Pearl Harbor (2001)

★★★1/2

It’s Michael Bay is at it again only this time he is tackling the events leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack all the way to the end of the Doolittle Raid. The story follows two friends who joined the Air Force, but when one of them is presumably dead, his friend falls for his ex-girlfriend. Little do they know that he’s made a full recovery. Even though Bay’s version of the attacks were inaccurate, it still think it was a great action movie and maybe it might prompt others into learning what really happened and appreciating how we fought back. It was a Hollywood dramatization of real life events but people seem to forget that this isn’t the first time Hollywood has done it.

Bad Boys II (2003)

★★★1/2

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey are at it again, only this time they are sent to investigate a strange ecstasy trafficking into Florida. Things begin to get complicated when Marcus’s sister goes undercover as a transporter/financer to the drug lord. Again, Bay seems to give us nothing but eye-candy and testosterone fueled car chases and shootouts. I quite it enjoyed it, more than the first one and it really put me right there in the Florida heat.

Transformers (2007)

★★★1/2

Michael Bay’s over-the-top envisioning of the 80s cartoon. Sam Witwicky is your average teenager until he soon discovers that his new car is actually a robot in disguise. Before long he is flung into an epic battle between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, and he realizes that his ancestors made the most important discovering on Earth. Now he must help his robot friends find and destroy the All-Spark before the Decepticons use it to conquer the world. Bay was the perfect person for this because the entire movie replaces good dialogue, acting and characters with eye-candy, explosions, action and thrilling suspense. So all in all it was a great action movie but only if you are willing to leave your brain at the door.

Armageddon (1998)

★★★★1/2

It happened before and it will happen again. With those terrifying words of warning we find a giant asteroid (roughly about the size of Texas) on a collision course with Earth. Earth’s only hope lies within the hands of a group of skilled, but redneck, oil drillers. The mission is simple: two teams take off from Earth to land on the hurtling asteroid. While on it they have to drill to 800 feet so that they can release a bomb that would split the asteroid in two. Though many arthouse and film students will bash and trash this movie you have to ask yourself: what is it that you want from a movie about people landing on an asteroid? It’s a great action-packed thrill ride that doesn’t let up even in its more tender moments. I think it’s one of the great modern action movies and one of Bay’s greatest (and that’s saying something).

Pearl Harbor

I just got done watching “Pearl Harbor.” I don’t understand why everybody hated this movie when it really wasn’t that good. I enjoyed it, even with the all the love clichés and the whole ‘romanticizing a national tragedy.” The movie had great action, some amazing shots and yeah, it maybe long and drawn out… the movie was really epic. When I go and see a movie like this, I don’t expect it to be a masterpiece of cinema, I go and see it for the action and the love and that’s why I don’t care if the acting was that bad because it really wasn’t.

I don’t know why people hated this movie so much. Michael Bay has made some really good movies and this is perhaps one of his best. Hell, I even liked some of the cheesy lines that they said during the movie.

Review - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

New video review up on YouTube. This was my initial review of the second Transformers movie “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” 

I give the movie 2 1/2 out of 5 stars. Which, is an average rating. 

Transformers Character Guide

Actually, this is a good guide to the new “Transformers” movie that I found on Rotten Tomatoes. For me, it was very helpful because since the TV show I lost touch with my Transformers side and when the new movie came out I only remembered a few from the series.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_revenge_of_the_fallen/news/1828745/whos_who_in_transformers_2_a_visual_guide

Right now, our AMC is being swamped with people because it was a sold out show. Damn!!!!

Transformers: The Night Before

Today is a very special night because it’s the eve of the premiere of the highly anticipated “Transformers: Rise of the Fallen” film from Michael Bay. I am a huge fan of the franchise and an even greater one when I was a kid… in the 90s. Although, I am sad to say that I will not be able to attend the midnight premiere because my teeth are killing me but rest assured, tomorrow, I will be seeing this movie in the afternoon. I am expecting it to be packed even then.

I was a huge fan of the first one and I don’t care what anybody says… it was one of Bay’s greatest movies. It had action, it had humor and most of all it had giant robots beating the shit out of each other!! I probably won’t be able to sleep because I am so excited but it’s going to pay off in the end.

This will be THE movie of the summer if not in the top 3 and it will easily blow ‘Terminator’ out of the water… Michael Bay rises up again!!!!

The Michael Bay Paradox

Maybe I am alone on this but what the hell? I honestly do not see why people hate Michael Bay so much and why people do not like his movie either… I see nothing to hate about the man. Is it because of that whole “Team America” thing because if it is, then that’s pretty stupid? He is the only director that I know that can keep me enthralled and entertained in high-octane stunts and explosions for 2+ hours. His stories are very touching and his movies are very famous.

Tell me, how many of you enjoyed “Armageddon?” Now, how many of you felt sad and depressed when Harry died for the world?

Despite its clichés… how many of you enjoyed “Bad Boys?”

“The Rock” got a nomination for sound.

“Pearl Harbor” was a huge success and it is one of the few films to accurately depict the bombing. Plus several people praised it and its filled with some good action scenes. So what’s to hate?

Everybody loved “Transformers.”

So… what is there to hate when everybody loves his movies? He is living the Hollywood dream: making big budget movies, making big action movies and getting an ass tone of money and producing even more big budget movies. He’s living the Hollywood dream.