Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

[Gizmo]

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Just came back from the seeing the first showing this morning and even though it's not as good as the first one, it still had some good moments, but the movie was all over the place. The CGI was good from what I saw and it's definetely Blu Ray worthy. I think some people just thought there was too much laughter for it being a action movie, but you have to remember, it's a summer blockbuster and it is a Michael Bay movie. Hence why you see that Bad Boys poster in Sam's room. Fox did good for her part, even though she wasn't really asked to do much for the film. The supporting characters did their part for the movie, even though Josh Duhamel should have been given a little more screen time, since he was an important part of the first movie.

The White Sands footage (where they shot the last scenes) were beautiful and it does look like that for anybody that has been there.

In all, it's a good action movie, but is a little long. There could have been some scenes cut out, but I think Bay gave what the audience wants and that's a summer movie. Anybody expecting another Dark Knight like last year will be disappointed, but like people have said...It's a robot movie.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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The supporting characters did their part for the movie, even though Josh Duhamel should have been given a little more screen time, since he was an important part of the first movie.

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Looking back it started out so well with the whole NEST operation. That could have been the plot of the entire movie. The plot went from A+ A- (sam finding sliver)C (the whole matrix key thing)F F F pretty quickly.

[loccdogg26]

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i enjoyed the movie and fight scenes but 2 1/2 hours was kind of pushing it.

[Gizmo]

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Looking back it started out so well with the whole NEST operation. That could have been the plot of the entire movie. The plot went from A+ A- (sam finding sliver)C (the whole matrix key thing)F F F pretty quickly.

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Yeah the whole NEST thing looked like to be part of the movie, but there was no establishment like the first one. You had Jon Voight being the central character in the first one and that was the connection from the Goverment to everyone else, but in this one, there was no connection and you felt like they were just there for show. The ending especially when they were in the final battle and they kept cutting away to the NEST was useless, because it didn't mean anything.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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I hate they they tried to play that NO ONE in the public new of the robots. Yet in the first one, there is a 30 minute battle that destroys building and wrecks cars, shows civilians literally being jumped over by robots and having xbox turn into robots. Yet, no one knows about this 2 years later

[Gizmo]

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I hate they they tried to play that NO ONE in the public new of the robots. Yet in the first one, there is a 30 minute battle that destroys building and wrecks cars, shows civilians literally being jumped over by robots and having xbox turn into robots. Yet, no one knows about this 2 years later

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LOL yeah that whole issue had been talked about before the movie came out. Even though at the end of the first one, you see the parents denying the robots, you know that was put in for laughter. And I find it hard to believe anybody wouldn't remember

[MattUMD224]

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another topic of discussion with this movie was since when did Alien Transformers have balls....if i remember correctly one of the gangsta transformers yells "ouch ya hit me in da balls"

also im saying it now Isabel Lucas>>>>>>>>>>>Megan Fox

[cubsfan203]

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I hate they they tried to play that NO ONE in the public new of the robots. Yet in the first one, there is a 30 minute battle that destroys building and wrecks cars, shows civilians literally being jumped over by robots and having xbox turn into robots. Yet, no one knows about this 2 years later

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To go along with that, it really bugged me that they had had Megatron...(or was it the fallen?) announce to the people that they were there, and they just left it at that. No reaction from people or anything. I understand the point was to get people to go after Sam, but still.

Btw, I thought "the twins" were hilarious.

[Blzer]

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I can't believe how many of you actually like this movie! I thought it was the disaster of the year!

[Ewing]

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I can't believe how many of you actually like this movie! I thought it was the disaster of the year!

Michael Bay, Roland Emmerich and Stephen Sommers are all releasing films this summer. God help us all.

[TMagic]

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I can't believe how many of you actually like this movie! I thought it was the disaster of the year!

Same here man.

It was not all that great. It was "OK" at best.

I thought that the first one was the ****. This one fell way short of the first.

I don't know what it was really. Just didn't have as much of the "WOW. That's cool!" impact like the first one had on me.

I don't even know what they would do if they came out with another one. There's only so many times you can have giant robots chasing a boy before it gets old.

But I did find it pretty damn funny though. "Orange Smoke" had me rollin'.

O and...

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Human Transformers?

...WTH? That seemed really lame to me.

[mrpotatohead5]

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Spoiler reguarding the human t...........

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Soundwave had three individual transformers that came from him, one of which is a human clone, one was the lion like transformer. If you watched hte show you'd understand

[Scott]

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One of my favorite lines:

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Sam: I'm gonna go try to find him a tighter shirt
Fat Frat Guy: We checked, there isn't one

[Fresh Tendrils]

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It was alright, typical Michael Bay movie with tons of explosions, military porn, lame dialogue, juvenile jokes and then giant robots. I enjoyed the first one, but this one never really picked up steam for me other than some of the fight scenes (ie: in the woods). I did think the fight scenes were better this time around, I could actually tell who was who and wtf was going on.

[Blzer]

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But I did find it pretty damn funny though. "Orange Smoke" had me rollin'.

One of my favorite lines:

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Sam: I'm gonna go try to find him a tighter shirt
Fat Frat Guy: We checked, there isn't one

See, these lines are actually pretty funny. Didn't try too hard and didn't detract from the scene at all (and in fact both dictated the scene just slightly). They did this well a few times in the first Transformers.

See, the humor I don't like is stuff like this (and I'll refer to the first movie so there aren't any real spoilers)... basically, anything between first meeting the Autobots and before S7 invades the Witwicky home:

- "Oops. Sorry, my bad."
- "What's crackin' little bitches?"
- "Whoa, that was tingling!"
- "We can call it 'Sam's happy time'."
- "BAD MOJO!"
- "I mean I'm saying we could... it's an option." (regarding "terminating" the parents).


Things like this were put into this one, only mostly with the twin Autobots and the parents (and Shia spazzing out so awkwardly in Dwight's class). Otherwise, the first movie sort of refrained from that kind of humor, except a few times when Sam first introduced himself to Mikaela, which I think sort of boded pretty well for his personality that we saw in the beginning.

And this second movie was not a matter of meeting expectations; if this were the first movie, perhaps I would have been more in awe of the special effects, but I would have thought it was just as bad of a movie. The first one shines compared to this.