there is no hope for western culture.

those are the three words the louisville courier journal wrote to describe transformers: revenge of the fallen.

i’ve not seen the whole thing yet but i’ve got three words to describe the crowd that has been selling out my theater seeing it.  lowest.  common.  denominator. 

i just checked imdb.com and the first user review says, “best sequel i’ve seen since jeepers creepers.”

i really don’t think i need to say any more.  my hope for western culture has come to an end.  there is no hope.  we are screwed.  better get your food storage going and fortify your homes.  judgement day is upon us.

not only is this film a pile of flashy lights, big explosions, giant robots and low IQ humor, it’s sponsored in part by your US government.  if you’ll notice from the trailers all the vehicles in the film are General Motors, or as i like to call it now, Government Motors.  remember just a couple weeks ago when the federal government bailed out GM by essentially purchasing a majority of the shares?  nice to know the country is in a deficit like we’ve never seen but there’s at least still money to shovel into hollywood.

where’s my money, barry?

when i showed up for work tuesday i noticed a GM tent and some GM girls hanging out.  i’m all for marketing products with sexy ladies, but not when my tax dollars are paying for it.  GM had a booth set up with these chicks and brought over some new camaros and poeople brought there camaros to the theater and they gave out free tickets for a special screening of transformers 2 and t-shirts and all kinds of stuff.

makes me really consider just never paying those back taxes i owe now that i can see at least one place they are going.  still waiting on that check, barry.  and i’m of course talking to barry obama.  barack hussein obama.  whose momma calls him barry.  where’s my check?

but other than that debacle, this film is still a pile of crap.  it’s produced for the masses.  a film with the broadest appeal possible.  which is a good thing i guess.  because i’m all about making money.  and this thing is gonna make some bread.  at our theater, the opening day for transformers 2 beat opening day for dark knight.  i have a feeling spiderman 2 is going down as the biggest opening in movie history.  we sold out every show after 6 yesterday.  and i’m sure we’ll do the same today.

and the people that are selling this thing out are idiots.  they don’t understand how to stand in a line and wait.  they crowd around the theater door before the movie showing before theirs has let out.  blocking the people from getting out of the theater, blocking people walking down the hall and blocking my ushers from cleaning the theater.  then they start to rush in after they’ve been asked to please wait until we’ve had time to clean the theater.  then they complain the theater is dirty when they get in there.

i worry about the future.

i did like the GM girls though.  i need to talk to someone about having some Tinseltown girls brought in for other big openings.  i’ll of course be in charge of them.