But don't tell that to the Asylum's marketing department!

When I first heard the film's original title ROBOT WARS, all I could think was what a bland, generic, boring title it was. I was hoping The Asylum would change it to something, anything with a little more zip to it. Little did I suspect that I'd surf over to The Asylum's website and suddenly see TRANSMORPHERS staring me in the face. GENIUS~!

In keeping with the new title change and the movie that the title is trying to mimic, I urge The Asylum to change the tagline for their film to "MORE THAN THE EYE CAN SEE." Not quite the same as TRANSFORMERS "MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE", but close enough for potential viewers to get the idea.

But in all seriousness, though the title may make eyes roll, that artwork will move DVDs. Hat's off to whoever at The Asylum came up with that cover art. That's money! That's the sort of cover art sells DVDs. The's the sort of cover art more DVD companies should be putting out there on their genre products, not the usual assortment of photoshopped images, floating heads, giant eyeballs, etc. It looks a comic book cover with a giant robot battling human forces - I'm sold.

TRANSMORPHERS will begin laying waste to DVD shelves on June 26th; two days after my birthday and eight days before TRANSFORMERS is released to theaters. Coincidence? I meant coinciding with the release of the TRANSFORMERS movie, not my birthday. Hopefully, this the biggest budgeted movie in Asylum will turn out to be a nice belated birthday present and not another PIRATES OF TREASURE ISLAND. Fingers crossed...