Man, there are some funny lines in the review ita linked.
The main emotion that comes off Shia LaBoeuf, from the first frame to the last, is a bitchy, indignant rage, interspersed with feeble attempts at ingratiation.
(Forget the Director's Cut. For movies like this, we need the Bathroom Attendant's Cut.)
New leading lady Rosie Huntington-Whitely — who makes Megan Fox seem like Katharine Hepburn — spends the final hour of the movie looking as though she's ready to have a nervous breakdown and give a lapdance.
OMG HA. Yeah, I am so not seeing this movie. Even (and especially) if Alan Tudyk
"impersonates a gay ex-Nazi manservant in a weird suit."
Not that I was considering seeing it anyway. Being assaulted by the trailer the other night was plenty.
The story and the acting are not what I go to see a Michael Bay film for. Giant robots destroying Chicago? Yes, must see this on the big screen.
The lure of constant sensory battery is not usually enough to get me to buy a ticket, and neither Shia nor the chick are my idea of teh hott. I'd rather watch Inception. Again. And again. And again...
I'm sure it could use some editing. But yeah. I'll probably go on a Monday matinee.
Jon Favreau interviews Harrison Ford.
ETA: blastr nabbed the interview from HuffPo but they missed a segment.
You know what I realized? I have only seen 2 Michael Bay directed movies:
"The Rock" and "The Island."
Apparently if the movie is directed by Bay and does not begin with "the", I will not see it.
Oh, if only you'd seen
The Con Air
or
The Bad Boys
or
The Transformers
!
That's funny, le nubian. I had to check imdb to see what of his I'd seen, and seems to be just Bad Boys, Armageddon, The Rock and the first Transformers (which I hated. I like to see explosions as much as the next person, but something about the way the robots were rendered did not work for me at all). I guess I like his earlier work?
I loved it on Entourage when Vince Chase goes in to find out about Aguaman 2 and Ari's all "with Michael Bay directing," and Vince makes ice cream headache face.
I'm kind of pissed at Shia L. for how bad that last Indiana Jones flick was. Woof.