
If there is even one single Autobot with "spinners" on their wheels...I am going to go completely postal....
I'm holding out for "Lord of the Rings IV".
That's not going to happen, as such. However, after finishing King Kong, Jackson is supposed to be working on a cash-in prequel- "Lord of the Rings 0" if you like, although the rumoured name is "The Hobbit".
Apparently they contrived some stupid story about a guy who appears at the start of the first LOTR film.
What a cheap cash-in. Scum.
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...that the part of Soundwave will be played by an iPod.
As long as they make that sound when they change forms, I'll be happy.
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With live action, how are they going to reproduce Megatron? He's as big as an 18 wheeler truck in robot form, but is a handgun in disguise.
A really damn *big* handgun... ought to get attention from some people.
"Is that an 18 wheel truck in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?"
Anyway, I think that "Ravage" (who transformed into an audio cassette) would have the same problem- can you imagine how unthreatening a robotic panther the size of a C90 would be?
This isn't an issue anyway, as neither Ravage (nor his ghetto-blasting cassette-deck buddy Soundwave) will be appearing in the movie, having become rather unfashionable and outdated.
Apprently, they will be replaced by an iPod that transforms into a style-conscious robot. "iKill" will, claim producers, be the first openly gay Transformer.
Sadly, the loss of Ravage and Soundwave deprive us of the opportunity to witness some extremely screwed-up psychosexual issues, as "cassette" Ravage hides inside his "cassette player" buddy Soundwave.
This loss is a double-blow to Ravage, who never recovered fully after someone recorded a Debbie Gibson album on him in 1989.
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"Shit!"
Admit it, it was yours, too.
What is this, "Ebert and Bill O'Reilly Go To The Movies"?
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
What do you expect from a guy who actually made up the title of the second Lord of the Rings movie to cash in on the WTC tragedy. Shameless.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
were expecting guns, shooting, robots killing robots, robots killing humans, explosions, implosions...
And don't forget hot girl on girl... oh wait, did you say science fiction?
It's going to be so much harder to get the original cast together. Megatron's been in and out of drug rehab for years, and after Starscream and Optimus Prime came out of the closet and revealed they had, at the urging of Rosie O'Donell, got married in San Francisco last September, there's been some significant friction with the Dinobots, who are well known for their conservative views (one only need to replay their speech at the last Republican national convention as a reminder of just where these guys stand; to the right and slightly underneath Pat Robertson)!
There is some good news. Sideswipe has taken time off from running his four star New York restaurant, Nuts'n'Bolts, and Soundwave, who had been living in a halfway house since he lost millions in the Worldcom collapse is said to be ready to go.
As to women, Arcee has fled to Mexico after her part in a prostitution and porn ring was revealed during the Heidi Fleiss trial. Chromia, who is, as rumor would have it, in a relationship with recently exonerated Robert Blake, was not available for comment.