New Transformers 2 Autos Revealed
Okay, sure, we don’t REALLY know which new Transformers will be appearing in Michael Bay’s Transformers 2. But we do have photos of new concept cars running around the TF2 movie set.
So lets take a look at the alt modes of some of the autobots and decepticons you might be seeing on the big screen come June 2009.
A red/orange 2009 Chevy Trax was spotted driving down Front Street with Bumblebee and the Chevy Beat that has been previously seen at the Smithsonian set. Since they have been seen at multiple locations traveling with the Autobots, I’m guessing they are part of the team.
In our first Transformers Secrets Revealed article we told you about a new set of Autobots featured in the opening sequence. An old beat up ice cream truck split in two to form two smaller Transformers called The Twins. But we haven’t seen the Ice Cream Truck back in action since the Bethlehem Steel shoot which leads us to believe that The Twins might have found a new auto form, possibly as the Chevy Trax and Chevy Beat. But then again, that might take away from the coolness of two Transformers which combine together into one vehicle. Its also worth mentioning that there is one more car in the Chevy line of concept cars that hasn’t yet made an appearance, The Chevy Groove. The photo from the set comes from jalopnik.
Check out the rest of the unconfirmed line-up:
Autobots:
Optimus Prime as the Blue and Red Peterbilt 379EX
Bumblebee is a Yellow 2009 Chevy Camaro
Ratchet is a Lime Yellow 2008 Hummer H2
Ironhide is a Black 2007 GMC Topkick C4500
Arcee is made up of three Pink/Purplecustom motocycles from RetroSBK. The above picture is my crappy artist rendering of what the bike probably might look like.
Stinger might be a Chevy Corvette ZR1. Photo below is not a color match.
Wheels is a blue RC toy Jeep.
Wheeljack might be a White 2009 SAAB Aero-X.
Decepticons:
Starscream is a Gray F-22 Raptor. Scale model spotted on set. [slashfilm]
Barricade is a Black 2008 Saleen S281 Extreme Mustang
Jetfire is a SR-71 Blackbird. [slashfilm]
Soundwave has been confirmed but has not been seen. And a Constructicon Earth Mover was listed in the call sheets, but never seen on set.
contributing sources: TLAMB, TFW2005, Flickr
Extended Wanted Opening Sequence!
Below you’ll find (what’s supposed to be) the first seven minutes of the upcoming Wanted movie!
I’m going to see this movie anyway, and the action shots are really, really cool, but… doesn’t it look a little, I don’t know, CHEESY to anyone else? All those times with James McAvoy screaming (and some cheese dialogue, too), and there are about 100 slow-motion shots in just these seven minutes ALONE. Ah well, guess we’ll find out if it’s good or not in a few weeks!
Angelina Jolie looks amazing, though! I know many a guy who’d KILL to be in James’ place in that while she’s hanging out the windshield!
Is “Nuke the Fridge” the New “Jump the Shark”?
The Urban Dictionary has added an entry for “Nuke the Fridge”, a contemporary replacement for the slang term “Jumped the Shark”.
Jump the Shark is a reference to a scene in an episode of Happy Days when Fonzie literally jumps over a shark while water skiing. The scene was considered so preposterous, and is considered by many to signify the moment in time when the show became unappealing to its core audience.
The new term Nuke the Fridge is based on an event in the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Here is an explanation of the term from the online Urban Dictionary:
“Nuke the fridge is a colloquialism used to refer to the moment in a film series that is so incredible that it lessens the excitement of subsequent scenes that rely on more understated action or suspense, and it becomes apparent that a certain installment is not as good as a previous installments, due to ridiculous or low quality storylines, events or characters.
The term comes from the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which, near the start of the movie, Harrison Ford’s character survives a nuclear detonation by climbing into a kitchen fridge, which is then blown hundreds of feet through the sky whilst the town disintegrates. He then emerges from the fridge with no apparent injury. Later in the movie, the audience is expected to fear for his safety in a normal fistfight.
Fans of the Indiana Jones series found the absurdity of this event in the film to be the best example of the lower quality of this installment in the series, and thus coined the phrase, “nuke the fridge”.
The phrase is also a reference to the phrase “jump the shark”, which has the same meaning, only applied to a television series instead of a film series.
This phrase is not in common use.
“Star Wars didn’t really nuke the fridge until Jar Jar Binks was introduced.”
“Peter Parker dancing around the bar in Spider-Man 3? Kinda nukes the fridge!”
“The Godfather: Part III nukes the fridge.”
“Gremlins 2 more or less nuked the fridge.”
What do you think? Pretty funny but I think “Jumped the Shark” rolls off the tongue easier.
via: FilmDrunk
Trivia: Dan Aykroyd and the Temple of Doom
When I was re-watching the Indiana Jones trilogy in preparation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I discovered something I never noticed before - Dan Aykroyd.
That’s right, the SNL star turned Ghostbuster has a very small cameo in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Unlike Raiders and Last Crusade, I had only seen the film once or twice since I was a kid, which might explain how I passed him by. The 18-second cameo is easy to miss and comes just after the conclusion of the car chase with Lao Che’s men in the film’s opening sequence. Aykroyd plays a character named “Weber”, who sports a mustache and an even worse fake British accent. He explains to Indy that he’s arranged for last minute transportation just before Jones, Short Round and Willie board the plane. Turns out that Aykroyd was friends with Spielberg, going back to working on 1941.
Even harder to spot is the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos of George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, and Steven Spielberg as a group of missionaries in the background of the same airport scene.
The newspaper clipping below shows the group in costume wearing long black cassocks and tropical helmets.
