Gecko
Since: Jan, 2001
07/11/2009 00:00:00
I agree wholeheartedly with the last paragraph. I came for robots, not military porn. Sideswipe has one line, Jolt has none Arcee (or two of her at least) is anticlimactically killed, Ratchet never gets to be a medic and patch someone up and the damn twins get as much screentime as all of them put together.
137.148.39.219
Since: Dec, 1969
07/31/2009 00:00:00
Agreement with everything above. I didn't pay my hard earned mom's money to watch humans.
CPFMfan
Since: Aug, 2010
03/19/2011 00:00:00
I agree with pretty much every point except the part about the military. I liked that they actually did something, although maybe it's only because the military are so goddamn useless in every single other movie.
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Revenge of the Fallen: Quite possibly the worst film to make over $400m this year.
Alright, I'll come clean. I hated this film. Say what you will about Michael Bay, and there is a lot to be said about him, but I thought Revenge of the Fallen was a staid, boring film that strung together sense-shattering explosions and metal slamming into metal that served to pummel the viewer into submission. Now some people may enjoy the sight of metal and flame flying across the screen and clangs and crashes in their ears, but I was just utterly bored, and picking stuff apart.
While I could regurgitate what many critics who are better paid than I am have said about this film, I'd rather just go quickly through the major problems that I had with this film. The first one is HUMOUR: I didn't really find any of the comedy in this film funny at all. This film was just so earnest in beating me around the head with the comedy brush that I just felt sorry for everybody parading about the screen japing around. Among the worst offenders are, of course, The Autobot Twins, who set new standards for embarrassment, both in their comic relief antics, which I found a bit of a pain to watch, and their (I'm guessing accidental) racism, but special mention must go to Ramon Rodriguez for his role as an obnoxious weenie who gets dragged along.
After that one, let's go with PLOT: It's pretty much all an excuse to have Shia Le Beof running about the place, chased by the orgiastic storm of rolling thunder and metal. Apart from the obnoxious humour, there is sorely little attempts at trying to squeeze any other emotions from the audience, apart from a couple of bones here and there. There is little to no character development or even interaction, and I just found what little there was just utterly cringeworthy.
Finally, there's the matter of ACTION: There are about three major fights in this film between the Transformers, and most of the time, the titular Transformers are pushed aside to serve as a backdrop for Shia Le Beouf and Megan Fox to run about dodging explosions in. Apart from major players and the Twin Scrappies, all of the rest of the Transformers, what we're here to supposedly see, are pushed aside to make way for more of Sam's parents, Leo the Goober, or the US Military. In fact, the US Army kicks more Decepticon butt onscreen than the damned Autobots do!
And that's why I hated Revenge of the Fallen.