Movie Review: Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Rating: PG-13
Action, adventure, science fiction, and fantasy
Directed By:Michael Bay 
★★★★☆
This is the third installment to the Transformers series. Shia LaBeouf returns as Sam Witwicky in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. When a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.
I was never a fan of the cartoon series, but I did love the story and the action behind the movies. Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox had made an amazing couple and the story for both Sam and the Transformers were great. I was not happy with this story.
They just dropped Megan’s character, and added this new blond who, to me, felt needy and stupid. She looked lost the entire movie, and she didn’t care about the other Autobots like Megan’s character did. Their relationship felt kinda strained and robotic. I didn’t like it.
Great CGI and amazing action scenes, but I hated the story behind Sam and Carly.

Movie Review: The Green Lantern

Rated: PG-13
1hr 45min.
Action/adventure/science fiction/fantasy
Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively
★☆☆☆☆Peter Sarsgaard 

The Green Lantern defiantly fell short of everyone’s expectations…including my own. It was what it was. It wasn’t great, but it was that bad. I thought it started off a bit slow. A full half an hour or so went by before Hal (Ryan Reynolds) even encountered anything relating to the Green Lantern Core. That to me was a bit waste of time. Then when he did encounter the dying purple alien he didn’t react like a normal person.

Yes, I know that the Lantern picks people who show no fear blah, blah, blah, but it’s not really fear that I was looking for, just a little freaked out that a ball of green energy picked him up and dropped him off next to a dying purple alien in his spaceship that chose him to be something he has no idea about.
The details are a bit sketchy for me. I felt like the story went slow, then kinda sped up. It was bad writing, no offence to the writers. I love movies with these types of stories, but hate when they are delivered in this way. The actors were great, and Ryan was hot as ever, but not worth the money.
Great graphics and great actors, but not a great movie.