Stitch on 22/6/2009 at 03:14
I didn't think it would be difficult to read your review but it was.
Taffer36 on 22/6/2009 at 03:34
Am I the only one who would have preferred that they actually deviated more from the old robot designs? THEY STILL LOOK LIKE TOYS. That was my #1 gripe with the first film, that the shit robot designs made the film lack any single shred of maturity it could have had left.
It'd be like if Bryan Singer had given Wolverine the yellow spandex suit.
P.S. Megan Fox is hoooooooot. Her face is nooooooooot.
Muzman on 22/6/2009 at 03:54
Dear god man, what are you trying to do? Get a job with C-Net or MSN?
Being middle of the road might seem rebelious out here in the boonies with the haters, but you'll soon discover that it's called middle of the road for a reason; it's the biggest bit and most everyone is there already. There is a perverse art to being distinctively middle of the road, so good luck with that.
(incidentally, it's not plot complexity that is missing from Bay movies or the thing people hate about them. Plenty of very good films have quite simple plots. Not a lot happens in The Godfather for instance and anyone can follow what's going on. In fact the relationship is often inverse. Transformers 1 has a ludicrously complex plot with loads of backstory and comic book nonsense.
It's that Bay's films are incoherent collages or rubbish with no attention to pace, tone, character, drama. You know, that kind of stuff. Above all, it's that this is for no discernable reason other than he must have no idea what he is doing. None of his films will be held in the regard of Spielberg or even Star Wars and so forth years after the fact. This isn't because he fills some niche in cinema. Spielberg was a pop entertainer intent on making memories for people. People call Ridley Scott a mere visual stylist, but it's fairly obvious he at least always tries to tell a good tale. Bay is none of these things. The fact that he makes any money at all is the victory of marketing over art and substance and everyone, even if you like a cheap thrills and bad movies occasionally, should be very worried about this. )
nicked on 22/6/2009 at 06:45
Yeah he pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Thirith on 24/6/2009 at 08:23
On another website someone posted this comment:
Quote:
And I don't see what the fuss is over Megan Fox. Whenever I see her, I feel like she's covered in doughnut glaze.
Which I thought was quite ironic. As most male human beings would say: "Mmhh... Megan Fox in doughnut glaze..."
Muzman on 24/6/2009 at 08:53
I know people go on about it quite a bit and I'm not helping, but her 'custom built for Maxim' looks are unsettling enough. The fact that she also dresses/makes up as though a shoot could break out at any moment, has only two facial expressions and barely more than one good angle; seeing all that in motion is like a trip to the uncanny valley. Something is fundamentally not right. Like a modern version of the robot from Metropolis or Smurfette before the peroxide. If they get around to bringing back/remaking Ghostbusters, Gozer is cast.
Anyway, the reviews for this film are often hilarious.
We've had Kermode already. Here's (
http://chud.com/articles/articles/19948/1/REVIEW-TRANSFORMERS---REVENGE-OF-THE-FALLEN-/Page1.html) Faraci, (
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2009/06/062309transformers_revenge_of_the_fa.html) Johanson and (
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090623/REVIEWS/906239997) Ebert tearing it up.
Will it be critic proof? Is there hope for blockbuster cinema? Stay tuned.
It's all rather funny because they had that Aus chick who was in the first one (and this one I guess) on the radio waxing lyrical about the genius of Michael Bay, how he's the finest mind of his generation. How he has the whole film in his head and knows exactly what he wants. She sounded dead serious too. How this gels with the reported amount of footage he rolls, dropped scenes and the incoherence of the result we may never know.
Stitch on 24/6/2009 at 14:48
Muzman has summed up perfectly why these movies are horrible, horrible abominations and why people who see them as fun popcorn flicks depress the hell out of me.
Also, goddamn is it time for Megan Fox to go away. She's hot without being attractive or compelling, as if Maxim designed a woman and proceeded to roll out sex appeal by the yard.
