Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel trailer.

Joblow.com has posted the new trailer to Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Looks just like the first one... oh man, what's happening in Hollywood?

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Tony: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Review

Oh my God. Oh... My... God. And none of that was meant in a positive light. What the? What the hell? What the? Give me one minute to gather my thoughts, I mean hatred, for this movie.

Ok I'm better now. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is obviously the sequel to the 2007 mega hit, Transformers. Michael Bay directed both films and the movies star Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox. Let me list all the positives to this movie, and then follow them with the negatives.

Positives:
More robots. There are so many more robots as eye candy, it's pretty stunning actually. Especially the new motorcycle Autobots.

Ok... annnnnd that's it. I'm all out of positives to this movie.

Negatives:
Story. The most absurd, ridiculous, unbelievable story I've ever seen. The first Transformers managed to charm and make us believe that robots could come down from the heavens to live among us. In this movie, the characters are all over the place! There's a fallen? What? A matrix in there too? What? And a pyramid conspiracy? What the flip man?!

Michael Bay. The movie will win one award this season... Michael Bay's worst movie ever. Previous winner: Bad Boys 2. The guy should direct action porno, and I'm not kidding. The movie focuses on Megan Fox and Isabel Lucas to the point of discomfort. Plus, he has never been a true story teller. Yes, he can direct the ish out of an action sequence, but he forgot something: action should only lend itself to the story, not become the focus of the movie. I've said it before and I'll say it again; The Dark Knight was masterful because it focused on the story between Batman and The Joker and used action to compliment that story.

Length. The movie is almost 2 hours, 45 minutes! What the hell? The F' for? That movie could have been condensed to 1 hour 30 minutes without losing much substance. I woke up late to a meeting cause of this ish.

Characters. The first movie made me care what happened to Shia's character, it made me care about the core group of Autobots. By the end of this movie, I could care less if any of them made it out alive or not. All the human characters do is scream and yell and run... period! All the robot characters, good or bad, just fight... period! The only bright spot of character: Julie White as Judy Witwicky, Shia's mom in the movie. She... is... hillarious! Lastly... the movie WAS racist with its depiction of "the twins" and the African-American employee at the deli. I don't want to get into all that, so I'm going to leave it alone.

The movie will live in infamy as the worst reviewed movie to ever make $400 million plus. Pretty amazing what our culture has come to categorize as a good movie. Man, what happened to Bay movies like The Rock! Story, action, comedy all in one. I hated this movie so much that it is seriously my mission from now, until it is out of theaters, to make sure I tell as many people as possible not to see it. If that comes about through this Blog, so be it. I hate, hate, hated this movie!

Transformers wins big box office

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took in 112 million dollars from Friday - Saturday. Not bad! The movie did start Tuesday at Midnight though... and its five day total equaled out to 201.2 million dollars; it was only 2nd place all time to The Dark Knight which took in 203.8 million dollars in five days. These numbers are only estimates until later today. The reason I bring this up is this: my wife and I went to the movies last night just before 10 P.M. and there were long lines waiting to walk into see Transformers. So these numbers could potentially go up before the end of the day. Studio estimates are usually very accurate, but then again two weeks ago The Hangover won the box office on Monday because the studio underestimated its ticket sales vs. Up. The Proposal did very well in second place for a romantic comedy up against a giant like Transformers. Here's the rest of the top ten... enjoy.

1. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," $112 million.

2. "The Proposal," $18.5 million.

3. "The Hangover," $17.2 million.

4. "Up," $13 million.

5. "My Sister's Keeper," $12 million.

6. "Year One," $5.8 million.

7. "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," $5.4 million.

8. "Star Trek," $3.6 million.

9. "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," $3.5 million.

10. "Away We Go," $1.7 million.

The Smurfs movie, God helps us...

You will probably hear me bitch and complain about this a lot as time goes by, but I am guilty of supporting it... no new ideas! There are no fresh and new ideas in Hollywood and the Smurfs movie will be just another case in point. comingsoon.net has just announced that a Smurfs, live action/3d animation movie is in the works. With a tentative release date of December 17, 2010. The movie will of course be based on the 1958 comic strip turned Saturday morning cartoon.

I am guilty of supporting movies that take old ideas and re-hash. I support sequels and prequels and remakes... but I feel like it's so far and few between new, solid ideas that the industry is losing its sense of creativity. I'm not trying to sound hypocritical, I just wish there were more fresh movies like The Hangover. Either way, agree or disagree, the Smurfs movie it is.

Inglourious Basterds will NOT be cut

A few weeks ago, we told you Harvey Weinstein asked mister Quentin Tarantino to cut some 40 minutes from his new movie, Inglourious Basterds. Seems mister Weinstein is backtracking now. Check out these unbelievable quotes from GQ magazine:

No fucking way! I was telling Quentin the opposite—'You should put that shit back in the movie.' There’s scenes with Brad Pitt and the Basterds, and I’m praying he puts that shit back in, ‘cause it’s un-fucking-believably great. Listen—this movie will be between two hours and twenty minutes and two hours and twenty-seven minutes. I don’t think it’s going to be shorter—it’s just a question of rearranging.

Wow, I don't know who to believe... but I will tell you this, Weinstein is the boss, period! So had he told Tarantino to cut the movie, Tarantino cuts the movie, no questions. So we'll see how this plays out, but for all you Tarantino lovers, you get a 2 and a half hour movie coming soon.

Quickie: Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day trailer to premier at Comic-Con

Damn it! I have to work! I love comic books and would love to go to comic-con even without this trailer. Clifton Collins Jr. (starring in the film) gave an interview with movieweb and revealed that the trailer for Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day would premier at comic-con 2009, July 23-26 in San Diego, CA. If you haven't got your tickets, get em! And let us know what you thought of the trailer... bastards.

Daybreakers, ANOTHER VAMPIRE MOVIE!

On this episode of "Let's make as much money as we can while vampire movies like 'Twilight' are hot"... we have Daybreakers. The film stars Ethan Hawke (Training Day), Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park). It's about vampires trying to find a substitute to human blood because the human race is being extinct. Based on the trailer, the cinematography and look of the film is pretty neat. It has a washed out look, similar to Minority Report. Actors are top notch, we'll see if this is riding the coat tails of other successful vampire movies, or it will stand alone on its own two feet. Either way, you are always allowed to agree to disagree.