Haha, I read that one on face book, yeah I'm watching it in about 6 hours, I'll let you guys know how I thought.Originally Posted by Psyke
Hope it's decent >_> my girlfriend fell asleep on the first one!
Haha, I read that one on face book, yeah I'm watching it in about 6 hours, I'll let you guys know how I thought.
Hope it's decent >_> my girlfriend fell asleep on the first one!
http://arstechnica.com/media/reviews...y-too-long.ars
This review is hilarious and probably did the opposite of what it wants me to do. Now I totally have to see this! XD
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
Thanks for linking that review, Sapphire. This movie looks absolutely awful.
Now I know what the fallen refers to...At one point you see a robot's swinging testicles, and a character remarks on them. The audience laughs.
I also read Psyke's review, and I'll consider watching any scenes with Starscream, since I haven't seen Charlie Adler in anything since Cow and Chicken, but other than that this is getting a big pass for me.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
I'd say it's still worth seeing if you get matinee prices during the day. Just don't go into it expecting to be wowed like in the first movie, though people were not expecting the first movie to be as great as it was, so that made it easy to exceed expectations and please. The second movie had a lot to live up to, and unfortunately didn't come close.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I swear to never see a transformers movie after the disaster part 1 was, but that review made me rethink my stand.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. -Marie Curie
Awesome movie with great action and funny moments. Definitely not for those human drama/tragedy loving critics.
I'm back from watching it.
Optimus Prime is my hero. He must of been training his gears off cause his fighting has greatly improved since the first movie.
Anyhow, the movie had it's good points. My girl even liked it, which surprised me. Go to the movie expecting to see a robotic action movie, that's it, and you'll be fine!
If you're thinking or expecting a great plot driven movie with supreme actcing/characters, eh, you might be thinking to hard. Just have fun and take it for what it is, a movie about robots transforming.
p.s. Optimus Prime will mess you up.
Definitely an ok movie if you go in expecting entertainment. Anyone with any sense shouldn't have expectations too high for this film.
The wow factor was certainly gone but man that CG made up for it. Had some pretty awesome scenes thrown in there. All in all, its a fun movie, nothing extraordinary however.
I noted more than a number of plot holes myself during the film, so, don't go into expecting the story of the century.
Just as a point of order, there didn't seem to be nearly as much transforming in this one as the first one. The robots mostly stayed in robot form unless they were traveling in which case they'd already be in vehicle form when we first saw them and then either the scene would cut away and come back after some time had passed and they'd transformed or they'd just walk off camera and transform. I really missed having a scene like the one in the first one where Starscream fought the F-22's while repeatedly switching back and forth between his bot mode and his fighter mode.
The scene where Starscream swoops down and pwns ratchet and ironhide and then transforms in slow motion and flies off is something that should've been a lot more in transfomers 2. It was just simply epic, but the transformations cost a lot of rendering time, so I guess they cut down on them because of the amount of bots in 2.
I actually missed this part, on account of the FOUR YEAR OLD who began to fidget and move around next to me.
Anyway, the REST of the movie wasn't too bad. I mean with severely lowered expectations and all. I don't see what the big deal is about all the explosions though. They blended into the scenes fairly well. The only thing I still hate is how the robot fight scenes are usually shot at close up, bad angles so you can barely see who is hitting what; maybe a hand punching a chest here or there.
The whole "I love you" scene was oddly reminiscent of the one in Matrix, meh.
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
This movie sucked, not because of the great expectations (I personally didn't have any) or because it is overshadowed by the first one (which I thought to be average at best, excluding the awesome graphics), or even because of the poor script, bad pacing, and pathetic acting, but mainly because of the incredible number of cliches that they crammed into it.
Some of what I can remember are (and believe me, there are a lot more):
1) The scene where the robots go through some unsuspecting person's room.
2) The irritating stuck-up government official.
3) The walking into a kiss and misunderstanding scene.
4) Actually, the entire thing with the college girl (which was also absolutely unnecessary)
5) The parents getting kidnapped (which didn't really do much to the plot)
6) Hero dies and gets resurrected (and without a decent reason at that)
7) The "I love you" scene, as Sapphire mentioned.
Now, I know many other movies use such cliches, but this is the first time where I see so many of them packed together. It seemed like it didn't even attempt to be original, and just used trite subplots to insert robot scenes.
Peace.
I thought the government official was great. Much better than Agent Simmons in my opinion.
"Our hearts are full of memories but not all of them reflect the truth. The heart isn't a recording device. Even important memories change with time. They warp or fade, leaving us with but a shadow of what we hoped to remember." 天の道を行き、全てを司る。これは僕の世界。
Eye candy, but plot wise, it's not even worth ass.
Last edited by Inazuma; Sat, 07-04-2009 at 03:17 PM.
I thought agent Simmons' scenes in the 2nd movie were only slightly less annoying than his scenes from the 1st movie. I didn't have any particular feeling for the govt official in the 2nd movie, just cookie-cutter stuff like shinta said.
I think it was the hype that ruined this movie for me. Maybe a 2nd viewing in a couple months might get better reviews.
And I have to agree with shinta|hikari, there were so many cliches used in the movie. My personal most disliked was the college dorm room full of hackers followed by the college dorm 24/7 party with all of the hot chicks. I wish college was like that, but the use in a movie is just pandering at this point.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
watched it on Justin.tv today I knew I did not want to pay to see it. Only reason I would want to see it on big screen is for explosions but man I would rather watch more Naruto filler than pay to see that script of transformers2.
While I do not expect a great plot, the timeline weirdness between the two movies bugs me abit (i.e. the Primes arrival, All Spark, Megatron's crash, Autobots arrival, the robot civil war etc.). Can someone please explain them in chronological order?
But I went in to see robot action and got what I wanted so I still enjoyed it.
Last edited by November 11; Sat, 07-04-2009 at 06:49 AM.
As far as I can understand the all spark is the mysterious object that started all transformer life. Then the Primes are the strongest and 1337est so they must be one of the oldest lines. Some time after that a random group of monsters split off from them and "randomly" came across earth wherein they decided to inhabit it and allow for some massive lampshading in the second movie. That the all spark and the old-ass monsters happened to appear on earth of all places must be purely "coincidental" since we got no acknowledgement of this similarity.
Megatron's crash? Probably sometime after the old-ass transformers got there because the "youngest and last" Prime seems to know him personally. And the old-ass robot doesn't know Prime.
The farty old-ass traitor was probably great friends with Megatron's old-ass mentor. Was it really necessary to show old transformers that can barely walk? Meh. And wouldn't a true eeeeveeil villain kill his old-ass mentor and stop him from bringing him down? Meh meh.
Robot civil war? Probably at least began before the old-ass robot came to earth, so we can assume that it's pretty much always happened as far as the story line cares (and apparently the story line doesn't care that much).
Last edited by Sapphire; Sun, 07-05-2009 at 02:19 PM.
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
Am I the only one who didn't think the "twins" were a racial stereotype? I personally lived in the south for several years, and the impression I got is they were a redneck stereotype, not a racial one.
You can only say that if you're the same race as the stereotype they were portraying. Otherwise, you're a racist. So which is it?
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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