This is basically a comedy-action vehicle for Dracula’s crazy bug-eating stooge Renfield, played here by Nicholas Hoult ( CLASH OF THE TITANS). RENFIELD is a so-so movie with one element of excellence that kinda goes without saying, but I will say it. That character was famously voiced by Orson Welles in THE TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE, and here he’s Colman Domingo ( ZOLA), a great choice of voice to process even lower and blast through Imax speakers so loud you can feel it vibrating your bones. You know how it is, you’re on Cybertron just minding your own business being a mechanical rhino or cheetah made out of metal but with fur on some parts, suddenly you gotta flee to an organic jungle world to hide the portal-opening Transwarp Key from the the giant planet-munching robot Unicron. So technically it’s a prequel, but there’s not much important continuity (as there really isn’t in any of these movies).Īside from a new director and attitude, the flashy new attraction is the Maximals – robotic animal characters from the 1996 computer animated show Beast Wars. It’s not a reboot, but a new chapter set in 1994 – after Travis Knight’s BUMBLEBEE, before all the Michael Bay ones. TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS is the new Transformers picture directed by Steven Caple Jr. Even if you forgive me for not caring about James Bond or TRADING PLACES, the camel’s back could break when I confess that I don’t really care that much about the Christopher Reeve Superman movies either. My friends born a few or several years before me, people who are older than Generation Ewok, have attachments to some of these movies, characters and actors that I just don’t. I was hearing all about Salacious Crum, but not BLUE THUNDER or anything starring Burt Reynolds. I remember being alive then, but I was only aware of a little kid-sized slice of pop culture. I believe 1985 is the earliest retrospective I’ve done previously, and I thought that went well, but what I’ve really realized looking at 1983 is how many of these movies feel just a little bit before my time. While he was in his crib, on June 17, 1983, the definitive cinematic Superman met Richard Pryor.īoy, I hope I’m not trying people’s patience too much with this series. On May 5th, 1983, future Superman actor Henry Cavill was born in St.
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