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Marc Fennell is an Australian film critic, technology journalist, radio personality, author and television presenter. He hosts a variety of radio shows and podcasts, including "The Movie Guy", in which he talks about recently released films.
Fennell has given glowing and insightful reviews to a handful of movies this year, including X-Men and Godzilla. Unfortunately for Michael Bay, Transformers ended up on Fennell's shit list.
Fennell wrote and recorded a brilliantly detailed and intensely hateful review of Transformers: Age of Extinction for his podcast. Here are some highlights from his review, which is honestly probably more interesting than the movie itself (note: not difficult):
"I’m not a blockbuster snob. I love movies where shit explodes and people crack jokes and cities are flattened… but Transformers 4 is a movie of staggering, breathtaking, almost impressive stupidity."
"[This is] the age of giant talking mechanical cash cows having their swollen mechano money milk teats tugged with the artless groping fury of a director who, SURE, could have made a worse movie, but only if he was in a medically induced coma."
"There are so many American flags, pointless dramatic angles, and a cast so sweaty and orange they look like they have cirrhosis of the liver, that it's basically like somebody has made a Michael Bay parody film."
"With this movie they’ve literally started with the client list and somehow reverse engineered a plot out of it… and when I say plot, I mean something that was clearly written in crayon by toddlers."
"The most nonsense piece of shit released in 2014 so far."
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