We’ve been to the cinema twice in the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
The first time we watched Transformers.<\/p>\n
It’s a good film in a ‘beat ’em up’ ‘screenful of boys’ toys’ kind of way.<\/p>\n
Even if the whole film was one long euphemism for gridiron (American football).<\/p>\n
There was one awful cut towards the end sequence of the scene where the two lead robots (names) were one moment trading blows and then, after a brief glimpse away to some off-centre action, the good robot was down (and temporarily) out. I wonder if the missing sequence was deemed too violent for the certificate?<\/p>\n
There were slightly less than a dozen sequences of set-piece action but, oh boy, what action!<\/p>\n
But on the dumbing down front:<\/p>\n
Sadly the entire synopsis of the film could have been summed up in less than 20 seconds.<\/p>\n
And why do the Americans feel the need to detail a location (e.g. ‘Qatar, the Middle East’)?<\/p>\n
That’s as opposed to some other well-known, desert-ridden Qatar –\u00a0the location of which Americans might get confused over?<\/p>\n
But don’t get me wrong.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t a bad<\/em> film, in fact some of the cinematography was excellent \u00e2and most of the CGI was below the intrusive level.<\/p>\n The second film we’ve seen recently was the third in the Bourne trilogy.<\/p>\n And I was, frankly, disappointed.<\/p>\n I know it’s not intended to be high art but I did feel that the ending was lacklustre, unimaginative and as predictable as yesterday’s cricket score.<\/p>\n Transformers: Not a bad film, what you see is what you get.<\/p>\n The Bourne Ultimatum: Lacking ambition, could have been so much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve been to the cinema twice in the last couple of weeks. The first time we watched Transformers. It’s a good film in a ‘beat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}