Nope. Transformers 3 is not a bad movie because it lacks substance when compared to higher brow movies or is big, dumb and stupid, it's a bad movie because it's badly put together on every level (especially editing). There's no consistency in tone or flow. It's like a bad student film or a drunk telling you a story. It's confusing as fuck. Michael Bay's style seems to have become a parody of itself in the same way De Niro's acting has. Which is probably why there's even a teal/orange joke in there.

Whatever happened to the guy who gave us the moving and powerful shower ambush scene in The Rock?

Some might recall that I had a bone to pick about calling movies bad. This is why. There's a big difference between a movie being flawed and a little ill thought out (e.g. Chronicles of Riddick) and a movie that doesn't make any sense storywise or visually like this one. I couldn't even enjoy the film for its hot babe and big robots because most of the time it's jaundice Shia and a bunch of special forces running around the set of Battle LA and changing their plan seemingly every 15 seconds.

I didn't like the first one because it had a crappy third act which was all over the place and a terrible pantomine performance by Turtorro. I didn't like the second one because it had inane humour and a nonsensical plot, but preferred it over the first because it had clearer and more coherent action scenes. This third ones takes the worse elements of the previous films and dials them up to 12.

I really enjoyed this film, I loved the characters, framing, and story. Didn't find it lacked punch, it's just that the punch was designed to be more subtle. Don't think it would suit a commentary, but it's an excellent one to watch.

I don't think Jason has ever acted ...

Jeff Anderson did a really good job in Clerks, considering he had never acted before.

Avalon - What a wonderfully strange little polish film. I really quite enjoyed it, definitely not gonna be everyone's cup a tea, but worth checking out.

Gee, I wonder what position the documentary takes, putting the answer to the question before the actual question...

I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit and A Series of Unfortunate Events back to back with my niece (8) and nephew (8), and they loved them as much as I do. I've got all the W&G stuff; I'll have to check if they've seen them.

Next on the docket: Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice.

EDIT: Among other things, I've also watched Revenge of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Created Woman. The latter is quite well respected, but it really didn't do much for me. And these are pre-booby Hammer anyway.

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Cloe and I saw Big Fan during it's tiny lil release here in Hollywood, and Patton came and did a long QnA afterward which basically just became a stand-up gig. It was really wonderful.

If you've followed my live tweets, you'll know the last two films I saw were Birdemic and The Last Airbender. 

Next to that, I finally saw MacGruber, and damned if that wasn't a funny little flick.  I was shocked, actually.

Gone, Baby Gone. I liked it, I thought Casey's acting was a bit weird and I couldn't stop seeing him as his character in good will hunting, but overall it was a pretty good film, especially the ending.