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Tag: transformers 2
Car Fu
If you thought the best bit about Transformers 2 was the kung fu robots then you just have to check out this trailer for a Chinese movie that’s coming out this year. It looks awesome.
Gulf War: Critics v Consumers
Transformers 2 is killing it at the box office and being killed by the critics.
“After just five days, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is halfway to $400 million domestically, a box-office milestone only eight other movies have reached. If it climbs that high, the “Transformers” sequel will be by far the worst-reviewed movie ever to make the $400 million club.
Critics and mainstream crowds often disagree, but “Revenge of the Fallen” sets a new standard for the gulf between what reviewers and mass audiences like. “
Yeah, cop that critics… you suck.
Transforming the movie industry
I’m pretty excited about Transformers 2. If you’re a guy you probably understand why already.
If you’re not excited – then you should be. Director Michael Bay has given some reasons why on his blog.
I will not reproduce his post in full. Here are some highlights…
Robots
- 14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
- If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
- Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
- Devastator’s hand is traveling 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyramid.
- The pyramid destruction simulation was 8 times bigger than the old rigid simulation all-time record holder at ILM.
- All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of California to the other, about 180 miles
- Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state buildings.
- If all the texture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 football fields.
Disk space
- TF1 took 20 Terabytes of disk space. Trans2 took 145 Terabytes. Seven times bigger!
- 145 terabytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other without storage cases, they would be 145 feet tall.
Rendering times
- If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year’s premiere!
- A single imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop.
- IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!
Imax
- Optimus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many forest fight shots.
- Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamorphic to render.
- IMAX frame render times: As high as 72 hours per frame!
More than meets the eye
This is a nice USB drive/Transformers tie in. I would like one, but they’re $42 – which works out at $21 a GB.
Youtube Tuesday: More than meets the eye
This HD Transformers 2 trailer was “leaked” online this week. Awesome. So very, very, awesome.