Bumblebee.

One of the finest people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing is a guy named Tommy Rhoads. We grew up together in the dusty San Joaquin Valley. Whereas I became all wordy and insufferable, he actually learned how to do things and be a good person. A few years ago he built a to-scale replica of the Transformer Bumblebee. Some people recently filmed it with a drone and put it up on the Youtubes.

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Crap.

Crap
by james bezerra

I wonder if childhood me
would have liked the new Transformers movie,
because adulthood me imagines it will be crap.

I think that maybe
a more interesting movie
would be
about how all the things boyhood me
loved, get transformed into crap.

P.S.
You really expect me to pay fifteen bucks
for Transformers with no Megan Fox?!




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Mean and Awesome!

I totally forgot about this! When Val and I were in Boston, we got a bite to eat at this little café place on Charles Street in Beacon Hill and I picked up a copy of Boston’s free glossy magazine, The Improper Bostonian.

They have this movie critic working for them named Sean Burns and man is that guy a pretentious asshole! But in a good way!

First he did not really like much of anything, except for Hurt Locker (and even that, he was quick to point out, gets muddled in the second half). He even shrugged off 500 Days of Summer, which I disagree with (he made some good points and gave voice to a lot of the small complaints that curmudgeons like me have, but he missed the big picture, which is that it is a great movie).

However, he saved a special place in his tiny black heart for Transformers. His review spewed bile all over the movie, but I wrote down my favorite part of the review:

“… (Transformers is) nothing but the pulverizing fetishization of militaristic alpha-male privilege …”
Ouch.

Now I enjoyed the first movie, but I enjoyed it partly because it was crap. I have not seen the second one, but I bet it was just as craptacular!


*** I couldn’t find the review on their website, but the review was in The Improper Bostonian in the July 29-August 11 2009 issue on page 53 ******
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