50 Things I love about The Transformers: The Movie (11-15)

11. Kup: He’s like the Dr. McCoy of the movie. He’s old and grumpy. I also enjoyed the acting by Lionel Stander in this role. I think Hot Rod and Kup made a great pair. It’s too bad they didn’t bother to carry this relationship over to the third and fourth seasons of the show. BTW, you have to love the futuristic pickup truck he transformers into. (Stander passed away in 1994.)

12. Orson Welles playing Unicron: Yep, Welles at this point in his life was washed up and broke, so he took this role without even knowing what the heck the movie was even about. He later told someone that he played a ‘planet that ate other planets’. He passed away soon after completing his work for the film. He was very sick when he recorded his voice work for the movie and the producers had to use enhancements to make his voice sound good. Yeah, he was only cast because they needed some big names to market the movie, but it was still cool.

13. Scatman Crothers’ last role: I always enjoyed the Jazz character and the voice actor behind him. It was neat that Jazz ended up living through the movie, when you consider most of the season 1 characters were killed off. We only get to see Jazz a few times during season 3, but he would no longer speak due to Crothers’ death.

14. “Oh, shit”: Yep, this line was originally in the theatrical cut of the film, but it was later cut from many VHS copies. The writers wanted to make sure the movie got a PG rating instead of G. I remember that line got a lot of laugher from kids in the crowd. However, I’m sure parents weren’t too happy about it. (BTW, it was reinserted back into the DVD releases.)

15. Ultra Magnus: Sure, this guy ended up being a bad leader, but he was voiced by f’ing Robert Stack. Even though this actor is dead, Stack still rules.

For an old fart, his auto-mode was fairly advance looking.

Wesley Snipes Ran

I like Wesley Snipes, but it appears that he may very well end up in jail. However, watch him run away from the papparzzi. I think it's funny that he acts like a little kid. Too bad other stars can't have this type of fun.

While I don't think he should claim it is racism behind this whole thing, but he seems to be getting the brunt of the controversy. Just don't do one of those annoying Run OJ ads.

BTW, has anyone seen those info-commercials with him in it?

Comic Relief/Next Generation crossover

Comic Relief/Next Generation crossover

I love the way Data says T-Shirt and the joke about the Comic Relief shirts being a bad blend. The joke about Whoopi Goldberg/Guinan was really funny. I have never seen this before.

Pluto Lives

Save Pluto!

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/when-i-was-your.html

Even when I was a child, I remembered all the debates as to whether to call Pluto a planet or a moon, or something else. Some of my science teachers refused to call it a planet, but it has come under great debate recently. On digg.com, I came across this post about Pluto-huggers and found it amusing. (Paul mentioned this on his former blog). I guess I can throw my support to the Pluto-hugger party. (It's like the Ron Paul thing, Right?)

Some define a planet with their circular orbits and large masses, however Pluto has none of those. Pluto is like that little nerdy kid that no one wanted in the baseball game, but they were forced to pick him up to fill in their ranks.

You can check out more about this mistreated planet/rogue moon below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

I feel bad for little Pluto.

50 Things I love about The Transformers: The Movie (5-10)

Ironhide: "Hey, kids, in the next 20 years, I am going to die a horrible death."

6. Bye, Ironhide: Yep, everyone’s favorite robot gets killed in the first ten minutes of the film. Not only does he get killed, he survives the first attack, only to get blown to bits by Megatron’s freaking cannon at close range. That is cold blooded. One of the people on the DVD commentary noted that it was that point many of the parents took their children from the theater. For me, I was shocked because Ironhide played such a big role in the first two seasons.

7. Cliffjumper doing the countdown: When the shuttle launches, Casey Kasem does the countdown. He does the countdown of the top songs on his national radio show. Even though Cliffjumper survives the movie, it would be the last time he would appear in the transformers continuity. Kasem is of Palestinian/Lebanese heritage and there was an episode in development for the third season, which put Arabs in a stereotypical light. He left the show in protest.

8. The design of Laserbeak: Actually, he looks better in the movie. The smoother animation shows more detail in his design. You would think the Autobots would have a system by now of detecting Laserbeak spying on them. I mean it has been 20 years!

9. The attack on the Autobot shuttle: Yep, about four or five of the season 1 characters get wiped out in this scene. The main reason behind this was because these toys were discontinued, and they’re characters were seen as not important anymore.

10. Unicron’s introduction: What better way to introduce a badass character than to have him wipe out an entire planet full of robots. I also like the painting like opening, which then turns into animation.

Random Bits

Random Bits

~On Sunday, I was in a hospital visiting a family member. I had only 2 hours of sleep. I roamed around the place like a zombie. I got strange looks from the Doctors and nurses. I guess they were wondering if I was on something. Anyway, I ended up sleeping in one of the lobbies like a homeless man. This was at 2 PM. BTW, there are certainly a lot of Unisex bathrooms in that place.

~At this point, why would anyone even want to marry Pam Anderson? I never found her that attractive. She's everything that is wrong with the misguided notion of female beauty. Her choice in men seems very flawed to me.

Kid Rock: Trailers and beer seem to keep this dirty hillbilly alive. What did she find special about him?

Tommy Lee: Dirty, but in an emo sort of way.

There were reports that she was thinking about divorcing sex tape man Rich Salomon. Again, why would you marry her? They've only been married since October. Is the divorce off? Did she force him to watch her DVD collection of VIP episodes?

~There is nothing like watching fat guys falling off their bikes.

This guy falls hard when he tries to make a jump: He makes the best sounds when he hits the ground. It sounds like a wounded moose.

In a bike race, someone decides to throw a stick in the wheels of this guy's bike: Great use of slow motion.

This guy nearly eats the bike with his stomach: Why does this guy look like Harry Knowles? Beware, man crack in this video. But if you're into that sort of thing, enjoy the ending.

~Well, this is certainly a way to get through a traffic jam...

Parappa the Rapper (Cheap Cheap song)

Parappa the Rapper (Cheap Cheap song)

Some people took it upon themselves to do live version of that chick song from Parappa game. Here’s the original

Parappa The Rappa - Cooking With Cheap Cheep: Who knew that rapping about cooking could be so cool?

Here are two parodies of this stage

PaRappa The Rapper (In Real Game): I love the live band playing and two people on a stage rapping all the lines.

Chop Chop Master Onion's Rap Showdown Entry: This one is really good and done in a cappella. I really like this one.

videos

Final Fantasy VII

Battle Music on Piano

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xQLahvuvJT8

Comment: This guy is very good. I wish, if they make a remake, consider using real instrument for the score. While the guy’s piano is little out of tune, his playing is extremely good.

World of Warcraft (rap game) music video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vH2uOy7sJ9w&feature=related

Another video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xJExt2XSgHc

The second one is pretty funny

50 Things I love about The Transformers: The Movie (part 1) (1-5)

50 Things I love about The Transformers: The Movie (part 1) (1-5)

Since many people enjoyed my 50 things I loved about Return of the Jedi, I figured I’d give the same treatment to a movie I’ve really enjoyed from my childhood. I’ve already reviewed the movie, but this will give me a chance to dig further into what makes this movie important to most children growing up in the 80s.

I am going to go through these with more detail than my Jedi one. So, I will only post 5 at a time. Enjoy…

1. Optimus Prime dying: Yes, this was the point when most boys (some girls) were shocked to discover that their favorite childhood hero died near the beginning of the movie. It took a lot of balls to kill him off and then introduce a whole new group of heroes, then replace him with an Emo Autobot. Yes, I cried when Prime died in the movie. It still shocks me today! (They would later bring Prime back in the show.)

2. It is the year 2005: This nearly shocked me as much as Prime dying. The creators of the film decided to jump ahead nearly 20 years in the future. Instead of an Earth based story, we now had a whole galaxy to tell stories in. The tone of the film was certainly more sci-fi. We also learn that the Autobot, during the 20 years, lost Cybertron, and were losing the war. This was another ballsy move by the people behind the movie. The jump ahead gave them enough space to introduce new characters without introductions. (Hey, they showed during the gap between the second season and the movie.) Too bad, our real 2005 didn’t turn out this way.

3. Director Nelson Shin: Listening to this guy in the commentary, you can tell he loves his work in the movie. He’s very proud of the work his team did. Toei Animation followed Mr. Shin’s leadership and made the movie feel bigger than the show. Shin is also one of the few South Korea directors to have one of his films to open both in North Korea and South Korea.

4. Vince DiCola’s music: With a mixture of rock and techno, the movie’s music completely stood out from the music that was used on the first two seasons of the show. His autobot theme is very good, as well as his music used in the Death of Optimus Prime. However, his best theme was by far the Unicron theme. (The best use of it is during the opening.)

5. The Transformers (Theme) by Lion: I loved this rocked out version of the main theme. (However, there is an unused remixed version using DiCola’s "Autobot/Decepticon Battle" theme, with Lion’s lyrics.)

So, what does Unicron do when he can’t eat a full planet? Does he place the remaining portions of the planet in a giant Ziploc bag?

Clash of the Titans remake

Clash of the Titans: Blade director Stephen Norrington returns to filmmaking?

It appears so. Blade put this guy on the map, but he was attacked for his work in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG). It was at this point that he pretty much turned his back on Hollywood. However, there were reports he wanted to direct Ghost Rider. He’s lucky he didn’t because that was worst than LXG. Actually, I rather liked LXG. It wasn’t a good movie, but still enjoyable. However, the crap that went on behind the scenes would make me reconsider my career choices as well.

I think Clash of the Titans is definitely a movie in need of a remake in my eyes. Please, no robotic owls this time around, Norrington. If he can keep the movie under his control, we might get an entertaining movie.

More info about this announcement.

(Side Note: One of the negative stories I heard about LXG was that Sean Connery was in the editing room making his own edits to the film. Something the producer tried to play down.)

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Well, everyone knew this movie was going to be crap. We just weren’t sure how crap-ful though. Now we know.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1184827-alvin_and_the_chipmunks/

This movie smells of those Garfield movies. If the kids eat this movie up, we’ll see quick sequels just like Scooby-Doo and Garfield. Maybe this movie could have been somewhat interesting if Earl from My Name is Earl interacted with the Chipmunks.

You have to wonder if Jason Lee did any promotion for this film. Can he keep a straight face way doing an interview about this crap?

Right now, the movie is hovering around 27% rotten.

Could this movie actually win the weekend?

Deleted Scenes (3 movies)

The Lost World Deleted Scenes

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IauEY2XoMR8

Here are two scenes combined into one clip. Both these scenes are pretty much useless and boring. However, they were edited into the TV Network version of the film.

A montage of the extended Blues Brothers scenes added to the DVD cut

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HlQCFSYfvtQ

Note: These aren’t all the clips added to the DVD version, because all the songs are extended and there a few other clips too. Around the 2:00 mark, one scene explains why Elwood has all those chemicals on him.

Check out the prison riot the Blues Brothers cause at the end of the clip. That should have ended up in the movie.

Goonies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG84th6emGQ

I actually like some of these scenes. It would appear these scenes were pretty far along in quality before they were cut. Yes, the octopus scene is in here. There is a lot of mystery involving that scene.

There was talk of some ape scenes being mentioned during the DVD commentary. I have never seen any footage of these ‘escaped apes’ clips.

Mmm, Power Girl

As you are aware, I am a huge Power Girl fan, (for two huge reasons).

Well, head over to Becca’s to watch a fan film about Power Girl getting a real job. The woman they got to play Power Girl looks dead up like the comic book character.

BTW, I’ll put myself in danger just to get rescued by Power Girl...countless timesYeah, the acting is bit stiff, but I liked it.