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Entertainment News and ViewsAppellate Judge Mac McEntire's Blog
• Read Appellate Judge McEntire's full dossier I actually watched TRASFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Here's what I posted on Twitter as I made my way through the madness known as TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON: * OK, Michael Bay, try to impress me. * I love that Hasbro is the first name in the credits. That tells you just what kind of movie this is going to be. * We get a glimpse of Cybertron and... it looks like Zion from the Matrix sequels. Shaking my head. * Alterna-NASA sci-fi stories have never excited me. Real NASA is already cool enough. * Hot girlfriend, hangs out at the White House... Sam isn't exactly the "guy next door" anymore, is he? * Great, more Michael Bay "comedy." Just because you can have wacky sidekicks doesn't mean you should. * This was originally released in 3-D, right? That's why a lot of these scenes are all grey and colorless? * Shockwave was the first Transformer I ever owned. That thing with the tentacles is NOT Shockwave. * It's a BURN AFTER READING reunion. * Too... many... silly... accents... * Subplot about Sam, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's boss seems pointless. It better be going somewhere. * On the positive side, Megatron's finally showing a little bit of personality for once in these movies. * Michael Bay, even with Ken Jeong in your movie, you still can't do comedy. Just STOP. * The movie is spinning its wheels, so to speak. A lot of talk, exposition, forced conflict, forced comedy. I'm bored. * Suddenly, it's a gangster flick. Why aren't the transformers in this Transformers movie? * It's Spider-Man's landlord! * Robot fightin'! But the robots all look alike, so I can't tell which is which. I should be pumped, but I'm confused. * What? Optimus just stands there and lets the villain walk away? And now we're at a fancy dinner party? Ugh. * What should be a suspenseful twist is instead an excuse for Sam to do slapstick shtick. Ugh again. * Didn't the second movie also do the "Oh, no, Optimus is dead for real" fake-out? Why do it again? * What's with all the cuts to a black screen, and then back to the action? It's like they're still editing the trailer. * Suddenly I'm watching BATTLE: L.A. Why can't this movie make up its mind what it wants to be? * The Decepticons don't have phones? They communicate only by yelling at each other? * "Boomsticks?" Seriously? Now I'm wishing I was watching ARMY OF DARKNESS instead. * Now someone just yelled, "Shoot the glass," and suddenly I wish I was watching DIE HARD. * "The needs of the many..." OK, that one HAD to be on purpose. * Nothing says "Hollywood blockbuster" like the single-tear-falls-down-the-hero's-face shot. * Sam has parkour moves now? Since when? * "You'll have to go through me." That's it, keep the action cliches coming, movie. * The final confrontation started with, "Holy crap!" but quickly sank back down to "Oh, brother." * Movie's over and... it's almost 2 a.m.? I have to go to work tomorrow. |
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