Transportation and Entertainment

Car's finally been repaired, but now the insides smell of fresh paint. *ugh*

I forgot to mention that I've been to see a few movies in the past month or so:

Spiderman 3 (3/5)
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (3/5)
Ocean's 13 (2/5)
1408 (3/5)
Live Free or Die Hard (4/5)
Paris, je t'aime (5/5)
Transformers (3/5)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (4/5)

At least those are the only ones that I remember going to. *laugh*

Spiderman 3 just seemed to try to pack to much story into itself. IMHO, it should have just been Parker, Osborn, and Sandman. why do they have to go overkill on superhero sequels?!

F4: RotSS was better than the first, and the SFX were pretty clean. Dr. Doom still leaves a but to be desired.

Ocean's 13... Where do I start. It really lacked everything from the first one that made it great!

1408 was an interesting haunted house (hotel room) story. I really liked that they never leave the room (well they kinda did/didn't... Go see for yourself) durring the hour Cusak's character is stuck inside. The last scene in the film left feeling kinda, huh?!

LFoDH was pretty much what I expected from another John McClane film. Lots of action, explosions, gun play, etc... Just goes to show that Willis can still fill the role of an action hero.

Paris, je t'aime is an art house flick. Wow. Haven't been to one of these since... Aria. I'll have to pick this up on blueray when and if it comes out in that medium (and once I get a blueray player...PS3).

Transformers makes it's live action debut in typical Michael Bay fashion. I was not all that keen on the new look, which made it rather hard to see what was going on in fight sequences. I didn't like the fact that they spent so much time in the beginning focusing on the human characters and their teen angst. Fer cryin out loud, the movie is called Transformers!!! They should have been the main focus of the first 20 minutes followed by their first contact with Witwicky. Follow that with 45 minutes of Witwicky helping the Transformers learn about life on Earth and them telling him about the spark, "the cube" (I guess they didn't want to confuse it with that Keanu Reeves movie), and the Decepticons. Follow that with loads of combat as the two factions clash and turn the planet upside down looking for "the cube". Then the last 10-15 minutes for resolution and foreshadowing of a sequel.

HPatOotP like each of the previous movies strips the book to it's component parts, sends them through the sifter, and glues what's left onto 2 hours (2'18" to be more precise) of celluloid. Still, it's a fun ride full of really wicked visual FX. The last couple of movies have been getting darker for obvious reason's, but it's a shame that so much of the books get slimmed down or lost during the transfer to the movies. Maybe, someday, someone will do the books more justice and do them in TV series format. Imagine the budget...