In this edition of /Answers, we celebrate the release of Pacific Rim Uprising by listing off our favorite destructive action scenes where an entire city is the playground for the combatants.
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Watch a Transformers franchise recap that reminds you of the ridiculous MacGuffins and exposition that has no real impact on the events of The Last Knight.
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Did you know that every now and then a major film production uses recycled movie footage instead of going out and shooting all new footage? Check it out!
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Three different but fun Transformers videos have come online with the fourth film in theaters. A recap of the franchise, a simultaneously review and Real D.
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Michael Bay, once again, is his own worst critic. In 2011, the action director used the word "crap" to describe the mystical storyline of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. (Read the full quote here.) At the time, he was confident the third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, would be better. Fast forward to 2013…
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Watch enough movies, and you'll find that you occasionally walk out of the theater sometimes with the vaguely disappointing feeling that you've just shelled out $14 to see a movie you're already seen before. Sometimes, it's no surprise that a film looks derivative -- did anyone really expect Underworld: Awakening to wow us with its…
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As the race for the year's most coveted trophies came to a close with this weekend's Oscars ceremony, another much less prestigious awards competition was just getting started. Nominations have been announced for the 32nd Razzie Awards, handed out to the "worst achievements in film" each year. Leading the 2012 list is Adam Sandler, whose…
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It's easy for some to completely write of Transformers: Dark of the Moon as a forgettable Summer big budget blockbuster, but I think it would be wrong to overlook the technical achievements of some of the awesome action sequences. ILM and Digital Domain have both released videos breaking down all the work that went into…
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In true Michael Bay fashion, not only is Transformers: Dark of the Moon a big Blu-ray release, it's his biggest one yet. Besides the four-disc, 3D, ultimate edition set that'll be released on January 31 (containing with over 3 hours of bonus features) Bay has posted a video revealing a limited edition box set of…
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The process of doling out Oscars is a lot more transparent in some than in others. While the core categories like Best Picture, and writing, directing and acting are all the subject of great speculation for months before the nominations are even announced, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is much more open…
Read MoreMichael Bay is well-known for his use of explosions, helicopters, and sheer budgetary mayhem. But what is the breakdown, by movie, of the use of some of those factors? And which of the films managed to turn Bay's excess into financial gain? An infographic called The Formula for Complete and Utter Bayhem breaks it down.…
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In the 1980s, Kenny Loggins was the king of the movie soundtrack. The soft rocker did the theme songs to Top Gun (Danger Zone), Caddyshack (I'm Alright), Footloose (Footloose) and more over a few short years in addition to being a very successful solo and group artist. To this day, those songs both help and…
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With Labor Day behind us and school back in session, summer in the US is officially over, at least from a cultural perspective. So it's time to tally the box-office receipts from what has been the biggest movie season over the past thirty years. The good news? Revenue is up from last year. The bad…
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Love it or hate it, Transformers: Dark of the Moon was a colossal hit. Michael Bay's third film featuring the Hasbro toys has grossed about $350 million in America and $750 million internationally for a gross of well over one billion dollars. That number will only continue to grow as the film is now back…
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Cast your memory back to January 2010 and you might recall that we featured a short video piece that looked into the sound design of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The clip wasn't all great, but there were a couple of moments in there that showed how a flash of creative inspiration made parts of…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss Michael Bay's latest masterwork, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Special guest Tasha Robinson joins us from AV Club. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. We'll be back on Sunday 10 PM EST at slashfilm's live page to discuss Horrible…
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It's been a couple of years since Michael Bay unleashed his last filmic atrocity upon us in the form of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. An overlong, numbing, and mildly racist abomination, Revenge of the Fallen nonetheless went on to make one quadrillion dollars at the worldwide box office during its theatrical release. I was…
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Say what you will about Michael Bay, but he is a filmmaker who knows how to maximize the bang for the buck. He is often critisized for using too much product placement, which gives him millions of dollars more to play with than he would have otherwise had access to. In a film like The…
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Film critics have been overwhelmingly negative towards Michael Bay's latest film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, yet average moviegoers seem to love the film. Transformers 3 earned a rotten 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 186 critic reviews counted, yet 90% of the 60,137 Flixter users liked the threequel. It should be noted that the…
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Alright, so Transformers: Dark of the Moon was not as bad as Revenge of the Fallen. But man, it did not fall under any definition of "good" that I use, as I was led to believe it might. I enjoyed many aspects of Dark of the Moon: some of the action set pieces were spectacular, the…
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Say what you want about Michael Bay but there's one thing that's pretty undeniable. No one else in Hollywood can make a movie quite like him. Bay's latest film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon opens this week, and after all the reviews and box office analysis is over, the conversation will predictably turn towards director…
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Paramount Pictures has a couple awesome projects in the works this week with Mondo. First up, on Wednesday, comic book stores everywhere will get in copies of Captain America: First Vengeance #4 with cover artwork by fan-favorite artist Tyler Stout. You can see a hint of that above. Then, they've teamed with artist Jesse Phillips…
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Brightness has been one of the most common complaints about the presentation of 3D films in the past year. And so Michael Bay and Paramount are trying to be strict with exhibitors with respect to Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The studio is pushing a specific digital print mastered to deliver "almost twice the brightness…
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As you probably recall: Back in 2009, actress Megan Fox went public with her professional issues with Michael Bay, calling her Transformers director "a tyrant" and likening him to Napoleon and Adolf Hitler. Fox (unsurprisingly) caught heat for her comments, and though Bay made some attempts to smooth things over, the two continued sniping publicly…
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Subtract another three hours off your Transformers: Dark of the Moon countdown clock. Paramount just announced that they'll open the film, exclusively on 3D and IMAX 3D screens, on Tuesday June 28 at 9 p.m. It'll open in all dimensions 3 hours later, at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday June 29.
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I wouldn't normally recommend watching a Linkin Park music video but... you should check out the video for the band's single "Iridescent". The video features a bunch of new footage from Transformers: Dark of the Moon. It is almost like a new one and a half minute trailer released in the form of a clip-package…
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Paramount Pictures has released eight new photos for Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which first premiered on Yahoo. The new shots feature a mix of human character shots and big robot rendered action. Check the new stills out after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. [gallery order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="ID"]…
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