just saw it last night, liked it a lot.
glad to see movies made in a similar vein to the 70s sci-fi counter-culture.
it has brave scenes like lincoln's first encounter with death, the coldness of the murderers quite cutting.
and michael clarke duncan uses his 30 seconds in pretty unforgettable fashion.
a lot of people will automatically 'hate' it because it's big-budget with lots of explosions and is made by michael bay.
judge a movie on its merits, not who made it.
art is art.
leave the tarantino-emulating geekboy-ism to starbucks-fueled god-complexed-vancouverites.
this coming from a guy that went to:
a tarantino film festival BEFORE pulp fiction came out (though celeberating its impending release)
army of darkness, IN THE THEATER (man was it empty!)
the crow in the theater (equally empty)
things to do in denver when you're dead, at the globe, for eight bucks, before the monster theaters were even built and the cineplex was six bucks.
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