The Touch of PTA
I know I was just a bit harsh on Transformers. There were all sorts of references to the original cartoon in the movie - but where was the song? Fortunately, Paul Thomas Anderson realized that any movie is better with "The Touch" and any movie is 100x better if it is sung by Marky Mark.
Speaking of Paul Thomas Anderson. I want to publicly renounce my opinion of Magnolia, formed when I was seventeen years old. (I know you've all been waiting for this.) It's really not "mind-blowing" or "amazing." Everyone drops the f-bomb as frequently as the screenwriter/director. The film emphatically does not deliver on the expectations set by it's incredible opening. It embraces the failure by covering the whole of downtown L.A. in frogs. And I'm supposed to be satisfied with one tear streaked smile at the end?
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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I don't care about F-bombs, but the acting felt like amateur improv, and the script refused to have a point, or even to make a point of its own pointlessness. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad film.
I did like the one he did about porn, though. Thanks for the clip of "The Touch." Oooh yeah.
Transformers the Movie (animated) is far superior to anything that has involved Michael Bay, from the power ballads to the Orson Welles and Judd Nelson voice roles it is pretty much a piece of 1980's pop culture perfection. The little brother and I watched it repeatedly on VHS so there may be some sentiment clouding my judgment but it is not so clouded that I am actually going to attend the live action monstrosity currently in the theater.
I might have to come up with a lucid defense of <i>Magnolia</i> sometime.
On the happy side, now you can critique my comment style, too.