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What Is Even Going On In ‘Transformers: The Last Knight?’— Cinemaholics

Full disclosure: I was very tired during this latest episode of Cinemaholics, and you can clearly hear it in my voice. For fun, simply imagine that it’s my disdain for Transformers: The Last Knight fueling my weariness and it should sound just fine.

Maveryke and I are joined this week by CJ Mellon from That Kind of Nerd podcast. You may remember CJ from his guest appearance on Now Conspiring last fall, when we discussed the best and worst movies of 2016 (or maybe just the summer?) Unfortunately, Will Ashton is out this week due to scheduling conflicts.

Fortunately, our Mini Reviews were a bit more lighthearted than our featured discussion of Transformers. We talked about GLOW, the new show on Netflix starring Alison Brie, which is about the “gorgeous ladies of wrestling” in the 1980s. Highly recommend now that I’ve seen a few episodes myself. CJ shares his love of iZombie and speaks briefly on Season 3 without spoiling anything. And I gave a sneak peak review of Friends from College, another new Netflix show premiering on July 14th. I’m still working my way through the season, but it’s a solid recommendation.

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No Cinemahomework this week, but stay tuned for some bonus content in the next few days surrounding some big news stories we didn’t have time to get to in the main episode. See you all next week.

Michael Bay Will Not Return For Next Transformers Film.

Michael Bay

Dennis Upkins | Comicbook.com

Variety reports that Bay is in preliminary discussions to direct Paramount’s 13 Hours. Based on actual events, the story recounts the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, on the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11.

While Transformers: Age of Extinction has banked more than $1 billion worldwide, the 49-year-old director recently announced that he wanted to pursue other projects.

“I have a lot of stories to tell,” Bay said. “And it’s about flexing new muscles.”

I wouldn’t get your hopes up. He said the same thing about doing a fourth Transformers movie, but that happened anyway. 

And I’m sure he’ll handle Benghazi with about as much grace as you’d expect.

As for the future of the Transformers franchise, fans have little to worry about. At this point, the formula has been pretty much nailed down, so any director who takes the reigns will find it easy to carry on what’s made the franchise such a consistent success at the box office.

It would take a franchise-killer director like  Shyamalan to mess this up.

A Transformers Fan Put Together A Video Of Every Transformation From The Movies (And It’s Amazing)

My brain may have hated the Transformers movies (it hates anything that causes headaches and Shia Labeouf), but my heart will always have a place for watching large robots beat the crap out of each other in stunning HD.

Someone I assume to be the world’s biggest Transformers fan with video editing skills agrees with me that the only aspect of the Michael Bay movies that really brought us to theaters was the transformations, so this fan put together a video that features every single transformation from the first movie to Dark of The Moon.

It’s 10 minutes long, but I suspect that you’ll watch it all the way through. I did, and I’d rather go to sleep tonight not believing that I’m the only person who could actually sit through the awesome that is this video.

Enjoy:

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Review: ‘Pacific Rim’

Has this summer’s box office apocalypse been canceled by Pacific Rim?

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