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2009/06/19 20:18:27
Subject: Revenge of the Fallen. EDIT SPOILERS IN THREAD
Went to see this today during work (man I love my job!).
Got to say, I seriously liked it! The same problem remains from the first one where you don't really meet the Autobots or Decepticons as characters (indeed, there is at least one Autobot I still don't know the name of. How irritating!). On the bright side, Jetfire is nuts hard and really cool.
Also, I was under the impression having your skull stabbed with a red hot sword, let alone Optimus Prime's red hot sword (oooh! MATRON!) would be a fatal encounter, yet Bonecrusher turns up.
The rest of the characters are good enough though, and overall, I'd rate it as well above mere Brain Bubblegum!
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Many Baysplosions, but I don't recall much back sliding nonsense.
However, Prime taking on Megatron, Starscream and Blackout is a scene made of solid win!
Seriously, ropey as some bits might be (enough with the parents ta) the action scenes are spot on. Had to stop myself cheering on the good guys at times.
Though I do hope they use 'The Touch' in the next one, ideally for the big showdown fight!
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Could had been made even better by shedding some of the unnecessary comic scenes, the bit with the mother in the college for example and the whole thing would have been better had it been about 30 minutes shorter. As MDK said a few too many transformers involved perhaps, as we didn't get much of a chance to meet them all. There was one Autobot who looked surprisingly like Jazz and transformed into a sports car but an introduction was never made.
Oh and the 'twins' can feth right off. Not since Jar Jar Binks have I wished such painful deaths upon comic relief characters.
Those are my only complaints mind. The fights scenes are awesome and the conclusion is just pure military grade war porn.
Oh and a quick question to the American film goers, did Jetfire have a British accent in your version or not?
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"And if we've learnt anything over the past 1000 mile retreat it's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanisation!"
Wait, Bonecrusher survived being stabbed in the face and having his head ripped off?
I wish I was that tough. I'd never have to worry about handling sharp things.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Could had been made even better by shedding some of the unnecessary comic scenes, the bit with the mother in the college for example and the whole thing would have been better had it been about 30 minutes shorter. As MDK said a few too many transformers involved perhaps, as we didn't get much of a chance to meet them all. There was one Autobot who looked surprisingly like Jazz and transformed into a sports car but an introduction was never made.
Oh and the 'twins' can feth right off. Not since Jar Jar Binks have I wished such painful deaths upon comic relief characters.
Those are my only complaints mind. The fights scenes are awesome and the conclusion is just pure military grade war porn.
Oh and a quick question to the American film goers, did Jetfire have a British accent in your version or not?
Its not out in the US yet my good Sir, but I'm sure he will.
EDIT: Comes out Tuesday
Er... Wensday
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Oh yes. I took 3 hours out of my shift yesterday to attend the first local showing. Worked out quite nice, as in the 4 hours and 15 minutes I worked, I made £66. Then another £34 afterwards before I got bored and hacked off at the traffic and nicked off home.
Oh, and Cock-er-nee Rhyming slang is generally made up on the spot, and certainly moves with the times. I think we can all fill in the blanks if I called someone a James Blunt.
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Could had been made even better by shedding some of the unnecessary comic scenes, the bit with the mother in the college for example and the whole thing would have been better had it been about 30 minutes shorter. As MDK said a few too many transformers involved perhaps, as we didn't get much of a chance to meet them all. There was one Autobot who looked surprisingly like Jazz and transformed into a sports car but an introduction was never made.
Oh and the 'twins' can feth right off. Not since Jar Jar Binks have I wished such painful deaths upon comic relief characters.
Those are my only complaints mind. The fights scenes are awesome and the conclusion is just pure military grade war porn.
Oh and a quick question to the American film goers, did Jetfire have a British accent in your version or not?
That Sports Car was actually Sideswipe, if you remember the old comics/cartoons he was the Red Lambourghini twinned with Sunstreaker, the yellow one.
I dunno the bit with the mother in the college was just funny, albiet unnecessary it was funny, i could even imagine my mother doing something like that on the day I moved into uni.
When you give total control to a computer, it’s only a matter of time before it pulls a Skynet on you and you’re running for your life.
I call the best CGI, at least I've seen. I think I was one of the few thinking "WOW that must have been an effort to make," while watching the epicness.
That and the camera angles in some of the shots... well, that did it for me.
"And what is wrong with their life? What on earth is less reprehensible than the life of the Levovs?"
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
Now I want Battletech movies. I want to see the Clan Invasion! I would even put up with the occasional scene of Phelan sitting around in his silly mask feeling sorry for himself.
That was exactly the kind of movie I expected. I had a giant grin on my face for the whole time. Granted, is has the same issues as the previous one. Too many annoying humans . Though the parents were a lot less annoying than that black kid and the other girl in the first movie. They were just utterly useless. Also, though the movie was indeed a tad too long, it could've used more slowmotion, some of the fights where really hard to follow.
What did I like? Everything else!
The beef is a nice actor and it's good to see him in a sequel which does the original justice unlike that other Spielberg-produced sequel.
So it really was Bonecrusher? I mean, there are a lof of Decpticons at that battle, could've been someone new. There was a another heli as well.
Jetfire is pure win. He's my new favourite . The one scene with sideswipe was pretty cool too, though I never saw enough of the robot-girl-biker Arcee.
One thing I found strange:
Spoiler:
Couldn't they have used the Allspark splinter to resurect Prime?
For everyone who hasn't seen it yet: if you enjoyed the first movie, you're gonna love this one. If you didn't like the first movie, well, this has just more of everything. Make out of that what you will
So the poor dialogue didnt bother any of you? No one was bothered by poor character developement and the ton of extra robots that were just chunked in? Did anyone but me watch G1? Yea the fight scenes were orgasmic, but the story lacked alot imo. Hey guys, to make energon we need to blow up the sun WHILE WE'RE ON THE PLANET ASIT HAPPENS! Who cares if we cant live through the super nova to collect the stuff, atleast our decipticon ashes can go SCREW YOU to the human and autobot ones. And people got to do a fan vote of which transformer they wanted in the movie. Soundwave got it big time. How much air time did he get? Less than 5 minutes. One of the biggest badasses in the whole transformer series ever created, sits on a satelite, and does nothing except spit out Ravage to go kick ass. He was a god in G1. He looks like a wierdo with that beard and crown thingy going on. What was wrong with that knightly looking head he had before? His voice shouldve been way creepier. And all he does is watch and listen. You think when they railed gun Devestator, Soundwave couldve given him a heads up. AND THE FREAKIN TWINS WERE ROCKING DEVESTATOR! HOW THE HELL DOES THAT HAPPEN!?!?!?! And for everyone that didnt watch transformers before they probably dont even know that those construction cars/equipment whatever you wanna call them can transform into their own personal robot and then pop together to make Devestator. Thank god that the twins somehow disappeared for the last bits of the movie, and if they died why weren't we rewarded with their death? I bet people wouldve liked to have gotten more character developement from atleast the newly introduced autobots. That fallen dude was a freak too, they shouldve replaced him with the Quintisons. And at the end they throw in some stuff from transformers armada. WHY?!?! That show sucked. I feel that this movie didn't pay omage to transformers like the first one. Im not satisfied by only flashy lights and big explosions. This isnt something thats gonna make me watch it over and over again like the first one. Its like other awesome series. Aliens, first one you can watch over and over and not get tired of it. 3rd one makes you wanna cry by how badly the series was ruined. Predator, first one is totally nut busting. Second one, HE GETS KILLED BY AN OVER WEIGHT COP THAT PROBABLY CANT CATCH HIS SUSPECTS ON FOOT IF HE HAD TOO! IN LOFERS! WHY!?!?!?!?! If all we want is flashy lights and big booms what makes this any different than any other robot movie? Transformers was unique b/c of its humanistic characteristics that was made with the bots. And if the whole conflict is about collecting energon by blowing up a sun, how hard is it to make another one of those guns, and going to another solar system? They couldve skipped the whole being killed by prime part. Theres a countless number of stars, ours isnt any special. And im sure that the plans for making those sun killers is lying around somewhere.
I was kinda disapointed in that you didn't really get to know the Autobots and Decepticons, the only notable ones being the twins, Optimus, Megatron, and Jetfire. It's like the other ones were just "Filler"
Some people play to win, some people play for fun. Me? I play to kill toy soldiers.
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Jacksonhighlander wrote:So the poor dialogue didnt bother any of you? No one was bothered by poor character developement and the ton of extra robots that were just chunked in? Did anyone but me watch G1? Yea the fight scenes were orgasmic, but the story lacked alot imo. Hey guys, to make energon we need to blow up the sun WHILE WE'RE ON THE PLANET ASIT HAPPENS! (...)
Okay, you didn't like the movie. I understand that. But please, do me us a favor. There is a rather large button on your keybord. If you're Keyboard looks in any way like mine, it should be right next to the # symbol. There's a l-shaped arrow on it. Next time you write more than 3 sentences, try to use it from time to time.
Thanks.
Back on topic: 22% percent on the tomatometer. Come on, it wasn't that bad.
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. Though the parents were a lot less annoying than that black kid and the other girl in the first movie. They were just utterly useless. Also, though the movie was indeed a tad too long, it could've used more slowmotion, some of the fights where really hard to follow.
