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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
#801
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
STILL the BEST MOVIE of last year though...
#802
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
I enjoy most of Michael Bay's movies. They are good, exciting, blow shit up action flicks. You dont have to think when watching them, you can just sit there and watch shit blow up. The Rock is great fun. For that matter, so are Armageddon and the Bad Boys movies.
I enjoyed watching both Transformers movies. Although I do think the first one was better. I just didnt like certain elements of the story of #2. It is like they wnet to the original cartoon and movie, and said "What item is important to the Transformers that we can make them go after?" They settled on the matrix of leadership that was apparently the key to running some tremendous intergalactic machine, even though it was nothing at all like that in the original series.
I enjoyed watching both Transformers movies. Although I do think the first one was better. I just didnt like certain elements of the story of #2. It is like they wnet to the original cartoon and movie, and said "What item is important to the Transformers that we can make them go after?" They settled on the matrix of leadership that was apparently the key to running some tremendous intergalactic machine, even though it was nothing at all like that in the original series.
#803
DVD Talk Legend
#805
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
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A troll wouldn't post the incredibly awesome video above (and again show me a "troll" with 1300+ posts)
And, TF2 was the BEST MOVIE OF 2009
A troll wouldn't post the incredibly awesome video above (and again show me a "troll" with 1300+ posts)
And, TF2 was the BEST MOVIE OF 2009
#806
Banned by request
#811
Banned by request
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
Mod Note: Let's leave that as the last comment about the Politics forum, okay? Thanks.
#813
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
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A troll wouldn't post the incredibly awesome video above (and again show me a "troll" with 1300+ posts)
And, TF2 was the BEST MOVIE OF 2009
A troll wouldn't post the incredibly awesome video above (and again show me a "troll" with 1300+ posts)
And, TF2 was the BEST MOVIE OF 2009
But Megatron telling the Fallen that's he's technically stronger had me in stitches because it's so true.
#814
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
While side-stepping the whole "what's so damn fun about turning off your brain" argument, I would say that, while I enjoy most Bay movies (the exceptions being Bad Boys 2, The Island, and the current subject) TF2 was just a collossally unengaging bore in my opinion. It didn't feel fun; it felt stiff, rushed, awkward, nonsensical, and indifferent. Compare that with, say, the superlative action/adventure/scifi flicks of the year like "Taken", "Inglourious Basterds", "Up", "Star Trek", etc. Each full of great action, characters, story, special effects... escapist entertainment of the highest order. None of these entertainments were particularly deep, but they each succeeded as storytelling.
TF2 was just... crass. Dopey. An afterthought. A crappy non-story that made no sense if you thought about it for more than 15 seconds, big noisy CGI that overwhelmed instead of amazed, a dead-behind-the-eyes female lead who made Kirsten Dunst seem like Wendy Wililams with a slim-jim and a lighter... I dunno man, I can't see how anybody could have genuinely liked this movie. "Dead behind the eyes" is practically the best way to describe Transformers 2. How a $200million+ movie about transforming fighting robots from outer space battling it out around the world could end up being so boring, I'll never know...
#815
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
I am just watching this for the first time and it is worse than I imagined. I am about half way and I feel like it has been on all day. At this point I might as well just finish it. Next up is Wolverine. I have had both of these movies way to long from netflix.
#816
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
You, my friend, are going to have a bad afternoon.
#817
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
Despite not living up to its potential, Wolverine is still watchable. If you want a truly terrible evening, try watching Jennifer's Body. I was falling asleep 20 minutes in and forced myself to sit through another 22 before I hit the eject button and returned the disc the very same day I rented it.
#818
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
Despite not living up to its potential, Wolverine is still watchable. If you want a truly terrible evening, try watching Jennifer's Body. I was falling asleep 20 minutes in and forced myself to sit through another 22 before I hit the eject button and returned the disc the very same day I rented it.
Agreed Wolverine was not bad.
#819
Banned by request
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
Wolverine was only watchable because we already had our expectations blown to pieces by X3. Had it come on the heels of X2 (or a truly excellent third X-Men movie), we wouldn't be so kind to it.
That being said, Transformers 2 makes it look like The Dark Knight.
That being said, Transformers 2 makes it look like The Dark Knight.
#820
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
That's exactly what it was for me. I went in to Wolverine with such low expectations that I couldn't have possibly been disappointed. Though, while not completely disappointed, I did pretty much forget I saw it just hours later...
#821
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
I found Wolverine on par with X-Men. I also don't think X2 is half as good as people make it out to be. However X-Men: The Last Stand dropped the ball royally by half-assign two big stories that deserved a movie each in order to be tackled properly.
#822
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
I understand why some people wouldn't like Transformers 2, but I don't understand the pure hate for it. Just seems kind of narrow-minded. I thought that, in terms of action, it's one of my favorite movies of all-time. In every other department though it's pretty bad to average.
#823
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
I also never understood the pure hate that Bay himself gets. The guy's made some good to great movies regardless of whether or not you like Transformers. The Rock and arguably Bad Boys are awesome movies. I mean, Bay is pretty much a master of making modern-day blockbusters.
#824
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
Fair enough, that's a fairly common complaint. Judging by that "recruitment commercial for the military" comment I'm guessing you're one of those people who hated involving humans in the movie? Ideally you do want it to just be robots vs. robots, but in reality you have to add in those humans because it's the only practical way to make the movie. As for the lack of action, well, I was fine with it while seeing the film in theaters, but after seeing it on DVD I noticed how bored I was in between the action scenes.
Awesome is about as meaningful as any other rating. =P
In all seriousness, if I had to give Transformers 2 a rating I would give it a 5 or 5.5 out of 10.
In all seriousness, if I had to give Transformers 2 a rating I would give it a 5 or 5.5 out of 10.
#825
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009) The Reviews Thread
I do like to right reviews, but I can't seem to find a topic to do it in. Feel free to direct me to one if you would be kind enough. By the way, I consider 5 perfectly average, so that's what I thought Transformers 2 was (I was considering the extra .5 because it does have some unique qualities that could bump it up half a point).
Of course, participating in a discussion about a film isn't necessarily the same as writing your own review, so you'll have to decide how much you have to say vs. responding to what others are saying. (The advantage here is, you don't have to provide the kind of background information in a thread that you might in a standalone review; people reading the thread are likely already familiar with the film at hand.)
I've done the oh-so-original thing of starting a blog about movies, but there are two caveats that go with that. First, it's a major no-no to promote it on this forum (and most others with which I am familiar). Second, a blog isn't very likely to generate much readership or feedback so it's really just you writing for yourself and a handful of friends who might indulge you every now and again out of politeness.