Thursday, June 30, 2011

A Brief Tirade on an Appalling Film: Transformers 3

So, perhaps it is appropriate that a blog should begin with a movie review, blogs being the vehicle whereby most people voice both their underdeveloped thoughts about story cohesion and their appreciation of CGI special effects and sex, these two things being combined as frequently as possible. 

Perhaps I should state this fact now, at the beginning of both this post and this blog: it is going to be ripe with judgment and loathing.

Transformers 3 was, by far, the biggest incoherent, appalling, poorly conceived and executed, mentally deficient, insult even the exceptionally and increasingly poor of taste American movie going public, collection of dehumanized, computer-generated "scenes" presenting shockingly thinly-veiled and shallow propaganda ever to be picked at random from a hat and assembled distastefully into an unfortunate "whole" to proceed a series of credits and be passed off as a "movie" I have ever watched. While "movies" in this category are not ever known for their artistic merit, this did not even succeed in presenting special effects and explosions, the most cheap and simple of theatrical thrills, in a way that would even push it up into the category of regret. I would rather be the grass a dog drags its ass on that sit through this film again. It was good to be surprised by the presence of Alan Tudyk, but not even the magical appearance of my personal favorite actor in film today managed to make this pathetic title worth the three hours I wasted watching it. I am actually a worse person for having seen it.

A Giant Green Dick in the Ass

Everybody knows the famous phrase Bruce Banner says immediately before he goes apeshit and a tangible green rage builds up in him, transforming him from the passive, gentle man his friends know and love, someone in whose arms a person can't help but feel safe in when they need to be consoled, into the massive, pulsating, green embodiment of "FUCK YOU!!!!" that is the aptly named Incredible Hulk; and that phrase is, "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." He then proceeds to get angry and all the dumb shits around him immediately cower in the righteous  bezerker rage they goaded out of him. He's like a giant green dick in the ass of those who are frustratingly incompetent or discourteous. 

Unfortunately I am not Bruce Banner. I do not have the wonderful capability of transforming my rage into gratuitous amounts of green ass-kicking-ness. Instead I am left with comparable amounts of rage dealing with comparably incompetent and discourteous people Bruce Banner deals with in his endeavors. So, rather than sabotaging my better qualities with the oh so delicious poison of my worse ones I shall vent my spleen via the interwebs in as eloquent a manner as my English degree affords me. 

Make no mistake: this is not the whiney angst of a teenage girl or the semi-profound, mostly confusing thoughts and musings of an indie rock kid. I have had quite an aversion to blogs for the longest time, finding them to be mostly shallow and trendy. But I am going to try to make this as cohesive as possible and simply state my case as to why I think I am right and whoever I am arguing against is wrong. Hopefully whoever reads this will be sympathetic to my cause. And if I'm lucky some may even be amused by my rantings. Who knows? 

Have fun!