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Transformers; It’s so bad, It’s not good at all…

July 16, 2009 12:59 pm

I love big robots and I love computer animation. So why, was “Transformers; Revenge of the Fallen” one of my worst movie watching experiences of all time. I think it is worth the effort to elaborate on this horrible piece of cinema, because it should become a landmark of failure in most every realm of film making, decency, and ultimately imagination.

For now, Roger Ebert’s analysis captures the majority of my sentiments…

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

The plot is incomprehensible. The dialog of the Autobots®, Decepticons® and Otherbots® is meaningless word flap. Their accents are Brooklyese, British and hip-hop, as befits a race from the distant stars. Their appearance looks like junkyard throw-up. They are dumb as a rock. They share the film with human characters who are much more interesting, and that is very faint praise indeed.

~Roger Ebert, The Sun Times

Roger Ebert’s Kind Review

DWIFF Challenge Big Success…

June 26, 2008 12:50 pm

Special thanks to all the volunteers who made the first annual DWIFF Challenge a reality

  • Scott Dunham
  • Suzanne Janik
  • Sarah Mark
  • Nicole LaDouceur
  • Denver Rochon
  • Billy Whitehouse
  • Mike from CCS
  • 23 Willing teams of Detroit film makers…

DWIFF Challenge…

May 14, 2008 4:44 pm

DWIFF Challenge card Over the past 4 years I have competed in a national competition, known as the National Film Challenge. It has been one of the best experiences of my budding film career. In one weekend, all excuses go to the wayside, and you just make a movie… its a short… but its a finished short. I am very proud to be able to bring this experience to the local Detroit indie film community through the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival.

This is our chance to put everything we have come to love in the national competition into our own and bake in some home grown Detroit flavor and community.