The Summer Of Disappoint

So, I've decided to change up the format a little. So here we go with my first post about movies.

TOP 3 MOST DISAPPOINTING FILMS OF SUMMER '09

#3. I decided to put Revenge of the Fallen as the least disappointing of the disappointments because I never expected much to begin with. At the very most we can say that the original Transformers was a sub-par Michael Bay flick, which puts it somewhere between Bad Boys and Bad Boys 2. This is about Revenge of the Fallen though, which was shaping up to at least be better than its predecessor. So, what was wrong with it?

Let’s get the geekery out of the way, and say that a Transformer that turns into a human is totally not canon. As for other problems, there was too much LaBeouf, too much Fox, and generally too many people. The movie’s called Transformers, not The Witwicky Robot Adventures. The comedy was on a Junior High level, complete with racist robots that give Jar Jar Binks a run for his money on the annoying quotient, and robot testicles just to make sure we become dumber by watching this trash. Most importantly, the movie was boring, and for a movie with this many explosions, Bay had his work cut out to make it that dull.

I once stated in a Facebook status update: “TRANSFORMERS REVENGE OF THE FALLEN IS STUPID. IF YOU LIKE IT, THEN YOU ARE STUPID. ONLY STUPID PEOPLE LIKE THIS FILM” and I stand by this.

#2. Deadpool. Let’s just say it: They screwed up. Sure they screwed up just about every character they introduced in this film that was from the comics, but Deadpool was almost made an example of. At this point X-men fans have received a thorough flogging thanks to Brett Ratner and the betrayal of Bryan Singer. We wanted to give this one the benefit of the doubt though. A new director and a whole movie about our favorite X-man, we had high hopes. In the trailers we saw clips of Wolverine fighting through time and multiple wars.

Then the movie came out, basically ignoring not only the comic book canon, but the previous films as well. I’m not one to rip on special effects, because I never really found them important, but these were pretty bad. In fact the effects seem to be getting worse with each successive X-men film, but that’s beside the point. Top it off with the infamous adamantium bullet, and we have a mess of a movie.

#1. Let me make this clear, I think that Revenge of the Fallen and Wolverine are much worse than Terminator: Salvation. This list is about disappointments though, and I had incredibly high hopes for this. It had an awesome trailer, and excellent cast, and we were finally going to see the epic robot war that was hinted at in the previous films.

So what was the problem with this? One name: McG. The man cannot direct, and there was no emotional center to the film. Were we supposed to be watching John Connor or Marcus Wright? The action was fine, we saw a believable post-apocalyptic world, and we just didn’t care. It felt a lot like the Star Wars prequels in that big important things happened, but the director could not make us feel the stakes or the emotional weight. In the end, it was a perfect failure.

So, that's it for now, I plan on writing another top 3 for my favorite films of the summer. So stay tuned.