Well it's nearly the end of September and I thought it'd be a good time to reflect on this year's summer blockbusters. I have seen 4 films this summer (I'm a poor unemployed student without an Orange phone :[ ) and I have to say I've been kind of disappointed with the films that have been released. Compared to last year with The Dark Knight and Tropic Thunder, this summer hasn't been THAT great.
I'll admit I enjoyed the mindrape that was Transformers 2. Two and a half hours of switching my brain into 'Michael Bay Mode' (i.e. off) was one of the best moments of cinema this year. It got absolutely annihilated by critics and I can see why. The dialogue was pretty bad, LaBeouf and Fox both seem to have forgotten how to act and some of the robots (namely those two jive-talking muppets) made Jar-Jar Binks look like an intelligent character. BUT, it was so much fun. Who wouldn't want to see machines tear through the Pyramids? Who wouldn't want to see Megan Fox straddling a motorbike? That's what cinema is about my friends. Robots + Explosions + Hot Girls = FUN
I'm going to keep it brief with Final Destination 4. It would appear that Hollywood has run out of ideas on how to kill teenagers. They started well with Scream! in the '80's, and it looks like with this pile of 3-D sh*t that they can no longer come up with inventive ways of killing people. Shame really.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was errr...terrible. If I wanted to watch angry hormonal teenagers with wands in their hands I'd have watched Skins (yeah I'm not talking about magic wands). It's as though Warner Bros. read the book and went "That's good, but our Harry Potter should be nothing like this". I mean, it's not like the book is any good or anything...
Fortunately, Summer 2009 was saved by Mr. Tarantino and WW2. Inglorious Basterds has to be one of the finest movies I've seen in a while. The dialogue is sharp, Brad Pitt and Christopher Waltz are on epic form, and the tension and suspense built up by QT's script is scintillating stuff. If your a QT fan or a fan of good movies in general, you have to see this film. Over and out xD
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