Uncle Buzz's Movie Review Corner

Seeing you all talk about movies made me want to talk about movies.  I do not think that The Wife and I have been out of the house for years (OK, I think once in the last six months.  Really working on that relationship, aren't we?), much less to see a movie.  So we are a few months behind.

In the last month or so, we saw Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler.  I can unequivocably say I liked The Wrestler much better.  I should also point out that I saw the Wrestler BEFORE Ben's current obsession with professional wrestling, so the hours of WWE that we now watch each week did not influence my viewing.

Slumdog was a good movie.  But it was a fairy tale. Hey, it was nice that the kid ended up with the girl.  The Wrestler was so much more real and relatable.  The did a great job showing a guy who wasn't completely actually doomed by his choices, but turned out to not have the ability to move beyond them.  It was such a realistic, sad picture.  I am sure the movie will stay with me much longer.

I also took Ben to see Transformers II this weekend.  {Note:  as I'm writing this, Lewis Black's voice is going through my head.  I think it makes more sense if you imaging him saying it.]  That was possibly the biggest piece of crap I have ever sat through.  I would have been less insulted by Michael Bay if he had stuck his dick in my coffee cup.  There was so much cheese and sex in the movie, it was like Bay was saying "Hey, watch what I can make these little fuckers sit through."  I mean they had a robot humping Megan Fox's leg.  For like half a minute.  The big Decepticon robot had giant, wrecking ball nuts (made of actual wrecking balls).  And none of these things were little slick cuts, that you had to watch closely to catch.  No, the characters pointed them out, just to make sure you didn't miss the poke in the eye.  Sure, it was a PG-13 movie.  But it didn't have to be so fucking annoying about it.

Comments

[FS]

I'm not averse to movies where things blow up, but Bay's movies are just awful.

[YB (Yum's Bro)]

I have yet to see it but will probably be overcome by my love for tranformers and not really care how terrible the movie is.

However, I did want to give kudos to the Lewis Black - I audibly laughed aloud at my desk as his voice boomed your review through my head.

[YB (Yum's Bro)]

I was right. I also saw G.I. Joe and my boyhood love of the show overcame the terrible acting and ridiculous sci-fi. Both got two thumbs up!