Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

I took the kids and one of their friends to see this film this afternoon.

It was really rather enjoyable, and either the plot was so complicated and convoluted that all the sub-plots cancelled themselves out (and thus could be cheerfully ignored), or there quite simply wasn't a plot at all. The down-sides were the last battle scene in the desert that went on for about an hour, they really could have edited that one down a bit; and there wasn't nearly as much gratuitous footage of Megan Fox as I'd been led to expect.

Good fun nonetheless.

"How to Lose Friends and Alienate People"

We went to see this film yesterday.

The film kicks off by thanking the UK Film Council, Film Four and the National Lottery Fund - my heart sank as I thought we might be in for another In Bruges-style festival of taxpayer funded mediocrity (it was full of product placement for a certain brand of computers as well, AIH), but it was quite good fun actually, even though it doesn't have any sort of plot or narrative arc above and beyond what you'd expect from reading the reviews.

The trailers for the film-within-a-film, i.e. Megan Fox playing Mother Theresa, were moments of sheer unbridled buttock clenching genius. Here's the poster:


In case you don't get the joke, here's a typical Megan Fox publicity photo:

Transformers - The Movie

The Lad got the DVD of this as an Xmas present. We slapped it straight on and we've just finished watching it, and I must say, it was nowhere near as bad as I expected.

Parts of it were actually moderately funny and the bit towards the end where Mikaela Banes (the heroine) says 'I'm glad I got in that car with you' to Sam Witwicky (the hero) was almost quite moving (but I'm easily moved if I have a hangover)*.

But can anybody explain to me how the co-ordinates of The Cube's hiding place came to etched on Captain Witwicky's spectacles?  I really didn't get that bit.

* This refers back to the beginning of the film where Mikaela nearly walks off and Sam asks her how she'll feel in fifty years' time if she doesn't get back in the car and continue the adventure.