‘An affront of the greatest order’
June 29th, 2009 at 09:55am Will Pfeifer
On the one hand, TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN made more than $200 million for the weekend. On the other hand, it got some of the worst reviews in recent memory.
Here’s my favorite, from Robert Humanick over at The House Next Door. Not only does Humanick (who, keep in mind, liked the first TRANSFORMERS movie) blast the movie on a creative level, he blames it for the loss of several lives…
I mourn the volume of human life being wasted on this thing. If the film makes $100 million this weekend and tickets cost $10 a pop, that’s ten million viewers and a total of twenty-five million hours, not including previews, travel and the time spent earning the wasted money. If the average person lives to be 75, that’s 38 lives.
(And, because TRANFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN topped the $200 mil mark, that’s at least 76 lives lost.)
Read the rest of Humanick’s review here. The language, as you might guess from one so enraged, gets a bit salty — starting with the title of the piece. Consider yourself warned.
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1. egyas | June 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
You know, it was an easy move to like. Yes, it had flaws. Yes, it had stupid moments (like the twins, the little salvage-bot, etc). But let’s think about this for a moment…
It’s a movie about children’s toys that are transforming robots mixed with top-notch visual effects.
I read Mr. Humanick’s review, and I wonder if he even watched the movie. He certainly doesn’t describe the same movie I saw, at least not in my opinion.
I liked the movie. I’ll buy it when it comes out and add it to my collection. Based on the sales numbers, I’d say that the majority of folks out here liked it too.
Yet another “miss” for the “professional” film critics. I swear, I know it’s not really true, but it seems at times like unless it’s a foreign film, an art film, something slamming the right-wing or religion, or (to borrow a line from another TV show) “a film about gay cowboys eating pudding”, the critics give it thumbs down.
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