First off....Transformers. I've been waiting for what seems to be a lifetime for it to come out. It was highly entertaining, however there's a few flaws that bugged me (regular people probably won't care, but if you grew up with Transformers, this stuff will bug you):
1. Megatron is a GUN people. Don't make him a jet. That's puts him on the same playing field as Starscream.
2. The level of detail was TOO much...i couldn't tell who was an Autobot, who was a Decepticon, and when they were fighting i couldn't tell what was an arm vs. a leg...
3. Okay I get that Volkswagon wouldn't let Bumblebee be a Bug, but did they ALL need to be american cars?!
4. Somehow a small car turned into a MASSIVE robot...it wasn't exactly to scale. Whenever the cars transformed I was like 'WTF...i really doubt the pieces to a car would end up making it the size of a high rise"...
5. The computer people. Come ON. NO COMPUTER MAKES LITTLE HIGH PITCH NOISES WHEN IT'S PROCESSING. If it did, you'd keep it on mute. It would drive you NUTS to hear those sounds all day. Plus, i really doubt that out of all the people the CIA/FBI could find ont ehp lanet, it's this dude who lives close to the pentagon (and lives with his mom while he plays Dance Dance Revolution all day) is the one who can break the "code" within a split second.
6. AND...there's no gorgeous hot computer programmers that are like 25 and considered the top in the world.
7. Back to Megatron...at least OPtimus Prime looked like the cartoon...but Megatron looked NOTHING like the cartoon, which is kinda crappy when the only reason you're watching the movie is because you grew up with the toys.
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So all of that griping aside, it was a pretty entertaining movie. Shia LeBeouf (which translates to "the beef" in case anyone cares) steals the show with his deadpan one-liners. He'll be great in Indiana Jones. As for Megan Fox...well she plays the typical hot badass chick. Which i don't expect her to get overly jacked up, and her clothes stayed on the whole movie, but geezus the last pan of her face at the end of the massive fight showed she was wearing fake eyelashes...COME ON PEOPLE...for you guys otu there, that's the equivalent of seeign Nicholas Cage's fake hair weave up close.
I give it 7.5 out of 10, but if just want entertainment then i give it 8 out of 10 (it loses .5 for wandering off the original characters).
I also saw Children of Men...pretty entertaining, not a fantastic movie but definitely one of those movies that gets you to think. They did alot of crazy camera moves too, which was interesting to see (almost documentary style).
But the true hero of the movie wasn't Clive Owen...ohhh no, it's this psycho homeless chick:
I tried to find a YouTube video of her going beserk but i couldn't find anything. When Theo (Clive Owen) is being attacked and you think he's done for, crazy HomelessChick comes out of NOWHERE and whacks him with a big flintstones' size bone...chicky needs her own movie.
Alot of tv shows wrapped up and some are starting anew. 4400 finally kicked off, and I'm eagerly anticipating Scott Baio is 45...and single and Brett Michael's Rock of Love. Plus I just saw a commercial for a show called I Hate My 30s. Fabulous summer indeed.
In other random news, still trying to nail down a flooring guy (ha ha...get the pun...haaa...)...our carpets are jacked up to the nth degree.
And that's pretty much it. Home improvement mode. TV watching mode. Oh and I've got my Citizenship test on August 17th or somethingl ike that. I just love using my vacation days to sit in a government building (without a cell phone) to be grilled on history questions and personal questions like i'm on trial.
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