A haiku for "The Surrogates."

I love Bruce Willis.

I will see all you are in.

This one was enjoyed.

The original Transformers was not a masterpiece by any imagination. Thin plot line and characters defined its features. However, compared with Revenge Of The Fallen, it's frickin Gone With The Wind.

Never, watching a movie, have I ever given less of a crap about the characters on the screen. Shia LaBeouf does a decent job, and Megan Fox holds her "this is serious acting" face for the whole two hours (that feels like about twelve, BTW.) Still, the (quote fingers) "storyline" demonstrated here is painfully stale.

$200 million dollar effects just make for confusion. During fight scenes I couldn't tell which killer robot was punching which. Perhaps more importantly, I just didn't care.

In an effort to remove the monotony from media reviews (let's face it, a lot of us just skip to the rating anyway, right?) RockinAmerica.com will be introducing Ticket or Skip It. These are short, two-to-three paragraph reviews of movies that are recently released into theaters or on DVD.

It's pretty self-explanitory. Our reviewers will spend very little of your time telling you about the plot of a film that you're probably somewhat familiar with already, and give you a quick "yes-or-no" verdict on a product.

I hope this idea will open up to other media as a way of paring down some the more lengthy reviews, while still helping anyone who might appreciate the help in choosing where to spend their money.

There's not much new to say about Apple's iPad. It looks like an incredible piece of hardware that is likely to change the look of computing. The amazing thing to me, is how firmly Apple has me in their grip. I find myself checking daily to see if Apple has made available pre-orders for the tablet.

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