Escape to the Movies: Transformers Revenge

[oliveira8]

You lost me at "The Godfather wasn't a very good book".

Its not really that great. Its one of those odd ocasions that the movie is superior to the book. The book is still good. But the movie is better.

For the review...Oh yes I could the anger from this side! Awesome. ^^

And Transformers 1 is a bad movie.

 

[Thyunda]

The robot designs are ugly? Oh, here's an argument for you: IT'S NOT G1!
Yeah, G1 was great and all, but if I wanted to watch it, I'd buy the DVDs. The moment somebody tries to make the robots look less human, and more alien, every damn fan stands up and starts to cry.
Seriously. That's just immature. I liked this movie's Wheelie. He didn't rhyme like a douchebag. And as for Skids and Mudflap, I thought I'd hate them. I didn't. I liked them.

And what's this about it all being the humans? I can't think of one scene that wasn't interrupted by an obnoxious robot.

I'm sorry, did you even see this movie or just read a Transfan forum and look at some pictures? Yeah, they made Devastator do nothing but dig a hole. What were you wanting him to do? Go on a destructive rampage? IN A DESERT?

Sunset..? Where'd you get that idea from? Ok, so the entire first film was set in the sunset. The opening scene to this is at night. The college scenes and the desert are in broad daylight. Though, oddly Shanghai was in daylight before NEST got there.

And I thought the fight scenes were pretty damn clear. The one featuring Optimus Prime and the three Decepticons? That was clear. I saw everything. Bumblebee versus Rampage and Ravage - That was also clear.


And as for Soundwave, what did you expect a communications specialist to do? He did what his G1 job was. Even had the same voice actor. But nope, because he didn't stomp around all blue and cassette player-like, he's bad.

Oh yeah. I noticed the little dig at the flames. "Optimus Prime has flames! What are we going to do?!"
Grow up. Seriously. Somebody paints flames onto a big truck, and you get all upset. G1 was great and all, but once again, if I wanted to watch it, I WOULD.

And finally - The human characters. How do you relate to a plot about giant robots? It's like trying to empathise with the bloody penguins from Happy Feet. They emoted and spoke, but they were just penguins, and I don't think anybody here gave a damn whether Mumble could sing or not, or whether his dancing was a talent or a stylish seizure.

As has been mentioned, this sounds like a review hating for the sake of hating. Go ahead, hug your G1 DVDs and figures, tell them it'll be alright. That they'll come back one day.

They're not going to. Otherwise they wouldn't be worth so much, would they, Afterburner? He's my only G1 figure.

 

[Jursa]

I'm sure this movie sucks after your review... but C'mon! worse than anything Uwe Boll has done? I think you need to watch his movies again.

 

[For Science]

So he didn't like it? I think that was the gist.

 

[sneakypenguin]

I never understood the rage against human characters in transformers. I strangely like Shia I think he's a good actor. I couldn't make it though the review cause it seem hate for hates sake. My personal opinion was it was the most fun movie i've seen this summer. But i'm not a critic or cynic....

Do you want to know why people don't like the human characters in a TRANSFORMERS movie? Really you can't figure out why people don't like the fact that the TRANSFORMERS are only in part of their own TRANSFORMER movie, and the rest is filled with a stupid romantic comedy cliche bullshit. I seriously can't figure out why you can't figure out why people dislike people in the TRANSFORMER movie. Anyway...TRANSFORMER!!! Have a nice day.

Because we relate to humans a whole lot better than robots, and frankly I don't think anyone but the fans would like to see nothing but robots. And in this movie it was all about the transformers with shia and gang for the comedy and to advance the plot. O well to each their own.

I dare say 1 1/2 hours was nothing but robots...

 

[sneakypenguin]

The robot designs are ugly? Oh, here's an argument for you: IT'S NOT G1!
Yeah, G1 was great and all, but if I wanted to watch it, I'd buy the DVDs. The moment somebody tries to make the robots look less human, and more alien, every damn fan stands up and starts to cry.
Seriously. That's just immature. I liked this movie's Wheelie. He didn't rhyme like a douchebag. And as for Skids and Mudflap, I thought I'd hate them. I didn't. I liked them.

And what's this about it all being the humans? I can't think of one scene that wasn't interrupted by an obnoxious robot.

I'm sorry, did you even see this movie or just read a Transfan forum and look at some pictures? Yeah, they made Devastator do nothing but dig a hole. What were you wanting him to do? Go on a destructive rampage? IN A DESERT?

Sunset..? Where'd you get that idea from? Ok, so the entire first film was set in the sunset. The opening scene to this is at night. The college scenes and the desert are in broad daylight. Though, oddly Shanghai was in daylight before NEST got there.

And I thought the fight scenes were pretty damn clear. The one featuring Optimus Prime and the three Decepticons? That was clear. I saw everything. Bumblebee versus Rampage and Ravage - That was also clear.


And as for Soundwave, what did you expect a communications specialist to do? He did what his G1 job was. Even had the same voice actor. But nope, because he didn't stomp around all blue and cassette player-like, he's bad.

Oh yeah. I noticed the little dig at the flames. "Optimus Prime has flames! What are we going to do?!"
Grow up. Seriously. Somebody paints flames onto a big truck, and you get all upset. G1 was great and all, but once again, if I wanted to watch it, I WOULD.

And finally - The human characters. How do you relate to a plot about giant robots? It's like trying to empathise with the bloody penguins from Happy Feet. They emoted and spoke, but they were just penguins, and I don't think anybody here gave a damn whether Mumble could sing or not, or whether his dancing was a talent or a stylish seizure.

As has been mentioned, this sounds like a review hating for the sake of hating. Go ahead, hug your G1 DVDs and figures, tell them it'll be alright. That they'll come back one day.

They're not going to. Otherwise they wouldn't be worth so much, would they, Afterburner? He's my only G1 figure.

Hey thank you for clarifying my thoughts lol. That's almost exactly what I was thinking.

Sorry if this was a double post.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

Bit of a critique of a critique here...

Suddenly he's a fixture on the Escapist and he's TALKING MUCH FASTER. Now I like MovieBob a LOT, and I was just waiting for him to get a proper regular position, but still. He flashes up text while he's talking like Yahtzee does, except (very similar to Yahtzee's quicktime event rant here) when Yahtzee does it it's at least reasonable to read them as you're going. With the ones in this, I had to go back and pause it to actually read all of it. Yes it's funny stuff, but all that it served to do because it was on screen for such a painfully short time was serve to break up his review and make it more disjointed.

This whole thing has given me an idea... to the microphone!

But still. I quite enjoyed both the new Transformers movies, and I am a HUGE fan of the original source material. Considering who Michael Bay IS, I think we have got off exceptionally lightly.

Everything this poster said. The paragraphs of text appearing on screen for a second, and the complex images appearing on screen for a tenth of a second had me constantly pausing the video so that when you referenced an image or text, I could actually figure out *what* you were referencing.

Anyway, I haven't seen the movie, but I know he speaks the truth. When the freakin' trailer starts with Bumblebee being treated like a pet dog, and doing some stupid little dance, you know the movie isn't going to be good. Seriously, the first time my friend and I saw the trailer, we thought it was some kind of joke.

 

[George Palmer]

Dont sugar coat it Bob. Tell us how you REALLY feel. LOL

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

I posted a review (or rant as they where very keen to point out) on here at 4am yesterday and most every one who commented said I was wrong and the movie was "Very good" and "Awesome".
at least Moviebob and Spoony where more sensible.

 

[Circus Ascendant]

Then again he gets MAJOR props for opening with "bah weep grah nah weep ninibon."

 

[JakubK666]

As much as I love your stuff, I could definitely see the sheer anger of the rant affecting the sheer quality of the video. I know we'll be back to normal great reviews whenever something good or just 'bad' comes on, but should you ever rant so hard again, please for the love of God, speak a little bit slower and don't spam pictures at the rate of one per second.

Saying that, great review.

 

[zauxz]

Well i dont see whats wrong with robot designs. They look good, and move realisticly.

 

[Pezzer]

Y'know, Movie bobs opinions are becoming less and less valued by me. EVERYONE I know liked the Transformers movie and I've been told that the second is even better.

 

[MrLumber]

Some spoilers!
I agreed on every account, but I'd like to add the notion that for some reason every single decepticon in the ENTIRE MOVIE (yes even megatron, AND satan/the fallen) is a TOTAL PUSSY. I mean seriously they got beat up by tanks, as well as Optimus fighting off three people (Two of which are Megatron and Starscream) at the same time? And then at the end it has a super climactic end of a one minute fight after an hour and a half of build up. That is what made me lay down and cry. I was also sad to not hear about the gaping plot-hole of where during half the movie the decepticons sit around like fucking morons, even after they got everything they needed to go and blow up the sun.

For all you people out there who say we need to connect to people I have one thing to say.

Beast Wars.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Spectacular review, Bob. Michael Bay DOEs indeed suck, they should give him the boot and get somebody more competent to diect next time.

Oh, and if you guys want to hear more bitching about the Transformers movie here's another excellent review don by The Spoony One: http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/06/25/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-review/

Is it ok if I want to watch the movie just to see ho bad it is?

If you just want to see how bad it is, just pirate it. It doesn't deserve the money.

 

[DigDug2K]

I'm confused about the thing at the beginning. Are you trying to imply that the cartoon Transformers movie was, by some stretch of the imagination, good?

I got the feeling that the movie tried to address the first one's criticisms, i.e. not enough Transformers. They're fucking everywhere. I don't know how anyone could claim otherwise. Every scene is Optimus ripping someones head apart, or an army of them attacking a city, or them on the moon, or them invading an army base, or them making horrible jokes.

I agree that that's pretty much all the movie was though. Its just huge robots running/driving/flying/transporting around and shit blowing up. The dialog is dumb, campy, and generic (if you want, you could also call that an homage to the cartoons, but I think it probably has more to do with bad writing). And the humor is pretty low brow. That said the rest of it is all just robots, big and small, running around and big explosions.

I dunno. I walked out feeling like it wasn't as good as the first one, but definitely not the worst thing I've seen this year. I also know that no one would bother to stop and watch a review that said that. So congrats to you for being just as much of a sell out as Michael Bay.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

I regrettably saw the first movie. Since then, I have a tendency to avoid Bay. Looks like this promise to my self will be kept.

 

[nathan-dts]

Transformers = avoid. gotcha.

also, is it just me or is Moviebob becomming more and more like Yahtzee with a red background? oh wells, it isn't a bad thing

Well at least MovieBob's opinions are pretty accurate.

 

[ninjajoeman]

man my friend is going to see this movie and he has to bring four people (for some deal or something) and he only has three so he asks me to go because all his other options are out... and I am seeing it in 2 hours lol

 

[Artemus_Cain]

Wow. Look who fell on his head and forgot he wasn't Yathzee.

I liked this movie. I thought it was a hell of alot better and made more goddamn sense than all the shitty cartoons and christ awful comics.