Why Twitter Is More Fun The Less You Use It [Ten Humans]
Deadspin —
... , the highlight being the product placement of "a huge Planters peanuts can is placed smack in the middle of a garage floor during one scene, because that's where one usually keeps food - on the floor with nothing around it in a huge garage." (Roger Ebert's review is particularly spirited.) You still can't escape the marketing of this film, though, and much of that is because of Bay, who really shouldn't ever be forgiven for Pearl Harbor, which has a legitimate claim on the worst, most misguided movie imaginable. His instantly legendary ...
Lost Time Is Not Found Again: June 23, 2009
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
... Non-sports: Roger Ebert rips the new Transformers movie … {Sun-Times.} … as does Choire. { ...
Transformers 2 & Draft Day - How'd I get so lucky?
SPILLED OIL —
... you know what it didn't disappoint. Sure the story is a little thin, but are you really seeing this for the storyline? And it might be a touch too long at two and a half hours. But the positives are that it's a Transformers movie, lots of things blow up, the special effects are off the charts good, and there is a ridiculously hot chick in the movie. If you need more than that then I think you're just greedy. For the most part the critics have hated the movie. Roger Ebert gave it just one star but he only gave the original three stars. Three stars? All these ...
To-Do List: Manny Ramirez's return, hot dog eating contest highlight week
SI.com - Extra Mustard —
... -- but nothing like Roger Ebert 's breathtaking evisceration of Transformers 2 . 4 . "Fast Eddie" represents the Stars and Stripes Ring in America's 233rd birthday with Philadelphia's Eddie Chambers , perhaps the country's best hope to break the Eastern European oligarchy atop the heavyweight division. The 27-year-old Chambers (34-1, 18 KOs) can earn a mandatory title shot against Wladimir Klitschko in Saturday's WBO elimination bout against Russia's Alexander Dimitrenko (29-0, 19 KOs). 5 . Wimbledon wraps up Fancy a little history with your breky? There's plenty at ...
Observer’s Koblin on “The Sneeze Heard ‘Round the Tri-State Area” and Other SNY Heroics
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... from the New York Observer’s John Koblin. Koblin leads with an on-air sneeze from Keith Hernandez, and the piece somehow gets better from there. The dialogue bits are hard to excerpt effectively, but they actually read better than they sound. If movies had dialogue this good, they wouldn’t need loud robots: ...
