Transformers
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Back in the day, I'd watch this cartoon religiously. Don't ask me all the details! I don't remember everything as well as some people. However, when Optimus Prime was killed, (he came back as a ghost) I was seriously hurt by that. I cried! I love that voice. I was mad too, because his group of robots always seemed weak and kinda wack to me.

How can you have an awesome, can-do-almost-anything group of robots, and was always getting your butts kicked and outsmarted by the Decepticons?

The film was enjoyable simply because I find Shia LaBeouf so damn cute. I don't mean sexually, I mean, smooch his cheeks, and hug him, cute. Like I do with my half-grown, over 6 feet tall nephews.

I watched the DVD, 'cause no one was going to catch me watching this thing in the theatres. It's a teen boy flick. Films like this are made for them. I know it certainly wasn't made for black women such as myself. The only time black women were shown: as the silent wife of Bernie Mack, which he felt he needed to curse at, and the hectoring nosy busybody of Anthony Anderson's grandmother.

I won't get into how being rude and disrespectful to black women in a blockbuster film is supposed to be entertainment. It is not.

Do people need to start being taken out for this message to reach the critters that run the Media Industrial Complex?

The plot: many years ago the grandfather of Sam Witwicky (Why this name? I don't get the joke) found a frozen Megatron (leader of the evil Decepticons), and an all powerful cube. Therefore, everyone must chase Shia LaBeouf (Sam Witwicky) and Megan Fox (not a blonde and rather pretty!) around for 2 hours.

Hilarity! sometimes ensued. I like to see things blown up: har, har, har.

It took me a while to recognize Tyrese. Man, he's gotten big. I mean that in a good way. I don't get the fanfare (fanlust, rather) over Josh Duhamel. There he was, a sort of G.I. Joe character. Tyrese was the black G.I. Joe.

Black male characters say the same things as the white guys, but are required to do it with slang and more flavor. Rinse and repeat.

This is part one, of how many films I don't know, or care to. I expect perhaps two more, since Hollywood wants to milk out the big bucks. However, they never do a good job with multiple film story arcs, since most franchises run out of steam by the second flick.

I'll watch the ensuing films - maybe, but I don't expect much. I never did watch any more Harry Potter films after the first one.

Labels: Anthony Anderson, Bernie Mac, Decepticons, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Megatron, Optimus Prime, Shia LaBeouf, Transformers, Tyrese Gibson

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Ocean's Thirteen
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

I could easily lose count of these films.

So, is the third time the charm? I'm not one who'll watch the same film for the third time, because I like all the characters. It has to be fun too.

I really liked "Ocean's Thirteen." Then again, I am easy to please. Love me some serious male eye candy: George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon (I don't know what he's doing, but he's acquiring that "hotness factor" as he gets older). Even Casey Affleck was cute. Bernie Mac is a darling, no matter how fat he gets. (Please lose a few pounds, BM. It doesn't look good on you.)

Clooney has such gorgeous eyes: love a man with long eyelashes.

Okay, I'll briefly summarize: everyone (except Julia Roberts and Kathryn Zeta Jones) from all the prior flicks is in this film, facing off against a new enemy. The bad guy is the one and only Al Pacino! While Pacino was rather low key in this film, he was still entertaining (when is he not ever? Gotta do "Scent of a Woman" review someday).

Clooney channels a Clark Gable and Cary Grant vibe. He makes you realize how rare a film like this is. A slick, hip, dare-I-say suave flick for adults that isn't pornographic, mean, vile, vicious, profane, and gratuitously violent. A mouthful, but it needed to be said.

They pull off every caper (earthquake, a half billion dollar loss for the casino and diamond heist) fabulously.

It's a funny, enjoyable film, just don't think too deeply about how they pulled if off.

Labels: Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac, Brad Pitt, Cary Grant, Casey Affleck, Clark Gable, Don Cheadle, Eliott Gould, George Clooney, Matt Damon

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