Batson's Blog

Just when you thought the Transformers franchise had jumped the shark and was dead, they go and make one of the best Transformers movies there was. I liked Transformers . Transformers 2 was a little long. Transformers 3 seemed to follow too many superhero movie stereotypes. Age of Extinction had the awesome dinobots and they did a good enough job with Mark Wahlberg's character, but it didn't have the same magic as the first movie. The Last Knight was interesting, but wasn't amazing . Rather than go forward, they went the prequel route with an origin story for Bumblebee . How did the Transformers end up on Earth and how did Bumblebee lose his voice? It's all explained in Bumblebee .  It makes sense that Bumblebee is the main focus since he's been, arguably, the biggest focus in the Transformers franchise so far. Optimus Prime is the Transformers' leader, but Bumblebee is the connection to the humans in the last five movies. Bumblebee follows t...

I'm not one to predict financial results at the box office. I've never really tried that before. However, what I am usually good at is predicting what's going to bomb and what's not going to bomb. I sit in the theater and see the trailers and go, 'That's going to be awful!' That's what happened with Baywatch , Jupiter Ascending , Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , Ghost in the Shell , the latest version of The Mummy and various others. I sat there thinking, 'How could anyone think these were good ideas?!' This is the first time I've voiced my opinions in a published format. Here goes nothing. Here are my predictions for some of December's movies: Aquaman Prediction: Hit Like I've already told some of my family members, this is an underwater Thor. This is going to be good for D.C. While they've has a few issues with some of their other movies, they got this one right the moment they cast Jason Mo...