Review: ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’
by John NolteThere’s not a whole lot to say about Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” From the first shot to the last, the whole affair is such a mess that for 151 minutes you just wait for the end. Not a single scene, not one, is coherent or capable of holding your attention. The humor is juvenile in a potty mouth kind of way, the performances don’t mean much because no one’s playing anything other than a cartoon, and the action is no more stimulating than watching kids play with action figures.
Numbing doesn’t begin to describe the experience. The movie is simply awful, Bay’s worst since “Bad Boys 2.”
Sam (Shia LeBeouf) and Mikaela (Megan Fox) are still together, but he’s on his way east to college and a long distance romance via webcam looms. His first day at school, Sam’s brain starts to go haywire just as the Decepticons ready some kind of comeback that can only be accomplished with what’s in Sam’s head. With the help of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and a number of “comic-relief” Autobots, Sam and Mikaela outrun explosions as big robots fight over something that could kill the sun or something.
The plot is borderline incoherent. Large swaths of lengthy exposition make up mythology for no other reason than to allow for another action set-piece. Everything finally lands in Egypt amongst the pyramids for a “big climax” where the stakes never feel real and it appears no one seemed at all interested in trying to create any sense of danger. No peril, no tension, just directionless mayhem – much of it in pointless slow motion – and Fox always posed like Victoria Secret model, even while on the run.
Just as President Bush did in the first film, President Obama does take a few hits here. The president is named and his National Security liaison, a posturing, snotty Paul Begala-esque simp who disrespects the military, takes the same appeasement, anti–American Leftist position we saw in Iraq. Rather than blame the bad guys, the President blames the good guys for attracting the bad guys and demands Optimus Prime and the Autobots leave Earth until “every diplomatic option” with the Decepticons is explored. To Bay’s credit this is handled with some subtlety, much more subtlety than the cinematic attacks on Bush these last few years.
As usual, Bay’s affection for the military is obvious and sincere. He portrays them as they are: professional, compassionate and valorous. They just deserve a better movie, but that’s true for all of us.
As far as all the noise about ”jive-talking” ‘bots Skids and Mudflap being some sort of “racist” characterization, that’s simply absurd. Both are completely over-the-top in the satiric department. Like the flamboyant gay man we see everywhere today or Randy Quaid’s portrayal of a redneck Southerner in the “Vacation” movies, there’s not a hint of a mean-spirit anywhere in sight. Is Wednesday “Innoculate Blacks From Satire Day?” You see, I’m all confused, because last week’s uproar from part of the gay community over “Bruno” fell on a Wednesday, too. Anyway, CAIR must be happy. That leaves them the six other days.
Other than the awful shaky-cam (which thankfully doesn’t rear its ugly head here), the first “Transformers” at least qualified as dumb summer fun. You certainly couldn’t argue you didn’t get your money’s worth. What went wrong with “Fallen” started with the script and ended in the editing room. And that’s unfortunate because we won’t see many big-budget studio films with the guts to tweak Obama or the decency to portray our military and country in the positive way both deserve.
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"Is Wednesday “Innoculate Blacks From Satire Day?”"
That depends. Is there cake involved?
A friend from film school saw this earlier and when I called him for the scoop, all he could say was, "Michael Bay is retarded." Truth be told, I've had a fun morning reading some of the reviews, 99% of which are awful. The funniest was one that said, "This film is a good simulation of what it feels like to live inside a garbage disposal."
I'm in no rush – most likely a Netflix (and on Blu-Ray, the film should look and sound amazing).
I thought the first movie was horrible. The redesign on the robots was so badly done that I can't even look at them. They're so busy. Just make them look like transformed car parts like the toys! Everything about it was bad, and it has to come down to Bay because Orci and Kurtzman otherwise do pretty good work. Some say, "Ignore it, man. Fox is hot!" I'm not into tattooed liberal trollops, so that's no selling point for me. I guess if I want some good Transformers, I'll have to dig out my old Marvel comics or watch the *real* Transformers movie from 1986! Won't ever see this one.
Although I'm glad to hear there's finally a movie that doesn't smear the military, I just can't watch this. I feel like my eyes and ears are being assaulted every time I try to watch one of Bay's movies.
yes- the blu-ray and a High Life make all these things better; even 'Speed Racer'- which of course required several High Lifes…
I haven't seen the movie yet, but some of my friends have and they loved it. One of them specifically mentioned that he loved the plot of the movie.
I'm curious as to what makes an intellectual movie critic type hate this sort of movie, and the common man love it. I suppose the common man enjoys simple things, like explosions and giant robots fighting each other, while the intellectual man enjoys complicated things, like film-making techniques and themes and meaning and such. Michael Bay seems to have a knack for appealing to the former, but not so much the latter.
As for me, well… sometimes, a man just wants to watch giant robots fight each other in slow motion.
the movie was bad.. but buddy yr review is worse..
I saw the trailer for this just prior to watching the new Star Trek a few weeks back. The nonstop mayhem in those two minutes satisfied my heterosexual male need for explosions and dopey tattooed bimbo's for at least six months (okay, maybe not the scantily clad bimbos).
In any case, I'll wait for the DVD – if at all!
I also saw the trailer for this before seeing Star Trek. I also saw the trailer for G.I. Joe and I swear to God I couldn't tell the difference between these two movies.
Just got back from watching it and loved it. It's everything a summer movie should be and even took a couple shots at the new administration. Don't listen to the professional reviewers, the movie is based on a cartoon and action figure line and lives up to that heritage with flying colors.
Hey I got auto deleted. lol
Grrrrr………..
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Wow you are a brave man. Speed Racer with only a couple of beers.I made it to about the 10 minute mark. The only way I will try that movie again is if someone whacks me up with Thorazine………..And even then I will probably only make it to the 15 minute mark.
Doesn't sound good. With some notable exceptions, sequels are rarely as good as the originals. This appears to be a sequel on stilts. Something to offend everyone.
Wow — this was absolutely horrible. The Stepin' Fetchit bots were the nadir of an already horrendous experience. I half expected them to eat space chicken and waffles….yeesh.
I know some folks are gonna say, 'hey, it's based on toys, it's supposed to be silly, dumb fun, etc…' To hell with that level of thinking — the Toy Story movies were based on toys and those movies had actual characters, stories and stakes. I'm sorry, but I demand more from my movies other than an assault on the senses. Even by 'dumb movie' standards this was just way too dumb.
we must admit we only saw a hunk of it on HBO- and that did require several libations. But as a fan of the original series (!)-forgive us- we will, someday, summon up the courage to watch it start to finish.
But just like the original, it will be with no sound… and for old times sake play Led Zeppelin II while it airs.
"As for me, well… sometimes, a man just wants to watch giant robots fight each other in slow motion.
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-Sometimes, that's all you want.
Yeah, yeah, but Megan Fox is in it, so I'll watch.
Damn straight! And damn she is hooooooooottttttttt!! Going tonight at 9:40 taking the kids, as long as they like it and Megan is near naked, I am good to go.
Gang: I liked the first one VERY much—I enjoyed the cartoon first, so I was happy the live action film was made; Now…I am going to reserve judgement until after I see it…all I expect is a flick that will entertain me—so I will put my brain on hold & watch bots beat the snot out of each other along with cornball & the pyrotechnics. As long as Peter Cullen is doing the voice of Prime I am content with everything else.
"I'm curious as to what makes an intellectual movie critic type hate this sort of movie, and the common man love it."
Brains. Possibly also breeding. But mostly brains.
Man, I can't believe a sequel to an original based on an 80s cartoon based on an 80s toy clocking in at the same length as 'Apocalypse Now' wasn't very good. I thought that's where dreams are made.
"To Bay’s credit this is handled with some subtlety,"
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A moment of silence, please, for Mr. John Nolte's credibility as a film critic. It will be missed.
Dang, someone turn up the heat.
Shia LeBauf's is a great actor, I think he'll be the next Matt Damon or something. Do you know anything about Shia and Megan getting together or those just little rumors? His character Sam Witwicky shares my name, I loved the first movie but I haven't seen Revenge of the Fallen yet. GREAT REVIEW! I can't watch to watch it, of course it's going to be good!
Dang, somebody turn up the heat!
I blame this on the exposing of Megan Fox's goofy thumbs.
Bah-weep-granah-weep-ninni-bong!
I partially agree. Apart from the overly busy robots, and the fact that they only used a snippet of the proper transforming sound, I did very much enjoy the first flick. I enjoyed the interplay between the characters immensely, though the action scenes (apart from the AWACS-coordinating-an-airstrike-in-the-desert scene) did nothing for me. As does Fox do very little for me. I prefer women with some actual substance – physically as well as mentally.
A few years ago my wife got me Transformers Season 1 on DVD. At some point I have to replace my old VHS copy of the 1986 flick. What the new ones really need is some Stan Bush.
It's Transformers – Optimus Prime and company fight the evil Decepticons. Some of the robots live. Some die. This is not Citizen Kane or The Dark Knight. This was fun, and loved seeing Prime fight well! Could we have done without the 4th and fifth testicle joke? Yes. Are the Twins like Jar Jar? Yes. Could he have taken out a lot of the slow motion running and explosions? Yes. Did it set us up for a larger scale third installment with possibly Unicron? I think yes.
Jack, I have to say it… First time I've ever read one of your reviews, seen a movie, and felt the complete opposite. I really enjoyed Revenge of The Fallen. I thought the action was incredible, the way the robots fought each other was amazing, and for some reason, the humans seemed likeable.
Loved the original too.
Though I do feel that the entire sun-destroyer thing was a little "Whaaa?" and that the film should've introduced Fallen as the first step to Unicron, as well as the rewritting mythos with the Transformers visiting ancient Earth was a questionable direction.
Agreed. My problem with the movie is the same as my problem with the robots: there's so much going on, mostly for no particular reason, I lose interest and have no idea what any of it is.
And Meagan Fox really isn't any more attractive or interesting looking than the other casting couch sucess stories, she's just more willing to show it all off.
Years ago (just after Pearl Harbor) I wrote an article for a web site called "I Myself Will Choose A Tasty Target" that postulates that Michael Bay doesn't direct the movie. He in fact only directs the trailer. Creating a handful of impressive looking images that make the ads look cool, but for all the other stuff, like narrative, character, and other stuff, he's just not paying attention.
I suspect this facet of his gets worse when he's doing sequels.
The toe-thumbs? XD
From the reviews I've read, the Bible is more entertaining.
I read somewhere that she sprouted robot male genitalia.
What is a Shia LeBeouf?
JAs Joe Bob Briggs used to say, "Displaying her twin talents."
This was the wrong Hasbro toyline for Michael Bay to make into a movie. He should've made the GI Joe movie instead. He would've made sure they were Real American Heroes instead of some U.N. force.
As for some dismissing The Transformers as just some toy commercial, well some of you are wrong. Some of robots are very interesting characters. I'm hoping the next Transformers movie will return the Autobots and Decepticons into their original forms. Since I hear that this movie is indeed a stinker, that will probably the only enticing way to drum up excitement for a third one. Like the first movie, I'll wait til this one hits cable to watch it.
This was a great summer action pic. And it's not incoherent — maybe a tad convoluted — but never incoherent. It does what a sequel should do: Expand the mythos, develop thematic elements, while keeping the familiar feel of the universe.
I thought the college plot was fitting because near the end, Sam had to learn to simply let go. And there's a profound element of faith in this pic.
And the amount of military hardware in this pic … oh my lord! It was BEAUTIFUL.
I'm just done reading Nolte's reviews. Something must have happened to him early this year, because after all the great reviews of his in the past, he has just lost it. Every single good movie this year he has bashed with the exception of one or two. The plot of this movie is bare-bones and straightforward, as it should have been. The action was perfectly coherent. The theater I was in was PACKED and everyone was laughing and cheering along with the movie. This is easily one of the best movies of the summer, is EXTREMELY pro-military, and also goes out of its way to take a subtle little shot at Obama. My favorite movie of the summer so far.
"Did it set us up for a larger scale third installment with possibly Unicron? I think yes."
These people effed-up a concept as simple as "giant robot made of seven slightly-less-giant robots"… do you REALLY want to see what they do to Unicron?
I do agree on the part of the twin robots, though. Skids and Mudflap, my two favorite characters from the movie (which seems to shock people, as my favorite movie of all time is "There Will Be Blood" and I was literally told today that people expected "more of me") were so hilariously over the top that they are great. Besides, one of the actors was 40 year-old African-American actor Reno Wilson. I'm sure he was out to stereotype his own race. Just an absolute blast of a movie. Absolutely LOVED it.
I love watching giant robots fighting and big exlposions just as much as the next guy, er, gal, but to be honest, it just loses something when there is no good reason in the plot for them to be doing that. I think that's Nolte's problem, and it would likely be mine as well. I'll confess to having been a table-top PnP paper gamer too, and while I love the big fight scenes, I gotta have a good reason for my character to be there in the fight in the first place. If all the GM tells me is "go here, see big monster, fight ensues," I'm not into it no matter how big the battle. Same thing applies to my TV, movies, and books. Gotta be a good plot reason for the action, or it's empty and no fun no matter how big and splashy.
… and your comment was the worst of all … They may limit our comment space, but this isn't texting. You can use regular English to expand upon your remarks.
John, if you read this, could you comment on the language and adult humor in the movie? I've heard it's a lot for a PG-13 film (I had a student tell me he thought it could have been rated R just on the language). My 9 year-old loved the first Transformers, but I can't take her if it's really that bad. I could go myself, but I'm pretty sure I'm really going to hate this and would rather just see it once if possible.
I went to see the movie today. I had nothing else to do, but still nearly walked out several times. The constant juvenile sexual references made me cringe. Even then, while staring at the huge giant robot balls taking up the center of the screen, I actually thought, "That can't be what I think it is." None of it was funny or even titillating, so what's the point? Was it designed to make 10-year olds laugh? But shouldn't they NOT be watching that anyways?
It was just a blur of robot fighting in between scenes filled with vacuous characters that made me feel like all of humanity is on a downward morality-death spiral. I'm still fighting the feeling of sadness for the human condition that it spurred inside of me. I actually felt embarrassed for everyone involved in this steaming pile of Hollywood. What makes me feel even worse is that they probably think I'm crazy for feeling that way.
Interestingly, as I've had some time off lately, I also watched Band of Brothers again this week and the interviews with the soldiers of Easy Company. What a contrast from the Americans of 1945 to the citizenry we have today.
Huh. I'm surprised nobody made mention of boycotting this because of Megan Fox. I knew this movie was doomed from the start and I had no plan on seeing it. The white trash hillbilly remark from one certain celebutard sealed that deal. Heck, I'm not even white and I'm outraged.
I went and saw the movie with my 30 year old son who grew up on transformers. he and I were both disappointed. I also have 2 boys, 10 and11 and they wanted to see this movie very badly. But the movie that should have been for the younger boys was so crude, rude and socially unacceptable that they will not be seeing it. I cringed through some of the scenes and I am not a prude. So did my older son. The robots were very confusing i had trouble telling who were the decepticons and who were the autobots during the fight scenes. I do not recommend this movie for kids. It was very sexual in nature and very crude. I hated the cussing too. To bad. my boys will be dissappointed. Mr. Bey or anyone else in Hollywood if you read this please bring back action movies that are fun and that the whole family can see. This is not the movie. I would give it a R rating.
You noticed her THUMBS!?!?!?
In my personal opinion, Band of Brothers is the single greatest accomplishment ever put on film. The interviews with the real men of Easy Company are flat out incredible, and I feel lucky just to have seen them. But to put this in just to bash a movie you clearly had no intention of liking is pointless.
The "juvenile" sexual references I can agree were entirely unnecessary and fell flat, but they were very sparsely put into the movie. Only a few could really be considered very crude, and over two and a half hours of great summer film, they disappear pretty quickly. I'm starting to think I saw a different movie than everyone else, because I absolutely loved it. Also, this movie is extremely extremely extremely pro-military and is constantly making the men and women of the U.S. Military out to be heroes, so why do you feel the need to bash the people of today as though they don't understand that these people are our only real heroes? This is Big Hollywood, not the Huffington Post. We are almost all on the same page on this issue here.
Maybe I'm just some stupid kid with no taste in movies though. Over the last two days I've been made to feel like a complete idiot because I liked a movie that set out to entertain me and did so perfectly.
I wouldn't say my reference to Band of Brothers was pointless given that it obviously struck a chord with you. I didn't go in with any "intention" to either like the movie or not. It just so happens it was plainly awful.
I don't see how this movie was "pro-military" other than it portrayed military people from time to time. I feel the need to "bash" our modern culture and people because it puts out tripe like this and elects Marxists politicians like BHO into the oval office. We have gone off the rails in my opinion.
I don't believe after reading your post that you are a stupid kid with no taste. You are obviously well spoken and just have different taste than mine. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I, on the other hand, am kicking myself for not walking out.
Just saw this today – it has some fun parts but it's waaaaay too long. If this movie was an hour shorter it would be vastly improved. Can we get a Director's Cut that reduces the running time to 1:45?
I haven't been following any of the news or hype for this movie, and I certainly never heard anything about the controversial jive-talk robots before. But when I went to see the movie with a bud today I have to say it really struck me that those jive-bots were oddly racist. Not only do they talk and act like black street thug stereotypes, but they actually look like charicatures as well with big ears and buck teeth.
Just my two cents. I'm not one to be particularly sensitive about this kind of stuff, and I didn't go into the movie knowing anything about it or expecting it. It was just there and fairly obvious.
And yes, the movie was trash regardless. Robot heaven? Really?
Thanks to the first Transformers movie, my 8 and 10 year old niece and nephew had to ask mom, "What does masturbation mean?" Way to go, putting masturbation jokes in a family movie. Maybe Jocelyn Elders was a script consultant.
I´m with you regarding the joy of simple things. I may even watch this one. The problem is the lost opportunity. Hollywood is supposed to excel at making grand entertainment that leaves you breathless (and that´s all I ask for most of the time) but in fact they usually suck at it. A real rollercoaster ride needs interesting characters, a sense of wonder, suspense, humor, surprises, in short: a story. With all the money and time invested, we can ask for a script that delivers some of that.
How many people ever heard of Fox saying that? How many will care? Always remember: The eye candy doesn´t count. There is no such thing as a "Megan Fox movie".
PS. Your link doesn´t work.
I agree with a directors cut with all the nonsense taking out. The,"My son just had his cherry popped," was so unnecessary. I didn't mind the fight scenes although I can understand why some didn't like it.
Robots saying punk ass or put cap in your ass just isn't intelligent writing.
Auto-delete? Uggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh.
Just skip the entire first hour. You won't miss anything. Not the plot, not the fighting, only dogs humping each other and a mother who is more retarded than in the first movie. Seriously just go an hour late. The movie will be a 100 times better.
Other than that it was awful and I loved the first one!
"I haven't been following any of the news or hype for this movie, and I certainly never heard anything about the controversial jive-talk robots before. But when I went to see the movie with a bud today I have to say it really struck me that those jive-bots were oddly racist. Not only do they talk and act like black street thug stereotypes, but they actually look like charicatures as well with big ears and buck teeth."
You're not the first to notice. Breitbart's site weighs in on this:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9915KR01...
Movieguide's reviewer was also baffled by the oddly racist robots in a movie with only ONE main Black human character:
http://www.movieguide.org/box-office/7/9902
Black sci-fi/comic fans are fiercely debating this issue at a forum on Blacksuperhero.com:
http://www.blacksuperhero.com/bsh/viewtopic.php?t...
Though perhaps meant to boost ticket sales, this stunt could backfire on Michael Bay.
Shia Lebeouf = A more winsome, even less talented Matt Damon.
@Matthew Harper
From slavery forward, there have been Black people willing to stereotype their own race-and sell out their dignity-for money or comfort. So, I'm not surprised that the Autobot Mudflap is getting flack even though he's voiced by a Black actor like Wilson.
It doesn't help that Wilson admitted Mudflap and Skids are "wannabe gangster types," i.e. Black racist stereotype:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_en_mo/us_f...
Even if Wilson meant Mudflap to be pure fun, the odds are REALLY high that he's crucified for this.
Thanks for the reivew. I'll pass on this one.
I'm hot to see the next great disaster movie: HUSSEIN AND THE OBAMACRATS REMAKE AMERICA. [Don't know who the leads will be but the buzz is that Madonna will play Chris Matthews and Sean Penn will play the president's Teleprompter.]
I will still see it, if for no other reason than to see some Obama bashing! Oh wait, Megan Fox is a complete twit though.
Now I am torn!
Your real name is Sam Witwicky?
The trailer for GI Joe looks so good. PLEASE tell me they aren't under the command of the UN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aside from the above mentioned potty humor, I really enjoyed this movie and actually thought it was better than the first.
I would like to think I'm an "intellectual common man" but please don't tell anybody.
But there's a difference between great action blow-em-up good and just tired noisy nonsensical blowing up bad type films. Michael Bay seems to have mastered the latter.
LeBeouf was barely tolerable in the first movie. I just saw Surf's Up last night and was completely annoyed with LeBeouf's voice work (which wasn't much different from his Transformers character). Not sure I can tolerate him for 151 minutes.
I'll probably see this movie just because, but I'm glad the reviews have lowered my expectations so that I won't feel disappointed when it turns out to be awful.
Ahah! I think I've hit upon it. The reason intellectual movie-critic types can't enjoy certain movies is because they're busy thinking about how great a movie *could* be if the director or whoever had just done this or that differently, whereas your average "common man" isn't concerned about all that, and just accepts the movie for what it is.
The intellectual looks at a movie and goes "Well if *I* was the director, I would do such-and-such to increase the tension, and change that there to increase the drama, and maybe replace so-and-so with a different actor so that the chemistry is better, etc." The intellectual is always comparing the movie he's watching with his ideal "perfect movie", and judges the movie by how close it comes to that perfect standard. The common man is simply watching the movie, going along for the ride with the director and actors, and judges it based on how good it made him feel as he was watching it.
That's my current working theory, anyway.
No, I don't think that's it. One of my friends who enjoys this sort of movie is a competent computer tech, and quite intelligent.
Heck, I like to think of myself as a pretty intelligent guy, and I enjoyed the Star Wars prequels!
For me she is such a pointless bimbo, I don't retain anything she says.
Okay, well you definitely need to bash people for putting B.H.O. in office. So we are officially on even ground. lol
I'm an unabashed Michael Bay fan, but here's why: the director IS passionate and respectful of our military. The guy makes car chases and explosions and all-around action films that lack anything resembling a plot….look breathtakingly beautiful. (Sorry, John)!
Okay, I was going to hold out and NOT see this for a while….but you just piqued my interest.
And I do love Michael Bay!
You may be right, to an extent. Critics can get in the way of themselves and pan movies that a normal human being can perfectly enjoy. But when it comes to movies that 90+% of the critics hate, you are guilty of the same overthinking of which you accuse the critics. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say. If a movie doesn't entertain you, make you think, or do whatever it is movies are supposed to do, something is wrong.
Once they get past the self-check of "maybe it's just me; perhaps other people could like it as much as I hate it," critics start looking for a reason why they dislike it. That's when your working theory snaps into action. But the knee-jerk hatred comes first.
Fox has a pretty face and, i assume, nice breasts. But her midsection freaks me out. Something seriously wrong with her waist-to-hip ratio.
"A moment of silence, please, for Mr. John Nolte's credibility as a film critic. It will be missed."
When he says "some subtlety," I assume he means relative to the rest of Bay's work, not relative to a majority of artistic expression.
I'm not into the Joe trailer at all. Where are the personalities? Why is everyone cloaked in nondescript Metal War Suits?
Why are all the Cobra fighters ninjas; I don't remember that being the case from the cartoon.
Where is Sgt. Slaughter?
"In my personal opinion, Band of Brothers is the single greatest accomplishment ever put on film. The interviews with the real men of Easy Company are flat out incredible"
Band of Brothers was indeed excellent. I especially liked the holocaust episode. However, the interviews I found a bit boring and uninformative, and I'm usually into that sort of thing. Much preferred the (admittedly extended) interviews in Ken Burns' "The War" .
"and the action is no more stimulating than watching kids play with action figures."
I'm sorry John. But I honestly have no idea what happened to you! I honestly have not agreed with you for months. I don't know if it was your transition to Big Hollywood or what, but you seem to have lost the insightful movie commentary that I enjoyed so much! You've consistantly panned enjoyable movies with one exception *that being UP, which was an animated classic*, your opinions are, anymore, almost always shockingly opposite of what I think *see your quote above*, and you seem to be looking at everything with the hope that it is another "Dark Knight".
This movie was EXTREMELY enjoyable. The action, superb *I'm sorry, you can't get any more stimulating that watching Optimus Prime throw down with Megatron and Starscream*. The humor, while off-color at times, had me chuckling consistently. And it goes without saying that the pro-military stance alone was worth the price of admission. I don't know what movie you were watching, but whatever one it was, I didn't see it.
Revenge of the Fallen is pure summer fun. Explosions. Gigantic robots duking it out. Servicemen given their dues in a Hollywood production. And one astonishingly gorgeous actress.
This, people, is what the summer is all about.
And I, for one, want Dirty Harry back to his old self.
Well, you did take them to a PG-13 movie, and at the start it mentions why it was made PG-13, so its not like you didnt see it coming with the "some crude and sexual material" when the rating popped up on the huge screen ><
I found Transformers disappointing in the theatre, but came to enjoy it a lot on DVD. Credit for that goes to the much belittled Shia LeBeouf…he was very funny, and gave 100% in the part. Megan Fox didn't hurt either, to be honest.
The sequel spent too much time with the stupid robots. And, weirdly, everything they did lacked weight. In the first film, there was a real sense of them in the world, but everything screamed CGI about them in this film.
Megan Fox was still okay by me, though.
I'll probably watch the first on DVD again soon, just to scour the taste of the first from my media palate.
Man, I'm so glad I saw Star Trek this summer. I'm just tired of going to the movies, but I chose that as my last one. I think it was way better than any other movie that has or will come out this summer.
I saw the first Transformers, I had a hard time separating which robot was whom.
The badassiest character of them all was talking openly and philosophically about the fundamental nature of freedom, the reality of evil, and doing the right things even when it's inconvenient, which includes fighting for that freedom. In the previous movie, that same character actually said, "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." He might as well have said it's an inalienable right!
I loved the movie. But more than that, I love that it will do more to keep the flame of Conservatism strong in the next generation of fans than just about anything in our culture since Braveheart won Best Picture. I'm disappointed that a website dedicated to promoting and advancing conservatism in pop culture so badly missed that this movie does exactly that.
What movie did you see? I enjoyed the first one, and the sequel was no different.
Did it have a few flaws? Sure. Did it too closely mirror the first movie? Possibly.
I went into this movie expecting a *Michael Bay* and *Transformers* movie, and I got exactly that.
[...] John Nolte in Big Hollywood: As far as all the noise about ”jive-talking” ‘bots Skids and Mudflap being some sort of “racist” characterization, that’s simply absurd. Both are completely over-the-top in the satiric department. Like the flamboyant gay man we see everywhere today or Randy Quaid’s portrayal of a redneck Southerner in the “Vacation” movies, there’s not a hint of a mean-spirit anywhere in sight. Is Wednesday “Innoculate Blacks From Satire Day?” You see, I’m all confused, because last week’s uproar from part of the gay community over “Bruno” fell on a Wednesday, too. Anyway, CAIR must be happy. That leaves them the six other days. [...]
[...] nowhere near as soul-deadening as “Transformers 2” or the latest “Harry Potter,” you still feel like you’re watching someone [...]
watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen online
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Meagan Fox is one bad movie, wait, this was it, from being a white trash, bible beater herself…
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