What do you get when you mash up Transformers and Thomas the Tank Engine? Trainsformers!
Tag: Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Foul
Why should Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen be any better than the first one? Even if it was written by the team that brought us Star Trek XI…
Super Bowl Trailers
The Super Bowl debuted trailers for Star Trek, G.I. Joe, Transformers 2, Land of the Lost, Year One, Monsters vs. Aliens, and many more 2009 blockbuster films.
2007: The Year in Review
It's time for a brief look back at 2007 — brief, because my theatergoing is not what it once was. The number of movies I saw in theaters has fluctuated wildly since a decade ago, though it seems relatively constant over the course of this millennium: 1995: 22 1996: 43 1997: 70 1998: 53 1999:…
Less Than Meets the Eye
A live-action movie based on a 1980s cartoon? Even if I loved Transformers as a kid (and the original show has aged surprisingly well), I didn't have much hope for Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay to translate this children's property into a successful summer blockbuster film. Yet after hearing positive word-of-mouth for Transformers, I allowed…
To Serve and Protect
Speaking of top films lists, Entertainment Weekly has published, in preparation for Transformers: The Movie, "our 10 favorite mechanical men (and fembots) in movie history". The list honors good guys such as the Iron Giant (a hero after my own Superman-inspired heart, and the subject of scrutiny in the film studies course I taught), Data,…
The Year In Preview
Seeing as how the Oscars are to be presented tonight, I thought it time to stop looking backward to the best (and worst) of 2006, and have plotted my moviegoing for 2007. The pickings are slimmer than I thought. Movies I want to see this year: Spider-Man 3 (May 4th) The Transformers (July 4th) Harry…
More Than Meets the Eye
New trailer for The Transformers is up. One person on TheForce.net writes that all his doubts and skepticism about a live-action film based on our favorite childhood cartoon have been erased by this trailer. I don't see how that's possible; it looks like a bad Sci-Fi Channel action flick to me. Fortunately, I'm getting my…