Movie Review- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is basically a testosterone fest which includes "cool" cars, explosions, action, stupid jokes, and Megan Fox. Sorry Michael Bay, but I need more than "cool cars" and million dollar special effects to make me like a movie. There's no real story, just action. The movie is so hard to follow it almost is hard to stay seated and not get up and leave out of pure frustration. I tried my best to follow the story but I kept getting distracted by the random action sequences that are completely irrelevant to the plot. It's almost like a 150 minute, action packed episode of Family Guy. I suppose the story itself is irrelevant in general, after all it is a Michael Bay movie. His movie's don't need to have any elements that make up a good movie like good acting or story structure to captivate an audiance because he just dazzles everyone with special effects and prolonged action sequences.
Don't get me wrong, the action in this movie is amazing. I honestly couldn't look away, every action sequence is brilliantly done in a way only Michael Bay can. The way the movie is filmed was very well done too, all of the angles and viewpoints allow the audience to get the most upfront, realistic, and in your face action scenes possible. The sound is good too, all of the gunshots and explosions sound great. Sound wasn't really something I ever noticed in a movie until I saw Black Hawk Down and ever since then it's been a key element in action movies.
Besides the direction of the movie it was pretty terrible. I absolutely hated how the writers try to make this movie appeal to youth by having the robots speak in ebonics, as if non-stop action won't gain the attention of anyone age 8 to 40. The movie is filled with ridiculous humor that at times is painful to watch. In one scene Shai Labeouf's mom has a bag of weed brownies, starts eating them, then goes around his college telling stories about him. She claims to think they're regular brownies but there's a clear view of a sticker on the plastic bag with a marijana leaf so even the most retarded audiance members can be included in the joke about his mom getting high. There are countless other stupid jokes, most involve the robots speaking in ebonics, which is never funny in any movie when humans do it let alone robots.
There is a lot wrong with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen that outweighs the good by a landslide, which is sad because so many people will see this movie and think it's a great work of cinema, when in reality it's just a 150 minute action sequence. So congratulations Earth, you've proved all you need to do to make a successful movie is blow stuff up for two and a half hours. I did think it was cool, just not cool enough. If I ever had to see this again I'd probably shoot myself...or just leave.

Grade : 1.5 out of 5

Pure Disgust

Work this evening was awful to say the least. I was doing fine up until about 9pm, then a training class ended and all of the new employee's came out on the floor to hang out with this girl that was sitting next to me. Every single person that was in that training class was by far the scummiest person I had ever encountered. I was utterly disgusted with every word that came out of their mouths. Every personality trait these people had was the absolute worst imaginable traits anyone could ever have. I have never once in my life hated someone in such a short amount of time as these people made me. No one has ever made such an awful first impression on me, I really couldn't believe it. I was so mad that I felt like I was going to throw up and got a headache, I finally couldn't take it anymore so I asked to leave work early.
Prior to working at Afni, of course there was people I didn't like but it was never to this extent. The people who work at Afni are the lowest of the low. It seems as if the worst people on Earth are all placed in this office. Not one person there is someone I would actually want to sit down and have a conversation with or ever hang out with, with the exception of one person. Afni is the most unprofessional work place I have ever unfourtanitly been a part of, even my days spent working at Pizza Hut were 100% more professional than Afni. Everyone including the supervisors and managers is a disgrace to hummanity. I was having a meeting with my supervisor last week and he started talking about this "hot girl" that I hang out with at work. I could not believe he'd bring that up in a meeting. Another time he called my house because I missed a day and he didn't have my cell phone number yet and my sister answered, and he asked me the next day at work how old my sister was. He's also asked me if I have any "hot friends" and if "that girl you talk to has a boy already". Other supervisors are so inappropriote with the female employees, like making sexual jokes with and about them right in the middle of work. It makes me sick to have to sit and watch all this shit happen. If that's how professional, mature, responisble, and example setting "supervisors" at Afni act, then fuck that place, I want to have no part of it. I get embarrassed admiting to my friends and anyone I meet that I am assosiated with Afni in anyway because of the people I am forced to work with.
I dread going in there everyday, not because the work is bad, but because of the people. I overheard one story once a girl at Afni was telling about how she had two miscarriages because she drank too much "JD" when she was unknowingly pregnant, oh, and she's only 19. The worst part wasn't that this thing was standing in the same room as me, but that she wasn't even bothered by it, as if having a miscarriage due to alcohol is just a normal, everyday thing. Everyday I come into work I get the pleasure of hearing stupid stories about "how much I drank last night" or "how siq Main Street was last night" and "how hot the girls at the Bunny Ranch are" and other retarded shit I don't want to hear about. No one at Afni has anything good to say ever, and from what I hear they all live the boringest and uneventful lives ever.
Another thing that I hate about Afni is that they have no dress code. You'd think it would be cool to have the privilege to wear basically anything you want, but I hate having that freedom and I hate even more that other people there are granted that freedom. I hate seeing what people there wear, all it does it piss me off. I cringe at so many outfits in a day I can't even count. Fucking people coming in wearing shirts that say "fuck", sweatpants, and other retarded shit that doesn't belong at work or even public makes me sick.
You're probably thinking, "well Karl you work at a call center what do you expect?" I worked at Citimortgage last summer and it wasn't at all as bad as Afni. At Citi, the employees were respectful, professional, and mature. The supervisors were helpful and everyone was very pleasant to be around. How else could I stand to work ten hour days four days a week? The job was boring, but it was the people who made it all bearable. They actually wanted you to succeed and move on with your life, not to just work there until you can't take it anymore. Citimortgage also had a strict dress code where you had to wear a polo or dress shirt and dress pants or nice jeans only. You could wear shorts on the weekend, but only during the Summer from what I heard. Their theory behind this was if you dress professional, you act professional. Shockingly, their theory worked. Some people there may have been shitty outside of work, but at work they did their job and kept their mouth shut about their dumb fucking personal life. Citimortgage had kind of a, no tolerance policy, for both stupid people and unprofessional behavior. I would honestly love to work at Citimortgage again if they could accomodate my school schedule.
Speaking of that, I told my boss at Citi I wouldn't be able to work in the fall because of college, and at that moment she dropped what she was doing and told me to come back later that afternoon because she would have a schedule that I could work while attending school, and later that afternoon she did! I didn't accept it, but still, she took the time to try to make it work. At Afni, I gave my supervisor my school schedule and receipts proving I paid for my classes and still I was stuck with some bullshit schedule that has me working late at night during the week. My ID's for a system at Afni were disrupted about three months ago and because of it I can't place orders for customers on the east coast. I told my boss countless times that I need this fixed and nothing has fucking happened yet. It's been three months! It just goes to show that Afni doesn't care about their employees.
This guy I'm kind of friends with that was in the same training class as me at Afni quit about three weeks into working at Afni after training because of how unprofessional it was. I should have done the same. This hate for Afni has been a growing problem for me, but tonight with the release of the new representatives I was at my boiling point. After Sound and Fury I will no longer be working for Afni. It's seriously degrading to have to step foot on Afni's property. Fuck Verizon, DirecTV, and Pay-Per-View for allowing Afni to represent them and "help" their customers. The day will come when those companies drop Afni, and all I will do is laugh.

Movie Review: The Proposal

I was really looking forward to this movie ever since I saw the previews for it back in January. All I wanted to do was go to the midnight showing of it, but none of my friends would go with me so I saw it opening day at a matinee. I would like to thank my friends for not going so I didn't waste too much money on this. I felt really let down after I finally saw it, probably because I was expecting it to be so much better. This movie isn't terrible, it just wasn't as great as I expected. The humor isn't that funny or original and most of the jokes are actually just stupid except one that I don't think even was intended to be funny just a rude remmark to back Sandra Bullock's mean spirited character. There's one part when Sandra Bullok does some Native Indian dance in the woods with Ryan Reynold's grandmother and she starts hip hop dancing and singing Lil Jon. That part honestly made me cringe and wish I was dead because it is so unbelievably stupid. The worst part was that scene somehow got the most laughs out of the entire movie. I could not believe people thought her dancing was so hilarious. If you have anything more than an average sense of humor and aren't a fan of romantic comedies you'll be bored out of your mind and shouldn't see this. I like romantic comedies though, so I could tolerate it. The story is alright, but again it's nothing special. It's incredibly predictable, there are no suprises in the plot but for some reason I was ok with that. The story isn't very believable either, there's no way a responsible adult with a great career would jeopardize their life by forcing their assistant to marry them so they won't be deported. There is other retarded shit that happens too, that would never happen in real life, like them getting married a few days after Ryan Reynolds tells his parents. Come on, that's just stupid and was only in the movie so Ryan Reynolds could be left at the alter so the movie could have a sad moment then turn itself around. Another portion of the movie I absolutly hated was an on going joke when this Mexican guy keeps showing up in every other scene and it's supposed to be funny every single time he's visible. Nothing he says or does is funny. The Proposal isn't charming or cute like romantic comedies should be but it does make you feel good and happy for the characters at the end. However, since you know how it ends, you just kind of start counting down the minutes until it finally concludes. This review might sound negative, but to be honest I didn't hate it as much I sound like I did. It's a bad movie, but in an alright and tolerable way...if that makes any sense.

Grade : 2.5 out of 5

Good Day!

Today was awesome. I woke up to a response from some dude in New York about an offer I sent him for his deadstock Nike Stussy low pro SB's and he accepted. I got the shoes for $193 shipped including insurance, I'm pretty excited to get them. I've gotten really lucky with getting great shoes for good prices lately, I doubt I'll be so lucky when I try to get the "Paris" and "Pigeon" SB's. For some stupid reason I want the "Babybear" SB's as well. Anyway, I paid for those then got some really good mexican food at a small place in my neighborhood. I discovered this place last summer when I worked for Citi Mortgage because everyone who worked there went to this place for lunch because it totally beats McDonald's, Subway, and Carl's Jr. I remember eating there 3 to 4 times a week, it definitely kills every other mexican restaurant in Tucson. After that, I came home and worked on my math homework for one of my summer school classes. This class is going great grade wise, I can't wait for it to be done with.
Later on, I went to my friends house and we played some tennis at his community center with our other friend. I wish I lived in his neighborhood, it's fucking awesome. I hadn't played tennis in probably 6 months so it was great finally playing again. I'm going to try to play three times a week and start golfing again, it's been too long. After tennis we all went to Chuy's and my friends brother came too, so it was cool seeing him again. Then I just came home and did some more homework. I also preordered the new Portugal, the Man record and bought an Off With Their Heads 7" from Vinylcollective. The new Portugal, the Man album is so good from what I have heard, I can't wait until it comes. It was a pretty good day.

Thank You

Almost every person I have encountered today has been unusually nice, cheerful, and polite. I'm kind of creeped out by it, but this is definitely something I could get used to. I work at a call center so I'm used to people being rude to me all the time, however, I'm happy to say today was different. People were constantly thanking me for my time and help, one lady even wanted to speak with my supervisor to say how great of a job I did on fixing her problem. Even the people at Taco Bell were nice and polite and told me to have a good night, most of the time they don't say anything when I go through the drive-thru at midnight. I wish everyone acted like this all of the time. I know I'll go into work on Thursday and be back to the same rude, inconsiderate, and annoying customers but today was a nice change. So, thank you citizens of Planet Earth for being nice...except Sean because he called me "dick weed" and a "shit stain" because I asked him if he wanted to see Observe and Report with Cassidy and I tonight, hahahahahahahahaha.

No Friends

I listened to this band called No Friends this evening, and they are so good. They sound like a more angry Descendents. Speaking of "No Friends" I've been kind of bummed out lately and I'm not sure why. It feels like everywhere I go and no matter who is around I'm alone or something. It's an awful feeling and I can't wait for it to end. Sunday I went to see Broadway Calls and about 80% of my friends were there but I still felt like I had no friends and everyone hated me. Maybe I'm going crazy or something retarded like that, but I wish whatever has been bothering and making me feel this way wouldn't anymore.

Broadway Calls was really good as always though and The Menzingers were great as well. Saturday, I got Pei Wei with Maria after work, then we went to the southside to see Skare Tactic. It was hella stupid and I hated it. It was good seeing Maria, Jon, Jsin, Duel, Sean, and Daryll. Skare Tactic sucks though, I can't believe I ever liked that band. They've changed so much too,Remember When is way better than anything they played on Saturday. I listened to that album again too, and it's not good anymore. It did however make me get my homework done faster because I didn't want to listen to it anymore but I didn't want to stop doing my homework and get up either, so I finished quick. Anyway, that's what has been going on lately. Oh, and the new Air Max Light's look great I need to get them.

Alkaline Trio

Last night I saw Alkaline Trio. I thought they were pretty good, the sound at The Rialto could have been better and there could have been less retards there, but overall I think their set was pretty good. I like Good Mourning a lot, and the majority of the songs they played were off that album. They also opened with "My Friend Peter" and ended with "Radio". It was good seeing people I hadn't seen in a while since shows at The Gnarwhal House too.

Finch on the other hand was 100% horrible. I was so bummed, I always really wanted to see them, but I never did when they were popular when I was in middle school. So basically last night years of waiting finally happened and they were just awful. They sounded bad and only played two songs off of What it is to Burn. Who even cares about anything that came after that album? No one knows them for anything other than What it is to Burn. I bet half the people watching them didn't even know they had an album after that. It was a total bummer to say the least.