MOVIE: Transformers 2

Transformers 2 wasn't good. It was bad. I guess I can say I enjoyed the first movie, but this one kinda turned me off.

The movie is basically about the Transformers now working with the army to stop the Decepticons from coming back to Earth. But because this might seem a little scary for people, they try to cover it up. Remember the huge fight in the city for the first movie? Yeah, well that's a huge cover up. All those millions of people saw nothing. And that's how you know the movie you're watching is going to be badly written.

Transformers 2 did something that made me think "Wow, what were they thinking". They made a few characters the "Hilarious Characters". There was at least 5 characters that were in the movie just to make dumb jokes. It was stupid and unneeded.

Now I really can't express this enough. But there was way too much going on. Robots and explosions were everywhere, and the camera was too close to it all, and it looked like a disaster. I didn't understand what was going on.

Overall: 5
Pros: Amazing special effects, The twins were funny at times, when the camera is steady the action scenes are actually somewhat tolerable
Cons: Bad camera, very anticlimactic, annoying characters, bad soundtrack, too long

MOVIE: American Psycho

American Psycho is a thriller featuring Christian Bale. Aaaaand I can't really say the plot, because I can't think of what to say because I'm bad at explaining this movie without copying word-for-word off of IMDB.


The characters are some of the best. Patrick Bateman has a funny thing about him. Just the way he talks, walks around, and goes on about business cards. He's just so lovable and it's weird that I'm rooting for him when he kills people. All of Patrick's friend's are hilarious, even if it's not intended.

The music for the movie was really odd, but was really good. "Hip To Be Square" being played while killing somebody was actually really funny and great. That being said, I'm listening to that song while listening to this song.

I guess there isn't a lot I can say about this movie, which is odd because I had a lot planned out. But oh well.

Overall:8/10
Pros: Great villain, music is really catchy, great humor
Cons: Dialog comes out a little garbled from Christian Bale when yelling, confusing ending

MOVIE: Hotel For Dogs

I always think of this very weird. Hotel For Dogs was first a book made by Lois Duncan, who also made I Know What You Did Last Summer. In case you don't know what IKWYDLS is, it's a suspense book, made into a horror movie, which received pretty bad reviews. Funny how she made a children's book, and then went on too suspense books. But anyways...


The movie was pretty bad. The cast was bad, (Aside from Don Cheadle that is, the acting was brutal, the music was terrible, and everything was garbage.
Except for those cute dogs.

It's hard to go into how bad the acting was because it was also the dialog that was bad. So screw the writers.

The music was just plain bad having a soundtrack made by The Naked Brothers Band, where could you possibly think you made a good idea?

There's not much too say about this movie except I hated it.
2/10
Pros: Don Cheatle, dogs
Cons Everything else

GAME: Mirror's Edge

Man, everything about this game looked awesome. The demo was fun, the trailer was great, and I heard some great things about it. And then I played it.



I can't really say it's a bad game, because it is fun. But it was just a really, really big disappointment. I mean, running around was fun, but right when it began getting really good, the police showed up. And that really ruined the fun. It's like the game focused everything on graphics and running, but forgot that they had combat involved in the game so they put in something really last minute. The game said the best thing is too just run away from fighting, but you are literally put in the position where you NEED to fight, or you're going to get shot down. Which happened a lot to me. It gets frustrating.

One thing that was impressive though was the graphics. Graphics never make a game, and here is no exception, but they were good. And the music was great also, it was all fit to the scenes, and it worked.

The story was alright though. I mean, it's not memorable, and at times it's confusing and poorly executed. The characters in the game were just really plain and boring. I felt like I didn't really care about them.

Overall, I would give it a 6.5
Pros: Fun running, great graphics, and awesome cutscenes
Cons: Bad combat, annoying police, boring characters, and poor story.

MOVIE: Terminator Salvation

Now, I didn't know a lot about Terminator before I saw the trailer. I didn't see any of the movies. None of the show. Nothing.
So I decided to watch the first 3.
Number 1 and 2 were some of the best movies ever made. With #2 probably being one of the best sequels of all time (With Back To The Future Part II, The Dark Knight, and Star Wars Episode 5). And then there's 3. Three wasn't necessarily a bad movie, in fact, I enjoyed it. It's just... Really unnecessary.

But this isn't a Terminator series review. It's a review of this movie.

Basically the movie is about the Man vs Robot war in the year 2018, with John Connor being the leader of the resistance against the robots. But wait, you say you want a movie about John Connor, the series main character? Well too bad. This movie is about Marcus Wright. Marcus Wright is a man who is put for the death penalty (But it's never said WHAT he did.) and decides to donate his body to medical research, turning him into a robot in the future. And yeah, you get the picture.


Well, the music of the movie was cool I guess, I mean "You Could Be Mine" by Guns N' Roses is played in the movie, and "The Day The World Went Away" by Nine Inch Nails is in the trailer. But aside from that, the movie doesn't have a really notable soundtrack.

The writing is pretty mediocre. I mean, seriously, 1.What the hell does Marcus Wright have to do with the series, other than make more plot holes? 2. What the hell did Marcus do? If he got the death penalty, he must've done something big, but it's never revealed. 3. Who is Kyle Reese's friend? She doesn't say, or do anything. Why is she there? 4. Why are they NOT centering the movie around JOHN CONNOR? John Connor is shown throughout the whole trailer, with just little mentions of Marcus. We kinda expected John to be the main character.

The acting was good, but should've been better. I mean, we have Christian Bale in here, one of the best actors out now. But the thing is, Bale was impersonating Batman the whole movie. He was using a very similar bad, deep voice, and it just wasn't the role of John Connor. Alton Yelchin was awesome. He's cool. Case closed.

The action scenes were great. I mean, T1,2, and 3 were great because you got to see modern things being blown up, but here EVERYTHING is blown up, but they still pulled off being pretty good with action scenes. The one thing Terminator will never lose. Badass action scenes.

Overall, I guess the whole review I was nitpicking, but the truth was, it was good. I mean, better than T3 no doubt. 2>1>3>4.
7/10
Overall: It was good, but it's nothing special.