Who's going to see Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen?

[AR_Six]

Solid review quotes from RT:

A lot of people put a great deal of effort into this movie to create great effects and exciting action but the whole thing is led by a man who directs by numbers.

Transformers 2 feels a bit like watching someone else play a video game for two and a half hours.

It's like being hit over the head repeatedly with a very expensive, very loud train set.After two and a half hours in this bludgeoning company, you're begging Bay to put away the boys' toys and make a rom-com.

At once loud and boring, like watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan.

 

[mondayc]

Michael Bay adds robot balls.
Does the sequel carry the same terrible sense of humor as the first?

 

[Rambo]

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Johnny 5!

 

[justtemple]

I'll probably see it and try to catch on screen glimpses of Megan Fox's club thumbs!

 

[Jekyll]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/trans...-fallen,29564/

At least in the last half-hour, Bay’s incredibly sloppy continuity and overeager rush to action pays off, as he forgets the comic-relief characters, whisks past the story elements, and just gets down to a massive, eye-popping combat sequence that blows up everything in sight. Which is probably all anyone really wanted from Michael Bay’s Transformers in the first place. So why did it take nearly five hours of movie to get there?

This is essentially what I said.

 

[Zandros]

Originally Posted by mondayc

Michael Bay adds robot balls. Does the sequel carry the same terrible sense of humor as the first?
Yes. But I can't say I didn't enjoy the movie despite some odd moments and some obvious fuckups from the subtitler who made the Laurentian Abyss 16000 metres deep and the All Spark made of silver. Also intriguing was the choice of translating the movie's undertitle (Revenge of the Fallen -> De besegrades hämnd [Revenge of the Defeated]) and not translating the name of The Fallen nor the Matrix of Leadership or anything otherwise named.

 

[Gradstudent78]

Critic reviews look pretty bad for the most part.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809943432/critic


"...a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments."
--Roger Ebert

 

[ctrlaltelite]

you people expect a lot from a 2 and half hour long toy commercial?

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by ctrlaltelite

you people expect a lot from a 2 and half hour long toy commercial?

 

[Rambo]

LOS ANGELES "” "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" introduces some 40 new mechanized characters of all shapes, sizes and even sexes _ but it's a pair of jive-talking 'bots that critics are singling out as more than just harmless comic relief. Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact Chevys, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They're forced to acknowledge that they can't read. One has a gold tooth. As good guys, they fight alongside the Autobots and are intended to provide comic relief. But the traits they're ascribed raise the specter of stereotypes most notably seen when Jar Jar Binks, the clumsy, broken-English speaking alien from "Star Wars: Episode I _ The Phantom Menace," was criticized as a racial caricature. Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern described Binks in 1999 as a "Rastafarian Stepin Fetchit," a reference to a black character from the 1920s and '30s that exploited negative stereotypes for comic effect. Extending that metaphor to the "Transformers" sequel was AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire, who calls Skids and Mudflap "Jar Jar Binks in car form." And Manohla Dargis, film critic for The New York Times, takes it a step further, writing that the "Transformers" characters were given "conspicuously cartoonish, so-called black voices that indicate that minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood as when, well, Jar Jar Binks was set loose by George Lucas." Director Michael Bay insists that the bumbling 'bots are just good clean fun. "We're just putting more personality in," Bay said. "I don't know if it's stereotypes _ they are robots, by the way. These are the voice actors. This is kind of the direction they were taking the characters and we went with it." TV actor Reno Wilson, who is black, voices Mudflap. Tom Kenny, the white actor behind SpongeBob SquarePants, voices Skids. Neither immediately responded to interview requests for this story.

 

[RFX45]

Movie was pretty bad and I came in expecting it to be a full blown action movie.

The editing was horrific at times, switching scenes as if a 10 year old edited the movie. Story felt real cliche and put together without much thought and there were plenty of inaccuracies. I'll hold up more details to avoid spoiling it for some.

Overall, it is exactly what the reviews says it is. It is action packed, although at times felt very confusing and too much slow motion action, with cheesy jokes and a very hot Megan Fox. I think it can be enjoyable if you go to the theater with the lowest possible expectation and just to see a beautiful and gorgeous Megan Fox in the big screen, oh yeah if you giant robots killing each other then that might add to the excitement as well.

 

[TheFoo]

I'm seeing it tonight. I expect it to be awful. However, it strikes me that many of the reviews out there seem to be working on the premise that the human beings should be the central focus, and the Transformers are nothing more than 'machines'. Now, this might be to blame on Michael Bay's direction, but I wonder how much has to do with reviewers' inability to imagine robots as living characters with emotions and personalities.

 

[ctrlaltelite]

^
or michael bay's ability to make living humans with emotions and personalities act like robots.

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by RFX45

It is action packed, although at times felt very confusing and too much slow motion action, with cheesy jokes and a very hot Megan Fox.

This is Bay's entire resume, top to bottom.

 

[Nouveau Pauvre]

Originally Posted by ctrlaltelite

^
or michael bay's ability to make living humans with emotions and personalities act like robots.

Lulz.

I took a bunch of speed when I saw the first one and it still was pretty ******* awful. Not enough drugs in the world to get me to see this one.