Transformers 2 – Why Spoil the Fun?

Transformers was the highest grossing movie of Summer 2007, third grossing movie for year 2007 and one of the best movies I’ve ever watched.

 

A highly expected sequel has been in production since May 2008 and is still on going. Supposed spoilers, pictures of movie sets and rumors surrounding the movie keep increasing. Everybody wants to know what is going to happen, what’s the plot about, etc.

What I wonder is: doesn’t watching leaked pictures, behind the scene footages and reading spoilers ruin the fun?

 

The thing is, if you already are aware of the best parts, you’ll have nothing left when the movie finally gets released! You wouldn’t be able to feel the excitement, surprise and intrigue because you’ll already know what’s going to happen. And if you’re the type that likes to “share”, you might end up telling people who rather wait for the official trailer to build the tension then watch the movie to finally satisfy their curiosity and totally enjoy it.

 

For those of you who would like to know the general setting, here is some info.

Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen will be release June 26th 2009. – Set your calendars – Michael Bay is still the director and Steven Spielberg the executive producer; it will have a bigger budget than the first one ( >$151 million) which will enable Michael Bay to introduce characters and scenes which were rejected in the first one and better special effects and animation.

 

The two main characters made some buzz in the past few weeks:

Shia LaBoeuf, who plays the role of Sam Witwicky, was in a car accident on July 22nd in which he had two of his fingers crashed. He had to undergo a two hours surgery. Some say that Shia was driving under the influence, official report say that the other driver was to blame for not stopping at a red light. Luckily, no one was seriously harmed. The screenplay had to be re-written to accommodate his condition and avoid making it worse.

Megan Fox told GQ Magazine that she had a lesbian affair with a Russian stripper called Nikita when she was 18. But she insists that she’s straight. Just like in Transformers 1 she had to gain weight for the sequel.

Characters who will come back are: Captain Lennox played by Josh Duhamel, Sergeant Epps played by Tyrese Gibson, Agent Simmons played by John Turturro, Ron and Judy Witwicky (Sam’s parents and my favorites) played by Kevin Dunn and Julie White

New ones are Alice (Sam’s college friend) played by Isabel Lucas – She was the passenger in Laboeuf’s car accident but came out unarmed. – and Graham (member of the United Kingdom Special Forces) played by Matthew Marsden.

Steve Tom and Nina Dobrey might also be part of the cast.

 

 

Bernie Mac had a cameo appearance in Transformers 1 as a used car dealer from whom Sam purchases Bumblebee. Sadly this great actor/comedian died on August 09th 2008 at age 50 from complications of pneumonia. I wonder if he would have been in the sequel had he been alive.

 

The plot is still unclear but there are numerous crawling the web. In other to keep the story undisclosed, it’s said that director Michael Bay would be releasing unreal ones to keep people off track.

Guess there’s only one thing left to do: wait. It’ll be worth it.

 

 

The Trailers’ Park

 

 

 

Video game reviews: Transformers (Wii)

From the block buster hit Transformers: The Movie, Activision brings Transformers: The Game to the Nintendo Wii, as well as other platforms. A war rages on earth between the Autobots and Decepticons, a battle between good and evil. Allowing you the gamer to decide which side you wish to fight for. Which ever side you swear your allegiance to you be put into essentially an open world. Where you can roam the surrounding area or accept mission objectives. Do not mistake Transformers version of a free roaming environment with the likes of Grand Theft Auto. Your progression through out the game is extremely linear. You will be assigned one new mission upon completion of the previous one. Although, most of the surrounding environment is interactive, allowing you pick and hurl items around. There is little satisfaction to be had with terrorizing the local inhabitants.

This all fails in comparison with the weak control system of the game. Transformers is a third person shooter using the analog stick on your nunchuck moves you bot around,

and the IR is used to aim. This is where most of my grumbling comes from in this game. Often, if an enemy is behind you it will take sometime before you will be able to turn a full 180 degrees and return fire. A major problem for a game brings plenty and fast action.

Transformers also proved to be a very shallow game. Missions eventually become boring and repetitive, shoot this blow up that. All without ever really changing how you have to play the game. A few things like bonus content or trying to find 100 energon cubes, provides a little more depth to the game. However, with the problems in controls and a lack luster story line, the same old recover the “Allspark” “protect the world” theme. I could only imagine why anyone would want to play this game other than to just beat it and be done with it.

Game Play Score: 6/10

Controls ruin what could have been a very enjoyable game. IR controls are very sluggish in responding to movement

Graphics Score: 7/10

The game looks pretty good in 480p with 16:9 wide-screen. Cinematic look great and the open worlds look pretty decent.

Audio Score: 6/10

Boring music from the movie and no use of the Wii Remote speaker makes the audio experience a dud.

Creativity/Innovation Score: 5/10

Transformers makes little use of the Wii controls. Waggle to throw a punch, point to shoot. both feel unresponsive and have been done better by other games.

Replay Value Score: 5/10

Bonus content, pictures and images of old transformers, does not make up for a lousy battles/missions that become boring and repetitive real fast.

Final Score: 5/10

A playable and passable game but I would not recommended it to anyone other than those die hard fans of the Transformers series.

 

Movie reviews: The Transformers (2007) – Part 65

Movie Event of the Summer.

Many people have been waiting for this movie ever since they heard the commercials or from friends or family. This movie was action packed; it will keep you interested. Shia LaBeouf does his part in the movie as one of the kids who helps the Transformers. Sadly, I do not know the girl actor’s name but nonetheless, she does a great part like Shia LaBeouf in the movie.

Transformers is action packed but doesn’t have action in every scene. This is so because a movie isn’t a movie without a story. The storyline is great as it has every thing a movie needs: comedy, drama, and action. The comedy is not scarce as well as the suspense in the drama. The action is not, like I said, in every scene but Transformers does have a lot of it. If u do not like action, comedy, and drama movies this is not the movie for but if u like Transformers this is THE movie for you.

If you are bringing your kids younger than 13 that like Transformers make sure that they don’t wet their pants as the action can get a bit scary. But other than this Transformers is THE movie event of the summer.

 

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Dare – Transformers: The Movie

 

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