What we’ve been reading – July 2nd through July 3rd:
Dziga Vertov's classic of silent montage and free association gets added to Ebert's growing list of Great Movies.
One of the wise folks who hated the first one out of the gate, Vern tackles various ideas as transformer gender issues, embedded screenwriter S.O.S. cries for help, and how it will be impossible to get anything stupider and more needlessly complicated in blockbusterland.
Stills of fashion from various sci-fi films
That Transformers 2 review rocks:
“This crazy motherfucker never runs out of ‘what the fuck!?!’ moments. I’m sure you’ve heard about many of these but this movie includes: wrecking ball testicles, robot farting, a robot humping Megan Fox’s leg (and she likes it), an extended skit about Sam’s mom getting high on pot and going around tackling people, a robot with a cane and beard, a robot that talks like Joe Pesci, internal car peeing in the form of anti-freeze on a girl’s face, John Turturro suddenly tearing his pants off to show a closeup of his ass in a g-string, and a scene where Turturro tells a robot that a story he’s telling should have a clear beginning, middle and end, a “plot,” – as if one of the screenwriters is trying to send out an S.O.S.“
Good work Jandy, I point people over to vern’s site whenever possible.
I can’t claim credit for that one, Rusty – I did almost bookmark the io9 Transformers review, but someone beat me to that one, too! All the RowThree writers can add to the bookmarks, I just had to assign one of us as the author for the recap. And, being narcissistic and wanting to up my post count…
@ I did almost bookmark the io9 Transformers review, but someone beat me to that one, too!
That one’s over rated. I’m so sick of these “i’m being ironic” film reviews. This very site had a rash of that crap back when The Happening came out. The experience soured me forever on ironic film reviews.
My favorite Trans 2 articles are this interview with the director
http://chud.com/articles/articles/20003/1/SAM-STRANGE-REMEMBERS-TRANSFORMERS-2/Page1.html
and this early script review
http://www.cracked.com/blog/transformers-2-michael-bays-rejected-script/