Post by kalkamel on Jun 26, 2009 17:12:50 GMT 8
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has a bigger budget than the first movie. It has more robots than the first movie. It has more and bigger action sequences than the first movie. It has more exotic locations than the first movie. All that should translate into a super awesome summer mega blockbuster, right? Wrong.
Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen (TROTF) is an epic FAIL.
The first Transformers was awe-inspiring to me. Sure, there were cheesy stuff, but overall, it was a good movie. The special effects were eye-popping, the robots were super cool, Shia Lebeouf wasn’t as annoying as I thought he would be… in fact, he was likeable. And Megan Fox…. wow.
All that made me want more.
This year, Michael Bay gave us more. But this time around, I’m left saying “Stop! That’s enough! No more!”
I can imagine the pre-production process, with the writers and Bay listing out the coolest action sequences they can think of, and then connecting them together with a super thin plot. That’s what this movie is… a string of action sequences connected by a stupid, mindless storyline. Everything in this are rehashing of the first; the desert action sequences, urban battles, the bumbling parents and of course, Agent Simmons. Even the Linkin Park song is a rehash of their song in the first movie, for frak's sake.
I didn’t mind the bumbling parents in the first movie, in fact they were likeable. In this one, they were total idiots, especially Sam’s mother and her bag of hash brownies. Totally unnecessary.
The chick at college who turns out to be a Term… errr… Decepticon? Was this even in Transformers lore??
An aging transformer, in the form of Jetfire, complete with aluminum beards and a walking stick, farting a parachute? What the frak was that? I mean, here you have a transforming Blackbird for frak’s sake, and you waste it with a geriatric robot?
The highly racist and stereotypical Autobot twins, Skids and Mudflap. Ghetto talking, gold tooth and illiterate??? What… were… they… thinking???
Wheelie humping Megan Fox’s leg??
Jon Turturro’s ass cheeks in widescreen???
And the greatest crime of all… Soundwave solely as a static satellite?
I can’t believe Orci and Kurtzman actually came up with this crap storyline, especially after “Star Trek”. Or maybe they wrote something decent, but Ehren Kruger CENSOREDs it all up with his toilet humor and racist jokes?
You know, when the animated Transformers the Movie came out in the '80s, I loved every minute of it. When Optimus Prime succumbed to his wounds, I cried. In this new movie, when Prime died after the forest battle, I felt nothing. Zip, zilch, nada. In fact, my wife caught me falling asleep for 10 minutes halfway through the movie.
Oh, Michael Bay… you have disappointed me with this outing. I thought after the first Transformers, Bay was finally getting better. But with this movie, he's nothing more than Uwe Boll with a bigger budget.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has a bigger budget than the first movie. It has more robots than the first movie. It has more and bigger action sequences than the first movie. It has more exotic locations than the first movie. All that should translate into a super awesome summer mega blockbuster, right? Wrong.
Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen (TROTF) is an epic FAIL.
The first Transformers was awe-inspiring to me. Sure, there were cheesy stuff, but overall, it was a good movie. The special effects were eye-popping, the robots were super cool, Shia Lebeouf wasn’t as annoying as I thought he would be… in fact, he was likeable. And Megan Fox…. wow.
All that made me want more.
This year, Michael Bay gave us more. But this time around, I’m left saying “Stop! That’s enough! No more!”
I can imagine the pre-production process, with the writers and Bay listing out the coolest action sequences they can think of, and then connecting them together with a super thin plot. That’s what this movie is… a string of action sequences connected by a stupid, mindless storyline. Everything in this are rehashing of the first; the desert action sequences, urban battles, the bumbling parents and of course, Agent Simmons. Even the Linkin Park song is a rehash of their song in the first movie, for frak's sake.
I didn’t mind the bumbling parents in the first movie, in fact they were likeable. In this one, they were total idiots, especially Sam’s mother and her bag of hash brownies. Totally unnecessary.
The chick at college who turns out to be a Term… errr… Decepticon? Was this even in Transformers lore??
An aging transformer, in the form of Jetfire, complete with aluminum beards and a walking stick, farting a parachute? What the frak was that? I mean, here you have a transforming Blackbird for frak’s sake, and you waste it with a geriatric robot?
The highly racist and stereotypical Autobot twins, Skids and Mudflap. Ghetto talking, gold tooth and illiterate??? What… were… they… thinking???
Wheelie humping Megan Fox’s leg??
Jon Turturro’s ass cheeks in widescreen???
And the greatest crime of all… Soundwave solely as a static satellite?
I can’t believe Orci and Kurtzman actually came up with this crap storyline, especially after “Star Trek”. Or maybe they wrote something decent, but Ehren Kruger CENSOREDs it all up with his toilet humor and racist jokes?
You know, when the animated Transformers the Movie came out in the '80s, I loved every minute of it. When Optimus Prime succumbed to his wounds, I cried. In this new movie, when Prime died after the forest battle, I felt nothing. Zip, zilch, nada. In fact, my wife caught me falling asleep for 10 minutes halfway through the movie.
Oh, Michael Bay… you have disappointed me with this outing. I thought after the first Transformers, Bay was finally getting better. But with this movie, he's nothing more than Uwe Boll with a bigger budget.
