Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen

[Excalibur]

Well the problem with this movie is that the story doesn't grab your attention. The action scenes were good, but that's all, the last battle in the desert seemed like a rehash of the desert battle scene from the first movie. We see too much screen time with Shia Labow or whatever his name is. Everytime the scene went back to him, I wanted to hang myself. The plot seemed full of too many holes, we got too many cliche characters, and comic relief like those 2 black sterortype cars with the gold teeth, the balls on the Devastator. The full ASS SHOT and front shot on the big screen. Megan Fox being a sex symbol being TOO much. I mean who details a motorcycle posing over it like that. The relationship is not believable. The parents are annoying, like the mom, we see 2 dogs fucking each other twice and once was more than enough and not funny. And in the end, nothing seems to be accomplished. It tried to be hard to be epic when it should tone it down.

[Gunmaster45]

That's why I'm seeing Public Enemies on July 1st instead for my birthday pary (by the way, today's my birthday, sweet sixteen!), and I'll just buy Tranformers 2 on DVD later on.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by Gunmaster45

That's why I'm seeing Public Enemies on July 1st instead for my birthday pary (by the way, today's my birthday, sweet sixteen!), and I'll just buy Tranformers 2 on DVD later on.

BTW, Happy Birthday. Now you can legally ...... do.....uh..... I guess you can do whatever you were doing before ..... carry on...

the real celebration is when you can vote, enter into a legally binding contract, buy alcohol, buy a long gun, buy a handgun(!), or can become the next big porn star (only if you have this burning desire to do so )......

[Rockwolf66]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

BTW, Happy Birthday. Now you can legally ...... do.....uh..... I guess you can do whatever you were doing before ..... carry on...

the real celebration is when you can vote, enter into a legally binding contract, buy alcohol, buy a long gun, buy a handgun(!), or can become the next big porn star (only if you have this burning desire to do so )......

According to a few aquaitances who've been in that buisiness. it's very overrated. Then think about what happened to a friend of mine. She was watching one of those films with a few mates and the guy in the scene looked really familiar. Then it hit her and her friends were treated with the immortal words... "Oh, my god that's my dad!"

Personally I would stick with firearms as they are less likely to come back to haunt you.

[Gunmaster45]

Originally Posted by Rockwolf66

According to a few aquaitances who've been in that buisiness. it's very overrated. Then think about what happened to a friend of mine. She was watching one of those films with a few mates and the guy in the scene looked really familiar. Then it hit her and her friends were treated with the immortal words... "Oh, my god that's my dad!"

Personally I would stick with firearms as they are less likely to come back to haunt you.

*falls out of chair laughing*

[Clutch]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Well the problem with this movie is that the story doesn't grab your attention. The action scenes were good, but that's all, the last battle in the desert seemed like a rehash of the desert battle scene from the first movie. We see too much screen time with Shia Labow or whatever his name is. Everytime the scene went back to him, I wanted to hang myself. The plot seemed full of too many holes, we got too many cliche characters, and comic relief like those 2 black sterortype cars with the gold teeth, the balls on the Devastator. The full ASS SHOT and front shot on the big screen. Megan Fox being a sex symbol being TOO much. I mean who details a motorcycle posing over it like that. The relationship is not believable. The parents are annoying, like the mom, we see 2 dogs fucking each other twice and once was more than enough and not funny. And in the end, nothing seems to be accomplished. It tried to be hard to be epic when it should tone it down.

Thing is, people complained that the Transformers didn't do jack shit in the first movie (which I loved, along with the vast majority of Michael Bay's films).

Now, there's enough robot action and backstory to make Grant Imahara piss himself silly...and people still bitch.

As for LeBouf, he really seems to be getting better with each film. I remember him being the worst thing about I, Robot. Not so here - in fact, this might be the first Bay movie since the Rock where I've yet to find a single bad performance from anyone (and when I say bad, I mean sweet-Jesus, stop-the-presses, this-makes-Sci-Fi-Saturday-night-specials-look-awesome bad). Even John Tutorro, who I kinda hated in the first movie, redeemed himself quite a bit in Revenge of the Fallen. And I'm going to call it here and now - provided she keeps a decent head on her shoulders, Megan Fox will probably end up being hailed for some great performances in the future. Of course, if you think this is going to be one of them...*snickers*

I ended up seeing the first Transformers in theaters three times, because it was simply a really, really fun rollercoaster ride. Revenge of the Fallen takes all the good that the first one had and drops a 2000-lb JDAM full of concentrated awesome on it. The shit-eating grin on my face as I left the theater Wednesday night said that I will be back for this one again.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Well the problem with this movie is that the story doesn't grab your attention. The action scenes were good, but that's all, the last battle in the desert seemed like a rehash of the desert battle scene from the first movie. We see too much screen time with Shia Labow or whatever his name is. Everytime the scene went back to him, I wanted to hang myself. The plot seemed full of too many holes, we got too many cliche characters, and comic relief like those 2 black sterortype cars with the gold teeth, the balls on the Devastator. The full ASS SHOT and front shot on the big screen. Megan Fox being a sex symbol being TOO much. I mean who details a motorcycle posing over it like that. The relationship is not believable. The parents are annoying, like the mom, we see 2 dogs fucking each other twice and once was more than enough and not funny. And in the end, nothing seems to be accomplished. It tried to be hard to be epic when it should tone it down.

Oh, I agree with you completely that the story and the characters were completely unnecessary to the plot (personally, if I'd been the director of these movies, I would have axed Shia LaBeouf completely and made Lennox and his men into the main human characters). But really, let's face it - summer movies rarely have memorable characters or interesting stories.

[Excalibur]

Spoiler alerts from things i said below


The other problem is that, not that I diss the military. I love the military in all it's glory, but the movie over glorified it and also made them as useful as they would be in a Godzilla movie. Seriously, they are fighting giant robots, even in the new movie, their weapons pretty much stink half the time. I can turn all the scenes with Lennox and his team into an ad for all the armed forces by making it as epic as possible. "Join the army...and fight robots from space."

One of the worse performances is when the Sam character and Megan's character were doing the "I want a break up, but quickly back to a relationship" was so unbelievable, it looks like it was tacked on. The mom getting high on brownies made from weed was very stupid and bad acting there.

As with the bots, you could barely tell which Decepticons was which, at points I couldnt tell Starscream from Megatron. We barely get to see Ironhide or Ratchet talk, those black cliche cars got more screen time than Bumblebee. Optimus was dead for over half the movie and they got that weird bot that can look like a person just for the whole sex appeal thing. The RC motorcycle bots got almost no screentime before both of them got shot at the end of the movie and the ending battle really ended very abruptly and had a very anti-climactic feel. It's like you're having sex and it's very fun and amazing and then suddenly it just ends. The whole climax and afterglow blows by you so fast just when it felt like it was getting even better.