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Michael Bay Responds To Hugo Weaving’s Comments About ‘Transformers’ Franchise

by Shawn Madden

The quite popular Hugo Weaving, who voiced Megatron in all three of the Transformers, recently commented on the franchise in an interview. Well, let’s just say it wasn’t the most positive of comments. The actor stated the following:

“That’s a weird job for me because it honestly was a two-hour voice job, initially. I was doing a play and I actually didn’t have time, anyway. It was one of the only things I’ve ever done where I had no knowledge of it, I didn’t care about it, I didn’t think about it. They wanted me to do it. In one way, I regret that bit. I don’t regret doing it, but I very rarely do something if it’s meaningless. It was meaningless to me, honestly. I don’t mean that in any nasty way. I did it. It was a two-hour voice job, while I was doing other things.”

Earlier today Michael Bay chose to give a response. While Bay doesn’t name any names…it’s pretty obvious who it’s directed towards.

“Do you ever get sick of actors that make $15 million a picture, or even $200,000 for voiceover work that took a brisk one hour and 43 minutes to complete, and then complain about their jobs? With all the problems facing our world today, do these grumbling thespians really think people reading the news actually care about trivial complaints that their job wasn’t “artistic enough” or “fulfilling enough”? I guess The Hollywood Reporter thinks so.

What happened to people who had integrity, who did a job, got paid for their hard work, and just smiled afterward? Be happy you even have a job – let alone a job that pays you more than 98% of the people in America.

I have a wonderful idea for all those whiners: They can give their “unhappy job money” to a wonderful Elephant Rescue. It’s the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Africa. I will match the funds they donate.”

So, I am going to just go ahead and assume that we will not be getting Megatron as the villain in the next Transformers flick.

Source: MichaelBay.com

Is This The First Poster For ‘Transformers 4’?

by Shawn Madden

Cine1 has just posted an image that they are claiming to be a provisional poster for ‘Transformers 4’.

Could this be fake and fan-made? Sure. It totally could be.

Wait…has this movie even started production? No? Then why the hell am I posting this? Because this site actually has been reliable in the past and with San Diego Comic-Con less than a month away. Why wouldn’t Paramount start advertising now? Especially when their movies come out a year after the dates they originally set. I kid I kid. Kind of.

Well anyway…here it is!

Honestly as great as some of those fan posters are…this kind of looks real. And even though its not that great i’m a huge Transformers fan in general so I love everything TF related….except ‘Revenge Of The Fallen’. One of the only movies I refuse to ever see a second time. But ‘Dark Of The Moon’ was great and fun. I’m definitely looking forward to a fourth film. More Sideswipe please?

Fall of Cybertron: Ten Transformers That Deserve Some Spotlight

by Joe Starr

With Transformers: Fall of Cybertron coming out on August 28 and releasing more and more amazing footage every week, it’s time to start thinking about the Robots in Disguise. Like, more than I usually do.

Lists of bad ass Transformers are easy to make. Here’s one you’ve probably see before, off the top of my head: Springer Sixshot Cliffjumper Prowl Sunstreaker Blitzwing Cyclonus Grimlock Soundwave Starscream. Yay.

But there were a lot of G1 Transformers. And chances are, there were some bad asses sitting right under your nose you weren’t even aware of. Just blending in perfectly, like a blue cassette player. So this list is for the uncelebrated but awesome: those other mechs that were severely bad ass but probably never even met a Prime in person because a bunch of Dinobots were hogging the line.

SNAPTRAP

Ok sure. The guy is a turtle. But look at him. He’s a giant robot snapping turtle covered in guns. He’s like a tank that can also bite you to death. According to his bio, he really enjoys killing and gutting his victims. So he’s sort of a Decepticon Dexter, except instead of balancing being a father with working for the police and serial killing, he turns into a big robot death turtle. Is he turquoise and purple? Yes. You know what that means? It means he’s a murder boss that can pull of turquoise and purple. Also, at some point, like every Decepticon was turquoise and purple. Including…

SPINISTER

Guys, I have a lot of rotating parts and I’m pretty evil. Pitch me some names. This guy doesn’t just have the best name in Transformerdom, he may have the best name in doms, period. He turns into an attack helicopter like Nick Cage flew in the hit classic Firebirds, and he’s mysterious. Like, super mysterious. And his guns turn into robots, too: Singe, a guy driven to villainy by a woman (aren’t they all, really?), and Hairsplitter, a middle management robot version of Lumburg. So play nice, Hot Rod, or these guys are gonna take your girl, your stapler, and your life.

STREETWISE

He’s part of an emergency vehicles unit. He’s a crime scene specialist. He’s a robotic David Caruso. Looks like the situation with this dead Prime is….optimal.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

AFTERBURNER

Most the Autobots are kind of push overs. Grimlock is a tough guy but he’s also got paint chips syndrome. Afterburner, however, is an authority hating dickbar who along with his fellow Technobots forms Computron, the smartest robot, so he’s not dim, either. At some point Optimus Prime was watching the Breakfast club, pointed at Brian and Bender and said ‘merge them and give him a gun. Also, make him turn into a light cycle from Tron.’

SLINGSHOT

Another awesome Autobot: Slingshot is better than everyone. He’s even better than how good he thinks he is. If there had been Twitter on Transformers, Slingshot would have owned it. No one even likes the guy, but he probably has more robot sex with chick robots than anyone else on the Ark. He’s not a robot that turns into a jet. He’s a jet that turns into Kanye West. HANG ON GALVATRON IMMA LET YOU FINISH BUT MEGATRON WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME! ALL TIME!

BLAST OFF

Are you not sure about getting into Transformers but love Downton Abbey? Look no further then this guy, who is basically like an evil newspaper owner that is going to marry Mary Crawley in every way except that he also turns into a spaceship. “Get these Decepticons out of here! They are downstairs Decepticons and we are upstairs, with the upstairs Decepticons!”

DOUBLECROSS

I mean, look at him. He’s a big two headed dragon. What’s not to like? Also, his toy shot sparks, so goodbye fur on your cat’s tail. He’s like Grimlock if you gave Grimlock a second head and got rid of the learning disability. All around very helpful.

CHROMEDOME

So, this guy was a Headmaster, which meant that his head turned into a robot when he transformed into a car. And yes I know that they weren’t robots- they were Nebulons that went through a binary process to merge with their host robot but eat me. Chromedome is a crazy smart mathematician and his head friend (that sounds awful) is Stylor, a d-bag jock bully. It’s like having a Louis Skolnick and Ogre in the same body! And that’s comedy efficiency!

MOTORMASTER

He’s the Decepticon’s diesel truck with a trailer. The guy was made to be an evil Optimus Prime. Basic rules of cartoon villains should tell you that this is an awesome thing. But Motormaster doesn’t stop there. He also fights dudes with a chain sometimes. And he’s in charge of a team of stunt driving race cars. So he’s basically Vin Diesel with his Fast and the Furious guys backing him up and they merge to form a giant super robot called Come At Me Bro Convoy.

POWERGLIDE

Somewhere between Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan, there’s Powerglide. He turns into an A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthog, and for the longest time he was the only Autobot that could fly, unless you count Skyfire, And I never count Skyfire. Powerglide seems to have had the best romantic track record, too. I don’t know, there’s just something charming about a guy that refers to himself as the ‘Sultan of the Sky.’ He’s like a pilot from the Pacific that your grandfather always tells stories about, and who is also secretly your real grandfather.

E3 2012: ‘Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron’ Metroplex Trailer

by Shawn Madden

If you haven’t played ‘War For Cybertron’ by now you’re missing out on what is hands down the best ‘Transformers’ game out there. Well… High Moon Studios are back with their follow up ‘Fall Of Cybertron’ (Their ‘Dark Of The Moon’ game was so rushed and sloppy that I ignore its existence) and here’s a look at the epicly awesome Metroplex heeding the call of the last Prime!

‘Fall Of Cybertron’ transforms and rolls out on August 28, 2012.

Geekscape’s Before First Class – What If An Avengers Movie Was Made In The 80s?!?

by Joe Starr

With an announced sequel to X Men: First Class, and the rumors of a rebooted 1960’s Fantastic Four, retro Marvel is officially IN. This has led Geekscape to wonder: what if different Marvel franchises had actually been released in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s?

Or, maybe you think it’s stupid to cast a Marvel movie in a different decade, justify the lineup, and pitch a plot. Well, that’s why we at Geekscape consider ourselves to be heroes, in a way. We waste our time doing the stupid things the world is afraid to do. Last time, we shook the 90’s to their very core with a 1994 X Men film. Time to step back a decade!

THE 80’S: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!

The Pitch: After a battle to take down Ultron results in an absurd amount of collateral damage, the Avengers reluctantly agree to accept government oversight in the form of Henry Gyrich. The Vision attempts to bring stability to the world by taking control of its computer systems, but is being manipulated by Ultron! It’s the Avengers vs. a Vision-Ultron-Skynet! Will the Avengers prevail? Meanwhile, a young Wanda Maximoff is taken in by the team and falls for the android! Can Scarlet Witch use the human power of love to bring Vision to his senses? And when she does, can the song ‘Power of Love’ play? When I think Avengers, I think Huey Lewis. And his news.

CAPTAIN AMERICA

In the 80’s, there was only one man that could sling the shield. The only man that John Connor trusted enough to go back in time and bang his mom: Michael Biehn. He is the unsung action hero badass of the 80’s and also The Rock from the 90’s. I mean the movie The Rock. He wasn’t The Rock, though I can still smell what he was cooking. Come on. Picture him doing that monologue to Ed Harris from The Rock in Cap’s costume and you will get a nerd boner.

Don’t fight it. It’s natural.

IRON MAN

Avengers Assemble? AS YOU WISH. Cary Elwes would have been an awesome Tony Stark back in the day. The wit, the arrogance, and the massive amount of girls wanting to bang him. Plus, most of the Dread Pirate Robert’s lines could probably double as Stark lines, so we save on screenwriters. That way in the spin off we get to see Iron Man challenge the Mandarin to a fight to the pain.

GYRICH

I’m doing my best to justify a Henry Gyrich in every decade I cast a movie in. Charlie Chaplin will end up playing him by the end of this. But before the Dictator gets his shot, the role belongs to John Ritter. Ritter’s been killing it on Three’s Company and it’s time to show his range as a greasy, back stabbing government yes man! This could be his ‘Razor’s Edge!’

THE VISION

I wish there was a guy we could call that does robots good…

SCARLET WITCH

Mia Sara! Too young? No way. It takes a dumb teenage girl to fall deeply in love with a robot, and Mia Sara’s career has been built on poor romantic choices: first Tom Cruise in Legend, and then Ferris Bueller, a husband who no doubt will eventually look into a camera and say ‘who could be faithful on a day like this?’ Mia has a perfect wide eyed spaciness for a young woman struggling with chaos magic. Is it chaos magic? I’m really not sure at this point.  THANKS BENDIS.

Besides, no one complained when two teenage boys fell in love took a shower with Lisa in Weird Science. There’s no room for your double standards in THE AVENGERS.


One more for the road.

ULTRON

Next.

BEAST

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Like, Jeff Bridges, man! Change him out of the Tron suit and put some blue fur on the guy. The Beast abides, man. The Beast abides.

HAWKEYE

PhotobucketSomething something winning something something dismissive wank. Charlie is a bad ass, and if you remember Hot Shots Part Deux (AND YOU SHOULD) you will remember that he is also dry and hilarious. He’ll also be perfect as part of our important subplot I just figured out: That Hawkeye hates young cocky scientist Hank Pym for having Janet, and is going to murder him when the hitting starts. And you know the hitting will start.

YELLOWJACKET

PhotobucketAnd when I think of hitting women, I think of Rob Lowe. A dashing scientist, inventor of size changing stuff, and a Duke Silver level saxophone player, Lowe has all the tools needed to play a sleazy piece of shit that needs some redemption. Literally, my favorite person for this role.

I CAN’T DEAL WITH INVENTING ULTRON! JUST LET ME ROCK THE PAIN AWAY!

THE WASP

PhotobucketJanet needs to be someone you really, really want to bang and really, really hate Hank Pym for being able to bang. I’m going with Demi Moore to keep the Brat Pack repping in this summer blockbuster. And it’s not so much that Demi would be an awesome person to hit, but she could sell a backhand super good. Just thinking about it makes me want to kill Rob Lowe.

WONDER MAN

PhotobucketMy understanding of Wonder Man isn’t the best, but based on the pre Secret Invasion Mighty Avengers, he’s a smug hacky actor turned super hero and I think he should be Kurt Russell. Please refer yourself to Jack Burton. Clean yourself up, and then see him in Sky High. And then clean yourself up. What? That Scott Pilgrim chick was in it.

DIRECTOR

Every movie needs a director (Except for the three Transformers films and anything I shoot of myself crying). The insane amount of androids and evil AI points to Ridley Scott for this thing. He’s the obvious choice for this epic, and while my heart says John Carpenter, my mind is keeping it Ridley.

Next time: It’s Warren Ellis’ Thunderbolts… 70’s grindhouse style!