Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
What do you remember most about Transformers (2007)? For some, they focus on the negative aspects; like maybe how there were too many human plots and the robots didn't have enough screentime. For me, I loved the robots. Prime and the Autobots looked amazing and were pretty much the most impressive cgi work I have ever seen -- and they were fucking alien robots from space that turned into cars and trucks. For a lifetime Transformers fan, I was happy the picture was being headed by a BIG name in Hollywood (even if his name is synonamous with the word EXPLOSIONS) and not just some nobody who directed some retarded chick flick or something. This was the best I was gonna get, and I was fully prepared to watch it and enjoy it. I did, and while everybody has their gripes, I thought the movie was so kickass and really showed that the Transformers series is not just some silly toy franchise. Perhaps the best example at how much potential Transformers had was when Prime squares off against Bonecrusher on the highway. You know, the decepticon flipping cars like pancakes and then getting his head chopped off by Prime's sword hand?
Okay, now take that scene from Transformers 1, times the length of it by 30 or so, up the epic scale, and make the carnage way more brutal. What does that give you, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
SO FUCKING AWESOME!
Mandy made the comment that the plot reminded her way more of the '86 animated movie, and I agree. A larger, more mystical threat emerges during the course of the movie that makes Megatron almost look like a little bitch. If it weren't for his fucking FIERCE redesign and his general badassness, I'd say Megatron would have gotten the short end of the stick as far as character development goes. However, I have to hand it to the writers, they took the Starscream/Megatron dynamic that every Transformers fan loved (and missed in the first movie) and ramped it up. On the subject of Decepticons... Frank Welker (original VA for Megz/Soundwave) REPRISES HIS ROLE as Soundwave. Oh my fucking god, Soundwave... and Ravage... Constructicons... They were just too fucking cool.
Devestator... probably the most massive, intricate, scary ass robot you will ever see on the big screen.
Sideswipe didn't get enough chances to show off though, but that's okay. I thought I was really going to hate the "Twins", two smaller, dumber Autobots named Skids and Mudflap, but I turned out to really enjoy them because they were actually really fun in a slapstick action kinda way. Certainly made Bumblebee into probably the most badass Autobot next to Prime...
Man I could go on and on about how much I loved it and how fucking kickass the entire movie was, but then I'd just be saying "Oh this guy was badass," and "man that was awesome" and that's probably the shittiest review ever.
To sum up my opinion of it:
If you liked the awesome parts of the first one, then you will love Revenge of the Fallen.
"I rise. You fall."
MAN PRIME WAS SO HARDCORE IN THIS MOVIE
I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN LIKE RIGHT NOW
Okay, now take that scene from Transformers 1, times the length of it by 30 or so, up the epic scale, and make the carnage way more brutal. What does that give you, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
SO FUCKING AWESOME!
Mandy made the comment that the plot reminded her way more of the '86 animated movie, and I agree. A larger, more mystical threat emerges during the course of the movie that makes Megatron almost look like a little bitch. If it weren't for his fucking FIERCE redesign and his general badassness, I'd say Megatron would have gotten the short end of the stick as far as character development goes. However, I have to hand it to the writers, they took the Starscream/Megatron dynamic that every Transformers fan loved (and missed in the first movie) and ramped it up. On the subject of Decepticons... Frank Welker (original VA for Megz/Soundwave) REPRISES HIS ROLE as Soundwave. Oh my fucking god, Soundwave... and Ravage... Constructicons... They were just too fucking cool.
Devestator... probably the most massive, intricate, scary ass robot you will ever see on the big screen.
Sideswipe didn't get enough chances to show off though, but that's okay. I thought I was really going to hate the "Twins", two smaller, dumber Autobots named Skids and Mudflap, but I turned out to really enjoy them because they were actually really fun in a slapstick action kinda way. Certainly made Bumblebee into probably the most badass Autobot next to Prime...
Man I could go on and on about how much I loved it and how fucking kickass the entire movie was, but then I'd just be saying "Oh this guy was badass," and "man that was awesome" and that's probably the shittiest review ever.
To sum up my opinion of it:
If you liked the awesome parts of the first one, then you will love Revenge of the Fallen.
"I rise. You fall."
MAN PRIME WAS SO HARDCORE IN THIS MOVIE
I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN LIKE RIGHT NOW