in which i think oppositely
July 2, 2007, 6:12 pm
it's weird ya know? you think to yourself. this guy and me, we think alike. we like the same things, mostly. so how can it be that grant gould gave transformers a C, and all i can give it is rousing A++.
i mean come ON! when he's in the bumblebee, and the car is broke down, and the girl is walking away, and he hits the car going "come on, START!" and the car comes back on and the radio blasts "BABY COME BACK!" COME ON GRANT GOULD! who are you kidding? this movie was pure fun. TOTALLY FUN! if you were lil grant you would've walked away in love with that movie. yes, there were sexy moments in the movie, but nothing overtly sexual. yes, there was violence, but nothing gory. yes, jon turturro played the most cartoonlike government character ever, but so what? it was brilliant. when he yells at josh duhamel's character "i'm gonna count to 5!" and josh just says "THEN I'M GONNA COUNT TO 3!" COME ON GRANT GOULD!
and you know what, screw anyone who says differently, shia lebouf MAKES this movie. it's shia's movie, the autobots are really just there for nostalgia. and it's about goddamned time, man. shia's been sitting on the sidelines way too long. he's brilliant in every movie he's in, and it's about time hollywood came knocking. let's bring back the kind of nerdy hero again. let's bring back the everyman hero. shia lebouf is gonna bring movies back to where they should be. you mark my words.
and you know what, screw anyone that says bad things about michael bay. the guy is a technical wizard. i went into this movie saying "as long as i get to see a tank fly through the air, i'm happy" and i got that right off the bat. so everything else was cake. i think this movie walks the fine line between fun and dumb. people like to think that if something doesn't talk about drug habits or grandmothers dying that it's just a dumb movie. well this is a FUN movie. it's just fun, man. don't think about it so hard that you lose sight of that. it's just a fun movie, and there's totally nothing wrong with that, in fact, anything more ponderous would've been wrong.
... sorry, this post is a response. let me start over. i saw transformers tonight. it was amazing. you HAVE to see it in theatres. and you HAVE to see it.