Roger Ebert recently defended his review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In he rebuttal he even insults fan boys of the franchise.

Ahem….

I don’t think you get it Roger. I use to admire you, but after your Revenge of the Fallen review I see you have issues.

Its not that you didn’t like the movie, or provided good criticism, but you did in a way only a fourth grader could do. Your exposition was not what I would expect from you, and you are supposed to be the ‘reviewer of all things movies’.

Your review was filled with so much hatred and animosity towards the movie; I swear I was reading a Fred Phelps pamphlet.

We, the called ‘fan boys’ know a thing of two about the things we believe in. And we’re fair enough to step up and criticize it when needed. However when individuals like you criticize something in such a non-constructive way, it only takes away the ability for us to enjoy stuff like this again.

If Transformers 3 never gets made I blame you for now ruining our fun simply because you obviously where having a bad day and decided ‘what the hell’ with your review.

When my Mom worked in a video store (back in the days of VHS) she used to say ‘Don’t listen to Siskle and Ebert they only like foreign films.’ I think she was right. Transformers wasn’t a great film, but it was entertaining and fun and you are obviously way past your expiration date as a reviewer with any sense of what a good movie is.

Green Day’s latest album is an attempt to please both the hard core punk fans they generated back in the 90′s, and the newly found progressive fans of the modern era. However you can tell the boys are trying to pick up where American Idiot left off. Sadly the album which may be the first ‘concept’ album we’ve had in a long time. The album falls short of expectations and I felt as if there was a lot of polishing that was still needed to be done. The attempt to mix in old fashion radio sounds and background noises has been done before (cough Pink Floyd cough) and listening to the whole album there seems to be only two real singles that are available for radio play. One which is ’21 guns’ is used in the latest Transformers movie which makes no sense giving the content of the lyrics. The rest of the album is a hodgepodge of different style songs with nothing memorable or anything singable that one can hold on to. The title track even sounds more like a Phil Collins tune than anything punk-ish. All in all a bit dissapointing.