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Wind up Geek’s Five Must See Movies – August, 2014

Written by James Robert Shaw (The Wind up Geek)

Guardians_of_the_GalaxyWe’ve had not too bad of a summer as far as movies are concerned but to be quite frank, I expected more of a shake up at the box office rather than the stillness of low ticket sales. While I have enjoyed Tom Cruise’s Oblivion immensely, and have yet to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Transformers: Age of Extinction was a bit of a letdown. Although not as bad as Transformers: Dark of the Moon, it still couldn’t eclipse movies one or two. It is safe for me to say that the franchise has dried up here on Earth and if Michael Bay wants to save his next sequel, he should start thinking of setting the tale on the planet Cybertron, or at least deep space.

August will be the last hurrah before September quietly creeps in with nary a potential blockbuster. At this rate the Christmas film rush can’t come fast enough.

This month, we have four green amphibians ready to quick some shell, a group of experienced action heroes ready to blow things up just for old time’s sake, and a spaceship of losers who at first glance you’ll mistake for the Farscape crew (and goodness knows we are all waiting for a movie).

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Preparing for TMNT & Any Michael Bay Produced Film

By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

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Watching a Michael Bay produced film is like watching a music video. He drowns audiences with flashy edits and loud bangs. When considering that is how this producer/director started in the entertainment industry, most people will find that his style has never evolved beyond the four-minute exploitative product and that is most likely why his recent works get panned a lot. He actually started making films fairly well. The Rock was actually a decent film that owed its debt to the dynamics that Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage had on screen more so than Bay’s direction. His break out film, Bad Boys, owed everything to the talent of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

Bay’s early films were decent wham bam thank you ma’am action flicks. And before the band Aqua files suit, the sexual allegations is less about the metaphors being made but more in what Bay believes is an ideal film. The reason his films are box office earners is simply because he’s a true believer that goes for what he sees in what can sell a film more than in what can earn a film a place in cinematic history. Even back in the golden age of cinema, the filmmakers were not making their movies with the knowledge that their products will get fondly remembered a century later.

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Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Release Pushed Back

Those are very tough times for any version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to get onto the big screen again.

TMNTIt’s too bad that Michael Bay’s version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cannot be shelved. Instead, this movie is being pitted into a month where it has very little competition to worry about. This film is being shoved back to play in theaters August 12th, so there’s space between this film and Transformers 4, reported Deadline.

That works when the release date for the next film in the Transformers saga is set for June 27, 2014.

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Feldman to Appear at Armageddon

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Feldman is to appear at Armageddon or at least that is what he’s hinting at anyways. Corey Feldman the actor known to geeks and nerds the world over as Mouth from the Richard Donner directed film The Goonies (1985) and as the voice of Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) may be signing autographs come Armageddon day. It’s interesting that Feldman may appear at the same convention as Kevin Eastman, one of the creators of TMNT. Feldman had this to say on his twitter:

AUSTRALIA!!! I am thinking of coming 4 a visit 2 do some gigs n sign autos @Armageddonexpo but 1st I need 2 C how many of U would b there? RT!

Armageddon Expo is a pop culture convention that takes place in both New Zealand and Australia. Armageddon Expo 2013 in Melbourne boasts an impressive list of guests that includes Ben Browder and Claudia Black from Farscape, voice artist Gregg Berger, Norman Lovett from Red Dwarf, Jason Carter from Babylon 5 and Richard Hatch from the original Battlestar Galactica.