Ever since Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opened last week, there’s been something of an Internet flame war raging over how good the movie actually is. It’s gone a little something like this: Critics: Transformers 2 is one of the worst movies of the year. Fanboys: Critics suck! They want everything to be Oscar-worthy and independent and [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
A few recurring themes have popped up as I’ve poured over the reviews for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. #1: it’s not as good as the first. #2: it’s really loud and has a lot of explosions (no, really?). And #3: it’s mind-blowingly racist and misogynistic. I know, I know, we all want to have a [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
When the original Transformers was released in 2007, it became the surprise hit of the summer: it opened on a Monday evening, and by the following Sunday it had made $155.4 million dollars. Final tally? $319.2 million. (And that’s the domestic gross alone.) The reviews were also solid — for a summer movie, anyway. Of all [...]
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