The recent movie blockbuster I watched, Michael Bay’s Transformers, ended with me commenting “It could’ve been better.”
Minutes before entering the movie theater, I was already humming the Transformers theme in eager anticipation, even imagining how Optimus Prime would whip Megatron’s metallic butt back to Cybertron. Needless to say, in the movie it was Prime’s ass that got whipped.
Damn!
I checked out Yahoo movies to see if veteran film critics felt the same way. They didn’t. So after two years writing as a film critic for a popular online portal, a features writing craft that started when I got featured in The Philippine Star’s “My Favorite Movie” column, what I can say is that, at the end of the day, I write it the way I see it. That simple.
Whether movie audiences agree with my views or not, important thing is that I help create awareness in the pursuit of quality films. I can’t imagine a world where no film critics exist to safeguard the quality of movies. Cinematic mediocrity would be rampant. Not worth the merit of your hard earned one hundred forty bucks.
Oh well, there’s always the sequel to look forward to.
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