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« on: February 01, 2009, 09:34:11 AM » |
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Forget the stupid glowing eyes poster from a few weeks back, the Superbowl Spot for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, is up and it's here: As much as I disliked the first film (I admit to laughing openly when the army bloke tells Shia LeBouf "You're a soldier now!"), this looks severly badass. Please God, let this film work. Kill off all the humans in five minutes and let the robots BRAWL! Source: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39964 |
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2009, 01:19:09 PM » |
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What??!!!!??? The first one was kick ass! Well in my opinion it was! This has me so siked now! Thanks a mill for posting this!
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2009, 02:25:10 PM » |
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The look of it is absolutely identical to the first one, these could be deleted scenes.
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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2009, 02:29:58 PM » |
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I hope it's good. But yeah, I was bored by the first one. A movie about giant robots fighting each other in LA shouldn't be boring, but somehow it managed. Fingers crossed on this one, but I won't be placing any bets on its behalf.
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2009, 10:36:02 PM » |
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They slacked off on the script. I mean, it's a hard premise to make suck, but it's also so easy to go "it's bout giant robots, folks won't care if we ignore any time of coherent story."
*sigh*
Why the eye glasses map? Why did they take the ultimate weapon into the heart of downtown los angeles when they were already in a secluded area? Why is Optimus Prime used for comedy relief? Why was no one offended by the black stero-type car named "Jazz."
These are questions I hope they ignore in the sequel and just make a good movie.
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« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2009, 12:42:18 AM » |
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This'll be worse than the first one, in the same way Lost World was worse than Jurassic Park. Because the wow factor is gone, it's done. Nothing in this trailer is new. One of them is larger, so what? When they all look the same it doesn't matter who you add.
They're also going to feel obliged to give Megan Fox a larger more 'dramatic' role in this one, which she won't be able to do. She's a Bond girl that they've mistaken for a leading lady.
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« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2009, 01:55:28 AM » |
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Is it just me, or is everyone going mad? I am starting to think its just me.....
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« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2009, 02:30:55 AM » |
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If you mean that everyone hated it, then it seems the case. I personally really enjoyed the first one and didn't mind the plot holes because I thought they were rather cancelled out by the absolutely awesome visuals.
I'm not blown away by this teaser, and simply can't understand how anyone can say it looks better, it looks exactly the same. Same camera stock, same lenses, same settings, same actors. Ok they have a dog now, and one of them is big, but show us something different - set it in snow, pose an interesting question - anything - this is too samey so far.
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« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2009, 12:12:00 PM » |
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Yeah it does look the samw, saying that it looks better than the first is a too soon statement.
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« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2009, 12:54:45 PM » |
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I walked out of the first one with a big, fun smile on my face. Then I thought about what I'd really seen ... and remembered how movies used to be awesome and fun and silly but also smart (like Jurassic Park).
And it bothered me because, well, even though giant robots aren't real it would still be nice if the screenwriters went "alright, assuming these things ARE real, what would happen?"
Giant robots sneaking comically around a house for laughs? So bizarre, so not what I paid to see.
It was silly fun, and fairly harmless. But another case of something pulled out of an Executive's ass when with just a LITTLE more brain power it could have been so much cooler and wouldn't require you to shut your brain off.
The reason most people hate it, however, is because the original cartoon movie is actually very good on a story level. Shit happens that matters, Optimus Prime DIES for Christssake. So fans were really hoping for something on the same level, and basically got a home movie of a couple 8-year-olds smashing their toys together.
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« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2009, 04:08:53 PM » |
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I wanted to like the first one because I love action movies, no matter how ridiculous. Hell, I own Death Wish 4 and watch Cliffhanger on a regular basis. It's just that with Transformers, I felt so bored throughout the movie. The visuals, while amazing, were relied on too heavily. I wouldn't expect any less CG to be used for a movie with this premise, but it's just that the action pieces felt just really uninspired and really dull. There were moments when I was all like "oh man, this is gonna be awesome" then I'm let down within thirty seconds. Great examples of this being the setup for the freeway chase. I was so looking forward to seeing robots just demolish everything in their mad dash through the freeway. But no. Nothing really happened there, despite it being set up and all. Then in the battle in LA, the best part of it was when Bumblebee was strapped to the tow truck with Megan Fox behind the wheel. Not because it was Megan Fox showing off her inner Foxy Brown, but because it was interesting to see and wasn't something I would think would happen. It added a nice twist to the rest of the action, but it was over in thirty seconds or less. Then it was back to a bunch of robot punches with nothing in there to liven up the scene or catch the audience off guard. It just felt like wasted potential. I couldn't care less about the plot holes, I just want to see some robots duke it out. But what I ended up watching felt less like a war between two giant robot clans and more like a carefully regulated boxing round between them.
I want the second one to be good because I love throwaway action flicks that are fun just to pop in, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
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« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2009, 07:41:43 PM » |
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I have to disagree that the stories in the Transformers cartoon were good, after the first half an hour (Optimus's Death), the cartoon movie is all over the place, and I have season 1 of the tv show and it's hilarious for all the wrong story reasons. The real difference from Michael Bay's movie and the cartoon is - the robot characters were the focus and the humans barely got a look in. It wasn't 'through Sam's eyes'. And the autobot/decepticon characters were well done, they were cool, and importantly, distinct (Even in the teaser no one is quite sure if its Megatron or Starscream threatening Sam - and that's a big problem). Bay's Transformers doesn't have a single scene with all the Decepticons together and Starscream has TWO LINES. That is why the movie does not live up to its potential, the focus is in the wrong place. Stop giving Megan Fox screen time. It should be like the 10 second conversation at the dam - |
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« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2009, 12:19:00 AM » |
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Here I am again by my lonesome, with high anticipation for a movie everyone hates......
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« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2009, 07:16:20 AM » |
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Aw, don't feel too bad T. Ross, I am alone in hating the new Bond so I know how you feel.
The problem with the first film for me was that Michael Bay didn't know or care about the Transformers. We went in to watch Megatron and Prime slap seven bells out of each other and instead we got postmodern allegories for the war in Iraq and big fucking helicopters because Bay was molested by one as a child.
This time I want the Decepticons to win.
And I was offended by the black robot named Jazz. I was also offended that he was the only Autobot to die.
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« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2009, 12:51:34 PM » |
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This time I want the Decepticons to win.
Me too!!!! |
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