Transformers 2

The best parts were when the robots got to speak and interact properly. Jetfire I found genuinely funny, and Megatron and Starscream's bickering was great.

The forest battle is brilliant, if only the other set-pieces had been as well choreographed and structured as that.

Simon Furman should write TF3.
 
Typical media spin-docters and gullable sheep public audience's. I'm Caucasian British and even I can think outside the box of popular cultural correctness.

These are hill billy robots SkiRAB and Mudflap, im sure if someone from Appalachia and the Ozarks of American were too see this they might find it funny.

I think the common thing here is those charactors just plain arent funny. Nobody in the audiance laughed that those charactors and I've seen the movie at the cinema's twice.

Main thing is; Michael bay most likely won't direct another Transformers movie and thats good the 2nd movie does have flaws in script and production enough to me to justify not having the guy direct again. Possibly its not his fault, he was most likely under immense pressure from Transformers owners Paramount Pictures to make money for their fiscal calendars.

Sad really that and the writers strike every flippin' year keeps the movie industry rather gimped. Can you blame people downloading movies before wasting their money on what can be garbage.

Dont get me started on that pyramid action scenes with the unfinished CGI..
 
My review
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a terrible, terrible film.

Two and a half hours of almost uninterrupted spinning cameras, loud noises and dramatic music. (Rather like being trapped on a fairground ride for several hours.)

With its hollow, generic characters (especially the robots); heavy-handed directing; crass, cheap humour and sexual content; lack of chemistry between the romantic leaRAB; and a plotline that in many places pushes plausibility beyond its limits
 
Written as a fan.

The forest fight was indeed pretty cool, and there were other aspects that related well to the comics such as the sniveling Starscream only looking after his own skin. I liked the execution of Soundwave up until a point - they really did drop the ball big time by not modulating his voice. I mean, the vocoded voice IS Soundwave - by removing that he's almost relegated to being 'just another Decepticon'.

However, the movie has major problems because even though it's a movie about giant robots kicking the shit out of each other it still has to follow some kind of convention, i.e there still has to be some semblance of plot, pacing and so forth. ROTF had a lot of problems in those areas and Bay seemed not to know who the film was aimed at. Much of the lewd humor seemed clearly designed to appeal to 8-13 year olRAB - if you found the 'balls' joke funny or those 2 'wacky' twins hilarious more power to you but personally I found them cringeworthy.

I was pretty disappointed in this movie, as I loved the first one. The main problems I felt were as follows:

- too long
- too many nameless transformers
- great fights linked with unnecessary scenes
- the college scenes were outright embarrassing
- Soundwave's voice was not vocoded
- infantile humour

The first movie rocked IMO. You had funny dialogue, memorable scenes and great lines. As great as 'some' of the scenes in ROTF were, there's nothing to match the scenes of the Autobots first coming to earth or the first time we see Optimus Prime transform. Those were, for me, truly magical moments. I guess Bay got 'lucky' that one time and the 2nd movie is where his film-making is really at.
 
dont get the critics at all, where this is concerned

truly epic, spectacular, more involved with the characters, humour worked better, camera placed at better vantage points, to capture the action

really enjoyed it!
 
Maybe he finally realised the error of his ways?

I think I'd rather have a more ruthless Prime than one lets himself get blown up over a bloody computer game.
 
*ignores heated discussion on fictional intergalactic robot genocide*

This film was far too long & bloated. There is so much crap that could have been cut out. The action scenes were amazing, but during the end I was looking at my watch getting bored (I was, not my watch). The humour was cheesy, not actually funny unlike the first. "HAHAHA SAMS PARENTS ARE SO WACKY. OH LOOK THOSE DOGS ARE HAVING SEX. *30 seconRAB later* OH THEY THEY ARE AGAIN HAAHAHAHAH" I genuinely enjoyed the first film but this just felt like a chore to watch.

Oh an Sam being brought back to life by the dead Primes was easily the stupidest thing Ive seen in film for a long time
 
I'm amused when people talk about stupid film snobbery.

Anyway,

The first Transformers movie had a good female actress in, the 'computer geek' with the blonde hair, can't remember her name. She was a decent actress and I would have liked her to be the lead in both of the Transformers movies, shame.
 
Meh I dont know. Shakira sure, but she isnt going to appear in Transformers. Ah well, that point is all in good fun and nothing serious.




Of course, you can boil down any story of any film to basic points like the above.

The point I was making was that there is indeed a plot and story in the film, whether someone likes it or not is irrelevant to the fact it exists, and comments made to the effect that there was none is not a valid criticism, and just makes any wider rant, where there may be some valid criticisms contained within, seem like the incoherent ramblings of someone who didnt pay attention and just wants to whine.
 
Fine if you didn't like the character, but to say that Megan Fox is UGLY just completely baffles me:confused: There is no way that Megan Fox could be classed as ugly, if you want ugly you should go and look at someone like the truly disgusting Susan Boyle...that is ugly.

Fox has been voted number 1 in numerous "Hottest/Sexiest Female" countdowns, and most of the heterosexual males on the planet tend to agree. Get your eyes checked:p
 
Though it begs the question, if you want to see more in a movie than robots hitting each other, why go see a movie about giant robots that are at war with each other?
 
I has half expecting the twins to be the bastard children of Jar Jar Binks and Johnny 5. But how wrong was I, I loved them.

I was actually gutted when
Mudflap was sucked into Devastator and thought he was a gonner.
Thankfully there was more to it.

I probably enjoyed this one more than the first, but this film wasn't without it's flaws. But with this kind of film I wasn't expecting a masterpiece. A fairly decent film, or a 2.5 hour toy advert. Either way it's going to make a bucket load of money both from screenings and merch.

And RAB I want Barricade!!! :mad:
 
It's utter, prepubescent dross!

Thank goodness I got my tcikets for free watching this crap... I'm now going to save my money up for Michael Mann's film with Johnny Depp this summer.
 
Just got back from seeing it at the IMAX and absolutely loved it. It has all 3 of the things u mention and then some. The 2 1/2 hr run time flew passed, it hardly lets up for a second.

And like when I saw Star Trek, the sound at IMAX is amazing...had a big grin on my face seconRAB into the film :D
 
Because, quite simply... I didn't pay for my ticket and I had 2 and a bit hours to waste.... And waste it I did. :D

Plus my other half liked it.... But then my other half is a retarded, shit for brains type lad who thinks everything is the bollocks.... So hey, perhaps the film serves its purpose. :p
 
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