He’s Got Spirit of the Day: Say what you will about China, but their male cheerleaders are fabulous. [ videosift .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 29/06/2011 19:22 Number of articles : 2
He’s Got Spirit of the Day: Say what you will about China, but their male cheerleaders are fabulous. [ videosift .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 29/06/2011 19:22 Number of articles : 2
He’s Got Spirit of the Day: Say what you will about China, but their male cheerleaders are fabulous. [ videosift .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 29/06/2011 19:22 Number of articles : 2
He’s Got Spirit of the Day: Say what you will about China, but their male cheerleaders are fabulous. [ videosift .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 29/06/2011 19:22 Number of articles : 2
DES MOINES, Iowa (The Blaze/AP) — An animal welfare group that has used undercover videos to generate public outrage over the treatment of livestock said it now plans to use secret recordings to pressure large grocery chains to stop buying from pig farms that use practices it considers abusive. But while the the videos are disturbing, the business they target claim that “a lot” of them are staged…. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 29/06/2011 19:58 Number of articles : 3
Adorable Animals Being Adorable of the Day: Penguins vs. Iceberg — who ya got’? [ videogum .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 29/06/2011 20:36 Number of articles : 3
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s “Founding Fathers dilemma” started back in January when she claimed that the nation’s first leaders had “worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.” In response, ABC News wrote the following : Many of the founders, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were, in fact, slave owners. And as every middle school history teacher will tell you, the… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 29/06/2011 23:21 Number of articles : 2
Third installment of the Shia LaBeouf-starring ‘Bot franchise is getting the best notices yet. By Eric Ditzian Sentinel Prime in “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Photo: Paramount Pictures We’ve now seen “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” — during a raucous pre-release IMAX screening that left our ears ringing and our senses tingling — and can vouch for the consensus critical opinion surrounding the summer blockbuster: It’s the finest film in the franchise. That’s the overall take. But how do the three films — including the 2007 original and 2009’s “Revenge of the Fallen” — stack up when you’re gauging various cinematic elements? To get to the bottom of that question, we have to dive back into the historical record. The Story “T1” : “The screenwriters, Alex Kurtzmann and Robert Orci, don’t bother to explain as they go along; they just pile up the bang-crash action sequences and, when things get too confusing, screech to a halt for some plodding explanatory dialogue.” — Dana Stevens, Slate “T2” : “There is much absurd backstory and crammed-in explanation for what is going on and despite much of it being voiced by the thunderous Peter Cullen … it still gets annoying.” — Jordan Hoffman, UGO “T3” : “Writer Ehren Kruger … had script duties all to himself, and he has fashioned a narrative of ornate silliness — which is to say, pretty good pulpy fun.” — Kurt Loder, Reason The Visuals “T1” : “The visuals are the real stars here. Though they grow repetitive, the robots’ transforming scenes — joints bending, appendages stretching, gears whirling — are too cool to ever become boring.” — David Germain, The Associated Press “T2” : “The battle scenes are bewildering. A Bot makes no visual sense anyway, but two or three tangled up together create an incomprehensible confusion.” — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times “T3” : “By showing a measure of restraint and using 3-D to excellent effect, Bay finally enables the Transformers to emerge as players in their own right, with hopes and dreams, declaiming their philosophies of fate, humankind and the universe in grand Shakespearean style.” — Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times The Performances “T1” : “LaBeouf has the hefty job of single-handedly injecting the action with personality, and he brings it off, though without offering much variation on his nervous, hipster-squirt charm.” — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly “T2” : “Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, who are definitely the stars as far as how much of the movie they’re in compared to anyone else, both throw themselves into the physical demands of the film with admirable zeal, which is good, since there’s nothing else to the roles.” — Drew McWeeny, HitFix “T3” : “LaBeouf is highly physical and crowd-pleasingly jerky as the little man and the franchise’s centerpiece, Sam Witwicky. If all Tom Cruise consumed were juice boxes of Red Bull, LaBoeuf is who he’d be.” — Wesley Morris, Boston Globe The Bottom Line “T1” : “We knew it would be dumb. But we had no idea it would be so much dumb fun.” — Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinal “T2” : “[Though] it has plenty of popcorn moments that can be big, dumb fun (alien secrets under a pyramid, sexy girls who sprout mechanical tails at the worst moments), director Michael Bay’s sequel is louder and more illogical than the megasuccessful 2007 original.” — Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News “T3” : “‘Dark of the Moon’ is hardly a fleet production, but here Bay makes his best, most flexible use yet of all the flamboyant bigness at his command: computer-drawn characters and human actors seem to occupy the same narrative for once.” — Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly Check out everything we’ve got on “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Crashes Into New York City
Michael Bay’s summer blockbuster has critics praising his deft handling of eye-popping 3-D. By Eric Ditzian Sentinel Prime in “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Photo: Paramount Pictures As even Michael Bay has admitted, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” had almost nowhere to go but up after the writers’ strike-affected, audience-alienating previous installment . And insofar as Bay and company had something to prove — and to improve — this time around, they’ve succeeded. While “Dark of the Moon” isn’t currently the highest rated film in the franchise, according to the Rotten Tomatoes review aggregator, the general consensus among critics is that the new 3-D flick is best of the “Transformers” bunch. That’s not to suggest reviews have been universally positive; many have been as brutal to the film as the film’s robots have been to certain American cities. Reviewers have taken issue with poor plotting, weak characters and brain-scrambling action set pieces. But then there are a slew of reviewers utterly onboard with what Bay has created, celebrating some of the finest 3-D visuals since “Avatar” and a story that is the most fully fleshed out of the series. For those opinions and others, take a deep dive into the “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” reviews. The Story “A sweet prologue (marred only by a phony-looking digital JFK) recounts the war for Cybertron and the real reason behind the U.S.-Soviet space race of the 1960s. Cut to the present where Sam Witwicky (LaBeouf) struggles to find his first post-college job, while the Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the U.S. military’s NEST team led by Lt. Col. Lennox (Josh Duhamel) work in tandem to take out the remaining Decepticons around the world. However, the evil ‘bots eventually get the upper hand and begin an invasion to conquer the Earth with Chicago as Ground Zero in this final war between the Autobots/humans and Decepticons. There’s more going on, but for the sake of spoilers we’ll keep it at that. Transformers: Dark of the Moon definitely has more of a plot than either of its predecessors. There are genuine stakes this time.” — Jim Vejvoda, IGN The 3-D “[For] the first time since ‘Avatar,’ I am going to recommend that you find the biggest and best 3-D theater you can find and buy yourself a ticket, because ‘Transformers: Dark Of the Moon,’ especially seen in IMAX 3-D, is an overwhelming sensory experience. The sound mix alone is more exciting than anything in the billion-dollar-bore of ‘Pirates 4.’ This is gigantic action we’ve never seen before, and Bay’s reaction to shooting and cutting his film for 3-D is to get better at what he does. It raised his game, and as a result, I feel like we just saw a dare thrown down by one of Hollywood’s biggest action specialists: ‘Top this.’ — Drew McWeeny, HitFix The Comparisons “Bay’s hammering technique works, in a commercial sense. Executive producer Steven Spielberg is the richer for it. But it’s telling to compare any good minute in Spielberg’s ‘War of the Worlds,’ for example, with any of the 153 minutes in ‘Dark of the Moon.’ The former, which isn’t even Spielberg at his best, offers the thrill and the uneasy, complicated spectacle of destruction you get from a first-rate entertainer. Bay’s endless love of nastiness and chrome and aggression offers less. And that’s the only ‘less’ about it.” — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune The Characters “All that matters is the long, slow slog to the Chicago-set, theater-rattling finale, which seems to last about four hours. That’s not a compliment, by the way. There’s so much potential in a Transformer, which can, after all, transform into anything. But Bay misses every opportunity to make something interesting out of his characters; instead, he’s content to spend his enormous budget on grinding destruction so generic and visually convoluted, it’s often hard to tell who we’re supposed to be rooting for.” — Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News The Final Word “More than either of the previous films, this ‘Transformers 3’ feels like an ultra-violent version of the two-dimensional cartoon it’s based on. I think I’m almost alright with that, when it’s done this well, in this kind of summer blockbuster. We’d probably all be happier watching another movie like ‘Inception,’ but as long as those movies still get made, I guess there’s nothing wrong in sitting down with a ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon,’ once in awhile.” — Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend Check out everything we’ve got on “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Related Photos ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’
Fart Joke of the Day: A Fox 8 News anchor struggles to make it through a story about some drunk dude who farted in front of a police officer. It’s all very adult stuff. [ urlesque .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 27/06/2011 20:11 Number of articles : 2
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