Anyone else notice that Shia LeBeouff's acting, in everything he does, is just playing Major Healey from I Dream of Jeannie?
I liked this one much more than the first. The final scene actually progressed and was watchable, the final scene of the first movie was so long and nothing happened in it.
Spoiler Seriously, he died and went to heaven and got sent back by ancient robots? ROFL What happens when you take an awesome franchise, a hot chick, a semi-talented young up coming actor and combine it with a lazy director, a plot written on toilet paper in the bathroom and a cheap team of editors? Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
that movie is total 80s awesomeness down to the soundtrack with the great tracks "You Got the Touch" (made more famous in Boogie Nights) and of course Weird Al's classic "Dare to be Stupid" I wouldnt expect Bay of all directors to stick that close to the original sources (cartoons/comics) when making a transformers movie. Too bad they couldnt find a director that loved the toys/comics/cartoons to do the movie much like how peter jackson loved LOTR when he did those films. (not comparing the two franchises but saying that you get a passionate director and you will get a quality film)
So here's a question...where does this rank among Bay films? For me... The Rock > Armageddon >or= Transformers >> Transformers 2 >> The Island >>>> Bad Boys > Bad Boys II >>>>>>>>>> Pearl Harbor Here's another question... what would you have done differently in Revenge of the Fallen? Me... Spoiler Replace the fembot with possibly an animal bot, a scout of sorts for the Decepticons. That could be a nice nod to Beast Wars perhaps and would be a little more believable. Cut out the comic relief college scenes. Tone down Mudflap and Skids but don't eliminate them entirely. Completely redesign Devestator (I should see the different Decepticons that have combined to form him...instead he's just one giant mess) and give him more to do in the final Act. Perhaps Devastator is fighting a military unit that has broken off from the other squads to protect the pyramid. Eliminate John Turturo's subplot in the final Act. Sam and Mikaela have already said they loved each other plenty of times before we get to this story (or, though predictable, maybe they are separated at the beginning. That was a bad decision on the filmmakers part because I think it severed the audiences connection to them. What couple would stay together that long w/o saying those three words? Replace the kiddie appliance bots in the beginning with more intimidating, threatening transformers. Have Shia act more serious instead of being a smart ass half the time. To expose the governments cover up of the Transformers, the Fallen launches an attack on major cities across the globe instead of going on tv. No Shia going to robot heaven; when he finds the key he comes across a riddle to unlock it's power; when he's knocked unconsciousness he sees flashbacks to the riddle and the Primes and discovers how the key unlocks; he wakes up and the key unlocks like it did in the movie. Shia suffers real and sustained injuries at the end. Miakaela doesn't "love" him back to life Matrix style. The Prime/Fallen fight is longer. The first 1/3 of the movie should have been a race to not only find the All Spark shard but to find Megatron, whose not lying in one place, but has been seperated into different pieces and scattered over the globe (conventional human methods have proven unsuccessful in melting down his body). This could fit in easily if you trim down the college scenes. Then it becomes a race to find the key, but unlike the film, John Turturo (well maybe) and roomate (def no) are not coming along for the ride...instead Sam and Mikaela are traveling with the Autobots...Mudflap and Skids, RC, Sideways(whatever the Corvette's name was) and Jetfire (who doesn't have quite as grating a personality). There's no Indiana Jones type of hunt and the key is not hidden in the temple they used in Crusade; they follow the coordinates in Sam's head to a location buried in a cave in an assuming cliff system. Finding the key to turn on the generator that harvests the sun's power, thereby destroying the earth...I think that's decent enough storyline for an action and Transformer's film...just all the details obviously got rushed.
The Rock>Transformers 2>Bad Boys 2>Armageddon>Transformers>Bad Boys>Pearl Harbor I thought this Transformers was much better than the 1st. I found myself very bored during the first one, especially towards the end. I also thought Bad Boys 2 was much better than the first. How can you guys hate this so much? Its a summer action movie, not an academy award movie, it's just supposed to be fun.
Went and saw it the other day. I read all the reviews beforehand of people blasting it and saying how bad it was, but you KNOW that's not gonna stop you from going to see it. But, yeah, it was pretty terrible. I checked my watch about 15-20 times and NOT just because I was doing a 2-for-1 and going to see The Hangover right after.
The Rock>Bad Boys>Transformers>Transformers 2>Armageddon>Pear Harbor>Bad Boys2(didn't get to watch all of this one, always walked away, don't knwo why) The Rock is miles away better than the rest of them, its one of my top movies of all time, seen it about 10-15 times, the rest of them I wouldn't waste my time watching more than once.
2.5 hours? What a f'n waste. If a robot wasn't in the scene, they should have cut it out. Transformers is about the robots. They were the main characters, and they actually had personalities. Instead Bay makes a movie about some lame people and a totally irrelevant love relationship, w/ some robot fights thrown in. And I've seen more humor in an episode of Full House. It's like making a Batman movie and focusing on two random people in Gotham getting into trouble w/ the mob and Batman has to save them. And then you spend 2 hours watching them run around Gotham and periodically Batman swoops in to get them out of a corner. I know Michael Bay is copy pasting this reply as soon as he reads it. Also, I still find the Transformers indiscernible pieces of metal in indiscernible fight scenes. But it was passable enough to stop me from walking out. I know it's a summer movie. But it wasn't fun. It was annoying. I also checked my watch every 20 minutes and I was relieved when it finally ended. I'm glad I used the Visa Signature deal (2 for 1 tickets) otherwise I would've been really pissed.
