The Minds Eye

Mila Kunis admitted shes a super fan of Star Trek TNG….my soulmate possibly?

If I was going through a divorce, I would not let the woman who I am breaking my vows  to(as well as her heart) cook me dinner. This guy did, and now his Johnson is in a garbage disposal. Cheers.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/13/california.penis.knifing/index.html?hpt=hp_p1&iref=NS1

After watching this movie, which left me in awe as the credits rolled, I thought to myself, why do critics hate these kinds of movies? Myself, along with the all-knowing omnipotent critic don’t always see eye to eye, and so I chalked it up to that, a misunderstanding that the film elite just didn’t understand. Normal people like movies with BANGS and BOOMS. Critics like fancy little nuances about the sub-contexts of love and hate. Fortunately for Michael Bay, there are a ass-load  of “normal people” in this world, which translates to insane box office earnings.

To be honest, I felt like I watched 3 movies, all rolled into one. The moon scene was a good setup, but they could of fleshed out the story a little more and beefed up some of the characters (the character thing is a flaw throughout the film). After all the moon craziness, you have a destitute Sam Witwicky who resides with his super hot girlfriend. What happened to the last girlfriend, you know that one you saved the world with twice? The one who knows all about the Autobots and Decepticons? I like the new one better but set this up please, and give us back story for god sake.

Previously I felt like this was 3 movies, after further thought, realized they could of made this two very good movies. One with the moon stuff, and Sam coming into his own in the business world, all while the crazy CIA lady is trying to cut him off from his past life. Then, after the space shuttle blows up, you end it, set it up for the final one, which is all battle and “lets save the Earth” type stuff. The reason I say this is because you have little action in the first half of the movie, then a very heavy end, with little story to be told besides, “destroy the pillars.” If you took some action and infused it into the first half, then develop your character arc a little more, you have a perfect setup. Instead they rushed to fit it into 1:45 and we end up with a synopsis of the events, with some action thrown in to keep us happy.

The movie was visually stunning, and the last battle had me in awe. But therein lies a flaw. Whether they were trying to be faithful to the comics or not, you never make your terrifying, evil bad guy look like a chump, it takes away from the protagonists accomplishments. Megatron, sitting against a wall, crying like a little kid because Sentinel kicked his a** is no way to end it. Megatron is the ultimate Decepticon bada**, as proven by his return at the end when he destroys Sentinel. But you want me to believe Megan Fox’s replacement persuaded an evil robot to attack his ally? Really, this was how Earth was saved Bay? If not for Megatron, Optimus would of surely been killed by Sentinel.  Ahhh so frustrating, its like saying I convinced Castro to nuke Russia instead of America…because I told him he couldn’t!! SMH (Ive never used that term, but here it is).

Even with these flaws, I thought the movie was superior to the second, but fell short of the first. If made into 4 movies, might of been a little better. Critics, you were partially right; Transformers definately chose style over substance, but if I ever err, let it be like this.

3/5