Amph The Transformers. More than meets the eye!

Still damned lucky of them, TIE. Man, a sane Galvatron against Rodimus... not good for the Autobots.

 

I would love a completely sane Galvy. GO PWN THESE AUTOBOTS!!!!

 

Revenge of the Fallen
Wow. Based on reviews and the fact that I hated the first one, I rented this one with low expectations, and this movie managed to fall below those. More pointless potty humor, and a complete lack of understanding of the topic. Pointless sex jokes abound. In fact, the movie seems to be nothing more than a series of sex jokes and neurotic idiocy "comedy" characters with some robots interrupting. Within the first 5 minutes there's a scene with two canines procreating, and that is probablly the high point of the movie. So if watching dogs having at it is your idea of a good time then you might enjoy this movie. If I ever meet Michael Bay, it will be for the last, most painful 5 minutes of his life. And yes, that applies to the writers of the script as well.

 

I missed the dogs. Now I'm glad I did.

And i still liked ROTF. I like ROTF. I will like ROTF.

 

You know, if it had JUST been the dogs at the beginning, that would have been incrediblly obnoxious, but not so bad. With Wheelie on the chick's leg, the terminatrix chick and the diesel tongue, Devastator's truck "presenting" to be reamed from behind, the wrecking balls, and... and... and... those are just off the top of my head.
Top that off with the anonymous decepticons (no dialog for most of them), anonymous soldiers (again, no dialog to make them interesting or even remotely necessary), the obnoxious as hell parents, the S7 agent who wasn't good the first time round and was even worst this time, the whiney roommate and his hacker buddies who served no purpose whatsoever, and... I'm running out of character defects as my memmory mercifully purges the movie.
And let's not forget the pointless fart jokes.

And "The Fallen"... How about, I don't know, an actual story? Name? How was he defeated by primitive, insignificant proto-humans? Really, what kind of threat could stone-age humans have presented to a giant killing machine?

Jet Fire and the Model T proto-transformers... what were they disguised as before the industrial age? Charriots & Carriages?

Even as a mindless action flick, this POS failed to satisfy. Even if the characterization is shallow, most mindless action flicks provide something so that the audience has a reason to care. I rate this just slightly above the GIJoe abomination, as the effects ere quality, if poorly executed.

 

Although the movie disappointed me, I would still say the forest fight is still the best scene in either Transformers movie.

 

Okay...

First off, the primitive humans did not beat the Fallen. It was the other Primes? People complained about the humans getting too much screentime. Now here you complain about them getting too little. Yeah...

Maybe they were disguised as chariots and other stuff. Maybe they didn't disguise themselves.

His lost the rights to his name. He gained the title of the fallen through his cations. We didn't need to know his name. 'Fallen' was enough. Also... Jetfire kinda gave his backstory?

Yeah, ROTF had problems. Citizen Kane had problems. Your problems... well, some of them are valid. Others... not so much.

 

If you're going to have humans, give them enough story to make sense. Tell the whole story. Don't leave tons of loose threads that aren't ever going to be addressed. As it was, the opening scene was pretty pointless and utterly unnecessary. Given the 2+ hour run time, that could have been clipped and greatly improved the pacing.
Jetfire's voice effect was so garbled that it was difficult to work out what he was saying. Add in the senility factor they gave the character, and it was almost time for subtitles.

 

Can't say that I'm not surprised. They were the worst part of the whole movie in my opinion.

 

The Twins aren't back? Thank goodness. I don't find them particularly racist, I just hate the characters on their own merits.

 

Agreed. They were heavy into the slapstick comedy thing, which I've never liked.

I do hope we get more Arcee this time around.

 

According to Michael Bay Arcee is dead.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1608508/20090403/story.jhtml

 

Arcee in the movie was a waste, I'll admit. Although the 'toys' of her are just...

 

According to Bay the other two died offscreen.

 

Megan Fox Dropped From 'Transformers 3'.

No great loss, in my opinion. I never really liked the way she played her part.

 

I agree that the movie might be better off without her but c'mon, this is a Michael Bay movie not frakkin' Shakespeare. Her absence will be jarring to the trilogy and will likely be explained like Elisabeth Shue's absence from Karate Kid II...dating some quarterback from UCLA.

 

Oh, I hope her absence isn't explained away that lamely. They could always replace her character with another actor like they did in Dark Knight or Iron Man 2. Or, they could say she's dead like they did with papa Jones and Marcus in Crystal Skull. Personally, I'd go for the death thing

 

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-transformers-fans-to-receive-a-shock.html

SHOCKWAVE COMETH

If he is not voiced by Corey Burton I'm through though.

 

We sure this isn't one of his patented misinformations?

 

Couple million? Russian hitmen only charge 1st class ticket and $100K per, so if you take out Bay and Spielberg and... Oh, you mean in order to make a good movie. Right?