Two Movies in One Day

I did something today that I don't think I've ever done. I saw 2 movies at the theater today. All right, so there may have been a time or two in my younger years that we paid for an early show and then slipped into another show at the end of the first, but this was definitely the first time that I paid for two shows on the same day.

The first was Transformers. I loved these toys as a kid. I didn't have any, but I was certainly envious of my neighbor who had 19. I didn't really care for the cartoon, though. It just never seemed plausible enough I guess. (Like Thundar the Barbarian was...) I guess the movie followed suit. It was easy to like the Even Stevens kid as the protagonist and his crush/action partner/soon-to-be girlfriend. The CGI was out of this world. The movement of the robots was very believable...if only the plotline had been.

I guess, just like in the cartoon, it just never really seemed plausible that giant advanced robots with ridiculous tech IQ's would give one rip about the earth and it's inhabitants. Some of the robot dialogue was SOOOOO BADDDDD!!

I liked the catch phrase though..."If there's no sacrifice...there's no victory." That's definitely transferable, and it's a good thing as I was watching the movie for an upcoming sermon.

Both movies actually...

The second movie was Live Free or Die Hard, and I wasn't expecting much more from Die Hard 4 than I did from Rocky 4 (or 5 or 6, etc.). I was very pleasantly surprised. Lots of thrills from the word go and Justin Long was a good sidekick for Bruce Willis. The motivations all seemed natural...the acting was good...the dialogue wasn't trite...the ending was even surprising.

All in all, for a homework assignment, LFoDH was a good flick. The theological ramifications...I'm still working on it. Probably something to do with the exchange between Willis' character and Long's character about "I only did what no one else would do." And Long's character responds, "That's what makes you that guy."

Well this is getting long... adios!