Transformers 2 - Revenge of the Fallen (Page 1 of 3)

Ohh i certainly did not pay money to see this pile of shit. And i blame everyone one who did for allowing good money to be spent on crap like this.

We said we're sorry! We had no idea it could be this bad!

[Spoiler alert]

I saw it once in the cinema and bought the DVD, and I'm not ashamed to say I got a little choked up to watch my childhood hero, Optimus Prime, die for the second time on the big screen.

I realise I am partly responsible for the death of cinema.

I agree completely that the film sucks, but it also has Shia and big-ass ILM robots.

You could make any movie with Shia and big-ass ILM robots and I will be there.

Which excuses the first viewing...

I believe that does constitute a valid excuse.   Especially the iPhone part.

So this episode finally gave me the opportunity to listen to a DIF commentary without watching or ever having watched the movie in question - which apparently some of our listeners do, and which I couldn't understand why someone would.

I just had to wait for a movie I had no interest in seeing, and thus had no fear of being "spoiled" by the commentary - to see what the experience was like.

Oddly enough, I get it now.  The podcast still works even with no knowledge of the movie.    Whaddaya know.

Tho really, could there have been any such thing as a "spoiler" for Transformers II?   "What, something blows up?  You've ruined it for me!"

See, Trey? =P

For the record, guys, I only saw it once, and didn't even finish, at that, because omfg the "script"... wasn't.

I got about to the scene where Bay made some poor vfx peeps spend 3 months doing that 3 second close-up (you know the one...) & that was it.
Shia ftw and shiny awesome CG ftw. (and yeah I get it, Megan Fox is hot and greasy looking) but....yeah.  Listening to the commentary actually kept me up way late because i couldn't stop laughing. XD

Hats off to the brilliant artists that are probably alcoholics by now after rendering countless frames of transforming robots, but If/when they make a Transformers 3: , please, for the love of whatever god you believe in, please let someone actually write an actual script. (and please don't let it be Transfomers 3...D)

/end rant

Thanks for another awesome commentary.

I had a unique experience watching this movie. I was at my local Bad Movie Night, and the DVD started up with some big action scene, hardly a surprise for a Michael Bay film. Then there were single title credits on black for each of the main actors, but the style and music seemed more like closing credits... strange. Then, there was another action scene, which seemed more like it belonged near the climax of a typical action movie, but, you know, Michael Bay. Our opinion of this thing was already so low going in that it must have been 15-20 minutes before we were even sure the disk had somehow been set to shuffle.

It was just like Memento. Every few minutes, a totally different part of the movie would start with no indication who anybody was or what they were trying to accomplish. Some of these jarring leaps came in the middles of scenes, sometimes after only thirty seconds to get your bearings, then sometimes we would have the misfortune to sit through longer chunks of the movie intact. For me, it became an excercise of imagining where in the structure of a good movie we might be at any particular time, but after a while I just gave up.

After a couple hours like that, more credits came on, and we turned off the DVD. I walked away with no idea what had just happened, but I never bothered to rewatch it, because I figured my experience couldn't possibly be any worse than the actual movie. Judging from this commentary, it was probably about the same.

This 'cast told me one thing I didn't know.

A while ago I think there was a fad of inserting localised footage in movies. Here in the UK Shrek 2 had a few minor characters re-voices by local 'celebs', I think there was one or two other examples.

Anyway - when i saw the Union Flag on the uniform & the coffin, I honestly thought I was being gamed & it was local footage. To hear the guys mention they saw it too makes me feel better. Or worse. I dunno yet.

(if i may) By rules, do you mean what can/can't happen within the universe of the story or the fact that they don't tell you why/how the transformers exist (in terms of being autonomous, etc)

(& if i'm way off, please correct me)

Hm.