went to the drive-in last night and saw Ice Age 3 and Transformers 2.
One was awesome and the other was one of the worst movies i've seen in a while.
Ice age3 wasn't as good as i thought it would be but still good. It seemed anti-clamatic to me, and a little lost in some areas. I rated it a B over at yahoo.
*warning: wall-o-text*
Now the other one, i felt so robbed of my time i actually went to yahoo movies and posted a review, which i never do. It was like the director (bay) knew what movies were supposed to have in them, but failed to grasp the concept. Plus, it was filled with bad language (a lot provided by the autobot twins), and stupid crude humor. If you're a hormone crazed boy who sees it to stare at the female cuties, and love watching cgi action in which you can't tell what's happening but lots of stuff blows up, then you'll love the movie.
It was 2 1/2 hours of torture. And since most of us here make games i think we consider ourselves writers and story-tellers. It had at least 1 hour of pointless crap, either through the humor of things humping things, or the new college kid who's job in the movie was to be scared and scream a lot.
It kept building up with things getting worse, then action, kablooeee, then somehow humans get away even though autobots magicaly aren't around. then more 'end of the world' stuff builds up, then action, then kablang! then humans runnning in slow mo, ok this repeated itself for a while. it had i don't know how many parts rising to the climax, which they finaly reached and the last battle wasn't too bad, but by that point i'm wishing it would end and can't take their fake 'end of the world moments' seriously, especially since they didn't set-up characters for anyone but the 2 annoying autobots and the stupid kid.
in conclusion, half the movie was mindless, screeching action where you couldn't tell what was happening, and the other half was following the humans around as they did stupid things and day to day life which had nothing to do with the plot. Next time, put autobots in the transformers movie and give humans a 25% role.