Some minor and major spoilers came out of a promotional Paramount UK screening today via TFW2005 and The Transformers Live Action Movie Blog.

And I meant to only read the minor spoilers but god dammit I ended up reading the major ones, now I’m pissed.

If you go looking, you may not like what you find, to quote William Stryker.

Damn it all to hell…

I have to relate to you, before we get to the spoilers, a favorite Transformers memory of mine. I hate to admit it but I did not see the 1986 animated film until I was an adult, I know, I’m sorry but that’s just how it is. Anyway, I watched it with my husband and a good friend who was an avid Transformers fan. I remember maybe about 20 minutes in, I said out loud, “wow, this sounds a lot like Rocky IV.” I specifically remember our good friend absolutely cracking up. I asked why and I was informed that Vince DiCola, who did the music on the film was also the music man behind Rocky IV. By the way, he also did Staying Alive, yep, and that’s why he hasn’t worked since the 80′s.

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Here’s a rundown of The Good, The Bad and The Different from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, some minor spoilers, one major.

Best Lines from the film

The Twins “That hurt” – “It’s an ass kicking, it’s supposed to”
The Twins “Maybe he’s just a pussy!”
The Twins when they see Devastator “Look at that mother f*BANG*”
Jetfire (when hanger doors won’t open) “Oh bollocks!”
Jetfire “I’m too old for this crap!” • Read full story…

The biggest movie of the summer is finally here, but that’s the problem with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – it’s just too bloody big. Epic, spectacular but unfortunately far, far too long; the film proves that when it comes to Michael Bay blockbuster movies, you can have too much of a good thing.

The first instalment of the sure-to-be-long-running franchise was a perfectly formed slice of funny, explosive, slo-mo mayhem that found a massive worldwide audience. For the sequel, it was clearly the director’s intention to paint Revenge of the Fallen on an epic canvas. It’s more of the same – a lot more.

Two years on from Transformers, the Autobots are still on earth, now allied with the US military, working together to protect the earth from further Decepticon attacks. • Read full story…

Eagle Eye is one of those high octane thrillers that has a premise of a very scary possible “Big Brother” future. The difference in this future is it is now. Eagle Eye combines Hitchcock, the Matrix and the Terminator films to bring you a non-stop action by the same team that brought you Disturbia.

Eagle Eye
Entertainment – 4 1/2
Art – 3
Special Features – 3

Directed by D.J. Caruso
Written by Dan McDermott, John Glenn, Travis Wright, Hillary Seitz
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Chiklis
Rated PG-13

The United States has a lead in the Middle East on a major terrorist (ala Osama bin Laden) that only comes out of hiding every few years. The Department of Defense’s high tech computer recommends aborting the mission. However the President decides to override the computer and gives the mission a go. In turn, a political backlash is ensued and a series of retaliation occurs. • Read full story…

Rising star Shia LaBeouf does his best Cary Grant/James Stewart impersonation in “Eagle Eye,” a messy mix of Hitchcock, “Enemy of the State” and “2001,” in which he becomes the pawn of a political conspiracy in a high-tech, Big Brother world.

The action is competently directed, but the movie is mostly preposterous as LaBeouf and co-star Michelle Monaghan dodge from location to location to keep one step ahead of a federal agent (Billy Bob Thornton). GRADE C-

Reviewed By SLTRIB

I have so much to say about the new movie “Eagle Eye.” Trouble is, I can’t say much without spoiling major plot points.

What I can tell you is that, for the most part, “Eagle Eye” is a good film. But it could have been great.

Shia LeBeouf stars as Jerry Shaw, an unmotivated copy store clerk who finds himself being forced to do the bidding of a woman on the other end of a mysterious phone call — a woman who can seemingly see and control everything in Shaw’s environment. • Read full story…

FutureMovies reports from the set of Shia LaBeouf’s new action thriller, Eagle Eye…

“I don’t mind sitting in trash,” admits Michelle Monaghan as she greets us on the set of DJ Caruso’s new action thriller, Eagle Eye. Monaghan looks uncomfortable and cramped as she sits next to Shia LaBeouf on a refuse barge covered in lumpy bin liners and assorted debris – but it’s all in a day’s work for the rising starlet. “It’s prop garbage, so it’s not really dirty,” she laughs. “I just put my behind on a tyre and get on with it.”

It’s currently day 52 of a 72-day production and today’s action takes place in the bustling port of San Pedro, an hour’s drive from the heart of Los Angeles, where Hollywood golden boy Shia LaBeouf reveals his excitement at being part of yet another Steven Spielberg movie. • Read full story…

Director D.J. Caruso takes the next step forward towards being Hollywood’s newest blockbuster thriller director in Eagle Eye. He re-teams with star Shia LaBeouf, whom he found success with in Disturbia by borrowing generously from Rear Window. But Caruso doesn’t want to be Hitchcock, far from it. With Eagle Eye he’s making his play to become the next Michael Bay.

The movie casts the always engaging Shia LaBeouf as Jerry Shaw, a hapless nobody caught up in the cogs of domestic intrigue. He has just returned home to New York after his brother’s funeral, and stops at an ATM where he discovers his normally empty bank account now contains $750,000. As anyone would, he withdraws as much as he can fit in his pockets and heads home, wondering what the hell is going on. He arrives at his dinky apartment to find it too is no longer empty. It is now full, with all the chemicals and weaponry one might need to commit a major act of terrorism. His phone rings. A mysterious voice on the other end warns him he has only seconds to leave his apartment before the FBI arrives to arrest him. Jerry ignores the warning and in shock, remains rooted to the floor until moments later when the FBI’s foot soldiers come crashing through his window and drag him off to jail. • Read full story…