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Topic: Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (Read 49501 times)
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Lakov_Sanite
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If you didn't expect transformers 2 to break opening records you were an idiot. Whether the movie is 2 and a half hours of brilliant cinema or just fart jokes people would have come in droves based on the first one.
What will be a true test is seeing how well this movie does in the coming weeks with word of mouth.
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gryeyes
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Just saw it and it fully deserves the shit its receiving. Ignoring the undecipherable plot the battle scenes were so jumbled and confusing most of the time i could not even tell what was going on. Most of the time it just cuts to a scene full of battling robots with no sense of context. My eyes are fairly craptastic and my seat was a ways back, but most of the time I couldn't even tell who was who, let alone catch the details of the fights themselves.
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UnSub
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In practice, there are a bunch of machines who are mad at other machines and they enter into many encounters where they whirl around, but if you are any kind of normal person, you won't be able to tell which machine is which, and so it will pretty much look like two or more enormous microwaves with swords violently mating. — ChoireThank you for that. |
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Mrbloodworth
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Megan Fox is hot, and makes me mad blog.
Guess I need to go see it then. |
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Ironwood
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No, Seriously, you don't.
Megan can be found all over the internet in various states of undress. You miss nothing by missing this movie.
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Oban
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« Last Edit: June 26, 2009, 11:17:30 AM by Oban »
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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Ironwood
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Wait, I've read that before. In this thread...
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Oban
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Hahaha, wow, I was overwhelmed.
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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Khaldun
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I think the opening weekend is partly a testament to how much timing matters for summer films. There hasn't been much out for a few weeks, there isn't much that's hotly anticipated yet, a lot of people are bored and want to go sit in a cool theater. So if you get your product out at the right moment, you score as long as it looks moderately entertaining. I would expect a big, big dropoff for this in a week's time.
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Jain Zar
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I enjoyed it, but the way I enjoy most Godzilla movies. Its shit, the plot is moronic, and hot chicks are there to give you something to look at while they spout exposition before the next scene of giant things smacking each other around.
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Chimpy
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Would be interesting to see how much the opening correlates with the above average high temps accross most of the country this week.
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NiX
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Ironwood
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Exactly !!! And I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the 6 Decepticons thing...
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Abagadro
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K9
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Could you sum up the film in one line of its dialogue?
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stu
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Dear Diary,
Jackpot!
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Evildrider
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I saw it, I didn't think it was horrible. It's kind of what I expected from a Michael Bay movie. The plot isn't great but it's not really as hard to follow as people make it out to be. Or maybe it's because I don't try to think when I see movies like this, I basically just turn my brain off.
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Ironwood
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When the Bayformers defenders say you should turn your brain off and enjoy the film, I think they must mean it literally. Because if you think about any part of what's going on at all, it's really, really fucking stupid. This is what I cannot handle. Transformers 2 is too fucking stupid for me to derive any enjoyment from whatsoever. Irony. From the review above your post. |
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sigil
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Come on now, when you when you're in the desert scrubland and mountain ranges just outside of the smithsonian in DC. and you're going to the Great pyramids of Jordan, complete with the John Turturo talking to admirals on walkie talies about insane shit and ... *BAM*
Sorry, synapses exploded in my head. everything smells like smoke and I can taste copper. I think I"m going to lie down
They didn't give two shits about this movie. man even the 'splosions were crap and *BAM* ok, can't afford to many of those. Just don't see this crap. ever.
First transformers kicked ass.
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Margalis
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Godzilla is awesome. How dare you.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Oban
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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Trippy
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Ah so cute The scene where he coughs up some "smoke rings" is one of the greatest moments in movie history evah!  Edit: of the |
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Hoax
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I really need to know one thing, is there at least 3 scenes as cool as when Megatron transforms right above the street in LA and the cars are flying everywhere? Just that scene made the first one ok to watch, barely, but this sounds like its going to need 3+
Don't say fight scenes unless they are very different from the first one, I had a really hard time figuring out who was doing what in any of the terrible fight scenes in the first one.
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Evil Elvis
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The negative reviews for The Fallen sounds like everything that was wrong with the first one.
Bumblebee pissing on Turturo. Jazz as a racial stereotype. Soundwave pantsing the Beef. Inconsistencies between scenes, masturbation jokes, incomprehensible action, terrible humor, a retarded story. It had them all.
Bay just cranked it up 11 this time around.
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K9
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Come on now, when you when you're in the desert scrubland and mountain ranges just outside of the smithsonian in DC. and you're going to the Great pyramids of Jordan, complete with the John Turturo talking to admirals on walkie talies about insane shit and ... *BAM*
This was probably the biggest wtf moment for me, and I noticed the 5-6 transformer mismatch on the diving experience. 1) Outside Smithstonian 2) inside smithstonian 3) Robot punches hole in wall everyone walks out and they are in.... fields I mean, how did nobody raise comment on this stuff while the movie was being made. |
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Trippy
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Cause Michael Bay was Executive Producer *and* Director -- i.e. he was his own boss and he did whatever he wanted. And as long as his movies continue to make boatloads of money that'll continue.
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gryeyes
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Don't say fight scenes unless they are very different from the first one, I had a really hard time figuring out who was doing what in any of the terrible fight scenes in the first one. Prime going drizzt is pretty awesome. But it suffers from the same "wtf is is going on?" flaw as the first movie times 1000. |
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Merusk
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So the old guard is once again slamming it.. meaning my son and nephews will love it. Sounds like they did what they set out to do and it'll do well.
Oh seriously, go and fuck yourself. I loved the first one. I didn't realize Mr. Ebert was a 35+ Tech Manager from Scotland. Hey there. I meant what Nix said, with a bit of the snarky "parting people from their money" that Margalis quipped. It's a simple formula and its aim is to generate big box office bucks, hype the restaurant tie-ins and sell the merchandise, not produce the next Gone With the Wind. Like I said, the son and nephews will eat it up while I'll - again- say "wtf?" to the whole thing. Revisiting some of my old favorites on the trip to DC this past weekend I realized they were shit, too, to a 35 year old guy looking at it with any kind of thinking. However they still get lots of love from old men with the blinders of nostalgia on. |
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HaemishM
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However they still get lots of love from old men with the blinders of nostalgia on. That's a really tired argument. It isn't blinders of nostalgia that makes people like me hate on the Bayformers, it's real, serious problems with things like the art direction, robot design, cinematography and plot (or lack thereof). |
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Ratman_tf
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not produce the next Gone With the Wind. I think we can safely say he wasn't even aiming for Battlefield Earth at this point. |
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Broughden
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I liked it. Not as much as the first but I liked it.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY liked the previews for 2012, GI Joe.
The Last Airbender? WTF? No idea what that shit was.
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Evildrider
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I liked it. Not as much as the first but I liked it.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY liked the previews for 2012, GI Joe.
The Last Airbender? WTF? No idea what that shit was.
It doesn't matter.. it's a Shyamalan movie so it will suck 10 times more then anything Bay could make. |
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I liked it. Not as much as the first but I liked it.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY liked the previews for 2012, GI Joe.
The Last Airbender? WTF? No idea what that shit was.
It doesn't matter.. it's a Shyamalan movie so it will suck 10 times more then anything Bay could make. Like a Bay movie without explosions. |
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Evildrider
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I liked it. Not as much as the first but I liked it.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY liked the previews for 2012, GI Joe.
The Last Airbender? WTF? No idea what that shit was.
It doesn't matter.. it's a Shyamalan movie so it will suck 10 times more then anything Bay could make. Like a Bay movie without explosions. Exactly! At least Bay can do explosions! |
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NiX
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That's a really tired argument. It isn't blinders of nostalgia that makes people like me hate on the Bayformers, it's real, serious problems with things like the art direction, robot design, cinematography and plot (or lack thereof).
I get the feeling you've confused yourself and you took his comment out of context. |
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