A Burn!

“ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Paramount Pictures), Michael Bay’s latest bid to bludgeon audiences into dulled submission, is the reductio ad absurdum of a summer blockbuster. It is loud (boom!), long (two and a half hours!), incoherent (poorly explained intergalactic warfare!), leering (Megan Fox in short shorts!), racist (jive-talkin’ robot twins!), and rife with product tie-ins (Chevy! Hasbro!) Transformers will also pack audiences into theaters with the ruthless efficiency of a Decepticon, one of the evil mega-robots who battle the good-guy Autobots for the length (let me repeat: 2.5 hours) of this nerve-crushing excruciation. John Yoo would not be able to draft a memo excusing the torment this movie inflicts on its audience, yet tens of millions of us will line up to shovel money at it this weekend. God bless America. ” -

Dana Stevens’ Slate.com review of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” Shit, between Ebert’s review and Ms. Stevens’ serious burns Michael Bay must seriously be on fire.  Also, did Ms. Stevens proceed to burn the American consumer as well?  Damn.

I just want to say, I didn’t see the first Transformers movie until it was out on DVD and personally I thought it was pretty shitty.  I mean it was nice to see one of my favorite childhood toys/cartoons realized in live action film, but really it was just a stupid overly loud action movie.  I can only imainge that “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is much of the same … only shitier