Quick Cuts: TMNT enter development hell, Lone Ranger gets a bigger budget and more
Michael Bay’s fan-maligned Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake has been shot down by Paramount, at least for the time being. It’s been pushed back until Summer 2014, due to issues with the script. Apparently, no one thought a reboot in which the TURTLES are aliens was an issue, but are learning that now. (Source: Vulture) […]
In: Movies, News, Trailers · Tagged with: Christopher Nolan, Gary Oldman, Gore Verbinski, Hugh Laurie, Johnny Depp, Jose Padilha, Michael Bay, Robocop, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Dark Knight Rises, The Lone Ranger
Michael Bay, Savior of 3D? Transformers: Dark of the Moon getting brightness upgrade
Brightness in 3D is a notable problem. There is a moment when you’re at a 3D film, right when they ask you to put on your glasses that the lens noticeably shifts and brightness drops. It’s irritating, particularly when you’ve shelled out extra cash so that Johnny Depp’s dreadlocks will come right at you. But […]
In: Eyes and Ears, Movies, News · Tagged with: 3D, Michael Bay, Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Trisha’s Quote of the Day: Figuring out Michael Bay’s id
Could you sum up the film in one line of its dialogue? “I am standing directly beneath the enemy’s scrotum.” —Topless Robot‘s Rob Bricken (and my former managing editor at Anime Insider) tries to explain everything you never needed to know about Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: Michael Bay, quotes, Transformers 2
Michael Bay is awesome, apparently
This clever bit of self-parody, an ad for Verizon’s FiOS TV and FiOS Internet Services, is more entertaining than every Michael Bay movie I’ve seen combined. Considering how ass my AT&T DSL connection is, fiber-optic internet — with speeds up to “50 Mbps or 30 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps or 5 Mbps upstream, depending […]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: explosions, Michael Bay, tiger, Transformers