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@ Frazzled - Aye agreed also, its the reason I won't be taking my five year to go see it, when I watch it again with my wife next week. (She was unable to go with me the first time I watched it.)





edit - wannabe writer posted while I was, and made my response look odd.

Cool.

MadEdric wrote:While the twins were irritating. How come everyone screaming racist stereotype has absolutely no problem with the sadistic robot doctor having a German accent?

That's a very good point. I mean, I'm German and I probably would've been very amused by that fact if I would've seen the English version. At one point, it's not really surprising anymore. A lot of doctors in popculture are German, sadistic or not. The medic in Team Fortress, the Doctor in Conker's Bad Fur Day. I get a good laugh everybody I hear someone trying to imitate a German accent. It's hillarious.

Maybe the Twins work like that too....

Anung Un Rama wrote:

MadEdric wrote:While the twins were irritating. How come everyone screaming racist stereotype has absolutely no problem with the sadistic robot doctor having a German accent?

That's a very good point. I mean, I'm German and I probably would've been very amused by that fact if I would've seen the English version. At one point, it's not really surprising anymore. A lot of doctors in popculture are German, sadistic or not. The medic in Team Fortress, the Doctor in Conker's Bad Fur Day. I get a good laugh everybody I hear someone trying to imitate a German accent. It's hillarious.

Maybe the Twins work like that too....

The twins seemed more like console gamer teens to me. Wannabe smacktalking ninjas!

Am I the only one that thought the green robots head looked a bit like a grot?

I don't know typhus. Am I the only one who's still baffled by the fact that you manage to completly ignore the Caps lock button in your every post?

I just saw it. so might i say. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME.
couple of minor plot hole but all in all it was a great ride.
and jetfire being an old man with a cane was a great reenvisioniing of the caracter.

Ok so it's been awhile but I don't remember the Fallen in the original cartoon. May have been in the comics, I never read those.

I am going to have to catch this one after all. I was going to watch something else in the meantime.

Ozymandias wrote:Ok so it's been awhile but I don't remember the Fallen in the original cartoon. May have been in the comics, I never read those.

Nope, there was never a 'Fallen' in the original cartoon. May well have been in the expanded comic universe, but I don't recall one.

He was in the comics briefly voila.

Damn he looked cooler in the comics.

I said something similar in an earlier post, but I'll say it again. As much as I really loved the film, I can't help but think that the plot from the comics would have made a better film.

Anung Un Rama wrote:

MadEdric wrote:While the twins were irritating. How come everyone screaming racist stereotype has absolutely no problem with the sadistic robot doctor having a German accent?

That's a very good point. I mean, I'm German and I probably would've been very amused by that fact if I would've seen the English version. At one point, it's not really surprising anymore. A lot of doctors in popculture are German, sadistic or not. The medic in Team Fortress, the Doctor in Conker's Bad Fur Day. I get a good laugh everybody I hear someone trying to imitate a German accent. It's hillarious.

I've wondered that as well. It is a strange phenomena. One possibility is that for some reason the accent is tied to the idea of higher learning based on all the German Academics and scientists that came to the US in the 40's. Or it could be all the "evil" German scientists from older WWII flicks have taken up residency in the collectives mind space. Maybe a mixture of both.

Interesting. But you know why so many adademics and scientists left Germany during that time?

I'll guess it was something due to Nationalism / Socialism / Democrats.

Maybe also because of their religion.

That whole exterminate Juden thing and kill all who oppose us think is probably involved just a wee bit.

Probably a bit of all three....

Okay, let's get back to T'Formers. I still love it. Roger Ebert hates it.

The day will come when "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" will be studied in film classes and shown at cult film festivals. It will be seen, in retrospect, as marking the end of an era. Of course there will be many more CGI-based action epics, but never again one this bloated, excessive, incomprehensible, long (149 minutes) or expensive (more than $200 million). Like the dinosaurs, the species has grown too big to survive, and will be wiped out in a cataclysmic event, replaced by more compact, durable forms.

Yes he hated it with a passion. His points were valid but he doesn't get the whole summer movie concept. He hated Star Trek, terminator, and Wolverine IIRC. But he's all over the buzzkill joke Sister's Keeper.

Well, he does tend to like some loud action movies. You should read his Shoot 'em up review.

He also enjoyed Watchmen.

Personally I might download it when it hits the shelves, I found the first movie meh, mostly because the stupid human characters were stealing the screen time of the stupid giant robots. And from what I've heard this movie is victim of the sequel curse.

Frazzled wrote:Yes he hated it with a passion. His points were valid but he doesn't get the whole summer movie concept. He hated Star Trek, terminator, and Wolverine IIRC. But he's all over the buzzkill joke Sister's Keeper.

I'm guessing you haven't noticed how much he goes on about Raiders of the Lost Ark or Star Wars. He also didn't hate Star Trek - he lamented the lack of sci-fi and some of the silliness of the film but said the space opera and characters were fun, and there was a lot of the pretty.

Ebert is a critic of script more than anything, and worries more about structure and pacing than most others. Because action and genre films rely on structure more than most, he reviews these films more closely. Because (for some very strange, frustrating reason) action and genre films fail to deliver decent structure more than most, Ebert is rightly critical. But when they do it right, like with the Dark Knight, Ebert is more glowing than most.

Allright I finally saw the movie. It takes a lot for me NOT to like a movie, and I must say I really didn't like this movie. The only things worth watching were the robot fights and the cute girl. I have to say that I got bored with both. I was ready to leave the movie by the time they left Petra.

This movie had the worst editing I have ever seen. The scenes pop around from one to another and your like, wait a minute, how did they get from here to there?

Since when is there a huge field with an airlpane graveyard in the desert behind the national air and space museum in D.C.?

The two stereotypical ethnic black robots were offensive.

Whats up with the "fuzzy math" in the underwater megatron resurrection scene.

The robotic tongue wagging, I mean it's a robotic metallic tongue up until the tip, then it turns into flesh?.....sigh.

Too many things that I couldn't ignore that just made this a bad movie.

GG

Yesterday I went to see the movie and I was totally disappointed. It's not the plot, I knew there was not one, it´s the small "Hollywood´s way" things that contribute to blow up my suspension of disbelief almost every time and spoil the movies for me.

It´s an US movie for mainly a US audience, but when are they going to understand that US =/= rest of the world?. If the US government were to ask the Autobots to leave Earth that doesn´t mean that the rest of the world would follow suit. It`s really so hard to change the script and put humanity instead of the US government or something like that?.

Mr Bay, Jordania does not share a frontier with Egypt, there is a little country called Israel in between. Luxor is about 1000km from El Cairo and the pyramids 140 km from the sea. BTW The Smithsonian backyard doesn´t connect with Arizona last time I was there. And hardly a ship in the Red Sea (as per the monitor images) is going to shoot a big robot hundreds of kilometers away with direct fire. Get your geography right, damnit!.

Apparently the US Navy doesn´t know math, 5 robots go down, one dies, one is resurrected doesn´t mean that 6 robots go up. Neither US Navy Captains know their stuff 1 fanthom = 6.08 feet. If the depth of the place where Megatron lies, is around 5km why the Captain says the magic 9000 fathom number? (Deepest place in Earth, Mariana Trench around 11km deep).

And my favorite, there is an unknown type of Transformer in the movie, at the end of the movie a flight of F-16 go in to bomb the baddies and 2 A-10 fly away. Who were these guys, traitor Decepticons, undercover Autobots ?.

But at least I got to see Soundwave playing evil spymaster.

M.

I went to this Movie and just now got home..

I Paid $15.50 AU to watch Giant Robots Kick A$$.

Man- one of the best Movies of it's type. Ever.

Big Robots, Kicking A$$.

If I want Plot,or I want to see anything else, except Big A$$ Robots, fighting each other/us, I WILL NOT SEE A Movie called "TRANSFORMERS2".

What he said.