HECTOR wrote:Reading these comments makes me sad
If this movie didn't please fans then what will? Seriously! What do you nay-sayers want??
I thought that it was an awesome flick! There were so many satisfying G1 tidbits! Devastator, Soundwave (voiced by Welker himself!), Ravage, Energon, Pretenders, the first 13 cybertronians, a super-bad dude from an obscure cancelled comic series (awesome!) and even the Matrix of Leadership itself! Complete with a near death revelation!
A lotta people seem upset over Megatron's association with the Fallen. The IDW prequel comics shed a lot of light on that but yeah the best way to describe it is it's like Darth Vader and the Emperor. He's still No. 1 but there's also an older bad guy who can offer him a lotta power, and he kinda owes him for saving his life.
Just an overall great time. Prime's death had me on the edge of my seat saying 'what? . . .' You know you were too! Admit it! If Optimus Prime dying doesn't make you sad then you don't deserve to be called a fan.
The first film pleased me immensely, so surely this film should've built on that and improved, not forsaken the best bits or rehashed quite possibly the worst elements of the first.
As I have stated before I had little or no expectations when I walked into the cinema at midnight, all those weeks ago, and that is why it hurt so much when I walked out nearly three hours later.
Again, as stated before, clusterbombing:
G1 tidbits
Does not equal narrative or characterisation. Devastator (and the Constructicons) really didn't do very much, if anything they were just there for another Military Money Shot. Soundwave, again, did very little except have tentacle sex with satellites and sound like Dr. Claw. Ravage was ok, but essentially a poor imitation of Frenzy, and a contrivance. Alice/Pretender again was ok, reminded me of an ex, but essentially a contrivance.
At least Alice and Ravage had the fortune to appear in the first third of the film where plot and characterisation stil made a vague appearance
The whole 13/Fallen/Megatron thing, ultimately, makes no sense. Furthermore why should I go out and spend £10-£14 just for it to make sense? Yes the first film had prequel comics, but they added to the flavour of the film, they weren't essential to having the film make sense. If the Megatron/Fallen dynamic is as everyone states it is, very Star Wars, then that my friends is weak.
The Matrix of Leadership? Why?
Ok, so the animated incarnation was essentially a contrivance in itself as well, but at least that was well written and well executed.
Quite frankly Prime's death couldn't've interested me any less. Firstly because it happens all the time, secondly Prime had changed from noble almost fearful scholar into soulless killing machine and thirdly because lugging around the corpse pretty much gives away the fact he'll return,.
At least in the animated series we had to wait for a spectacular return.
I'll tell you what the first film had that this didn't. Humility, and respect. Making the first film I dare say the fans figured deeply in what was produced, this time around someone *cough* Bay *cough* knew they had a cash cow franchise on their hands and could pretty much do whatever they want.
Anyway, I'm done with Revenge of the Fail-Line, because that is what, IMHO, it is. Epic Fail. Instead I shall leave those of you with more than one brain cell and critical faculties with something thought provoking from Nietzsche:
Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.
In the world even the best things are worthless without those who represent them: those representers, the people call great men.
Little, do the people understand what is great—that is to say, the creating agency. But they have a taste for all representers and actors of great things.
http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/zarapt1.htm#flies Goodnight.
