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“I’m certain that someday it will be acknowledged that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire. It’s so us, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent… and in love with ourselves for it. […] What we have right here is the Easter Island statue of our legacy.” - MaryAnn Johanson, FlickFilosopher
“My son does not own any Transformer dolls. I’m sorry, make that Transformer action figures. But if he did, upon my return from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I would have taken these Hasbro toys outside, placed them under the wheels of the car and driven back and forth across them until they were ground into dust.” - Mary Pols, Time Magazine
Here's a link to the first quoted review, http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2009/06/062309transformers_revenge_of_the_fa.html .
I can't really argue with the first review once I remove my Energon-tinted spectacles. As always, Michael Bay gives us enormous robots who in fact kick ass. But some of the designs were just lamesauce. There were far too many one-liners which simply were not needed/appropriate and the only time I felt even slightly engaged is a scene I can't talk about for spoilers. I will say that those who remember the original animated movie will remember it.
Not to mention the endless things pulled from the Big Bag of Stupid.
1. Why does a tiny Decepticon created from an appliance talk with a Brooklyn accent?
2. Why does said Decepticon hump Megan Fox's leg? Why does it have such urges? WTF?
3. The twin robots. It was like they collected all the negative racial stereotypes from ALL OVER and put them into two characters. Though their mini-gestalting Chinese Ice Cream Truck was kinda cool.
4. Why do robots have testicles? Why do they they fart, cry and pee? WHY GOD?! WHY?!
5. Why are things trying to blow up the sun while IN THE BLOODY SOLAR SYSTEM? Doesn't this seem bloody well stupid?
6. Why has Shia LaDouche's character become such an insufferable, ungrateful cunt?
7. What happened to Megan Fox's character? At least in the first movie she was at least semi-strong female lead with T&A and not some dizzy-headed, damsel-in-distress T&A.
8. Why do we allow Michael Bay to keep directing movies? Even with slow-mo sequences in the middle of the action, much of the time it was still a pain to follow the action.
9. Almost completely random seeming scene changes... Ick.
I still don't like Shia LaDouche. I like him even less in this movie because he was just stealing screen time from what I was there to see. Big Fucking Robots. The name of the movie is TRANSFORMERS. Not Shia LaDouche & His Robot Pals.
I'm done. I'll wait for the inevitable sequel to come out on Blu-Ray.
“My son does not own any Transformer dolls. I’m sorry, make that Transformer action figures. But if he did, upon my return from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I would have taken these Hasbro toys outside, placed them under the wheels of the car and driven back and forth across them until they were ground into dust.” - Mary Pols, Time Magazine
Here's a link to the first quoted review, http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2009/06/062309transformers_revenge_of_the_fa.html .
I can't really argue with the first review once I remove my Energon-tinted spectacles. As always, Michael Bay gives us enormous robots who in fact kick ass. But some of the designs were just lamesauce. There were far too many one-liners which simply were not needed/appropriate and the only time I felt even slightly engaged is a scene I can't talk about for spoilers. I will say that those who remember the original animated movie will remember it.
Not to mention the endless things pulled from the Big Bag of Stupid.
1. Why does a tiny Decepticon created from an appliance talk with a Brooklyn accent?
2. Why does said Decepticon hump Megan Fox's leg? Why does it have such urges? WTF?
3. The twin robots. It was like they collected all the negative racial stereotypes from ALL OVER and put them into two characters. Though their mini-gestalting Chinese Ice Cream Truck was kinda cool.
4. Why do robots have testicles? Why do they they fart, cry and pee? WHY GOD?! WHY?!
5. Why are things trying to blow up the sun while IN THE BLOODY SOLAR SYSTEM? Doesn't this seem bloody well stupid?
6. Why has Shia LaDouche's character become such an insufferable, ungrateful cunt?
7. What happened to Megan Fox's character? At least in the first movie she was at least semi-strong female lead with T&A and not some dizzy-headed, damsel-in-distress T&A.
8. Why do we allow Michael Bay to keep directing movies? Even with slow-mo sequences in the middle of the action, much of the time it was still a pain to follow the action.
9. Almost completely random seeming scene changes... Ick.
I still don't like Shia LaDouche. I like him even less in this movie because he was just stealing screen time from what I was there to see. Big Fucking Robots. The name of the movie is TRANSFORMERS. Not Shia LaDouche & His Robot Pals.
I'm done. I'll wait for the inevitable sequel to come out on Blu-Ray.