Project Almanac is a found footage time travel movie that I saw on YouTube this morning. It's a 2015 film written by Jason Harry Pagan and Andrew Deutschman. It's directed by Dean Israelite. I hadn't heard of any of them but the IMDb says it's their first feature film and that Dean will be directing the 2017 Power Rangers movie. In Project Almanac some high school students find the plans to a time machine in David's dead father's basement lab. David and his pals video everything so we have plenty of footage of them building and testing the machine. They knew it works since they had seen an older David in a mirror in a video from his 7th birthday. No one had never notice that before but it's there. Besides the tests there's a bit of romance as David gets a chance to get closer to the girl he likes. The machine has a three week limit but that's still enough for all the characters in the gang take a chance to make some money, ace a test or get some revenge. Of course they have some problems, teens and time travel, what could go wrong, huh. Their experimenting causes problems for other people causing them to get hurt and die. They try to fix the harm they did several times and still have a happy ending. It's ok and though the found footage material is better than a lot of movies like that I just didn't buy that they would film certain scenes they did. Not too fond of the ending either. It's not something I would need to see again.
Transformers: Age Of Extinction was also up on YouTube today. I have it on my Netflix queue but it's pretty far down the list and this copy looks fine to me. It's the 4th film in the series and Michael Bay is still in the directing chair. It's written by Ehren Kruger, who wrote the two previous Transformer's movies and several other, slightly better, films like Scream 3, Reindeer Games and Imposter. Mark Wahlberg is a scientist who works out of his barn. He gets an old truck to repair and it turns out to be Optimus Prime. The government comes looking, they are secretly hunting down the remaining Autobots and Decepticons and destroying them. Also interested in the robot is Stanley Tucci, head of a company that is making their own Transformers. Like the previous films this is one long chase with battles between hunks of transforming metal. There's a huge lot of collateral damage and people get slaughtered left and right. It's too long and I was getting tired of it after a while. I turned the speed up to get to the end sooner. It's another I wanted to see but don't care that much if I ever see it again.
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