Transformers è un film di
Michael Bay.
Deal with it.
Sul serio: mi sfugge perché sia stato tanto osannato un film con dei difetti ben più grandi dei robottoni del titolo.
Gli
autobots ed i
decepticons, due fazioni di vita robotica provenienti da un lontano pianeta ora in rovina, si ritrovano sulla Terra per darsi battaglia alla ricerca del
cubo del potere.
I primi sono rispettosi della vita umana, i secondi un po' meno; coinvolti in questo scontro finiranno sia l'esercito degli Stati Uniti sia due teenager che per quanto ce ne frega potrebbero andare a darsi reciproco piacere sessuale con dei
brown minipimer decepticons...
Nota per i decepticons: bravi pirla! Distruggete pure l'umanità, ma poi chi vi compra i giocattolini?!?!
Non pretendo iper-realismo o un eccesso di verosimiglianza, ma neanche che ogni 30 secondi netti una qualche cazzata clamorosa mi rovini tutta la sospensione dell'incredulità che mi sforzo di avere: i robottoni fanno una cagnara della madonna e nessuno li vede o li sente, la tecnologia viene gestita come magia nera (il "suono" che viola le reti informatiche, gli hacker che lo decifrano in 5 minuti guardandone lo spettro e via a manetta), i politici che vanno dall'inetto all'incredibilmente spanizzo, le comunicazioni istantanee e l'organizzazione efficiente ben oltre i limiti del credibile. Potrei continuare per ore.
Non gli faccio una gran colpa d'aver accuratamente evitato la morte sullo schermo: se non vuoi un
VM14 ormai devi adeguarti, ma sarebbe forse anche ora di tirar fuori le palle...
Due ore e 24 minuti sono oggettivamente troppo: la parte di commediola adolescenziale è inutile e poteva essere ridotta a 5 minuti (o zero, che si stava bene uguale) ed in generale si potevano benissimo evitare l'overacting, i personaggi tagliati con l'accetta e le battutine idiote a sdrammatizzare tutte le situazioni pseudo-tese: siamo invasi da robottoni che intendono devastare il pianeta, diamine, mica da teneri gattini spaziali che vogliono giocare coi gomitoli di spago; un po' di dignità, maledizione!
Fondamentalmente,
film del genere hanno rotto le palle: prendere un tema drammatico-apocalittico per poi seguire le minute vicende di uno o due pirla qualunque, devastando poi tutto il pathos con un tono da avanspettacolo ha veramente reso. Basta. Ho già dato. Piantiamola. È ora di rinunciare al
Misto Fritto Per Famigliole Per Bene: decidiamo una buona volta, se vogliamo fare una commedia od un film drammatico.
"Tutto il brivido della fine del mondo, ma senza che nessuno si spettini" NON FUNZIONA, CAZZO! Gli effetti speciali sono molto buoni, niente da dire, non fosse per il fatto che devono adeguarsi alla regia di quel totale inetto di Michael Bay (di cui salvo giusto
The Rock, dove l'ambientazione per lo più stretta lo ha un po' frenato) con le sue sequenze frenetiche ed i movimenti di camera fatti a casaccio.
Non c'è un combattimento che sia davvero memorabile; se i primi sono tutto sommato accettabili, durante l'ultima battaglia ho sbadigliato di brutto.
Si potrebbe anche discutere che facce da triglia come
Shia LaBeouf o
Megan Fox (che pure è porca anzichennò, ma non è questo il punto) siano due promesse di Hollywood: può darsi, ma sarà il caso che lo dimostrino in un altro film, perché qui mostrano ben poca abilità.
Triste vedere
Jon Voight e
John Turturro relegati a ruoli da macchiette.
Voto: 4.5 (ehi, che bello! Io e
Spielberg abbiamo una cosa in comune: a questo giro, abbiamo speso male i nostri soldi!
)
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Fox, Megan (I)
Nome di battesimo: Fox, Megan Denise
Data di nascita: 16 May 1986
Altezza: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Megan Fox was born May 16, 1986 in Tennessee. She has one older sister. Megan began her training in drama and dance at the age of 5 and, at the age of 10, moved to Florida where she continued her training and finished school. She now lives in Los Angeles. Megan began acting and modeling at the age of 13 after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Megan made her film debut as "Brianna Wallace" in the Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen movie, Holiday in the Sun (2001) (V).Lives with fiancée Brian Austin Green.
Trivia random: Ranked #18 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Transformers (2007)
Regista: Michael Bay Scrittore: Roberto Orci,
Alex Kurtzman Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Valutazione: 8.6/10 (2388 voti)
Durata: 144 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasted off in search of it. He eventually tracked it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sent him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forced him into a paralyzed state. His body was later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, and before going into a comatose state Megatron used the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain's glasses, and send a transmission to Cybertron. He is then carted away by the Captain's ship. A century later, Sam Witwicky, nicknamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, as he bears the Captain's glasses and the map carved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all "specimens of this alien race," and Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, stretching from Hoover Dam all the way to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, within the depths of the Pentagon, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens...
Trivia random: According to producer Tom DeSanto, he originally intended Prowl, Wheeljack, Soundwave, Ravage, Laserbeak, Rumble, Skywarp and Shockwave to be among the characters in the film.
Citazione random: [from trailer]::Sam 'Spike' Witwicky: [to Frenzy] Not so tough without your head, are ya?::[kicks Frenzy's head]
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
LaBeouf, Shia
Nome di battesimo: LaBeouf, Shia Saide
Data di nascita: 11 June 1986
Altezza: 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Shia Saide LaBeouf was born June 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, California, to Jeffrey LaBeouf and Shayna Saide, and is an only child. His parents are divorced, and he lives with his mom in Los Angeles. He started his career by doing stand-up comedy around places in his neighborhood, such as coffee clubs. One day, he saw a friend of his acting on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (1993), and wanted to become an actor. Shia and his mom talked it over, and the next day he started looking for an agent. He searched in the yellow pages, called one up, and did a stand-up routine in front of him. They liked him and signed him, and then he started auditioning. He's well known for playing Louis Stevens in the popular Disney Channel series "Even Stevens" (2000) and has won a Daytime Emmy for his performance.
Trivia random: For music, he likes to listen to System of a Down, 50 Cent, Eminem, D12, Led Zeppelin, Jack Johnson, Ben Folds, and others.
Citazione random: [When asked about what it's like to be a celebrity] "I'll tell you when I become one."
Salario massimo: $500,000, per Transformers (2007)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Rock, The (1996)
Regista: Michael Bay Scrittore: David Weisberg,
Douglas Cook Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.1/10 (67810 voti)
Durata: 136 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco's Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel, who, for years, has been protesting the government's refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara Hummel on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he's holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Himmel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past 30 years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the FBI, John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy SEAL team, General Hummel's men kill the entire SEAL team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.
Trivia random: Sean Connery's reply when Goodspeed introduces himself is, "But of course you are." This is the reply Connery as James Bond gives to Plenty O'Toole when she introduces herself in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and the same reply James Bond (Played by 'Roger Moore') gives Jenny Flex in A View to a Kill (1985). It's also the reply Connery gives in Rising Sun (1993) when a threatening bodyguard tells him he's a black-belt. This line is also used by Clancy Brown as The Kurgan, in the movie Highlander (1986) which also featured Connery.
Citazione random: John Mason: I'm sure all this will make a great bed time story to tell your kid.::Stanley Goodspeed: You're insane, Mason. The kid'll have nightmares. I'll spend all my money on shrinks.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Spielberg, Steven (I)
Nome di battesimo: Spielberg, Steven Allan
Data di nascita: 18 December 1946
Altezza: 5' 7½" (1.71 m)
Coniuge: Kate Capshaw::(12 October 1991 - present) 5 children, Amy Irving::(27 November 1985 - 2 February 1989) (divorced) 1 child
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Without a doubt one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946. He went to Long Beach University, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career. He gained notoriety as an uncredited assistant editor on the classic western "Wagon Train" (1957). Among his early directing efforts were "Battle Squad (1961)", which combined World War II footage with footage of an airplane on the ground that he makes you believe is moving. He also directed Escape to Nowhere (1961), which featured kids as World War Two soldiers, including his sister Anne Spielberg, and The Last Gun (1959), a western. All of these were short films. The next couple of years Spielberg directed a couple of movies that would portend his future career in movies. In 1964 he directed Firelight (1964), a movie about aliens invading a small town. In 1967 he directed Slipstream (1967), which was unfinished. However, in 1968 he directed Amblin' (1968), which featured the desert prominently, and not the first Spielberg movie in which the desert would feature so prominently. Amblin' was also what he would eventually name his production company, which would turn out such classics as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg had a unique and classic early directing project, Duel (1971) (TV), with Dennis Weaver. The film is considered a classic that still baffles some. In the early 1970s Spielberg was working on TV, directing among others such series as Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" (1970), "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969) and Columbo: Murder by the Book (1971) (TV). All of his work in television and short films, as well as his directing projects, were just a hint of the wellspring of talent that would dazzle audiences all over the world.Spielberg's first major directorial effort was The Sugarland Express (1974), with Goldie Hawn, a film that marked him as a rising star. It was his next effort, however, that made him an international superstar among directors: Jaws (1975). This classic shark attack tale started the tradition of the summer blockbuster, or at least he was credited with starting the tradition. His next film was the classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), a unique and original UFO story that remains a classic. In 1978 Spielberg produced his first film, the forgettable I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), and followed that effort with Used Cars (1980), a critically acclaimed but mostly forgotten Kurt Russell\Jack Warden comedy about devious used-car dealers. Spielberg hit gold yet one more time with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with Harrison Ford taking the part of Indiana Jones. Spielberg produced and directed two films in 1982. The first was Poltergeist (1982), but the highest-grossing movie of all time up to that point was the alien story E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg also helped pioneer a practice that he may or may not be particularly proud of: product placement. The concept, while not uncommon, was still relatively low-key when Spielberg raised the practice to almost an art form with his famous (or infamous) placement of Rieces Pieces in "E.T." Spielberg was also one of the pioneers of the big-grossing special-effects movies, like "E.T." and "Close Encounters," where a very strong emphasis on special effects was placed for the first time on such a huge scale. In 1984 Spielberg followed up "Raiders" with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), which was a commercial success but did not receive the critical acclaim of its predecessor. As a producer Spielberg took on many projects in the 1980s, such as the silly The Goonies (1985), and was the brains behind the little monsters in Gremlins (1984). He also produced the cartoon An American Tail (1986), a quaint little animated classic. His biggest effort as producer in 1985, however, was the blockbuster Back to the Future (1985), which made Michael J. Fox an instant superstar. As director, Spielberg took on the book The Color Purple (1985), with Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, with great success. In the latter half of the 1980s he also directed Empire of the Sun (1987), a mixed success for the occasionally erratic Spielberg. Success would not escape him for long, though.The late 1980s found Spielberg's projects at the center of pop culture yet again. In 1988 he produced the landmark animation/live action film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). The next year proved to be another big one for Spielberg, as he produced and directed Always (1989) as well as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Back to the Future Part II (1989). All three of the films were box-office and critical successes. Also in 1989 he produced the little known comedy-drama Dad (1989), with Jack Lemmon and Ted Danson, which got mostly mixed results. Spielberg has also had an affinity for animation and has been a strong voice in animation in the 1990s. Aside from producing the landmark "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", he produced the animated series "Tiny Toon Adventures" (1990), "Animaniacs" (1993), "Pinky and the Brain" (1995), "Freakazoid!" (1995), "Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain" (1998), "Family Dog" (1993) and "Toonsylvania" (1998). Spielberg also produced other cartoons such as The Land Before Time (1988) , We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), Casper (1995) (the live action version) as well as the live action version of The Flintstones (1994), where he was credited as "Steven Spielrock." Spielberg also produced many Roger Rabbit short cartoons, and many Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs and Tiny Toons specials. Spielberg was very active in the early 1990s, as he directed Hook (1991) and produced such films as the cute fantasy Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991). He also produced the unusual comedy thriller Arachnophobia (1990), Back to the Future Part III (1990) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). While these movies were big successes in their own right, they did not quite bring in the kind of box office or critical acclaim as previous efforts. In 1993 Spielberg directed Jurassic Park (1993), which would for a short time hold the record as the highest grossing movie of all time, but did not have the universal appeal of his previous efforts. Big box-office spectacles were not his only concern, though. He produced and directed Schindler's List (1993), a stirring film about the Holocaust. He won best director at the Oscars, and also got Best Picture. In the mid-'90s he helped found the production company DreamWorks, which was responsible for many box office successes in the '90s and beyond. Spielberg as a producer was very active in the late '90s, responsible for such films as The Mask of Zorro (1998), Men in Black (1997) and Deep Impact (1998). It was on the directing front that Spielberg was in top form in the late 1990s, though. He directed and produced the epic Amistad (1997), a spectacular film that was shorted at the Oscars and in release due to the fact that its release date was moved around so much in late 1997.The next year, however, produced what many believe was one of the best films of his career: Saving Private Ryan (1998). This was an almost perfect film about World War Two that is spectacular in almost every respect. It was stiffed at the Oscars, losing best picture to Shakespeare in Love (1998). In the 1990s Spielberg produced a series of films, including Evolution (2001), The Haunting (1999) and Shrek (2001). he also produced two sequels to Jurassic Park (1993), which were financially but not particularly critical successes. In 2001 he produced a mini-series about World War Two that definitely WAS a financial and critical success: "Band of Brothers" (2001) (mini), a tale of an infantry company from its parachuting into France during the invasion to the Battle of the Bulge. Also in that year, Spielberg was back in the director's chair for Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), a movie with a message and a huge budget. It did reasonably at the box office and garnered varied reviews from critics. As of right now Steven Spielberg is teaming up with Tom Cruise for the expected box office hit Minority Report (2002). While the movie is showing off good special effects and a stellar pairing of two titans of the screen, critics have not all been too friendly. Perhaps this is a further sign that Spielberg's days of big box-office are on the decline. As well as producing Men in Black II (2002), Spielberg's next two projects are producing and directing Catch Me If You Can (2002), with Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, and _"Indiana Jones 4". While Spielberg has proven a brilliant filmmaker in the past, his latest efforts have been mixed, but only the future will tell how he is looked upon as a presence in film. And while Spielberg has been extremely active in films there are many other things he has done as well. Spielberg produced the short-lived TV series "SeaQuest DSV" (1993), an anthology series entitled "Amazing Stories" (1985), created the video game series Medal of Honor set during World War Two, and was a starting producer of "ER" (1994). Spielberg, if you haven't noticed, has a great interest in World War Two. He and Tom Hanks collaborated on Shooting War (2000) (TV), a documentary about World War II combat photographers, and he produced a documentary about the Holocaust called A Holocaust szemei (2000). With all of this to Spielberg's credit, it's no wonder that he's looked at as one of the greatest ever figures in entertainment. Spielberg is a great filmmaker without a doubt, and it does not seem he is anywhere near done making films, and with all of the money he has he probably could do anything he wanted to. And recently Spielberg graduated from Long Beach State University with a degree in filmmaking. His possibilities are still limitless.
Trivia random: Son of Arnold Spielberg.
Citazione random: "I've taken the time to familiarize myself with the impressive field of Democratic candidates and am convinced that Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate to lead us from her first day in the White House. Hillary is a strong leader and is respected the world over. As president, she will bring America back together, rebuild our prestige abroad and ensure our protection here at home."
Salario massimo: $250,000,000 (gross and profit participations), per Jurassic Park (1993)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Turturro, John
Data di nascita: 28 February 1957
Altezza: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Coniuge: Katherine Borowitz::(1985 - present) 2 children
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Highly talented, lightly built Italian American actor who always looks unsettled and jumpy has become a favourite of cult/arthouse film aficionados with his compelling performances in a broad range of cinematic vehicles. Has become a regular in the thought provoking films of Spike Lee and the off the wall comedies of Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. His wonderful performances include as the highly agitated "Pino" in Do the Right Thing (1989), as an intellectual playwright in Barton Fink (1991), a pedophile tenpin bowler in The Big Lebowski (1998), a confused boyfriend in Jungle Fever (1991) and as the voice of Harvey the dog in Summer of Sam (1999).Turturro has continued to appeal to audiences despite his unconventional looks and the often annoying onscreen mannerisms of his characters which he used to great effect in films such as his blue collar tale of warring brothers in the construction business, Mac (1992), as the irate, dumped game show contestant, Herbie Stempel, in Robert Redford's dynamic Quiz Show (1994). One of modern American cinema's gems of acting, Turturro remains in strong demand for his high calibre thespian talents.
Trivia random: Has appeared in more films directed by Spike Lee than any other actor. They first worked together in Do the Right Thing (1989) and as of She Hate Me (2004) has appeared in eight of Lee's films.
Citazione random: "I mean usually with movies, if you're dark, you're a bad guy. That's it. I turned down a million bad guy things."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Voight, Jon
Nome di battesimo: Voight, Jonathan Vincent
Data di nascita: 29 December 1938
Altezza: 6' 3" (1.91 m)
Coniuge: Marcheline Bertrand::(12 December 1971 - 1978) (divorced) 2 children, Lauri Peters::(1962 - 1967) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: Honored at fund-raiser for Joseph Papp Children's Humanitarian Fund in New York City, May 2002.
Citazione random: "In most ways it was a damn good picture. But if we remade Midnight Cowboy (1969) today, the whole relationship between Buck and Ratso would have to be sexualized or at least made, you know, like in love...to be sexually or erotically honest."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
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