In honor of America's Birthday, I figured you'd love to read some of the stuff I wrote for the Observer this week! Great idea, right?* The Oscars need a fixin' and I'm just the man to make suggestions! Check them out here.
* If Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh can't get a movie made, then Hollywood needs to go back to the drawing board. Also, Sony Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal, you are terrible at this. Get worse.
* And finally... Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. As a major fan of both the first Transformers film and Michael Bay in general, I was disappointed. The fact is, the script for this thing is fairly terrible and discombobulated; none of it makes any sense and it feels completely hacked together. Plus, Shia LaBeouf is, shockingly, not good--and this is coming from someone who really loves his manic acting style, including what he did in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But, with all that being said, stuff explodes, robots transform, Megan Fox looks INCREDIBLY hot (seriously, it's out of control), more stuff explodes and I laughed. I laughed a lot. In the end, Revenge of the Fallen is an entertaining piece of crap. It's not the best movie of the summer (Star Trek and The Hangover have that sewn up), but it's also way better than almost everything else released this summer. Think of it this way: Would you rather watch Revenge of the Fallen or Terminator Salvation. See what I mean?
In case you trek to the theaters this weekend, here's a Viewer's Guide to Revenge of the Fallen for your reading pleasure.
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