Transformers 2: The Quickening
I had to get up earlier than usual to make it to the first screening of TF:ROTFLOLBBQ because the cinema had decided to fit as MANY screenings as they can into the day.
The Ads.
I turned up five minutes late so I missed a majority of the ads and pretty much entered when they just had the trailers left. Nothing really memorable, except the G.I. Joe tralier which looked very generic/cheesy action filmy with a dash of crazy, Accelerator Suits?...
The Movie.
The movie started off quite weak and it could have possibly had a bit more exposition for people who hadn't seen the first film ("What the fuck is the Allspark?"). In fact most of the film suffered from massive lacks of exposition and was filled tonnes of panning wide shots of cars (some of them autobots) just driving around... The fans complained about the lack of actual Transformers in the first movie and this had lead to Michael Bay adding them to the point of full saturation. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if they had included an Introdump or 2 to showcase the new characters, but no, you're given no real introduction to the characters (old or new) and towards the end of the film during the climactic fight you have no idea who most of the Decepticons are.
The plot is roughly 80% the same as the first film: Find the MacGuffin before the bad guys can, Prime convincing Sam about his destiny and Sam realizing it at the climax of the film and saving the day using the MacGuffin.
The pacing is a bit odd as well, importants parts of the film move too quickly and the unimportant parts are dragged on for too long.
Another thing: most people would had seen the first film would be confused that bumblebee had lost his voice again and wouldn't know that he lost it again in a comic set between the movies. Also, why the hell did Optimus meet Sam in a cemetery?!
One of the most ironic things about this movie and all it's explosion is that during production they managed to blow up a sizeable chunk of the ILM render farm.
I've also just realized that the film would make absolutely no sense to anybody who had never heard of transformers before.
The Ads.
I turned up five minutes late so I missed a majority of the ads and pretty much entered when they just had the trailers left. Nothing really memorable, except the G.I. Joe tralier which looked very generic/cheesy action filmy with a dash of crazy, Accelerator Suits?...
The Movie.
The movie started off quite weak and it could have possibly had a bit more exposition for people who hadn't seen the first film ("What the fuck is the Allspark?"). In fact most of the film suffered from massive lacks of exposition and was filled tonnes of panning wide shots of cars (some of them autobots) just driving around... The fans complained about the lack of actual Transformers in the first movie and this had lead to Michael Bay adding them to the point of full saturation. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if they had included an Introdump or 2 to showcase the new characters, but no, you're given no real introduction to the characters (old or new) and towards the end of the film during the climactic fight you have no idea who most of the Decepticons are.
The plot is roughly 80% the same as the first film: Find the MacGuffin before the bad guys can, Prime convincing Sam about his destiny and Sam realizing it at the climax of the film and saving the day using the MacGuffin.
The pacing is a bit odd as well, importants parts of the film move too quickly and the unimportant parts are dragged on for too long.
Another thing: most people would had seen the first film would be confused that bumblebee had lost his voice again and wouldn't know that he lost it again in a comic set between the movies. Also, why the hell did Optimus meet Sam in a cemetery?!
One of the most ironic things about this movie and all it's explosion is that during production they managed to blow up a sizeable chunk of the ILM render farm.
I've also just realized that the film would make absolutely no sense to anybody who had never heard of transformers before.