Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:
Pass.
Really, that’s about all want to say about it. The first film was a piece of crap. The story was poor, the acting was bad, they butchered the source material, and the action was that too-fast-to-follow sort where two things smash into each other, stuff happens, and then one of them wins. Seeing the trailer for this just reminded me of how much I disliked the first one and how I was going to make no effort at all to see this one. Sure, people will claim that its just a summer popcorn flick and I expect too much of it, but even for a cartoon designed to sell toys, the original had so much more heart and soul than Michael Bay’s bastardization. It deserved so much better.
Save your money. Please. If it bombs, maybe he’ll stop.
My Sister’s Keeper:
I wept like a little girl. Movies about cancer patients tend to get at me anyway, but this one was particularly heart wrenching because it is so well acted. I won’t lie, I saw the “twist” in this film coming a mile away, but there was real edge of my seat interest in watching how long it would play out and at point would everything come to light. It sounds odd to write about a movie which is about a girl dying of cancer and her sister who doesn’t want to be a donor anymore, but it is how I feel. I’ve seen criticisms of the movie, and the book on which it is based, from people who say they have a child with leukemia and life isn’t like that, mother’s don’t act that way, donor siblings don’t refuse, blah blah blah… for one, this is a story, it is fiction, and a story in which everyone was happy and the only thing that happened was a girl died of cancer, well, that wouldn’t exactly be riveting viewing. For me, I can easily see how a mother could get so swept up in saving the life of one of her children that many “lesser concerns” go unnoticed or forgotten.
All in all, a good movie… but bring tissues.