Its refreshing to finally and truly enjoy a film without needing to make excuses for it or to have to qualify any statements ( thor comes to mind). And to see all the bad reviews its getting leaves me with a quiet loathing of those tiresome and jaded film critics who will never be satisfied but frankly I think its truly their loss if they didnt like it, and if their feelings dont coincide with mine then they can all get fucked with giant robot penises!
thats right, every last one of you self appointed guardians of supposed quality whose ignorant predictable opinions no one asks for (kinda like mine!) I resent the fact that these hardened mouth pieces for hate never budge or allow themselves to be made vulnerable again to being made wrong ( like a heartbroken man who wont let anyone else in, hes learnt the hard way and will be damned if he lets his heart be re-broken. The truth is , hell be damned if he doesnt!)
I was surprised by this film, because i didnt expect to be so taken in by it. The first half hour didnt sell me, and at the point where crazy chinese fellow was pulling his pants down, it didnt look good for the movie and was already turning my attention off. I suppose the turning point was when Sentinal Prime reveals his betrayal and kills Ironhide, i knew this movie was not gna fuck around from then on. To see Optimus relfection in his error as leader, to culminate in him ruthlessly and mercilessly killing the two villains at the end was a great character arc. Sentinal makes a great villian because hes not portrayed as the evillest bastard who ever lived but as someone who has perhaps lost his way. And no , immortal geeks of sci fi, Spock did not make an error in playing this character, shut up and go crawl back up your mothers vagina and unborn yourselves!
theres the trademark frenetic action sequences but they carry serious emotional weight this time around. The decepticons have truly gained the upper hand in this fight and its nice to see the human characters actually make themselves effective against the decepticons whereas in the first two they seemed as effective as an old mans fruit and veg.
Despite my long winded love letter to megan fox in a previous blog, the new female lead( apologies but i cant be asked to look up her name) is a very likable addition to the story and unlike megan fox she actually makes herself useful by coaxing a disheartened megatron to man up, and take his place as leader against sentinel. Ill admit its a bit of a stretch that megatron wouldnt have torn her limb from limb by that accusation, but i make allowances where they are due, unlike all those other souless joyless pratts who cry foul whenever something doesnt quite link up in their mushy peas brain. Im not entirely sure why she always has to follow the soldiers around in the action, i mean im sure they apreciate a nice arse bouncing around when they work , but I was attached to her as a character and it would have been the sensible thing to tell her to go hide inside a skip and let all the manly men do the heavy lifting. Sam witwickys befuddled clumsiness seems to be some kind of clunge seeking missile if he can hop from one Goddess of a woman to a perhaps even more of a goddess.
Sams inability to get a job, his feelings of adequacy against his girlfriends boss made amplified by the fact shes perhaps way out of his league already, and to want to be more useful in the battle work well, especially since in spite of the fact hes helped save the world twice, this time around hes told hes not really needed any more.
A thing I enjoyed the most was how there were humans who were actively working in league with the decepticons, something which i can truly believe. If we were confronted by these giant robots , im sure wed all bow and scrape before them out of awe as well as from shitting our pants! Patrick dempseys turn around from being a love rival to none other than the Decepticons puppet really was a nice touch, because isnt the nature of the decepticons to work in the shadows and pull the strings from behind the curtain, not just to come onto the scene blowing shit up with wild abandon. the fight scene at the end between him and sam gave sam an opponent he actually had a fighting chance against, as any human going toe to toe with a decepticon unarmed is gna end up with a gelatinous blob of giblets where their head used to be.
There are some scenes which drag along ,like the scene where they keep sliding down the building to fall in the building to slide further inside, but those are minor infringements when placed against pirates of the carribean dicking around.
In the end I can see why some people might not gravitate kindly towards this movie, but for my part I really enjoyed it and will endorse it. Normally summer popcorn movies dont strike a chord with me( not to say into those insufferable cinema nevo ( spellcheck please) type efforts) but Micheal Bay all is forgiven for whatever transgressions in the second one!
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