Guardians of the Galaxy - Saw it back in the summer. Saw part of it again a month ago. Not the best Marvel movie but still one of the better ones and certainly one of the best movies this year.
X-men - Days of Future Past.Not sure why people say this is the best X-men ever... I still like First Class better. Wasn't a horrible movie. Was pretty enjoyable. But I can't figure out Magneto's obsession with moving large American landmarks for no major reason (Golden Gate bridge in Xmen 3, the stadium in this movie). Was that really necessary?
Also, another thing that bugged me in this movie was the technology that popped up. This movie's set in the 70s. And yet we have Cerebro with EYE SCANNING technology, Dinklage with a holographic screen, ROBOTS that can scan people's DNA.... da fuck? Dinklage's mutant DNA scanner shouldn't even existed in the early 70s. The Sentinels, while I'm glad they finally showed up, looked too futuristic for early 70s technology.
Transformers Bore... i mean 4.Because seriously, I was falling asleep halfway through this crapfest. I actually refused to see this in theaters and was glad when friends said they hated it "I told you! I told you not to waste your damn money!" I ended up renting it on a free Redbox rental so none of my money goes to Bay-child.
So, let me see, what to hate about this movie.
This movie suffers from way too many Bayisms. What's a Bayism? Something that's in EVERY FUCKING Bay (and every Transformers) movie because that manchild thinks it's good cinema. For instance:
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Racism. There's a fucking Samurai robot. Really? And the black chick at the beginning. Add to that:
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Jokes about old people. There's a scene with the main characters running through a Hong Kong building, robots are battling outside, and they get blocked by a bunch of old grandmas walking slow and oblivious to their surroundings. Oh hur hur, that's real funny Bay. Remember when I called him a manchild?
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Annoying fucking main characters. Seriously, why is it in every Bay movie there's this annoying main character who talks ALL THE TIME, stutters, never shuts his fucking mouth, and is usually a coward? Comic relief? Really? A prime example of that is the conspiracy nut in the first three movies. There were two in this movie, Yeager's assistant (who thankfully dies early in the movie), and the CEO of the robot company. Especially the CEO of the robot company... why is there always a character like this in a Bay movie? No one fucking acts like this in real life!
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Product placement. ALL THE FUCKING PRODUCT PLACEMENT. God damn the product placement.
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Robots that talk during battle. I don't know why Bay does this but about the only time the Transformers actually talk is during battle, and it's so muffled you're not even sure the other characters caught it, let alone you. It's like Optimus and Bumblebee is having this intricate conversation while dodging missiles and shooting back.
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GM product placement. Bumblebee was awesome as the old black Camaro, and then halfway through they were like "LOL BRAND NEW GM CAMARO BUY THIS SHIT WHEN YOU LEAVE THE THEATER" and then Bay gets his god damn chell from GM.
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Jailbait in whore clothes! This times 1000. Yeager's daughter is this the whole damn movie. Bay loves to trot around underage ass in the most skimpy whore clothing you could ever fucking imagine. That's probably why he stuck that "Romeo & Juliet" law shit in there, to justify his ephebophilia.
Also, Yeager's overprotective dad bit just got old real fast, and the Dinobots were tacked on at the end for no reason. Blah.
There were some good things about the movie. Shia wasn't in it, so that was a plus. Neither was Megan Fox. Also, despite Walberg's character being kinda annoying with the whole Dad bit, he was world's better of a main character than Shia ever was. Also, Kelsey Grammer's character was somewhat interesting as a CIA director willing to violate people's freedoms (and murder, apparently) just to keep America safe. Although the fact he was actually doing it for money kinda killed that. Also, NO JIGGLE CAM THIS TIME!
Also, there were many Cameos of Detroit areas in the movie. The first battle with Optimus and Lockdown (the bounty hunter) is filmed at the old Packard plant, and the battle in China is filmed in downtown Detroit (the elevated train is the Detroit People Mover). Also, I have to admit I'm a bit curious about the "Creators" that Lockdown alludes to several times.
In the end the movie wasn't quite as crappy as 2, and was probably somewhat less good than 4.
Hell just ignore my ranting and watch these:
(So bad they needed two Sins videos)