Dark Side of the Moon

This was one summer movie that I decided wasn't worth seeing in the theater and man am I glad I stuck to my guns on that one. 

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Transformers - at the age of eight, I was convinced I was going to marry Optimus Prime and dear gods, did I cry when he died in the cartoon movie.  Hell, I'd probably cry watching it again today.  When the first movie came out in 2007, I eventually made it to the theater to see it, rather inconveniently forgetting how it ends which would have saved me tons of tears. Pretty awesome movie, if you ask me but then we were seeing a live action version of what had been one of my favourite cartoons.  The second movie was...okay.  I think I'd be fine not owning it.

And then we had this third installment.  *sighs*  The huge red flag for me was the oh so mediocre Shia LeDoufus assuring us the human element would be the stand out once again.  I'm sure that's not quite how he put it....the big thing was that apparently that was missing from the second installment.  Quite frankly, I thought it was almost oppressive.  Or maybe it was just his and Megan Fox's dreadful acting. 

You know...now that I've looked back at that last paragraph, I think that's the big thing that turned me off from seeing the movie.  Anyhow, it's finally come out now part of my Itunes collection, watched and two things come to mind: 1. I'm so glad I didn't waste money on movie tickets for this thing.  B. The Transformers are still freaking awesome cool. Trapezoid: It's too long for a relatively crappy movie. and 2. I really hate the main "actors". 

Consequently, I'm beginning to think I really don't care for the theater experience mainly because I don't like being a captive audience, trapped in semi-darkness and unable to do something else when I find a movie just isn't enough to keep me comfortably amused. Give me my couch to sprawl on, no need to wear shoes, the ability to tool around on my lapper and a hot cup of tea.  Oh, not to mention the ability to pause for potty/refill breaks.  Shame about the lack of theater poppycorn.  That's totally the best thing about going to the theater.