Shia LeBeouf night!
It’s fucking hot today and theaters are air-conditioned, so that equals MOVIES!
First up, we checked out Transformers, and indeed there was more than met the eye with this movie. As in, I went in hoping for a few explosions and the transforming noise, and I got probably one of the best summer blockbusters of the decade. Seriously. This is exactly the kind of big event movie I’ve been dying to see since, well, the first Spider-Man movie. While not Oscar-worthy by any stretch of the imagination, it’s fantasically entertaining, with enough character development to make you cheer for the humans and then enough action to keep your attention for the remainder of the 2.5 hour running time. It’s like someone took a Michael Bay movie and then combined it with the heart of a Steven Spielberg movie. Oh, wait, that’s exactly what it is. It rules, go see it. Amazingly, Shia LeBeouf is quite convincing acting up a storm against the green screens. Even the nitpicky geek stuff didn’t bother me too much, even the “Bumblebee as a Camaro” stuff.
Then, because the house remained around 40 degrees (Celcius, duh), we went to the midnight show at the cheap theater and checked out Disturbia as well to complete the Shia double header. Kind of a weird one, because I was expecting one kind of movie and plot development based on the way the movie was going for the first two-thirds or so, and then suddenly it turns into this totally different and unrelated movie starring the same actors or something. I know that we’ve already had a million remakes of Rear Window already, but they could have handled it a bit smoother, is all I’m saying. Still, Shia carries another one on his back, even if the character was a bit of an annoying little sleaze at times and Carrie-Anne Moss was totally underused, and the result is a good popcorn movie instead of a really intriguing psychological thriller like it could have been.
So overall, the heat sucks, but it was a good day at the movies.
Hey Scott,
Just to round out the Shia Lebeouf summer movies, did you happen to see Surfs Up! ? I took my nephews a while back, they loved it cuz they’re four and if its got talking animals then its automatically good to them, but there was some genuinely funny stuff going on there, and the kid from transformers did the main voice, although that lead to me constantly thinking “man that kid sounds just like the penguin”.