Been to the movies a couple of times recently. Note that this post does contain spoilers.

Transformers

Transformers is an excellent 90 minute movie. Unfortunately it goes for 2.5 hours. There's a lot of dead time in it.

When they do transform, you can't make out any detail - you can just see a big blur of movement. Similarly with the action scenes - they've got the whole shake-the-camera thing going which I've always found annoying. The second Bourne movie was the same.

There was, however, one scene where I thought "ok, now that's cool". I can't remember what happens in that scene, but it was a 5-second experience. Out of 2.5 hours.

Yes I had the toys when I was a kid :-)

Oceans 13

I really liked Oceans 11. They told you all the problems they had to overcome, and we were left hanging as to how they would overcome them. Then the SWAT team came, and it all looked like it was going badly. Ok, we all knew they would intercept the call to the SWAT team, but there was some suspense there. Then they revealed how they did it, and it was all good.

Oceans 12 sucked. At the end they spring the train sequence on you, and you're left thinking "When did they ever mention anything about a train?". The only scene was them standing on a platform at a train station. And the "oh, Julia Roberts' character looks a lot like Julia Roberts" scheme, was poor. The only good thing was that the cop at the end was Matt Damon's mother.

So off I went to Oceans 13. In this one, (and here's the spoiler in case you don't want to read any further), they tell you what they are going to do... and then they do it. It's better than 12, but not as good as 11. The cool part was that the outside of the casino itself, which you see fairly often, looks very real but is actually all computer wizardry.