Thursday, January 16, 2025

SPL!NG Movie Review: Transformers – Age of Extinction

WHAM! BAM! Thank you Michael Bay. Love or hate him, the Transformers director has continued to smash the box office with larger-than-life movies about Hasbro’s popular line of toys from the ’80s. His latest sequel, Transformers: Age of Extinction, is a case of too much “more of the same” with Mark Wahlberg replacing long-running front man, Shia LaBeouf.

Some Uber Users Will Be Picked Up By Optimus Prime

Nothing is better than a giant alien robot. Nothing! While you can’t exactly have your own combative robotic compadre, you can however enjoy the Tranformers’ Optimus Prime in vehicle format. In celebration of the release of Transformers: Age of Extinction, Uber has included the leader of the Autobots in it’s fleet, giving you and your […]

SPL!NG Movie Review: Battleship (2012)

Transformers was essentially a 20 minute advert for the collectible figurines, which went on to become a series of Michael Bay blockbusters. While merchandise is probably the main reason George Lucas gave Star Wars a 3D overhaul. Just when you thought Hollywood had milked the “toy” department dry… Hasbro smashes a mini champagne bottle on Battleship, a popular table top game and now $200 million […]

New Study Confirms That Hollywood Is Still Pretty Much Sexist

This shouldn’t be surprising to anybody, but it’s probably good to be reminded. A study by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism that surveyed the top 100-grossing movies of 2009, and found that only 32,8% of the 4 342 speaking characters were female. Let us remember that 2009 was the year that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen came out.

Michael Bay Likes To Recycle His Own Movie Footage

Michael Bay, womaniser, loon and director of brilliant movies, such as Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy, has been caught cheating… again, this around time by recycling footage from The Island and using it for Transformers 3.

Transformers 3 Has A Plot, Apparently

Overeager merchandising at Amazon led to the spoiling of Transformer 3: The Dark of the Moon’s plot, which everybody is just devastated about. What’s that? You don’t watch it ‘for the story’? Oh. Well it’s in space, apparently…