Topic: Transformers 2 - Revenge of the Fallen

This movie really deserved this.

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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.

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Alright, it's not Twig's fault. Everyone else!

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

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I saw this movie two times in theaters.

I look forward to being told how horrible a person I am.

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Oh good god, Greg.

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You have to admit, Brian, we said the same thing coming into this movie.

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Well I have yet to see see this "film" at all yet. And breaking with tradition I probably won't watch it before I listen to you guys.

We'll see how it goes.

ZangrethorDigital.ca

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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.

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16 (edited by dexter 2010-03-30 04:45:49)

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Love Dorkman's summary of the plot at about the 47 minute mark: "Okay...okay...I'll go talk to the Fallen (who didn't exist before"...'shut up. fuck you.'"

this commentary helped me understand the movie better than the movie did. it still doesn't make sense. but thanks for trying guys.

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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.

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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.

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you guys do reccomend the plot to x2 as a re-wright which is best known as the best of comic sequels pre dark knight. megatron and the decepticons  teaming up with the good guys to beat the fallen.

The main problem i have with both of these movies is that they never really set up "rules" of the magic beans. Most good sci fi set up the rules of their universe this one never ever bothers.

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how they work, why the autobots can only be cars, why some cjan change what they turn into. At some point dont you think shia would ask? I know i would.

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Hm.

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24 (edited by Trey 2010-03-31 13:13:46)

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25 (edited by cinebo 2010-03-31 10:40:28)

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re: Twig24 - yeah I get what you mean. Would be interesting if they explained that a bit, and having Shia's character be the one to ask, rather than just Optimus spitting it out, would've been a good device to have that exposition. "uh..so...guys?....why a car?..."

I think that's just one of those things (i.e. magic beans) that you have to kinda go with, though.  It wouldn't be necessary to the plot to know that & could have come off totally cheesy had they tried to explain it, but yeah i would ask if I were in that situation ; )

The only thing that bothered me (Trans 1) was that the map was embedded into the glasses. I just didn't like that method of the map being on something physical. I could have seen maybe the map was scanned into Sam's g.father's brain  (like on Chuck, or Flight of the Navigator) and then he goes nuts and writes it all down in a notebook, or carves it out onto a stone or something, and have THAT be where the map ends up.

the only thing that bothered me about Trans 2 was.....Trans 2 XD

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