Transformers 2 : Revenge of The Fallen
Nice. Why not? Still has the great action, the outstanding special effect, and probably a good storyline. Despite what some people say, I don't really think it's disappointing. Well, maybe because I didn't really expect a lot when I got into the theater. Hmm.. But I think The Decepticons talked too much in this movie. You know, they should be dark, somewhat mysterious, yet now they talk like ordinary human-villains that are stupid.
During the final battle, my bf said something. "Loh ini Transformers atau Power Rangers?". Touche. I think that's the punchline of tonight's summer movie. Apart from that, I must say : woohoo!!
Definitely worth seeing.
4 stars out of 5
Definitely worth seeing.
4 stars out of 5
4 comments:
You actually enjoyed this crapfest?
I, for however dumb some critics say it was, dearly loved and enjoyed the 1st one, to the point of giving it the triple treatment. The spectacle was awesome, mind-blowing in fact.
Of course the narrative had it's fair share of plot holes in retrospect, but particular moments, like the 1st time you see a transformer transform on screen, the Bumblebee upgrade, Optimus and co. visiting the Witwicky residence, Megatron and Optimus flying through a building, all of them had a certain charm to it that relates to the inner child in everyone, at least it did to me.
The characters were just ok, but you never expect much from Michael Bay, right? At least Shia was funny, his parents were lovable, Megan Fox stimulates an instant boner in every geek, Optimus was goosebump-inducing, and Bumblebee was just flat out charming.
But with this one, Michael Bay basically took whatever was bad in the 1st one and magnified it by 10.
RotF is over-indulgent even for a style-over-substance PhD like him. Robots come and Robots die: the biggest in size and both die almost without a decent fight, which pans out in one of the biggest letdown climaxes ever, laying shame to the 30 long-as-hell minutes of metal flying and explosions that preceded it.
Yes, the movie is way too long at 2 1/2 hours, over-bloated in fact. And when the padding comes in the form of racist twin robots who give Jar Jar Binks a run for his money, a mom on crack, shots of dogs having sex, Megan Fox's tits (okay, I don't have a problem with this one hehe), it simply doesn't make up for a severely underwritten script which actually has one or two interesting premises in it.
A lack of restraint is actually the biggest problem throughout: No restrain in most of the action scenes makes all the supposedly state of the art CGI in it fall to no avail: the more you see it, the more you are used to it. Without the charm of novelty, and (like I said before) an easy ending, it makes the epic-in-scale robot fights fall flat, undramatic, and surprisingly boring.
This lack of restraint also damages the already underwritten script: no sufficient time for character-development and dramatic-tension building, which in vice-versa diminishes the weight and feeling of significance in each and every of those frenetic metal bouts.
I really, really don't have a thing with a popcorn movies, I even prefer watching them at the cinema over those prepped to win little gold men when Oscar season beckons, but they can make me vomit when they have way, way, way too much butter, or restraint, or maybe cheese, like I believe Transformers RotF was.
(Sorry for the overlong comment, if Michael Bay has a lack of restraint, maybe I do, too, hahaha)
-R: Live Long & Prosper
really? well i haven't watched it (yet), and honestly i'm not really gasping for it. i've watched the first one and still, it didn't amuse me that much. what i like in it (1st one) was Shia looked hot. hahahaahaha. and Megan did look smokin hot as well, reaaaaaally. in fact, i expected so much from the Transformer I but turned out it's just.. okay. maybe i'm just not into robotic-animated movies, i don't know, but i don't really bank on the 2nd one. mehehehe
@rana : to the last line, yeah maybe you do. I don't necessarily think that was a crapfest, though. Maybe what disappoints you is that, there are nothing new here. With the first movie we were overwhelmed by the effects, it was like a whole new level of CGI. With the second one, we've already accustomed to the technology so there was nothing exciting anymore. I can see that. And like any other sequels, they tend to try developing the storyline and the plots, while what actually happened was it got overlapped with one another. The over-simplified battles, the unWOWing ending. Like, you know the part where you don't exactly know what happened to whom? The plots got too complicated so they have to kill some characters--or in this case blow them up--and just settle with that to make them disappear without letting the duration get any more longer.
Like I said, I wasn't expecting much from this sequel, so I didn't really get bummed. It's still pretty entertaining, if not exciting.
And I'm emphasizing this : THE ROBOTS TALKED TOO MUCH.
@Resti : you should see it. I mean, I have categories on which movies should be seen in the theater and which on DVD. This is definitely one you should see with huge screen and pumping stereo.
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