That's exactly what I've been saying this entire time.2099net wrote:Transformers
So Transformers was one of "the" films of 2007, was it?
This film fails on so many fronts, it's incredible. How can so much money be poured into something which has so little merit? Nothing, and I mean nothing at all in this film could be considered as good as mediocre, let alone above average. I just cannot understand how this car crash of a movie became so popular.
Thanks for repeating it- I can never hear The Truth enough times.
More of my viewing escapades:
What a WEIRD movie! You heard me. Happy Feet is downright weird. Okay, we all know it's a big-budget studio film, so they can afford to make it expensive and expensive movies usually look good. So, Happy Feet looks great. The CGI is cool and the weather / locations / settings are very beautiful. Next, some of the music is pretty good. Not the musical numbers, the songs they sprinkle in between big, stupid musical numbers. The musical numbers are stupid...The kind of stupid that makes you embarrassed to admit you watched the movie. As is the entire opening. Not to mention they overused Robin Williams. Too much Robin Williams is a very bad thing. The movie had a really hard time winning me over at any time during the proceedings. It has all the things I don't like- stupid trendy humor, bad covers of pop songs (A LOT of them), bad dialogue, over the top action / chase scenes - all to cover up the fact that the movie has nothing valid to say. But...at one single point in the movie did it look like suddenly all the pointlessness was going to mean something. When Happy-Feet is put in the "observation" of his "aliens." Which of course is exactly what makes the movie weird. But, in the end, all things considered - this is too stupid to be a good movie. It's a bad movie.
Color me SHOCKED! I (sat down to) this one expecting another half-amusing but probably dull romantic comedy type flick. And what to my amazing discovery did I find... Hollywood actually still makes great movies?? The Devil Wears Prada is A Near Perfect Masterpiece! Character, writing, acting, directing, music, style, plot, social resonance - this movie has everything a damn good movie needs. It is tight, smart, fun / funny, unpredictable, classy without dumbing anything down... This is an endangered species - a good movie from Hollywood. Another movie that gives you faith that movies can be good again. When the filmmakers actually try.
Only one problem: the ending. Miranda's slight change/turn of heart is in direct contrast to what she's saying (and the point the movie is making) in that amazing scene in the car. There's no reason for this movie to have this happy an ending. What- did the studio force every character to have a smile on their face before they exit the screen just because the ending is uplifting. The intelligence of the movie is what is uplifting. We don't need every character in the movie to reinforce that. Well- every character, that is, except for the gay designer. It's okay to crush him, but everyone else is allowed to smile...
But all things considered, that is the movie's only fault. The movie itself is still a winning comedy and yet at the same time, a starkly unfunny portrait of the way today's world forces us to choose work over all our personal (lovers / friends) relationships, if we are expected to stay "in the game." Anne Hathaway is extraordinary. I felt at first she was doing her standard "clutz" role from The (awful) Princess Diary films. But, she obviously is at the top of her class now. She is a key ingredient in why this movie works. Anyway, also- if aside from the ending, the movie has any cliches at all- they are used in a way that doesn't hurt the movie at all. And that takes some real talent behind the camera to pull off.
did another re-watch of:
This movie makes it so hard for me to give it the low-rating it deserves. As a film, it's almost garbage. But you can see the cast working so hard... So hard to make these characters more than just stupid stereotypes. It works sometimes. Most of the time, it doesn't. It's also a ridiculously uplifting / back and forth movie. After the first time we see the Elle Woods character triumph over her foes, watching her say "I quit! Harvard was a mistake. I'm going back to L.A.," is more than tiresome and unbelievable. It borders on goofy. But the writing, the dialogue is good. The characters have no resonance, but what they say is clever. And hey, if this movie makes one person feel better about themselves, it helped somebody. But its message was obviously lost in today's world of The Bad Girls Club and various other braindead-women institutions. This movie makes what Elle does look amazingly easy. But I think the audience forgets at every juncture that she is rich. She can have anything she wants, it's only a matter of knowing what she wants. I don't care about her at all. Who would? She was as happy in Sorority-School as she was in Harvard. This movie is all-smiles and real life does not work this way. As good as the acting is, and as amusing as much of the writing is - this movie is still a phony. A pretty-in-pink phony.
Anyway, the movie wasn't serious enough, smart enough, well-made enough, and there are too many action scenes that don't mean anything and are not as entertaining as Carpenter seems to think they are. And the music is lame- it's all the same. If only they could have borrowed the score from (the infinitely more fun) Suburban Commando... Exactly what about this makes it a "cult classic"?? The stupid "bubble gum" line? Oh, and, if you've seen Leviathan and Shrunken Heads, you know why they hired Meg Foster to be in the movie. Everyone with a brain knows what side she was going to be on. 
First of all I never count my recordable DVDs but I'm sure for the majority of the world (or at least my school) thinks I'm doing just fine. 
