| Transformers |
| Tuesday, 03 July 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
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At 7:30pm this tuesday 3rd July, we will go to watch TRANSFORMERS at the Boston Common Theatre to celebrate Independence Day - the Fourth of July. This is a federal holiday of the United States, celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from Great Britain. All the tickets are sponsored courtesy of GAMBIT!!!
Transformers is a 2007 live action film based on the Transformers franchise. Producers Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto developed the film in 2003 and Transformers fans Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman wrote the script, aiming for a realistic interpretation of the characters. Michael Bay was convinced by executive producer Steven Spielberg to direct the film despite not being a fan of the series, to make his first family film. Armed with an enormous marketing campaign including comics, toys and tie-in deals, Transformers premiered on June 12, 2007 and opened in the United States on July 2, 2007. The Story The Decepticons and Autobots have been embroiled in a war that eventually lead to the destruction of their home planet Cybertron and scattered the survivors throughout the universe. Both sides are now seeking the Allspark, an immensely powerful life-giving device which was lost to them but now known to be on Earth.
Needing to raise cash to pay for a car, high-school student Sam Witwicky Sam (Shia LaBeouf) tries to sell the glasses of his great-great-grandfather Captain Archibald Witwicky Captain_Archibald (W. Morgan Sheppard), a famous explorer driven insane by his discoveries, to his classmates and on eBay. However, Sam is unaware that the lenses of the glasses contain the etchings of the coordinates of the location of the Allspark, made when Captain Witwicky accidentally encountered the frozen body of Decepticon leader Megatron (voice of Hugo Weaving) buried under the ice in the Arctic Circle. In Qatar the Decepticon Blackout attacks a United States military base in an attempt to hack into the military's computer network. Only a small group of special ops soldiers - including Sergeant William Lennox (Josh Duhamel) and USAF Tech Sergeant Epps (Tyrese Gibson) narrowly escape, and they are later attacked by Scorponok when they try to call for help. With the reinforcement of A-10s and a Spooky gunship they manage to inflict damage on the Decepticon, but ultimately it escapes. Meanwhile, Sam and his father Ron (Kevin Dunn) are at a used car dealer (Bernie Mac) to buy Sam’s first car. The Autobot Bumblebee (voice of Mark Ryan) has been assigned to guard Sam and poses as a used 1970s Chevrolet Camaro. Sam's father buys this car and later, after helping Sam try to woo Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox), a girl he is interested in, Bumblebee drives away from Sam's home. Thinking that somebody is stealing his car, he chases it on his bike, where he witnesses Bumblebee in his robot form sending a signal to the other Autobots. As The Pentagon brings together the world's best code breakers, linguists and computer experts to find out who is trying to hack into their network, the small Decepticon Frenzy (voice of Reno Wilson), transformed into a boombox, infiltrates Air Force One and successfully hacks into the network, killing three secret service agents in the process. The Decepticons, revealed to be seeking clues to the location of the Allspark, come across documents mentioning Captain Witwicky ’s expedition and the existence of Megatron, as well as Sam's eBay auction. As a result the Decepticons target Sam. Bumblebee soon finds himself defending Sam and Mikaela from an attack by the Decepticon Barricade (voice of Jess Harnell). As the two robots fight each other Frenzy attacks Sam, only to be decapitated with an electric hacksaw by Mikaela; however he is able to disguise his head as Mikaela's mobile phone and slips into her bag. Leaving the scene of the fight, after Mikaela criticizes his old Camaro form, Bumblebee modifies himself into the 2008 preproduction version of the Camaro. The other Autobots soon arrive on Earth and after taking the forms of other Earth vehicles, their leader Optimus Prime explains to Sam their mission to stop the Decepticons from taking the Allspark. The Autobots want to use the Allspark to return Cybertron to its former glory and keep it away from the Decepticons, who hope to raise an army of robots with its power, and subjugate the inhabitants of planet Earth. He also reveals how the glasses that Sam inherited from his great-great-grandfather are vital to this plan. They return to Sam's home to retrieve the glasses. Unfortunately, Sam and Mikaela, along with Bumblebee, are subsequently taken by the top-secret government agency, Sector 7. Optimus Prime refuses to save Bumblebee because he does not want to harm any humans. Sam, Mikaela, and several others including Secretary of Defense John Keller (Jon Voight), two experts who cracked the Decepticons' signal - Glen Whitman (Anthony Anderson) and Maggie Madsen (Rachael Taylor) and the surviving members of the special ops unit are brought to the Sector 7 headquarters under Hoover Dam. Here they learn that Megatron (still frozen and dubbed by Sector 7 as NBE-1, with NBE standing for "Non-Biological Extraterrestrial") and the Allspark have been held by the agency for many decades. Frenzy escapes from Mikaela’s bag, and uses the power of the Allspark to regenerate his body and notify the Decepticons of its location. Decepticon second-in-command Starscream attacks the Sector 7 headquarters causing the base to lose power and triggering the thawing and reactivation of Megatron. Sam convinces Sector 7 to release Bumblebee to save them from the Decepticons and they leave with the Allspark, which is cube-shaped (hence also called The Cube), and transforms to a size of about 25 cm (10 inches). The Decepticons confront the Autobots in a nearby city and the ensuing battle results in Sam being given responsibility for keeping the Allspark out of Decepticon hands. With the help of the military the Autobots keep the Decepticons at bay. During the final showdown between Megatron and Optimus Prime the Allspark is eventually destroyed after Sam inserts it into Megatron's chest, overwhelming him with its power and killing Megatron in the process. The Autobots choose to remain on Earth as its guardians as after the destruction of the Allspark they can no longer recreate their homeworld, and Optimus Prime sends a message calling out for the other Autobots scattered across the galaxy to find them. The Navy dumps the bodies of the defeated Decepticons into the Marianas Trench, but in the final scene of the movie, Starscream is shown to be alive and therefore the Decepticon threat still exists. (Source Wikipedia)
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