Escape to the Movies: Transformers Revenge
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I agree with some of the problems Movie Bob said about the first one. Overall I enjoyed the first one though. Did I wish for better, sure, but I did enjoy it.
I absolutley agree with what he said about the second. In fact I say I hate the second even more than Bob.
To just look at MFox, yup she is sexy. We all know it. Even chicks that pretend to be mad at their boyfriends for thinking she is hot understand why they think so. At least til she opens her mouth...for dialogue. I saw her in a Simon Pegg movie called "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People." She did a good job. But that was because her natural mannerisms fit her character. No acting was involved. Just reading cue cards. If you see the movie you will understand.
Don't get me wrong. I'm sure she is a great personal real life individual to get to know. Indeed in interviews she seems to have some brass ovaries. I can respect that. Aside from the hotness, I would date her for those interviewed brass ovaries. But so far on screen I haven't seen anything from her that I could call myself a fan of hers for. She either needs to take some acting and diction lessons or just go into straight porn for her to be a draw for me on film.
If you go to a horror slasher flick you expect to see boobie or at least a suggestive female body. TF2, the whole opening motorcycle scene was absolutly useless and gratuitous. She was painting a decal while basically humping the bike. As much as I like the female form it was useless and so was the orange robot coed. Both very pretty/sexy, but ruined by Bay.
TF2 was a complete dissapointment for me. Total junk. I hated it and felt like if I called the cops on it somebody should have gone to jail for stealing my money and time. It is my pick for the worst movie of 2009 I have seen. I see a lot of movies. Big movie fan.
Michael Bay deserves all the derision he gets, including from Fox. If I never see a movie from him again I will eventually die a happy man.
MFox, please take some lessons and expand your talent. Do a role that does not rely on your looks. Maybye something with zombie makeup where nobody can tell who you are or your physical hotness. If people like the role, you will go far.
BTW, I saw Zombieland today. Emma Stone; she has been amazing in all roles I have seen her in. Superbad, House Bunny, and Zombieland. She is truely a talented actress with her craft. She is also hot, but being able to actually...act makes her lovely.
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I absolutley agree with what he said about the second. In fact I say I hate the second even more than Bob.
To just look at MFox, yup she is sexy. We all know it. Even chicks that pretend to be mad at their boyfriends for thinking she is hot understand why they think so. At least til she opens her mouth...for dialogue. I saw her in a Simon Pegg movie called "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People." She did a good job. But that was because her natural mannerisms fit her character. No acting was involved. Just reading cue cards. If you see the movie you will understand.
Don't get me wrong. I'm sure she is a great personal real life individual to get to know. Indeed in interviews she seems to have some brass ovaries. I can respect that. Aside from the hotness, I would date her for those interviewed brass ovaries. But so far on screen I haven't seen anything from her that I could call myself a fan of hers for. She either needs to take some acting and diction lessons or just go into straight porn for her to be a draw for me on film.
If you go to a horror slasher flick you expect to see boobie or at least a suggestive female body. TF2, the whole opening motorcycle scene was absolutly useless and gratuitous. She was painting a decal while basically humping the bike. As much as I like the female form it was useless and so was the orange robot coed. Both very pretty/sexy, but ruined by Bay.
TF2 was a complete dissapointment for me. Total junk. I hated it and felt like if I called the cops on it somebody should have gone to jail for stealing my money and time. It is my pick for the worst movie of 2009 I have seen. I see a lot of movies. Big movie fan.
Michael Bay deserves all the derision he gets, including from Fox. If I never see a movie from him again I will eventually die a happy man.
MFox, please take some lessons and expand your talent. Do a role that does not rely on your looks. Maybye something with zombie makeup where nobody can tell who you are or your physical hotness. If people like the role, you will go far.
BTW, I saw Zombieland today. Emma Stone; she has been amazing in all roles I have seen her in. Superbad, House Bunny, and Zombieland. She is truely a talented actress with her craft. She is also hot, but being able to actually...act makes her lovely.
Sorry for the necro.
Why do people keep going for the douchebag argument that it's based on toy commercials. Come up with a reasonable argument why you think it's good. Don't just keep saying that a movie isn't bad because "it's no Godfather". That's a stupid ass argument.t
The script is badly written, the acting is horrible, the dialogue is bad, there are lots of plot holes, The action scenes are incoherent and you can't understand what's going on, and the human characters are bland and boring.
The script is badly written, the acting is horrible, the dialogue is bad, there are lots of plot holes, The action scenes are incoherent and you can't understand what's going on, and the human characters are bland and boring.
And here I was thinking that I was the only one who thought Fox was a hack. I grew to dispise her when she started doing the whole "I'm a rebel and I won't be pigeonholed, because I'm unique and nobody is going to tell me what to do because I'm confident but have enough issues to seem approachable and sexy all at the same time" so the "cool" guys will want to screw her attitude. I saw it for the hypocritical bullshit it turned out to be when the tattoos she so vehemently told would never get covered for a role, haven't been seen in a role since said interview. Oh and btw, unique is not a word I would use to describe someone who goes out of their way to dye their hair and eyebrows, plump up their lips with collagen of some sort and try out different poses so she can suddenly become "sexy" but not like Angelina who she suddenly resembles a WHOLE lot more then she did back when she was just a TV actress trying to get anotehr gig. But compare her to said actual actress and she goes on a cursing spree declaring how she's her own person. Yes she's right, she's nothing like Angelina, because Angelina actually is sexy, intelligent, can act and was a rebel doing her own thing for her own sake long before Fox grew breasts!
Sorry for the rant...she just irks me like no one else can.
Sorry for the rant...she just irks me like no one else can.
I like it!I never watched transformers as a child, I didnt own any of the toys and I've not seen any of the television adverts. But movieBob is clearly the kind of person who thinks all films should be intellectually challenging, which is a reasonable position if you make your living WATCHING movies. If you are looking for somethng that'll make you think I'd suggest a career change or atleast a good book...
I just saw this movie on Christmas and I realized that they spent more money on the CGI than the actual movie.I got REALLY pissed off when I saw a car getting launched through a roof and you could clearly see that the were just two crash test dummies wearing wigs in the car....
This was definitely the movie review that made me sit up and start paying attention to what you had to say, with a "Wow, this guy knows his shit."
It took me a little bit to get the greeting, but now that I got it, I'm going to go cry searing tears of blood now(yes, I watched the animated movie that involved Unicron). I had to force myself to watch this travesty so that my friend would watch Watchmen, I was so close to taking the movie out and use it for target practice, I started to forget that it wasn't my movie. Sad thing is that there's already another one in the works. NOOOOO!!!
Something interesting just came to my attention about this movie...
Charlie Adler voice acts Starscream! Keep in mind, this does not change the fact this movie is a tragedy on all levels, but all I wanna say is, at least someone who deserved some recognition made it out of this god awful film with a fat wallet.
--(after watching a clip from the movie with Charlie as Starscream)--
-sigh- and of course, Michel Bay's stink is felt on Charlie Adler's performance.
Charlie's voice was perfect for Starscream, but Michel Bay had to fuck his performance up with some stupid new computer filter and probably shitty coaching. Charlie probably did it perfectly at the audition, then Bay made him do it "his way"
How does he continue to make one bad choice after the other, it goes against all laws of probability! In terms of statistics, he should've made at least one good choice by now! That was the one thing, ONE thing, that could've redeemed a small freckle on this giant ass of a movie. But no, Michel Bay had to fuck that up too.
Charlie Adler voice acts Starscream! Keep in mind, this does not change the fact this movie is a tragedy on all levels, but all I wanna say is, at least someone who deserved some recognition made it out of this god awful film with a fat wallet.
--(after watching a clip from the movie with Charlie as Starscream)--
-sigh- and of course, Michel Bay's stink is felt on Charlie Adler's performance.
Charlie's voice was perfect for Starscream, but Michel Bay had to fuck his performance up with some stupid new computer filter and probably shitty coaching. Charlie probably did it perfectly at the audition, then Bay made him do it "his way"
How does he continue to make one bad choice after the other, it goes against all laws of probability! In terms of statistics, he should've made at least one good choice by now! That was the one thing, ONE thing, that could've redeemed a small freckle on this giant ass of a movie. But no, Michel Bay had to fuck that up too.
Just bought the movie (I don't know where you go to find a $20 movie ticket, the most I've spent in the UK was £11 - and that was a 3D film), watched it, watched this review, watched the movie again.
I just don't get where the reviewer is coming from. This is a great improvement on the 1st film, in that you can tell who is fighting who. There are more robots/time of robots in screen than the first, and the human story makes sense.
The Soldiers should be pretty good at taking down robots - they're not just the US military, they're an international task-force (hence the British dudes in it) with the sole role of hunting down the Decepticons with the Transformers - and I bet they're using SABOT rounds, since it was established in the 1st film that those are effective - and the guns look quite high-tech for the most part - watch the desert battle, there are dudes with M16s but others with some sort of suppressed automatic rifles that look more like something out of ODST than standard Military gear.
The tanks should have an effect too, as a previous poster pointed out, 105mm cannons are going to pack a lot of kinetic punch - though if you watch closely you can see the Decepticons really only get knocked down from the tank/gun fire, it's the Autobot weaponry that finishes them off (apart from the odd lucky headshot).
As to why the army should be there at all...this is set on Earth. If there are bad-ass aliens that have (2 years earlier) nearly totalled one of your cities plus exterminated an entire military base, you're going to be pretty pissed off. And not be too inclined to sit around whilst said aliens keep fucking with the planet. But the inclusion of the NSA guy makes a valid point within the film - the humans are totally, and utterly, fracked without the Autobots to help them out - and the only fight scenes where the humans win also feature at least one Bot.
I didn't find the twins all that irritating - and I didn't see a racial stereotype. They struck me very much as the white jackasses that hang around in parks drinking White Lightning, yet they are pretty bad-ass when fighting Devastator.
In short I liked the film - hell, I even liked Shia in this (and I despise him on every level - he just seems to be becoming a better actor as he gets older); though I do detest his parents intensely.
Whilst the film isn't exactly true to the original story, for all the people complaining about the "stupid one-liners" - particularly "I rise, you fall" and ("One shall be left standing" from the first film) these crop up in the original animated movies/series' so I don't see why it is so annoying.
I liked the Robot designs in these films - the second film is superior to the first in that you can see *how* the robots transform (in the first film they tend to "morph"), but the second shows where everything folds into - for instance watch Bumblebee turn back into the car when Sam is considering turning himself in.
In short, the movie is, in my opinion, no where near as bad as the "review" makes out - and I am not a Bay fan, and I am a person who grew up watching Transformers. It's not an epic piece of cinema like LOTR was, but it's still a pretty epic film in that the graphics are amazing and it's engrossing for the whole 2.5 hours.
Opinions vary, clearly, but I wouldn't recommend avoiding the film entirely on the merits of critics (unless you disliked the first...in which case obviously stop watching the series that you don't like). It's worth a rental at the least (which should be cheap now - I bought my copy for £5) to see what you think of it.
I just don't get where the reviewer is coming from. This is a great improvement on the 1st film, in that you can tell who is fighting who. There are more robots/time of robots in screen than the first, and the human story makes sense.
The Soldiers should be pretty good at taking down robots - they're not just the US military, they're an international task-force (hence the British dudes in it) with the sole role of hunting down the Decepticons with the Transformers - and I bet they're using SABOT rounds, since it was established in the 1st film that those are effective - and the guns look quite high-tech for the most part - watch the desert battle, there are dudes with M16s but others with some sort of suppressed automatic rifles that look more like something out of ODST than standard Military gear.
The tanks should have an effect too, as a previous poster pointed out, 105mm cannons are going to pack a lot of kinetic punch - though if you watch closely you can see the Decepticons really only get knocked down from the tank/gun fire, it's the Autobot weaponry that finishes them off (apart from the odd lucky headshot).
As to why the army should be there at all...this is set on Earth. If there are bad-ass aliens that have (2 years earlier) nearly totalled one of your cities plus exterminated an entire military base, you're going to be pretty pissed off. And not be too inclined to sit around whilst said aliens keep fucking with the planet. But the inclusion of the NSA guy makes a valid point within the film - the humans are totally, and utterly, fracked without the Autobots to help them out - and the only fight scenes where the humans win also feature at least one Bot.
I didn't find the twins all that irritating - and I didn't see a racial stereotype. They struck me very much as the white jackasses that hang around in parks drinking White Lightning, yet they are pretty bad-ass when fighting Devastator.
In short I liked the film - hell, I even liked Shia in this (and I despise him on every level - he just seems to be becoming a better actor as he gets older); though I do detest his parents intensely.
Whilst the film isn't exactly true to the original story, for all the people complaining about the "stupid one-liners" - particularly "I rise, you fall" and ("One shall be left standing" from the first film) these crop up in the original animated movies/series' so I don't see why it is so annoying.
I liked the Robot designs in these films - the second film is superior to the first in that you can see *how* the robots transform (in the first film they tend to "morph"), but the second shows where everything folds into - for instance watch Bumblebee turn back into the car when Sam is considering turning himself in.
In short, the movie is, in my opinion, no where near as bad as the "review" makes out - and I am not a Bay fan, and I am a person who grew up watching Transformers. It's not an epic piece of cinema like LOTR was, but it's still a pretty epic film in that the graphics are amazing and it's engrossing for the whole 2.5 hours.
Opinions vary, clearly, but I wouldn't recommend avoiding the film entirely on the merits of critics (unless you disliked the first...in which case obviously stop watching the series that you don't like). It's worth a rental at the least (which should be cheap now - I bought my copy for £5) to see what you think of it.
just seen the movie, terrible!
I think the sam character could have been included but the empahsis should hav ebeen on the actual transformers, not a big pair of tits bouncing about
I think the sam character could have been included but the empahsis should hav ebeen on the actual transformers, not a big pair of tits bouncing about