Megan Fox as Lara Croft

I really can't get of "Transformers."" Even if I had seen it a few times on the big screen, I still continue to watch it at HBO. And last night, I caught the movie again, while enjoying carbonara that my loving mom had cooked for us. And as a reward after a long day at work and perk up my viewing experience with our Samsung flat-screen TV, I had Coke Zero to compliment my spaghetti.

Yup, behind the animation technology that makes the transformation smooth, the heat between the two young leading characters is worth watching again. Megan Fox plays Mikaela Banes, who has a juvenile record. She has some mechanical skills from her father and initially withholds the truth from Sam about her past.

This time, I tried to focus on the smaller details of the movie. I saw the Transformers logo at the steering wheel of the “bumblebee” and how sexy Megan Fox is in the movie.

Ruggedly sexy as she drives the injured Bumblebee back into battle supported by a tow truck. Bumblebee eventually destroys Brawl.

Megan Denise Fox was born May 16, 1986. She made her fim debut in the 2001 film "Holiday in the Sun" and also was in the TV series "Hope and Faith." Megan is also a popular model and has been featured in the FHM, GQ, and Maxim. She was voted by FHM as the Sexiest Woman in the World in 2008.

Did you know she has nine tattoos?

And I still find sexy that scene wherein “bumblebee” breaks down and gives Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) a problem and Megan Fox checks the engine of the 1976 Chevrolet Camaro. Above photo of Megan from http://movies.radiofree.com/photos

And am just watching the news that Megan Fox will soon play Lara Croft!

Eagle Eye

Last Sunday, I was home alone, And caught up with Shia LaBeouf’s presence at Greenbelt 1 Cinema. Many will remember as Henry Jones III, aka Mutt Williams, the son of Dr. Jones in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” It was reported that Shia was so excited to be in this movie that he signed on without reading the script. He also did not know what character he would play.

He also played Sam Witwicky in the Michael Bay’s 2007 version of “Transformers” which is one of my all-time favorite movies. But did you know that one of Shia’s early appearances was in a 1999 episode of “X-Files.”

Photo of Shia with Michael Bay from "Transformers" taken in Detroit, Michigan on October 3, 2006 by Brandy Baker for The Detroit News.

“Eagle Eye” was more than an eye-opener for me in terms of how technology could probably not work for the common good. There had been similar movies before wherein the bad guys were a super computer…. in this case, ARIA. Remember, “2001 Space Odyssey?

ARIA takes control of the lives Jerry Shaw (Shia LaBeouf) and Rachel Holloman (Michelle Monaghan). And through the movie takes the country hostage by simply evesdropping on everyone. Isn’t that true today? Just look at all the video cameras or CCTVs installed in public places. Movie poster image from www.eagleeyemovie.com/

Remember, we can all be easily monitored. A chip or sim card that carries information is always “backed-up” somewhere. Plus all the iPhones and Blackberries we carry always emit signals. There a line in the movie, “Take out the batteries” so ARIA couldn’t track down our heroes.

Later in the movie, we find out that ARIA has decided that the executive branch of the US be killed as these officials have become a threat to the existence of the country. But I doubt that would happen? Some one like John just easily pull the plug out of a super computer? Or John McClane (Bruce Willis) could blast this computer to pieces? The 4th movie of Die Hard also had tech skew… hackers.

But if you just want a couple of hours of car chases and crashes like “Die Hard with a vengeance,” this movie is worth a bucket of popcorn specially if one is home alone on a weekend like me.

And next time, you turn on your mobile phone or laptop, just think, maybe somebody is watching or listening? Maybe, carabao eye?

Jumper and Dejavu

Earlier this afternoon, at Glorietta Cinema 1, Chief and I watched “Jumper” the science fiction film based on the 1992 science fiction novel “Jumper” by Steven Gould.

It was odd to see two Jedi nights, Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson battle on the screen, but more interesting (or even boggling) to understand the technology be teleportation.

In the movie, David Rice (played by Christensen) discovers he can “jump” or teleport to any place on the planet which he's previously visited or visualized from a photograph. He tells his girlfriend Millie (played by Rachel Bilson) that he is into “banking.”

Millie says, “If you cant tell me the complete truth, I would rather that you don’t lie to me.”


The battle begins when Roland Cox (Samuel L. Jackson) tracks down David down in Rome. “Been there, done that” I whispered to Cecile as the fight begins between the Jumpers and Paladins. Photos courtesy of http://www.imdb.com/ and 20th Century Fox.

Cox (Jackson) says “Only God should have the power to "Be everywhere at once". At the last scene, David still trying to convince Cox that not all Jumpers are evil decides to save Cox from drowning and leaves him in the Grand Canyon. That will “teleport” to a part two.

And later in the evening, we stayed up late to watch “Déjà vu” with Denzel Washington and Val Kilmer, which also deals with time travel.