June 21, 200916 yr Ugh, saw it the other night. I thought it was awful, let's be honest. Plus I needed to wee about 3 times during it which makes me angry.
June 22, 200916 yr I wasn't so sure about it, the first one was pretty good, its as if it was all effects for me, the actors just didn't do anything much in the movie. It was all about Megan Fox in the end for me :wub: in those tight mini shorts on the bike.
June 22, 200916 yr Wasn't expecting to like this at all, but I loved it! Obviously not going to win any Oscars, but that's not what it's about. Just a good action-packed blockbuster! Oh and WOWOWOW at Megan Fox! :wub: It's quite clear she didn't get the part for her acting ability alone...
June 23, 200916 yr Doesn't seem to me that she was cast for her acting ability, or lack thereof, at all...to be fair hah.
June 24, 200916 yr One of the worst films I've ever sat through in the cinema. Was an hour too long, no distinction between the robots, WHO WAS FIGHTING WHO? Lame cliches and random slow-motion camera shots, just a pointless pointless film. Hated it. I'm too angry to review it right now.
June 24, 200916 yr Doesn't seem to me that she was cast for her acting ability, or lack thereof, at all...to be fair hah. Absolutely... The girl simply cannot act her way out of a wet paper bag....... Or indeed a wet-T-shirt..... She's simply awful in this film, but at least she's not in it too much, and just how much collagen has she had injected into her lips anyway... :lol: Frankly, I dont even find her all that attractive tbh, just another fake Hollywood bint tbh.... Thank goodness that this time there's a lot more fun to be had with the Autobots and Decepticons themselves and their characters come out a lot more in this one..... More mashing, more destruction, more big battles..... Thank fukk frankly, at least this one isn't as tediously BORING as the first one..... I watch a Transformers film to see Transformers, this time, I wasn't disappointed...... I enjoyed Transformers The Fallen far more than the uberbooooooorrrrringg , pointless, and stupid Terminator - Salvation frankly..... At least the "plot" (in loose terms..) in TtF actually made a bit more cohesive sense in comparison to the vast, gaping, drive-a-truck-through-the-plotholes, intelligence-insulting, bone-headed stupidity at the heart of Terminator-Salvation..... It's not great, but at least it's enjoyable enough when the 'Bots get down to mashing each other up....... So, 8/10 when the robots are on the screen kicking each others metal butts; 3/10 at any other time...... ^_^
June 24, 200916 yr I didn't find this too bad. Personally I prefer the talking as opposed to the Transformers fighting. :lol: I think they went a little over-kill with the fighting, and I definitely found the end fight sequence with Optimus Prime and The Fallen(?!) a bit of an anti-climax, and was that Megatron doing nothing? Was a bit stupid. There were some really good lines in the films that I found really funny, but then they'd spoil it with the ultimate cheese lines which were just well... TOO cheesy. Enjoyed the film though, but did find it a little bit too long...
June 25, 200916 yr and was that Megatron doing nothing? Was a bit stupid. You obviously missed the bit where Starscream actually held Megatron back, basically saying "sometimes cowardice is the best option" or words to that effect..... If perhaps the sriptwriters had come up with any decent bits of dialogue, then I wouldn't be so keen to just have it fighting all the time... Unfortunately, we aint exactly talking a script by Tarantino or Johnathan and Chris Nolan here, so I'm afraid the mashing is what sells it for me....
June 25, 200916 yr Michael Bay has never been one to embrace or even read film critics, and with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, those aggrieved legions are returning the favor. And while the film is altogether review-proof, that’s not going to stop some of its most determined foes from attempting to smother it in its crib. After the jump, have a look at some of the most amusingly vicious rebukes to the summer’s biggest blockbuster to date. 9. “My son does not own any Transformer dolls. I’m sorry, make that Transformer action figures. But if he did, upon my return from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I would have taken these Hasbro toys outside, placed them under the wheels of the car and driven back and forth across them until they were ground into dust.” — Mary Pols, Time Magazine 8. “Michael Bay has once again transformed garbage into something resembling a film, at least in the loosest sense: it can be run through a projector and used to sell millions of tickets.” — Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid 7. “At 149 minutes, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is six minutes longer than the 2007 noise machine from which this sequel sprang, but those six minutes are like dog minutes.” — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune 6. “Fallen indulges Bay’s excesses well past the point of reason to deliver the male teenage cinematic equivalent of snorting cocaine off a hooker’s ass.” — Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons 5. “It finally occurred to me that pyrotechnics are Bay’s pornography: massive, fiery money-shots. The bigger the fireball, the more he gets his rocks off. I hope he had a sufficient supply of tissues in the editing room.” — Marshall Fine, Hollywood and Fine 4. “This is the same man who directed The Rock in 1996. Now he has made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Faust made a better deal.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 3. “I don’t have much nice to say about Transformers 2, but I’m happy to see my Park Slope neighbor John Turturro get another big paycheck.” — David Edelstein, New York Magazine 2. “I’m certain that someday it will be acknowledged that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire. It’s so us, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent… and in love with ourselves for it. […] What we have right here is the Easter Island statue of our legacy.” — MaryAnn Johanson, FlickFilosopher 1. “Terry Schiavo would have been bored by this bloated, ponderous piece of $h!t.” — Devin Faraci, CHUD
June 25, 200916 yr You obviously missed the bit where Starscream actually held Megatron back, basically saying "sometimes cowardice is the best option" or words to that effect..... If perhaps the sriptwriters had come up with any decent bits of dialogue, then I wouldn't be so keen to just have it fighting all the time... Unfortunately, we aint exactly talking a script by Tarantino or Johnathan and Chris Nolan here, so I'm afraid the mashing is what sells it for me.... No I saw that bit. But thanks for clearing it up. The robots all looked the same to me, well the bad ones at least.
June 26, 200916 yr This was horrible. I agree with what Fletch and Chemical Halo have said, don't really have anything else to say. :/ It's a shame that people think the more CGI = the better the movie and the less people will think about the horrible script / acting / dialogue / art direction.
June 29, 200915 yr Michael Bay has never been one to embrace or even read film critics, and with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, those aggrieved legions are returning the favor. And while the film is altogether review-proof, that’s not going to stop some of its most determined foes from attempting to smother it in its crib. After the jump, have a look at some of the most amusingly vicious rebukes to the summer’s biggest blockbuster to date. 9. “My son does not own any Transformer dolls. I’m sorry, make that Transformer action figures. But if he did, upon my return from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I would have taken these Hasbro toys outside, placed them under the wheels of the car and driven back and forth across them until they were ground into dust.” — Mary Pols, Time Magazine 8. “Michael Bay has once again transformed garbage into something resembling a film, at least in the loosest sense: it can be run through a projector and used to sell millions of tickets.” — Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid 7. “At 149 minutes, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is six minutes longer than the 2007 noise machine from which this sequel sprang, but those six minutes are like dog minutes.” — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune 6. “Fallen indulges Bay’s excesses well past the point of reason to deliver the male teenage cinematic equivalent of snorting cocaine off a hooker’s ass.” — Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons 5. “It finally occurred to me that pyrotechnics are Bay’s pornography: massive, fiery money-shots. The bigger the fireball, the more he gets his rocks off. I hope he had a sufficient supply of tissues in the editing room.” — Marshall Fine, Hollywood and Fine 4. “This is the same man who directed The Rock in 1996. Now he has made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Faust made a better deal.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 3. “I don’t have much nice to say about Transformers 2, but I’m happy to see my Park Slope neighbor John Turturro get another big paycheck.” — David Edelstein, New York Magazine 2. “I’m certain that someday it will be acknowledged that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire. It’s so us, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent… and in love with ourselves for it. […] What we have right here is the Easter Island statue of our legacy.” — MaryAnn Johanson, FlickFilosopher 1. “Terry Schiavo would have been bored by this bloated, ponderous piece of $h!t.” — Devin Faraci, CHUD :lol: :lol: I love some of these.... Really bitchy.... Yeah, to be honest, it's really NOT a great film, it's not even close to being Iron Man or The Dark Knight, in fact, it's not even close to being the Japanese Anime version of Tranformers (which I recommend by the way....), in retrospect, I think it's less boring than the first one, and it's certainly better than Terminator (which I just thought was absolute bollocks which didn't even have any particularly good action sequences to really keep me interested....), but frankly, I think that even GI Joe will probably be more fun...... :lol: By the way, on no account even bother to go and see Blood - The Last Vampire...... Rent the Anime instead...... Well, if you like cute Korean girls in sailor outfits waving big samurai swords around, or tall, elegant Japanese ladies in Kimonos, then go.... But otherwise....... :lol:
June 30, 200915 yr I saw it and actually liked it. It had some funny moments and the action was awesome! Yes, it wasn't the most challenging or Oscar worthy film, but it fulfilled its role as a summer blockbuster. The CGI work was amazing! The little tidbit about the autobots'/decepticons' history was great to see. And as a sequel, it did pretty well in living up to the first one in my opinion. Rarely is there a sequel that's better than the original but this did well in comparison. It didn't suck. Great movie!
June 30, 200915 yr I actually really enjoyed this film. :) I'm so lucjy my friend forced me to watch the 1st one the other day...because i really would have been missing out. :P So actian packed, it's unbelievable. :wub:
June 30, 200915 yr Quite possibly the worst blockbuster of all time. Without a shadow of a doubt the worst film I have ever seen in the cinema (and I gotat least once a week unless there is nothing worth seeing). It was just the biggest pile of utter $h!te I have had the misfortune of paying to view. I could write a book as to why this was so fukkin awful. It was frankly so bad it was insulting to my intelligence. A film made for children with a non-existent storyline, laughably poor dialogue and humour for kids. I have never come so close to leaving a cinema and im annoyed I didnt. The last hour was nothing but action was about as interesting as watcing paint dry. Just bloody awful. A brilliantly written review which gave the film no stars summed it up perfectly “It’s charmless, lowest common demoninator stuff and all the worse for being aimed at those who’ve yet to discover their lowest common demonminator”. And thw reviewer continues “I was bored silly inside 20 minutes, lost bt 70 minutes and certifiably brain dead bt the third hour. An there was still another 30 minutes left. Honestly whole feature films have seemed shorter than the final battle scene”. The review could not be more spot on. And Scott, I am really surprised you thought it was better than Terminator :o I mean, I am not for one moment suggesting that was a great film by any stretch of the imagination but it pissed all over this utter crap imo. I see your point about Terminator being boring, but it held my attention for the most part, but there was not a moment during this utter $h!te where I was remotely interested in the storyline (if you can even call it that). It was just non stop explosions every 2 seconds. Action is not meant to be boring, but it was just so OTT it was painfully boring and bland. And I havent seen the first film, but if you are saying this is better than I certainly wont be watching it. Infact I would'nt re-watch this again if I was paid. :lol:
July 1, 200915 yr I know everyone seemed to have hated this movie, but I actually really enjoyed it. There was a good amount of humor...and though the action scenes were a little too long, that's essentially the basis of the entire Transformers plot so I thought it was fine.
July 1, 200915 yr And Scott, I am really surprised you thought it was better than Terminator :o My issues with terminator are the massive, gaping plot holes which totally seem at odds with the events of the first two classic Cameron films..... How can Skynet possibly know that Kyle Reese is John Connor's father in 2018 and then send back Arnie Cyborg to kill Sarah in 2029.... It doesn't make any sense, neither does it make any sense for Skynet to keep Kyle alive just to trap John, kill Kyle and then John cannot be born, simple really innit.....? Oh, but of course, then you cant really have that whole cheesy "CGI Arnie" denoument can you...? :rolleyes: I hate Salvation because McG and his "writers" are pishing on the legacy of James Cameron's original films, I find that a far greater insult to me as a Sci Fi fan than what is basically a kid's film in Transformers.... I expected better from Salvation, I had no real expectations of Transformers...... I can understand people feeling cheated if they actually paid for it though... I'd've probably felt a bit ripped off if I'd shelled out a tenner for it, but that's the advantages of having an Unlimited Cinema card..... :lol:
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