Friday, July 1, 2011

Transformers 3 Movie Clip "Lt. Colonel William Lennox" Official (HD)

Transformers 3 "Michael Bay & James Cameron Talk Filming In 3D"

Transformers 3: Stars & Cast Interviews

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley 'Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon' Interview

Transformers 3 v Larry Crowne: Film Face Off

Transformers 3: Dark Of The Moon features Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Shia LaBeouf battling evil robots, while Larry Crowne is a comedy-drama starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. But who will win this week's Film Face Off?

Story
Transformers 3 sees Shia LaBeouf star as Sam, who is struggling to find a job despite saving the world twice.
But just as he’s settling down with new girlfriend Rosie Huntington-Whiteley the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons kicks off again and it’s time for Sam to get back to doing what he does best: saving the Earth while looking handsome.
Tom Hanks stars in as the title character in Larry Crowne, playing a middle-aged man forced to enrol in his local community college after being made redundant.
There he meets teacher Julia Roberts, with romance soon on the cards.
Winner: Seeing that Transformers has used the pretty much the same storyline three times, the winner has to be Larry Crowne
What we say
Transformers 3: A mish-mash of underwear catalogue, Which? Missile magazine, Top Gear special and a trip to Hamleys, this goes all out to punch young male buttons (frankly, girls will only point out annoying things such as: ‘How come Rosie has time to get her hair straightened mid-Decepticon onslaught?’).
But can a generation that communicates at 140 characters per Tweet really handle 154 long minutes of such incoherent drivel?
Larry Crowne: Aside from the fact there’s something deeply patronising about a multi-millionaire movie star pretending to be an average Joe recession victim, the script, which is co-written by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), is carved from the blandest of feta.
Cult support from the likes of Mr Sulu off Star Trek proves diverting but when Cedric The Entertainer is not the most annoying thing in a movie, you have to worry.
Winner: Hardly glowing praise for either film, but Larry Crowne just edges it.
What you say
TheKingBlair (via Twitter): If you havent seen #Transformers 3 yet.. your life isnt complete yet. #Thatisall
Girarrrd (via Twitter): Transformers 3 is filled with action, nice CGI and no story. At least the robot action and that replacement for Megan Fox is nice to look at
richardroeper (via Twitter): I know "Larry Crowne" is corny but it was a welcome relief from all the sequels and the noise of summer movie season...
StudioCityCat (via Twitter): "Larry Crowne"? It's like Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts made spin-art out of their own diarrhea, and now want to charge us to see it.
Winner: Transformers 3

Transformers 3 begs for a box-office bomb

    Shia LaBeouf sings autographs at the Transformers 3 German premiere
     
    A flop? Not for these fans ... Shia LaBeouf signs autographs at the Transformers 3 German premiere. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images for Paramount
    I've perused the release schedule between now and September and there's only one thing for it: we need a bomb. A huge and awesome flop. Here in the endless summer season, with Transformers: Dark of the Moon the most obvious offender but unlikely to be the last, what cinema is crying out for is a proper box office disaster – one whose commercial performance is so calamitously out-of-whack with its vast cost that it draws a shudder from the entire film business. Let it leave behind only a smouldering, Heaven's Gate-sized crater spelling out the words: "Must Do Better." This isn't just nihilistic glee at the thought of one of the summer's gleaming, studio tent-poles crashing to Earth. It would, I think, be a much-deserved corrective, an eloquent raspberry to the movie industry's worst habits. In a week where hundreds of thousands went on strike, it would provide a sign that cinemagoers, too, can withdraw their cooperation when presented with films too lazy to give them human drama when CGI incontinence will do. It would use the only language studio heads understand. Only it's not going to happen, is it? Because in fact, there seems an increasingly unbreakable connection between the giant size of a film's budget and the cash it then rakes in. If you spend it, goes the logic, they will come. Certain blockbusters seem to have been collectively judged too big to fail, whatever grisly depths are plumbed in the process. So while in theory I may have to revisit this a week from now to dab the egg from my face, it's all but impossible to imagine a situation in which the third Transformers – so blankly atrocious it could almost pass for abstract art – doesn't end up making enough money for Michael Bay to buy another 15  death rays. It wasn't ever thus. There was a time when even the biggest films would tank, and when the smell of fear coming off the studios at the time of their release filled the air like musk. For a memory-jogger, you only need to think back as far as the 1990s and post-apocalyptic splashabout Waterworld, a film whose spiralling budget became notorious, and which did poorly enough at the box office to become an instant cautionary tale. Oddly, the twin caveats here are that even though – or perhaps, because – it gave us the sight of Kevin Costner equipped with gills and drinking his own urine, the movie wasn't actually so awful – and that in the long run, it quietly broke even. But the episode was still traumatic enough for Hollywood to mean that when the same budgetary inflation struck the production of James Cameron's Titanic a couple of years later, the world had the scent of blood in its nostrils: the project looked set to become its own punchline, with Cameron doomed to be sent back to the piranha movies. Cut to the "king of the world" brandishing his Oscar with the studio coffers stuffed with the profits from what would, until Avatar, be the highest grossing film in history. Since then, nothing like the same naked terror has reoccurred, executive nerves clearly soothed by so many record-breaking instalments of Pirates of the Caribbean. Now and then, clunkers still clunk – but almost always at the mid-level of corporate budgeting, and even then more than offset by however many grimly lucrative Ghost Riders or Clashes of the Titans. And in the big leagues where the price tags start at $150m, nothing is seemingly bad enough to stop people shelling out – not Troy, not 2012, not the last exhumation of Indiana Jones, not Tim Burton's synapse-frying Alice in Wonderland, not – of course – the first two Transformers. Even Terminator Salvation made money, and if that doesn't make you want to dig a hole and jump in it, what could? Movies with spreadsheets for souls, one and all. But somehow the mere idea they might not wind up as insanely profitable now feels unthinkable. And the stakes here are genuinely high: the movies' success ensures they will continue to be made, and in the current Hollywood climate they'll be made at the direct expense of better films. Realistically, I know it's too late to stop Transformers. All I will say is that next year there's Men in Black 3. I'll leave it with you.