Transformers 2

[Ginny]

Originally Posted by Warhorse

I also got a kick out of Bumblebee's dismay with Sam when

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he was showing signs cheating on Mikaela. And I don't remember his name,but the fowl mouthed little robot that ended up liking Mikaela in the end, was hilarious! I sure hope he comes back for the next one!

I loved that scene! I laughed like a goober when

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"Your Cheatin' Heart" started to play! And when her face was slammed off of the dash!

[Mr. Snackpants]

I didn't understand all the bad reviews I read the past week. I mean it's a Transformers movie directed by Michael Bay. So right there you've gotta take it for what it's worth. There's not going to be a strong plot, dialogue will be laughable, and it's nothing more than a summer action flick(with an emphasis on the action).

I just saw it tonight on IMAX and with all those thoughts in mind....I don't think I enjoyed it.

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Cons:
It was such a long movie and somehow the plot was a f*cked up mess and felt rushed. How does that happen?

The 'comedy' was so juvenile, I might've chuckled a couple times. Anybody else sick of Sam's mom? I thought she was kinda funny in the first one, but she wore out her welcome in this film. It's like they tripled her wackiness and it just became obnoxious. The stupid twin bots. They didn't make me laugh, they just pissed me off. Then there was the scrotum joke.......

The plot. Like I said at the beginning you've gotta take this movie for what it's worth. I wasn't expecting a stellar story. I was able the thoroughly enjoy the first film despite it's dumb story. This plot was so sh*tty that it kinda ruined the rest of the movie for me. It was that...f*cking....bad.

It also ended abruptly. It felt like they went too far over budget, just ran out of ways to make sh*t explode, or the 'writers' had no idea how to end the train wreck.

Pros:
Megan Fox

Megan Fox Running

Megan Fox Running in Slow Motion

Megan Fox Doing Anything in Slow Motion

Megan Fox on Motorcycles

Megan Fox

I might not even go watch this again. I might save my $15. I went in with low expectations and still came out disappointed.

[Warhorse]

Originally Posted by Ginny

I loved that scene! I laughed like a goober when

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"Your Cheatin' Heart" started to play! And when her face was slammed off of the dash!

Oh yes, the whole damn theater went into stitches!

But you know how when you leave a movie, you find yourself quoting something from the movie. Well, we all were quoting

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"It's like the house of f**cking horrors" and especially "That's my eye you crazy b!tch!

What did you find yourself quoting?

[Cipher]

Saw it. Not sure how I feel, except a few times more retarded.

It miraculously managed to fail at everything the first movie succeeded at, and succeed at everything the first movie failed at.

Unlike the first movie, the robots got screen time, looked better, the action sequences were entertaining and easy to follow, and there were actually a lot of cool homages for long-time fans. Great!

However, while the first movie had decently charming human sequences, and a handful of real chuckles, the human interaction and "comedy" here were f*cking terrible.

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Behold Sam's painfully cheesey romantic subplot. Marvel at Michael Bay's inability to present a realistic college campus (that was NOT a frat house. No f*cking way). Revel in the height of comedy as Sam's mother responds like she's done a fistful of hallucinogenics after accidentally eating a pot brownie! Dozens of other painfully cheesey jokes abound! Robot testicles? You got 'em, and sadly that was one of the funniest parts. Joke about "finding you a tighter shirt" was alright. That one gets a pass.

And look for the two biggest crimes against race relations and humor you've seen since the Wyan's brothers last film. No review can understate this enough, as it basically pissed on the smoldering remains of dignity this movie had left.

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F*cking Mudflap and Skids, and their zany Vaudevillian antics. Even if they weren't the most unsettling racist charicatures...ever, they'd still be painfully unfunny. In fact, at least the racism added some shock value, so there's that. That may have been for the best.

EDIT--Apparently some people didn't find them racist. I really wish I didn't. I'm the last person to get offended by anything, and I feel like an alarmist dick when I have to point fingers at robot stereotypes. With the right levels of irony, I actually enjoy race jokes. Really offensive ones. But Mudflap and Skids were just racist as sh*t, and not in any kind of witty, humorous way. They were dropping ebonics right and left followed by jokes about how they didn't read. At best, you could say that Bay's simply using the absurdity of ghetto culture for some laughs. After all, it's not directly tied to race. At worst, and more accurately, you could say they were total Sambo characters.

It's all I can hope that they replace Wheelie as the most despised characters among Transformers fans.

All the negative aspects aside, it was a decent two-hour popcorn flick. Unfortunately, it was three-hours long.

[Brodie]

I've talked about this with other people... No black people find Mudflap and Skids racist. It seems to just be white people with black friends who think its racist.

[Cipher]

Like I said, in that case they're just offensively unfunny. There can be no reprieve for them.

I think I've convinced myself that I hated this movie more than I did when I was actually watching this. It's just that...why do summer action movies have to be loud and stupid in order to be "fun"?

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Brodie

I've talked about this with other people... No black people find Mudflap and Skids racist. It seems to just be white people with black friends who think its racist.

Oh get off of it. My crew thought it was racist. Anyone who says otherwise is just being "patrioticly apologetic"

Funny how most of the quotes revolve around the yankie-doodle-d*ckhead humour too...

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Warhorse

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he was showing signs cheating on Mikaela. And I don't remember his name,but the fowl mouthed little robot that ended up liking Mikaela in the end, was hilarious! I sure hope he comes back for the next one!

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Oh god, yes, that's all we need, some moronic little turncoat with Bay's fowl-mouthed sensibilites dry-humping legs. What grand writing. MORE PLEASE

People PAY to see this s*ite?

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I liked the movie, and have little complaints. My main one is not enough Ironhide, but that's just because he was my favorite in the first, and I was really looking forward to some more one on one/slow-motion battles featuring Ironhide. Other complaints were there were not enough of the Autobots all together, but from a business stand point, I can understand that, since it is very expensive to generate the Transformers on screen.

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They would have had enough money had they not decided to go overboard on that Legotechnic Pokemon Devastator.

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But, in the end, I'm glad to see that none of the
major characters died, unlike the cartoon Transformers movie. This is where I think the new films get it right for sure!

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You think the movies "get the right" because they DON'T kill off major characters?

Have you ever heard of a dramatic plot development in your entire life? Don't you know "war is hell" and reallisticly, nay, DRAMATICLY, characters sometimes have to...oh, you know... die to reflect that?

The animated movie had ten times more balls to go for a permanent body count or to leave Prime dead than Bayformers will ever muster with minimal figures or even Optimus himself. That isnt a sign of "getting it wrong", that's a sign of realism.

[GK Punk]

I enjoyed it, but felt the first was better. I may go see it a second time to get a better opinion of it though. Not enough Arcee.

[cqb101]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Oh get off of it. My crew thought it was racist. Anyone who says otherwise is just being "patrioticly apologetic"

One of my black friends thought they were the funniest part of the movie.

[Guitar_Raph]

I was totally surprised that there are three motorcycles on the Autobot team. Sure they had a scooter (good) and evil motorcycles for Go-Bots.

Would've been cool if Shia got to drive one of the motorcycles.

Other than that, I enjoyed the movie.

[Warhorse]

ZariusTwo]

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Oh god, yes, that's all we need, some moronic little turncoat with Bay's fowl-mouthed sensibilites dry-humping legs. What grand writing. MORE PLEASE

People PAY to see this s*ite?

Oh get over yourself! And guess what, I'm going to see it again because I liked the movie!

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They would have had enough money had they not decided to go overboard on that Legotechnic Pokemon Devastator.

I agree here, but I'm not too surprised that the Decepticons were the focal points for the Transformers since the sequel kept on sporting the Decepticon emblem.

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You think the movies "get the right" because they DON'T kill off major characters?

Have you ever heard of a dramatic plot development in your entire life? Don't you know "war is hell" and reallisticly, nay, DRAMATICLY, characters sometimes have to...oh, you know... die to reflect that?

The animated movie had ten times more balls to go for a permanent body count or to leave Prime dead than Bayformers will ever muster with minimal figures or even Optimus himself. That isnt a sign of "getting it wrong", that's a sign of realism.

Yeah, so the next Ninja Turtle movie we have, we should kill off a couple of the Turtles for your so called "dramatic plot development!"

Let's say, I'm so glad you didn't make this movie, you would have completely ruined it and any chance at future movies! I go to movies like this to have fun, not to be upset. If I wanted to be upset, I would've watched Saving Private Ryan! And I remember waiting for that movie to come out on DVD before I watched it because I don't like over dramatic movies like that. Ever occur to you that other people feel the same way, and it's why Transformers was made the way it was?

[Mr. Snackpants]

Originally Posted by Warhorse

Oh yes, the whole damn theater went into stitches!

But you know how when you leave a movie, you find yourself quoting something from the movie. Well, we all were quoting

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"It's like the house of f**cking horrors" and especially "That's my eye you crazy b!tch!

What did you find yourself quoting?

None of the things mentioned were funny, clever, or quote-worthy at all. Only a handful of morons and younger kids ever laughed...oh and the group of 'bros' sitting next to me.

Are you seriously that easily amused? This does seem like your kind of movie though.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by GK

I enjoyed it, but felt the first was better. I may go see it a second time to get a better opinion of it though. Not enough Arcee.

yeah i agree with you. one thing with Arcee

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why'd they make her twins or triplets? there was always one Arcee in the cartoon, and there's like multiple in the movie. nice to see Devestator, even if he did get easily pwned

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by TMNT_25

yeah i agree with you. one thing with Arcee

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why'd they make her twins or triplets? there was always one Arcee in the cartoon, and there's like multiple in the movie. nice to see Devestator, even if he did get easily pwned

Yeah.. I didn't get that part... they were all called Arcee in the movie but the toyline is giving each of them names....and character development (the blue one is a love interest for Ironhide...something you don't see in the movie.)

[The Stryker]

Mudflap makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Yeah.. I didn't get that part... they were all called Arcee in the movie but the toyline is giving each of them names....and character development (the blue one is a love interest for Ironhide...something you don't see in the movie.)

hmm. didn't know that. thanks for the info.

[Cipher]

Originally Posted by Warhorse

Oh get over yourself! And guess what, I'm going to see it again because I liked the movie!

Cool. That doesn't affect anyone in the least. You're free to like what you like. But on some things, you're just plain wrong:

I agree here, but I'm not too surprised that the Decepticons were the focal points for the Transformers since the sequel kept on sporting the Decepticon emblem.

Which is why it sucks that, apart from a few Megatron/Starscream scenes, they recieved no characterization. Part of the joy of Transformers is that there are colorful characters on both sides. Devastator was more of an animal than Ravage.

Yeah, so the next Ninja Turtle movie we have, we should kill off a couple of the Turtles for your so called "dramatic plot development!"

If the Turtles was based around the concept of armies of expendable characters duking out, who time and time again had displayed the impact over various fiction that their deaths could have, then yes. They're not, but Transformers are. Did you ever watch Beast Wars, by chance?

I go to movies like this to have fun, not to be upset. If I wanted to be upset, I would've watched Saving Private Ryan!

For the life of me, I don't understand this. Can't people have fun watching a movie with some dignity and dramatic elements? Again, go watch Beast Wars. Characters drop off like flies, but it just makes the entire series more exciting, and overall it's still very fun. How can a movie be fun or exciting when there's no sense of drama?

And seriously, if watching robot toy characters die makes you too emotional to enjoy a film, there's something wrong.

Zarius, everything you said. Awesome.

[Peanut]

This thread is pathetic. It feels like I walked into the TMNT section.

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by Peanut

This thread is pathetic. It feels like I walked into the TMNT section.

Agreed. Completely.