Just found this sitting in my drafts folder with only this written:"I don't like it."
Whilst this is accurate, I can see why I put off 'publishing' such a critique...or lack of critique.
We're talking months ago now, and frankly who cares anyway - about the movie, and even less about what I thought of it. But here goes what I think, or what I can remember of what I thought.
Plot
I can't remember what it was about. I guess the Deceptacons were going to destroy Earth, and Shia and the blond Megan Fox, and the Autobots, saved it? Look at the poster, that's where I got my information...
Whas I thunk
I didn't like it. Apparently.
I can only assume I didn't like because it was a tension-less barrage of metal carnage. I know, I know. That's Michael Bay. But surely this could be better. Was the first one better? Can't remember, but I do remember the second one as full of makeup and fake tan and basically a masterclass in how to make a clearly attractive woman (Megan Fox) look like a, well, a cheap slapper. And that it was worse than the first movie.
I can't help but wonder how this film hopes to engage with it's audience. Is it merely to provide some suitable, ahem, wank material for 14 year old boys? Why did I watch it. Good question. Well, I am fairly indiscriminate with my film viewing...but it's also been a matter of what Yusuf has given me, or someone else, and what has been showing locally at the handful of times I've gone to the cinema...and then there's the final factor: given the option of crap over heartbreaking, I frequently choose crap. Only to watch the heartbreaking at a later date. So I guess that's why other people see it. They don't want to watch a movie about the brutal killing of raped child by a schizophrenic meth-addict that won the Palm D'Or. They want to see tits and robots.
But look at Batman Begins - crappy movies don't have to be crap. They can be awesome.
