Was unfortunate enough to have reserved a seat for the latest... and last?... release of Michael Bay's Transformers. The result? I had to contend for seats on the side and not the middle area of Shang Cineplex' Cinema 3 - not a 3D cinema since I really don't see the point in spending that much money for an experience that you'll only end up regretting paying that much money for...
I have to say this latest installment really had people abuzz. Apart from me not getting the usual row H, I, or J seats (eye level) in the middle section, there were long lines at the ticket booths of people waiting to buy tickets for the movie... unless they were there to watch the chick flick that was showing at the Premiere theater... yeah, Transformers wasn't being shown in the Premiere theater. Instead, it was... Marco... uh... Monte... yeah! Monte Carlo... which, based on the short trailer I saw while waiting IN LINE at the E-See Pass Lane - yes, even the E-See Pass Lane had a line - is about a girl who just graduated and went to Europe with two other girls - one of whom was Leighton Meester - and probably has a coming-of-age story happening there complete with falling in love and all that stuff that makes chick flicks what they are... but I digress.
Dark of the Moon suffers from yet another lack of imagination in the minds of the people who came up with the titles for these movies. As if Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wasn't bad enough - bad, because THE FALLEN was actually the name of the enemy - they come up with Transformers: The Dark of the Moon... Why? Because The Dark of the Moon was where the focal plot point originates. That area of the moon doesn't even factor in except in the start - which was cool by the way since it showed the Ark at a crash position that is so reminiscent of the cartoon version which crashed on Earth and because they were able to come up with a conspiracy theory about the real reasons behind the Space Race between the US and the USSR - and towards the middle, when new developments were introduced into the movie.
