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Transformers: Dark of the Moon

After the first two movies, I guess I had some high expectations. Big mistake. The second movie was obviously an exception. Sequels never work. (Except when they're in the form of HP or LOTR, except in both those cases, the story was already laid out! So it wasn't so much the director's thought process that made it work, anyways, will try not to digress)

This movie seems like a product of a late night drinking session amongst some buddies, okay let's throw in some autobots that we have, let's bring back megatron, lets throw out megan fox, and replace her with someone, okay now that sam's done with college, we must show some progress, okay let's make him jobless. oh and where are his parents? let's send them on a tour and have them stop by for a drink! Hmm... so what should the story be? Ah, Independence Day was a success years ago, let's try and recreate that!

I mean seriously, what was this movie?! Ideally it doesn't even deserve space on my blog but I'm just so irritated by the mess that's there, I feel compelled to vent! Absolutely no storyline. Nothing. 0. I mean if there could be a negative scale for storyline like something lesser than nothing, I'd give that here. There were way too many people, too many stories which just never got anywhere. For no rhyme or reason there was a scene at a russian nuclear reactor, there was a scene in a ukranian pub, the entire story about this woman's boss being a supporter of decepticons for some vague fatherly reason was never fleshed out, then the agent simmonds comes back to romance the director, one of the captains from the previous movies gets his men to fight this war... the randomness just doesn't end!

The worst part is, because of all these confusing mini-stories running around, there's no meat in the real (so called main) story. The idea of the leader of the autobots bringing cybertron to our planet only to destroy seems very pale. Like there's no real heart in it. It's like this movie was made at gun-point because someone forced them to. Literally like my friend said, the only bearable parts in the movie were when Optimus Prime was around. When it was time for the interval, we were actually staring at each other and wondering why the movie wasn't over yet?! Gosh I can vent so much more, but I think I have better things to do!

Please DON'T watch the movie, it's not even worth the Rs. 100 security deposit we paid for the 3D glasses, because there's no 3D effect in the movie, it's like that movie Clash of the Titans the 3D is absolute nonsense! They should learn from movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and others to understand why people use 3D!

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