New Mac, Criticisim of Awful "Films" and Vin Diesel's Dubious Acting Abilities

Contrary to what the title may suggest, I am going to begin by talking about Vin Diesel. Well, not about him, per se, but about Babylon AD. Awful film. Insanely bad, in fact. I spent the first fifteen minutes wanting to cry, then I turned it off. I read a comment about 10 minutes ago on a forum that related to this movie. It said (verbatim): "In the future, Vin Diesel cannot act!!" I would like to point out that he can't act in the present, nor, indeed, the past.

Moving on... I finally got my new MacBook. I really love it. It's a wonderful little machine, and OSX is grand. Hurrah!

Now, onto Transformers 2. I wanted to not talk about it. I want to completely forget about it. I can't. Let me spin you a tale of woe.

I went to see Transformers 2 when it came out. Couple of weeks ago. Now, I had promised my mate Shaun that I would see it with him, but he was sick on opening night, so I went anyway, figuring I would be fine to see it again. It was awful. Now my sense of decency, and the fact that my word still means something led me to line up again on Tuesday night just gone to see this woeful piece of film.

Now, people have said "It's a Michael Bay film, its meant to have no plot...etc" Now. I would say, fair enough, but the fact is, we can't make excuses for rubbish movies because of the director. No-one said "Oh, no, killing Jews is just Hitler's thing..." Because you can't explain things away.

People also have a dig at me routinely for bagging movies. And I do, with startling frequency, it must be said. But that's because there are a lot of crap movies coming out. All the time.

Now, in fairness to me, I watch more movies than most people. By a long shot. And I've spent the last 4 years of my life doing a degree on Literature and film, and deconstruction of characters, plot, scenes, etc, comes naturally to me as a result. Think about your passion, hobby, profession, whatever. When you see an awful example of that, do you critique it? My oath you do. My hobby, passion, and profession just happens to revolve around what most people do for entertainment.

So when I see a film that is awful, I say something. When, however, that gem of a movie comes out, that is wholly brilliant, I praise, laud, salute, etc it for all I'm worth. The problem is, people are making worse and worse films, predominantly because they get away with it. It's in everyone's iterest to bag crap movies, and reserve excitement for the good ones. Its like natural selection - the weak will eventually die off, leaving better movies for everyone.

Watch Star Trek.

It rocked.