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TRANSFORMERS at the Orpheum!

posted by moviejs on July 13, 2007 at 7:53am

LOS ANGELES, CA — Seen it yet? The last big battle between good and evil takes place in downtown L.A. on Broadway...in the classic theatre district! The Orpheum, Rialto and several others will never be the same. 

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This makes sense seeing that the movie was partially filmed on Broadway.
posted by frenchjr25 on Jul 13, 2007 at 8:21am
I have no intention of seeing this movie. Frankly, INDEPENDENCE DAY and WAR OF THE WORLDS satisfied the "alien invasion" genre for me.
posted by Love movies - hate going! on Jul 13, 2007 at 12:55pm
I kinda agree with you, lvhg. ID4 and both versions of War of the Worlds, as well as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and The Day the Earth Stood Still rule the alien invasion genre, but E.T. is king when it attracts a huge worldwide audience. As for the theater's prominence in the movie, I thought it was the old Loews Orpheum in NY, not the NYC one. It made sense when the movie took place not in NY, as to not to remind moviegoers of 9/11 again, this time with robots instead of terrorists. Good thing Mike Bay didn't set a part of the story in Iraq or Afghanistan, and made Transformers a very real but fantasized version of post-apocalyptic America.
posted by Justin Fencsak on Jul 13, 2007 at 6:27pm
Come on!!!! Didn't any of you grow up in the 80's???? It's the TRANSFORMERS!!!! How can you not see it. I have not gone myself yet. Hopefully will get around to it before this release goes to DVD.

posted by Life's too short on Jul 14, 2007 at 9:41am
The great ol' city of Detroit is featured as well.
posted by SNWEB.ORG on Jul 15, 2007 at 2:43pm
Hey SNWEB: General Motors reported an $893 million quarterly profit today, their third consecutive quarterly profit. All is not lost for the City of Detroit!

posted by Life's too short on Jul 31, 2007 at 4:52pm
To all Historic Theatre gruru's out there - please help me answer this challenge question...

Can you identify ALL of the Historic Theatres featured in the new movie "Transformers"?

Hint: Most of the Historic Theatre Marquees are featured in the final fight sequence.

These are the ones I remember seeing...
-Eldorado
-Orpheum
-Royale
-Rialto
-Roxie


posted by MaryLand on Aug 8, 2007 at 10:08am
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