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I saw Transformers this weekend. Spoler-free review follows:

I don’t have much new to add to what has already been said about this movie. Like everyone else I thought this was an overlong movie where everything (everything!) was turned up to eleven and running at 110%. All the time. The dialog was enslaved by the plot, and the stunts went from “that’s kind of hard to believe” to “I don’t believe that for a second” and finally reached the zenith of “that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.”

Director Michael Bay is the sorcerer’s apprentice. He’s got Spielberg’s spellbook, but where Spielberg makes magic, Michael Bay just makes a mess. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Transformers”

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

Yes, I’m reposting YouTubes as a way of padding out my meager blog this week. Yeah, I know: You’ve seen better, nobody cares about this meme anymore, everyone already saw this years ago and it was old then, etc etc. In any case, this is an amazing stop-motion video of a couple of guys assembling a Millennium Falcon – including the interior and many moving parts – out of Legos.

I started to write a comment here about how I’m thankful for all of the strange people out there on the internet who toil for my amusement, but halfway through I realized I’m one of those people.

Yikes.

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.