I have to keep reminding myself that I know better than the general public. If the following post bashes one of your favorite movies, then feel free to revise that phrase in your head to, "the general public of my high school." If you go to my high school, then too bad.
I just watched Trasnformers, since it was THE movie last year and I finally got to stay home sick and watch it. But before I go into my review, I'd like to talk about other movies that are THE movies.
First off this year it's Sweeny Todd: Demon barber of Fleet Street. As far as I know, since I've never seen it, it's about a barber who wants to get revenge on some guy in London. But he does it by killing his patients (that's bad business if you ask me) and turning them into meat pies. While singing, because it's a musical as well. All I have to say is, what's the appeal here?
But before that it was The Dark Knight. (You know, I'm not sure if they left out "Batman" in the title because nobody says "Batman: The Dark Knight.) I give the movie credit, it's not bad. I liked the first better, personally. But this one was too long. They should have ended it when they captured the Joker the first time and left off with him saying, "I'ma get you next time!" Then make a third movie from there. (Addmittedly this would have caused problems since Heath Ledger died after the movie was done filming, but we can't predict these things.) But length I'm usually not too concerned with if it's a good story, I got through King Kong (200...6? The most recent version that lasted 3 and a half hours) just fine. But The Dark Knight? Batman had the Joker at gunpoint about four times in the movie. AND STILL DIDN'T SHOOT HIM. The guy blew up a hospital! He killed lots of people. Just freaking shoot the guy. You'll do the world a favor.
Anyway, back to Transformers. It was THE movie last year, and now I finally got around to watching it. It was... It would have been better if the good-guy robots were more kick-ass. And if they dropped the Zicron war or whatever and all the robots were bad and wanted to take over the world. Except for one who helped the humans because he felt bad. Or he's actually the Iron Giant from the Disney cartoon.
And that band "Disturbed" I mentioned in my last post (if you remember it) contributed to the soundtrack, so added bonus. Except it was the third song in the credits. Nobody even stays in the theater long enough for the first song to end.
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