Tranformers of Culture

I haven't seen Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon (it's in 3D!). 

But I suspect that this review  by Walter Chaw is dead on: whether it is or not, I really liked it for its impatience with filmmaking that presumes on our sewer-readiness.

Perhaps it's time to have this conversation at some level of our culture, that going into a movie deaf and blind to messages like "women are things" and "Arabs are evil" and "African-Americans are scairt" is exactly what Bay and his co-producer Steven Spielberg (for shame, man) want you to do, hope that you do, because imagine what would happen if anyone with any kind of infant moral compass were to notice that they've taken their 9-year-old to a movie this ugly and hateful. 

Best moment: a comparison between Sarah Palin and director Michael Bay, who pimps American history:

 When [Americans are] accused of having no history, it's because of people like Bay and Palin, who, never having been blessed with curiosity, are curiously free of shame.

Comments

[Victoria]

I've only seen the first one. That one lost my respect when the "heroes" made the choice to hide from giant evil robots in a very large city. This makes for great special effects of giant robots destroying skyscrapers. It also increases civilian casualties by the hundreds just so the main characters are (a little) harder for the villains to find.