Transformers makes millions with help from Tinker Air Force Base
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” just passed the $300 million mark. Because we’re talking about Transformers, there is more than meets the eye. A few select airmen and airwomen got to take part in the filming of this blockbuster hit. Did you know that? If you didn’t then read the story below.
Not people from Tinker, but neat looking
“Transformers” star Megan Fox said she doesn’t like seeing herself onscreen, but Lt. Col. Jimmy Warren said he’s looking forward to the DVD of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” — so he can hit pause and show his kids exactly where he is.
Getting rewarded for hard work usually involves a small get-together featuring cake or pastries, but a select group from Tinker Air Force Base was rewarded with something bigger: an opportunity to appear in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.”
Director Michael Bay approached members of the 552nd Air Control Wing with this scenario: There’s the “mother of all battles” happening on the ground in Egypt, and you’re here to give air support to make sure the Autobots beat the Decepticons, Warren said.
“(It) was very similar to what we do, at times, on our aircrafts,” Warren said. “(We did) what we would really do … if we were deployed somewhere.”
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Something amazing to do on July 3
The Oklahoma City Museum of Arts is showing “In a Dream.” It’s a captivating documentary about artist Isaiah Zagar, who made a 50,000-square foot mural out of glass and tile. Basically, the film is an honest and artsy freakout. See for yourself below.
The film is showing at 5:30 p.m and 8 p.m. on Friday, July 3.
IN A DREAM: Extended Trailer from Herzliya Films on Vimeo.
TRAILER WATCH: “The Informant”
Matt Damon joins director Steven Soderbergh (Oceans Trilogy) to play a spy that’s the opposite of Jason Bourne. Give it a look.
Beck posts free DJ set
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“(It’s) a laminated miasma colliding on the bavarian trans expressway with american analog and voicemail emeritus… alabama nukes, rhineland jukes, pony tailed arch dukes, and the anatomically correct scapegoat…”
Al Franken wins Minnesota Senate seat
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I remember Franken from his run as Stuart Smalley on SNL. I hope his political career fares better than his political ads. Click here for more info.
TRAILER WATCH: “Spread”
Nikki (Ashton Kutcher) plays a Hollywood playboy with a voice that sounds so incredibly stuck up that I needed valet parking to merely watch the trailer below.
MGMT and Karen O join the Flaming Lips
Photo by: Nathan Poppe
“I think you have to be willing just to completely destroy yourself and just see what comes out of the dirt.”
TOP FIVE most interesting ways Billy Mays pitched items
Pitchman Billy Mays died yesterday, but his entertaining commercials will live on in my brain forever. It’s mostly because he yelled at me so loudly, but also because his commercials were always creative. Here are five examples of how Billy Mays made his products more interesting than the stuff in your house.
5. Using an American flag in a wind tunnel (35 seconds into commercial)
4. Using a gardening tool to mix paint (1:12 into commercial)
3. Driving a drill straight into tile (36 seconds into commericial)
2. Embarrassing the same toilet brush twice (beginning and end of commercial)
1. Turning into a human washing machine (46 seconds into commercial)
Flaming lips on Flaming Lips new album cover
"Embryonic" album cover
Take a look at the Lips’ previous album covers.
"At War With the Mystics"
"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
"The Soft Bulletin"
Why the world needs Michael Bay.
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The world needs Michael Bay.
Anyone with decent taste has all ready stopped reading this, but that sentence is the truest thing I’ve ever typed. He’s a man that doesn’t ask for much from an audience. The first “Transformers” film grossed more than $700 million worldwide.
Bay did all that without pouring an ounce of heart into the film, and if he did then it was probably covered with fire or something else wildly flammable. Nothing can stop people from swarming to a Michael Bay film (excluding “The Island,” which doesn’t count because there were barely any robots).
Here is backbone to my argument.
Imagine if Bay had directed a new 3-D extravaganza titled “A Twine to Kill” where the fate of humanity is challenged by a giant, rolling ball of twine. The back story is simple (surprised?). Scientists have the technology to combine the largest ball of twine in Darwin, Minn. with the second largest ball of twine in Cawker City, Kan., but Dr. Killington (a robot voiced by James Earl Jones) rushes the construction of the twine.
Killington kidnaps the twine and begins to roll around the planet crushing buildings, large and small cars and any scientists that know the twine’s weakness (it’s fire by the way). The film promises to be big, loud and star a beautiful woman and not Ben Affleck. It’s a sure success.
Here is the catch.
When you put the 3-D glasses on your head, the ball of twine actually rolls out of the screen and crushes you. You are most likely not going to survive seeing this film. Several reviewers miraculously survive this disaster and make sure to mention that the latest Michael Bay film was insipid, stupid and killed everyone in the theatre.
People would react in the same way if it had shimmering reviews. They would just see the pretty Hollywood movie.
That’s the power of Michael Bay. He makes well-informed, smart people disregard their own taste and what’s bothering them. Maybe it’s imminent death by a ball of twine. Maybe it’s a terrible day at work. Maybe it’s a divorce. It doesn’t matter because Michael Bay will always blow stuff up in an ungodly manner.
I am almost certain Bay knows that nothing can harm his reputation. He blows things up for a living. Not only can he not hear you if you criticized him (so many explosions have probably rendered him deaf), but he also probably wouldn’t care. Also, it’s time to film a “A Twine to Kill” sequel. Ready the twine.
Before CGI, this is what robots looked like.
