Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen might be one of the most empty epics ever made. What strikes me as odd when writing the previous sentence is that an infantile movie such as T:RotF is epic. This horribly obnoxious, offensive and bloated bag of CG excess was perfectly reviewed by Roger Ebert, sparing me the effort to write my own review. Call me nostalgic, but I remember a time when the only movies to ever go beyond the two hour mark were historical epics, films boasting gravitas and profound intelligence. Those days are gone. Today, mega-budget monster/robot movies (the type of films that were once called B-movies) dwarf big studios' slates, swallowing up all of the their money and thus preventing dozens of worthwhile films from ever seeing the light of day. As of today, Americans have spent $339 million to see what is probably the worst reviewed film of the year. Are we really that stupid? Is this the fate we deserve? Apparently. For the rest of us, T:RotF makes a convincing case for illegally pirating movies.