Posted by Allanfan20:
Anybody see Transformers 2 yet?
transformer: revenge of the fallen- went to a midnight imax show to see this. first and foremost, i am a big transformers' fan. not geek enough to run around with prime t-shirts and digital robot helmets ( which a fair amount of adults did yesterday) but good enough that i named my username after one of my favorite transformer. with that said, this movie was strange because in the beginning, i thought it was great. more actions and robots than you can shake a stick at. they clearly receive more money for this movie. however, towards the middle and end, i thought the movie was just a jumble mess with more questions than answers. look i know a bay film is all about style more than substance with jagged action sequences and uneven editing. however, this one was done very lazily. i also thought they would flesh out more transformer characters which they did a worse job than the previous ones. the only robots they fleshed out were the twin robots who made my man jazz look like sydney portier while they look and talk like characters from "homeboys from outer space", a perverted toy truck transformer and some old blackbird named jetfire. bumble bee they hardly focused on and you know what i like my bumblebee who is severely underpowered bhut gets out of situations by thinking it through. not the bumblebee who clearly is the second best warrior under prime and can take on two decepticons at the same time with ease. that brings me to the inconsistency. (spoiler) i remember in the first film, optimus prime had a very hard time kicking megatron's ass. now in this one, optimus took on not only megatron, but starscream and blackout, three of the more powerful decepticons, AT THE SAME TIME! then at the end, he kicked the supposedly most powerful decepticon ever ass in less than two minutes. i like prime as much as anyone ( though i am kind of bias since i am one of the few who likes megatron better, especially in the comics as they wrote him as a more complex villian who always had a method to his madness), but he is at his best when he outhinks, not outmuscles or guns his opponents. well, that is my opinion. now, was it a fun, action movie? sure it was. however, as a transformer fan, we deserve better and though i am upset with what they did to my boy in the last movie, i am being unbias here. now there are some things that i did like. that prime battle with the three decepticons, though implausible, was style done great and when devastator formed, as a transformer fan, i nearly crapped in my pants because it was done flawlessly and brilliantly. however, the first film should have been a springboard of better things to come. this didnt show it.
6/24/2009 3:35 PM
