Out this week we have three DVDs to feature:  Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fifth Season, Eureka: Season 3.0, Transmorphers: Fall of Man.

• Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fifth Season:  Love this show, wished it lasted more then five seasons but now all of it is out on DVD, time to complete the series.  A must own.  If for some reason you haven’t watched this show yet there are some episodes of season five streaming live online here.
• Eureka: Season 3.0:  Another great show and season three they really got good.  I love that I can get the first half of season 3 on DVD, just in time for the second half to air.  Down side, it’s only half of a season and if I wanted an incomplete season I would already own it through iTunes.
• Transmorphers: Fall of Man:  I have not watched this one yet but every time I see the name I giggle because it’s like the Gobots to the Transformers movie.  But with Bruce Boxleitner in it I will eventually have to watch it.
• Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li:  This one goes on the rent list.  I didn’t get to watch it in the theaters and the reviews were mixed but I like Street Fighter and the previews looks interesting.

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Review of: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

Overall Rating: 10

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is everything I expected it to be… A giant robot action film and a rip roaring wild ride.  I particularly enjoyed how the story focused on the robots while Sam Witwicky’s story takes on the role of supporting story line.  The pacing is swift and the immaculate reality is maintained throughout the movie to the point that it feels like a short movie even though it runs for almost three hours.

The effects looks great, they continued and improved upon all of those wonderful little moving parts that thrilled us in the 2007 Transformers movie.  There are many intense fight scenes that not only featured the spectacle of the fight but also demonstrated style and strategy which gave more depth.

The Plot / Story: Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about an energon source. Joining the mission to protect humankind is Optimus Prime, who forms an alliance with international armies for a second epic battle.

Likes

1. The story focuses on the robots not the people
2. The pacing is swift, follow able, and without sags
3. Maintains immaculate reality
4. The effects looks great
5. I really enjoyed the comedic antics from Wheelie and the twins: Mudflap and Skids
6. how the fight scenes also showed different fighting style and strategy
7. Some nice emotional twists
8. at several points in the story the writers avoided taking the obvious path with Sam’s Allspark shard.

Dislikes / Concerns

1. none, I really like this movie and will own it.

For more on Transformers Revenge of the Fallen:

• Theater or Renter: June 2009
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• Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Round Up
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• Transformers on dashPunk

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Out this week we have two DVDs to feature:  Death Note: Re-Light, Inkheart.

• Death Note: Re-Light, Vol. 1 – Visions of a God:  a redux of the Death Note anime series giving a different take on familiar events.
• Inkheart:  I haven’t watched this one yet but it’s a renter for me… Based on a German Novel called Inkheart.  When Mo reads aloud from books, he has the ability to make the characters come out of the book, into real life. Mo discovered his power when his daughter Meggie, was just a baby. Mo read aloud from the book Inkheart, which caused several of the book’s wicked characters, including Capricorn, to literally come to life. But while he read them out of the book, he accidentally read Meggie’s mother, Teresa into the story. For more check out Theater or Renter: January 2009.

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I have been one of the voices in the Racebending debate around the new The Last Airbender, but this new teaser looks good but not great.

My first complaint is that the martial arts do not look as natural as I would like for Aang.  Secondly is the voice over.

They make the movie sound like it will be a Star Wars meets Harry Potter film, and while that is a good thing to bring a broader audience to The Last Airbender, I only hope that does not mean they have rewritten the story to fit into that mold.

Other than that, it looks good.  I cannot wait to see more.

(via /Film)

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Theater or Renter: July 2009 includes 5 SF movies Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, G-Force, Orphan, Aliens in the Attic,.  Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?

Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then share with us your comments: does the movie, it’s trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?

Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs:

Release Date:  1 July 2009

Listed as:  Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Director: Carlos Saldanha

Produced by: Lori Forte, John Donkin

Written by: Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Yoni Brenner

Stars: Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Simon Pegg, Chris Wedge

The Plot / Story: After the events of Ice Age: The Meltdown, life begins to change for Mannyand his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and his new wife Ellie are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in an underground world where dinosaurs roam free, and where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently.(Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:

Release Date:  15 July 2009

Listed as:  Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

Studio: Warner Bros.

Director: David Yates

Produced by: David Heyman, David Barron

Written by: Screenplay: Steve Kloves, Novel: J. K. Rowling

Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Alan Rickman, Tom Felton, Helen McCrory

The Plot / Story: As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

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G-Force:

Release Date:  24 July 2009

Listed as:  Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Studio:  Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Director: Hoyt Yeatman

Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer

Written by: Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy, Zach Galifianakis

The Plot / Story: A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

Orphan:

Release Date:  24 July 2009

Listed as:  Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Studio: Dark Castle Entertainment

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Produced by: Joel Silver, Susan Downey

Written by: Screenplay: David Leslie Johnson, Story: Alex Mace

Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett

The Plot / Story: A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

Aliens in the Attic:

Release Date:  31 July 2009

Listed as:  Adventure, Fantasy

Studio: Regency Enterprises

Director: John Schultz

Produced by: Barry Josephson

Written by: Mark Burton, Adam F. Goldberg

Stars: Robert Hoffman, Ashley Tisdale, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler

The Plot / Story: In Maine, a group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

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It’s very hard to pick only 10 movies so I went with the top 10 but at the moment that I would pick:

1. Star Wars all of them:  Big fan of the setting, story, and myth.
2. The Matrix Collection: The great way this series gets one to give a second look at the systems that they exist in, how to bend the rules and evolve.
3. Transformers: (80’s animated and the live action one)  Giant Robots Fun
4. Harry Potter films:  what a wonderful story arc, the books are better
5. Star Trek in particular Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan
6. The Day the Earth Stood Still
7. Serenity
8. V for Vendetta:  the political exploration and the exploration of the power of symbolism and symbols.
9. Planet of the Apes: the 1968 version it’s a great social exploration.
10. Frank Herbert’s Dune: kind of a fudge because it aired on TV but I watch all of them as a long movie

What are your top 10 movies at this moment?

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Well cut and moving when you know the story, Marilyn Manson’s cover of Tainted Love is a perfect match to Final Fantasy VII.

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A must see in the theaters for me mostly for the giant killer robots.  I really liked the first Transformers movie, read my review here, and with this one promising to have even more robots it can only get better.

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Let me know what you think.  Will you go to see Transformers Revenge of the Fallen in the theater on June 24th or rent it?  If you have seen it in the theater should I go see it and why?

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Movie Facts

• Theater or Renter: June 2009 (via dashPunk)

Videos

• Best of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Videos

Character Exploration

• The Fallen:
  • Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Meet The Fallen (dashPunk)
  • A Better Look at The Fallen (via /Film)
• Frank Welker will voice Soundwave in Transformers 2 (via SCI FI Wire)
• Transformers 2 Character CGI Concept Art (via /Film)
• Transformers 2 Pretenders (possible footage of the filming of Transformers 2) (via Transformers 2 Trailer)

Posters

• International Transformers 2 Poster (via /Film)
• Transformers 2 Character Posters and New Plot Info (via /Film)
• Final Transformers 2 Poster (via /Film)
• A Better Look at the Transformers 2 Teaser Poster (via /film)

Pictures

• Six New Photos From Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (via /Film)
• 10 New Photos from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (via /Film)
• 55 Photos from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (via /Film)
• Early Pictures of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (dashPunk)

Costumes

• Transformer: Bumblebee Costume (dashPunk)
• Cosplay: Transforming Transformers (dashPunk)

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Watch the best of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Videos below and get a good look at what’s to come in the movie.

Trailers

• Trailer 1

• Features a train transformer, a swarm of micro transformers but my favorite part is watching Devastator put himself together.

• Greatest Enemy

• Devastator Teaser Trailer

• Crying Bumblee Trailer

• Superbowl Trailer

Clips

• Wheelie Clip

Interviews

• The Beef talking about the Fallen

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