(no subject)
So I've seen Revenge of the Fallen twice now. Even before the film's trailers started coming on the web I kept telling myself "This is Bay.... This is Bay... This is Bay..." like some rhythmic meditative chant to get me to appreciate the film more.
See, even as a kid I've watched Transformers for primarily one reason:robots kicking ass. And the greatest of them all was Optimus Prime. If there were two people whom my 4-year old self idolized it was Superman and Prime, the two ultimate good guys who could do no wrong.
One of my main criticisms with the first film was that Prime kicked no ass at all. And man was that rectified here. The first viewing brought me back to my four-year-old self yelling "GO PRIME!" at every single combat scene involving Optimus. Then i realized how much he dominate the action it practically became The Optimus Prime Show featuring the US Army and the Autobots.
Second gripe, damn you Bay and your monkey-fighting hard-on for the US military. This is Transformers. We want giant robot action, not shots of the US military standing around shooting things and Megan Fox being... Okay fine, we want some Megan Fox, but as icing on a cake of ROBOT ACTION!
Seriously if he wanted to do a movie about elite special forces soldiers with high tech weaponry and lots of explosions, he should've done GI Joe.
That compounded with idiotic scenes with Sam's mom, the two borderline-offensive twins (I swear it should've just been Sunstreaker and Sideswipe if they wanted Autobot brothers) and a slew of continuity mistakes too many to count (Blackout and Bonecrusher alive! All those Constructicons!!) and so many idiotic senseless things just left me with a bad taste after the second being.
Will I watch this again? Most probably.
Why?
Because Optimus Prime kicks ass.
I just won't pay for it.
See, even as a kid I've watched Transformers for primarily one reason:robots kicking ass. And the greatest of them all was Optimus Prime. If there were two people whom my 4-year old self idolized it was Superman and Prime, the two ultimate good guys who could do no wrong.
One of my main criticisms with the first film was that Prime kicked no ass at all. And man was that rectified here. The first viewing brought me back to my four-year-old self yelling "GO PRIME!" at every single combat scene involving Optimus. Then i realized how much he dominate the action it practically became The Optimus Prime Show featuring the US Army and the Autobots.
Second gripe, damn you Bay and your monkey-fighting hard-on for the US military. This is Transformers. We want giant robot action, not shots of the US military standing around shooting things and Megan Fox being... Okay fine, we want some Megan Fox, but as icing on a cake of ROBOT ACTION!
Seriously if he wanted to do a movie about elite special forces soldiers with high tech weaponry and lots of explosions, he should've done GI Joe.
That compounded with idiotic scenes with Sam's mom, the two borderline-offensive twins (I swear it should've just been Sunstreaker and Sideswipe if they wanted Autobot brothers) and a slew of continuity mistakes too many to count (Blackout and Bonecrusher alive! All those Constructicons!!) and so many idiotic senseless things just left me with a bad taste after the second being.
Will I watch this again? Most probably.
Why?
Because Optimus Prime kicks ass.
I just won't pay for it.