Happy 4th of July Weekend, The Hangover (8.5) and Transformers 2 (c5/e8)

Hello everyone. After driving a LOT this weekend, I'm finally back in the Chicago Suburbs. Blogging about the rest of life as I know it. I used to have a Xanga, which I used for Xanga-esque things, but I feel this has much more potential to do great things.

Why do we celebrate the day we declared Independence and started a brutal war? Why don't we celebrate the day we signed peace agreements with England and they recognized us as a sovereign nation? It was September 3, 1783, for those of you that care.


On to some Movies I've seen recently.

The Hangover - 8.5/10
Critical: 3.5/5. Enjoyment: 5/5)

I really enjoyed The Hangover. The second time I saw it just made everything that much funnier. It is vulgar, raunchy humor, with a pinch of a Napoleon Dynamite or Borat style of awkward-funny, but just enough that it doesn't pull the movie down, and the other characters are aware of it and play off it well. The plot has purpose and a drive to it. Similar movies have been made without this drive and have missed terribly at the box office...giving The Hangover some class, credibility, and added humor to the plot that sets it apart from its peers. The movie itself is lacking in the class department, but I suppose it was made to be racy.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - 4/10
(Critical: 1.5/5, Enjoyment: 2.5/5)
A decent sequel to the original movie, it had a lot of moments that were difficult for me to watch (I have never been so dizzy watching a movie before...they do that like six times, too!). Then there's the father-son corniness. And the Roommate corniness. And the stereotypical frat-boy party corniness. And the "Love" corniness...what was that, the Matrix?

It was a fun movie to watch, but it's been thrown into the category of "popcorn" flick, and won't win any oscars, except for visual effects, of course. It was a fun, cool movie that had a few too many comic-relief, plucky, quirky, or annoying characters (Seymore, Leo, Galloway, Mud Flap, Skids, Wheels, Starscream) to take it all seriously in the long run.

More later (see Subject line for the next stuff). I'm tired. Been watching Dexter (9/10), and there were some intense games of frisbee today. More on this later. Let me know if you keep up with this.