Trailer Trash Tuesday

Every year the seasons change, people pay their taxes, Mark Sanchez is a mediocre quarterback, and Meryl Streep receives an Academy Award nomination.  That last one is not as exaggerated as you might think.  Since 1978, Meryl Streep has received sixteen nominations or an average of one every two years for films as varied as Julie & Julia, Sophie's Choice and The Devil Wears Prada.  Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher is a virtual lock for a seventeenth.  The Academy should go ahead and mail her the nomination so she can start thinking about her acceptance speech, just in case she wins.

I think this could be everything Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps should have been: entertaining, tense, and even a little bit informative.  If Margin Call can supplement the impressive cast with strong storytelling it could be the definitive film about the financial crisis of the late 2000's

Credit: Warren Manser

Why did I upload a picture of Optimus Prime with a jetpack?  I'm glad you asked.  Reports recently surfaced that Michael Bay is currently in talks to direct a fourth and possibly fifth Transformers film.  After Dark of the Moon made $1.2 billion at the box office studio execs apparently realized that if you give Michael Bay $300 million and a picture of giant robots he will give you a movie everyone wants to see.

There aren't many hard details yet but Ehren Kruger would likely return as writer and Spielberg would return as executive producer.  Shia LeBeouf definitely won't return but a possible replacement has been mentioned: Jason Statham.  Yep, they might replace this with this.  There has been no word on the potential story but I'm betting Unicron  could have something to do with it.



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