"It is time to give Olivia Munn of G4 more to do. As eye candy goes...it's time for more diversity for real."
Daryle, you'll hear no arguments from me on either of these points. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Daryle Lockhart <dar...@darylelockhart.com>wrote: > > > Yes, sorry about that. Dreamworks is actually the studio behind this > franchise. Spielberg is Exec producer. Though, I've reviewed my notes, and > it looks like Spielberg may have lost Transformers in the divorce from > Paramount. Not totally sure. I DO know the new Dreamworks is going to be a > very tightly run ship. Disney is FAMOUS for micromanaging a project, and > this is Reliance's big foray into American movie making. So this is going > to be an interesting ride. If Paramount keeps Transformers...I dunno. > Seems like they're gonna just let the wheels come off, take the writeoff > (and tax credits) and then pull the plug after 3 movies. > > As an aside...we haven't had our poll here in a while, but I, for one, > am tired of Megan Fox, and after seeing Jennifer's Body...I vote no > confidence in Megan's looks to carry a movie. Or even a scene. It is time to > give Olivia Munn of G4 more to do. As eye candy goes...it's time for more > diversity for real. > > > On May 14, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > > > I just can't raise the excitement to watch the second one. Like I said, the > over-the-top camera work--and you *know* how much I rail against hyperactive > cameras in movies--turned me off. I watched a good twenty minutes in the > Sony store at Lenox Mall here in Atlanta, and I developed a headache, as if > I'd eaten too much sugar and fat-laden food in a hurry. it was noise, > explosions, and quick-cut scenes. > Meagan Fox is gorgeous, truly one of the prettiest actresses around. I > always applaud H'Wood when it remembers that raven-haired beauties deserve > as much of a chance as the blondes who too often dominate. But i've never > sat through a scifi movie only because an actress in it was pretty. > > Can you explain the studio reference you mentioned? Is Dreamworks behind > Transformers? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daryle Lockhart" <dar...@darylelockhart.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 8:19:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LaBeouf Says Third "Transformers" Movie Will Be > Better > > > > Let's just say...he's in Oliver Stone's "Wall Street 2: Money Never > Sleeps". > > Transformers 2 was sloppy. they were editing that movie up until 1 month > before it hit screens. It was trying to do too much. That, and > everybody was drinking the Megan Fox Kool-Aid. > > I believe T3 will be better if the studio tightens its grip on Michael > Bay. Dreamworks isn't at Paramount anymore. This is Disney and Reliance. > They WILL get this right or we'll be reading about a ROM movie coming out > in 2012. > > > On May 14, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > > Keith, I haven't seen the first one. This isn't much in the way of > inspiration to invest. LaBoeuf is a good actor. He's gotta be getting better > offers than this. I HOPE. > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Keith Johnson > <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > >> >> >> Interesting. I still haven't seen the second one. The bloated action >> trailers, the long snippets I've seen on TVs at electronic stores, those >> stereotyped ghetto robots--all kept me away from the sequel. Didn't help I >> wasn't too impressed with the first flick past the FX. The way the >> Transformers were minimized in favor of the stupid humans didn't appeal to >> me, nor did the change to lore (the "Lifespark"? Megatron the source for >> most of our tech? Blah!) If LeBeouf himself is saying the second one was >> worse? I may never see it... >> >> ********************* >> LaBeouf promises better 'Transformers' next time >> By DAVID GERMAIN >> >> The Associated Press >> >> >> CANNES, France — Shia LaBeouf says the second "Transformers" movie got too >> big for its own good — but the third one brings the heart back to the >> franchise. >> LaBeouf, who starts work on the next "Transformers" sequel Tuesday, said >> the third installment will be the best one yet. The new script restores a >> human element that got lost in the second movie, LaBeouf said. >> >> >> "When I saw the second movie, I wasn't impressed with what we did," >> LaBeouf said in an interview Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, where his >> finance drama "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" is premiering. "There were >> some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone." >> >> >> "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" was a runaway commercial success but >> was drubbed by critics. >> >> Michael Bay returns for the third time as director of the science-fiction >> franchise, which centers on dueling races of giant robots that bring their >> war to Earth. The next movie will have what the last one lacked — a sense of >> human consequences, LaBeouf said. >> >> >> On the second movie, "we got lost. We tried to get bigger. It's what >> happens to sequels. It's like, how do you top the first one? You've got to >> go bigger," LaBeouf said. "Mike went so big that it became too big, and I >> think you lost the anchor of the movie. ... You lost a bit of the >> relationships. Unless you have those relationships, then the movie doesn't >> matter. Then it's just a bunch of robots fighting each other." >> >> With "Transformers 3," the toll of the robot war will be grave for our >> planet, LaBeouf said. >> >> >> "There's going to be a lot of death, human death. This time, they're >> targeting humans," LaBeouf said. "It's going to be the craziest action movie >> ever made, or we failed." >> >> > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
