Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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Comment by Freddy on July 12, 2009 at 11:40am

Wow, people are saying this film is worth watching JUST FOR the visual effects and robot action. Guys, If visual effects and action is all you need to enjoy a film, than go waste your life on video games instead. Michael Bay is a insult to Film-Making. Transformers 2 has to be one of the worst films i have seen in Years. If there is any rating worse than "Fuck you", please tell me, because Transformers 2 is worse than a "Fuck You".

Comment by Shonnie P on July 10, 2009 at 12:51pm

Now I really thought Spill would give this flick a full price! The movie has been out for what...3 weeks now...I still haven't seen the movie. Everyone I know who did see it was like "ITS THE BEST SUMMER MOVIE EVER! YOU HAVE TO GO SEE IT!" The day the movie came out all theaters were packed, so I thought I'd go see it maybe 2 weeks later. Then, when I heard about all the perverted scenes in this movie & the robots (who supposedly seem to portray a racist stereotype), I just turned away from the thought of seeing the movie. You guys really make this movie sound like sh*t. Maybe the movie is not as good as everyone claims it is.

- Korey & Co-Host 300: You guys are too funny! Mudbutt Korey? lmfao. & the Wayans brothers? lol. You guys are hilarious.

Comment by sundance on July 10, 2009 at 12:03pm

^ CONTINUED ^

It’s not ALL bad though…if you’re hungering for more robots, this one delivers in spades. I consider myself a huge TF geek-I know most of the robots on sight. But this was almost overload…ALMOST! There were almost too many of them! It was cool, though, to watch them fight, albeit hard to tell which robot was which. The scene in the forest is absolutely spectacular, and here is where Bay shines best. Very well choreographed, and expertly framed…ILM once again proves that they are standard bearers for virtually all other digital FX studios. The integration of the CGI w/set pieces is nothing short of flawless; the robots are even more real and intricately detailed this time.

And Megan Fox. Wow. She could get all 8.5". ALL of it, and raw, too…LOL

Anyway, there is a marked difference in tone from this sequel and the 1st. The first movie was a bit more refined; it was like Bay had Spielberg reigning him in when he got too grandiose. Now, it would seem that since the 1st one did so well, he was allowed to do whatever the f–k he wanted, to ill effect.

Visually speaking, this movie is just frigging golden! It’s a bit hard to follow @ points from a visual standpoint (what are these robots doing? Are they fighting or dancing? Who is that fighting who? etc.), and the plot is LITERALLY non-existent @ times (bad even for Bay). Like I said, it looks really, really, really, REALLY good, especially in IMAX (although it would seem that most of the scenes weren’t actually shot w/IMAX cameras, as you can tell by the changing aspect ratios) but the Twins and lack of direction kill this for me. A strong rental, as far as I’m concerned.

"Better Than Sex" for action, CGI, TONS of robots and Megan Fox
"Rental" for everything else

Comment by sundance on July 10, 2009 at 12:00pm

Just to let you all know, this comment contains spoilers.

There. I said it. Don’t be mad @ me, Spill Crew, but I can’t get into this particular review w/o spoiling a couple things here and there.

Let me preface this review by stating that I am a HUGE Michael Bay fan. I absolutely love most of his movies and can totally appreciate his style of leave-your-brain-home-and-enjoy-the-pretty-colors direction, and I thought the 1st Transformers movie was an absolute PERFECT junk food movie. I copped it in HD as soon as it came out and STILL watch it once in a while. When I heard Bay was going to make a sequel, the inner fanboy in me bust a virtual nut.

“MORE Optimus Prime? MORE giant robot fights? MORE intricately detailed transformation sequences? And the Constructicons? AND they form Devastator? Megan Fox draped over a motorcycle w/batty lick shorts on? Sign me all the way up for this!” I said to myself.

Dammit, Man…this movie sucks.

No disrespect to anyone on these boards who loved this flick, but this movie sucked huge metal robot balls (which were in the movie, BTW…WTF was up w/THAT one?!?!?!?) in comparison to the 1st.

There isn’t even a bloody plot for the middle 1/3rd of the movie!

Seriously.

You could literally cut a whole hour out of this, and it would probably make more sense. There were some kewl introductions of new robots in the beginning (more on the Twins later) which was nice, but there wasn’t much of even a semblance of plot. I know, I know, “it’s a Bay film! What do you expect?” you say…same defense I put up against all the so-called “elites” who railed against me for loving the 1st one. One shouldn’t expect Shakespeare from a toy commercial. I get that (for instance, I vehemently defended my love of the largely implausible “Cloverfield” last year! LOL). But this was bad even for him. For instance:

1.The scene where Shia’s character’s mom eats the pot brownies…did it REALLY need to go on for that long?
2.Did John Turturro need to strip to his underwear again? AGAIN?!?
3.How the f–k is it daylight EVERYWHERE on the planet? And if I’m able to teleport across the globe, why drive? I guess that’s how Bumblebee was able to get to Egypt from the US in 2 scenes flat.
4.Megatron is not supposed to be ANYONE’S bitch, I don’t care how many millennia you have on him.
5.Since when are Transformers able to disguise themselves as humans?
6.I’m a shaky-cam fan, but DAMN!
7.The Robot Twins…what.the.F–K!

I don’t like them @ all. Why are they so damn stereotypical? I could accept Jazz in the 1st one because the original G1 Jazz was “black” also (voiced by the late Scatman Crothers, who was also the voice of Hong Kong Phooey, BTW). And he was a decent soldier and a great fighter, though he was destroyed by Megatron in the 1st one. These two carriacatures should offend anyone w/even a modicum of ethnic blood in them. Why can’t they read? They’re cybernetic organisms that were apparently able to absorb complete knowledge of Earth’s languages via the World Wide Web. Why does one of them have a gold tooth? Why are their eyes all kooky? Since when is it ok to have Step N Fetch It in robot form?

Maybe I'm overreacting because I'm a Black Dad w/an equally Black impressionable child, but f–k Michael Bay for this part of the movie. Why can't we have POSITIVE, intelligent yet "cool" and "hip" "Black-speaking" Black characters in sidekick roles (the Autobot Jazz from the 1st movie is an example of this)? It's bad enough we (Black people) do stupid sh--t on our own networks (BET, anyone?)...

Jar Jar Binks-like characters (Car-Car Binks in this instance? LOL) will always be an epic fail as far as I’m concerned. They didn’t work in the Star Wars prequels and they don’t really work here. The Twin Robots were funny @ 1st, but then quickly became grating as the movie progressed.

It’s not ALL bad though…if you’re hungering for more robots, this one delivers in spades. I consider myself a huge TF geek-I know most of the r

Comment by Jason on July 9, 2009 at 6:31pm

I'm not going to go so far as to say the spill crew is completly wrong... I will make the statement that if you even remotely liked Transformers part one then this movie is better then sex. I was absolutly blown away as were all my friends and everyone in the theater. Maybe its because I went in thinking it was going to suck because of all the negative press. I was actually forced to see it but man what a movie.

Comment by shmuck on July 9, 2009 at 4:09pm

i realy wanted to give this a rental, but for me, it gets some ole bulshit. i hated so many things in this movie, but theres one thing i did like:
in this movie (spoiler) something called "the matrix" is involved, and optimus prime dies, those are 2 big things in this movie, and two big things in the 1980s transformers movie, so i felt this movie was very very very VERY loosely based off that movie. but i cant believe im comparing that awesom movie to this piece of shit

Comment by GRANT on July 9, 2009 at 2:05pm

well the action scens were so bad ass that i thought it coverd for some of the other bs but still its just a Matanee

Comment by Turker Mehmet on July 9, 2009 at 1:50pm

TRANSFORMERS:REVENGE OF THE FALLEN ------->>> BETTER THAN SEX

Comment by Turker Mehmet on July 9, 2009 at 1:49pm

you lot don't know shit about movies, open your fukin minds it was one of the best movies michael bay made, maybe one of the best ever. go watch shitty cloverfield you stupid retards.

Comment by Thommy Strömdahl on July 7, 2009 at 6:51pm

This flick is only worth a rental if you can trick your friends or girlfriend to pay for the rental. And then sitting and pointing and laughing at it all the way trough it manicly at all the jokes this movie try's to pull off. Especially at the Devastator nuts scene! I could feel my IQ level drop drastically after watching this.. Omg... Never again! NEVER!

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