Quote of the Day

Courtesy of Robert Farly over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money:

Friends don't let friends see Michael Bay movies.

Transformers 2 no longer on pace to beat the Dark Knight's box office gross

In a sign of justice, fairness, and sanity in the world, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, has been tied for 1st place in this weekend's box office with Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs at about $42.5 million each, thus preventing it from being the undisputed number one movie for the 3rd straight week.

What's more interesting, and a giant fucking relief, is the fact that Entertainment Weekly is reporting:

with $293.4 million in the bank, Transformers 2 is easily the highest grossing movie of 2009 -- if no longer on track to match last year's The Dark Knight, which had raked in $334 million at the same point in its run.

This is a sigh of relief. It appears that The Dark Knight, one of the best action/fantasy movies ever, will not have its US or international box office numbers surpassed by Transformers 2, despite all its marketing and hype. In addition, Transformers 2 had a bigger budget of $200 million compared to $185 million for the Dark Knight.

Chris Capel's "Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal"

Great job in this Chris Capel video from not too long ago:

In this video, one sees that in just under two minutes, and with a fraction of Michael Bay's production budget, one can master every single horrific aspect of Michael Bay's directing. The only thing Capel needed was mindblowingly inept dialogue, but perhaps he was being merciful.