Wow. The Metropolitician saw the first public screening of Transformers… in the WORLD! I’m jealous. He can’t give details, so there are no spoilers to be had in the post.

There’s a tad more about the screening at Korea Pop War.  Unfortunately, neither one of these bloggers are going to be there tonight to see Bumblebee.

Spiderman 3 came out in Korea today, May 1st. Ras and I talked about seeing it after work today, but was afraid the theater would be too busy. Instead, we’re going to see it tomorrow morning around 10 am at the CGV in Anyang. I honestly have low expectations for the movie. The first Spiderman was good, whle the second one left me disappointed - too much big-budgeted action and not enough story.Korea Pop Wars wrote what I’m expecting to experience tomorrow:

It was basically a two-hour talkathon soap opera, with a 15-minute action finish. Now, if the talky stuff was well-done and interesting, I would have been fine with it. But S3 was no Eric Rohmer film. Or a Tarantino. Or anything. It was comic-book deep (and I don’t mean Alan Moore), with endless cliches and silly melodrama.

The only reason I’m seeing it tomorrow is because we received free movie tickets. You have to check out the Hollywood blockbusters once in awhile, especially when there’s so much hype for it. I’ll let you know tomorrow what I thought of it.

*** Update ***

I saw the movie this morning.  It wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t that good either.  The entire movie was pretty predictable - from the “bad” Spiderman trying to overtake Peter, to Peter losing MJ and winning her back, to the forgiveness and death scenes at the end.  After 2 hours into into the movie, I knew there was still one major fight scene left.  Still, I was wondering to myself in the dark, “This movie isn’t over yet?”  Overall, I guess Spiderman 3 is worth seeing once for the hype factor, but not a second time.

I’ve NEVER seen any of the Rocky movies, until last night. I only things I knew about the Rocky franchise were: Adrian, the Eye of the Tiger song, his training scenes, and that Rocky always overcomes difficult odds to win. Most critics thought it was an okay movie, but honestly… I thought the movie sucked. Well, not completely sucked, just a good deal of it sucked. It left me thinking, “What was the point of that movie? It must have been for the paycheck.”

The storyline that lead up to his training was pretty long, tedious, and completely unnecessary. Who cares whether he bonds with son of the new lady in his life? Bah! That kid didn’t even play a significant role in the rest of the movie after the first half. I hardly felt anything for the characters. Maybe I’m heartless. Oh well. Even though this movie wasn’t the best, I’d DEFINITELY would like to see the first Rocky, though. I’m sure the other Rocky movies were much better than this one.

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, are teaming up again for a romance movie.  Il Mare is the remake of a Korean movie which has been said to be a cross between "You’ve Got Mail" and "Frequency".  What I’d really like to see is a movie that’s a cross between Gladiator, Chicago, and Dogdeball.  Now THAT would be a movie!

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