Transformers - Revenge of the Sequel
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:16 pmWARNING!
SPOILER ALERT!
My sincere apologies for not putting that up to begin with, being new to here I assumed everyone knew all about it already.
The following does contain spoilers that even though witnesses with my own eyes in the presence of 100's of others, I still find hard to believe.
This is my first post on here ever, so you'll probably pay no attention to it.
I was at the Irish Premier of the new movie last night and there were about 500 other people there.
I'd say a good 450 left unhappy.
The beginning of the movie really sucks you in with action from the first frame and a host of more bots to enjoy. But after that, the whole thing gets weird.
Yes it's a Michael Bay film so things don't have to make sense. Yes it's a movie about alien transforming robots, so it'll never happen anyway, but the story line goes from science fiction to confusing and made up as they went along.
They made up a second energy source because the first one was destroyed in the first movie. Or was it? Apparently just a couple of slivers of the Allspark remain. Just enough to ressurect Megatron from his terribly guarded underwater prison and to bring to life a Deceptecon turned Autobot who's been on the planet for centuries.
An evil new transformer in the form of a hot college chick tries to get Sam, and when she fails, that's the last we see of her. But she's in the wrong movie anyway, she belongs in a Terminator movie.
So it turns out that the fallen is looking for the other energy source that is bigger and better than the Allspark. The only thing that can stop him is a Prime. Optimus Prime. But that won't trouble him much as Optimus is killed.
Shock, horror.
Sam has maps and wotnot imprinted on his brain that inevitably lead him to a tomb made up of the bodies of the other Primes - the ghosts of Autobot past if you will.
Inside the tomb is the new energy source, called the matrix. Original. This energy source can either blow up the sun or to bring Optimus back to life.
What follows is about 45 minutes of mindless CGI and pyrotechnics that give us the utterly pointless Devastator, complete with hanging scrotum. I kid you not.
It also gives us robots fighting robots that is so confusing and utterly boring after so much of it that I was actually excited to see Sam get blown up and die. Shock horror again.
He has a near death experience and is told that he has to fulfill his destiny by the ghosts of Autobot past. He comes to life and brings Optimus back who then kills the Fallen.
Then the end of the film comes far too quickly and was obviously just a means to segue to the eventual third movie.
This is 147 minutes of my life that I will never get back. It does have it's good moments and qualities, but overall it's a let down.
It's all over the place, story wise and I just felt that the film makers just ticked the sequel boxes to make money.
Sorry to let people down, if I have at all.
But I'll be genuinely surprised if anyone gives it a flawless glowing review.
SPOILER ALERT!
My sincere apologies for not putting that up to begin with, being new to here I assumed everyone knew all about it already.
The following does contain spoilers that even though witnesses with my own eyes in the presence of 100's of others, I still find hard to believe.
This is my first post on here ever, so you'll probably pay no attention to it.
I was at the Irish Premier of the new movie last night and there were about 500 other people there.
I'd say a good 450 left unhappy.
The beginning of the movie really sucks you in with action from the first frame and a host of more bots to enjoy. But after that, the whole thing gets weird.
Yes it's a Michael Bay film so things don't have to make sense. Yes it's a movie about alien transforming robots, so it'll never happen anyway, but the story line goes from science fiction to confusing and made up as they went along.
They made up a second energy source because the first one was destroyed in the first movie. Or was it? Apparently just a couple of slivers of the Allspark remain. Just enough to ressurect Megatron from his terribly guarded underwater prison and to bring to life a Deceptecon turned Autobot who's been on the planet for centuries.
An evil new transformer in the form of a hot college chick tries to get Sam, and when she fails, that's the last we see of her. But she's in the wrong movie anyway, she belongs in a Terminator movie.
So it turns out that the fallen is looking for the other energy source that is bigger and better than the Allspark. The only thing that can stop him is a Prime. Optimus Prime. But that won't trouble him much as Optimus is killed.
Shock, horror.
Sam has maps and wotnot imprinted on his brain that inevitably lead him to a tomb made up of the bodies of the other Primes - the ghosts of Autobot past if you will.
Inside the tomb is the new energy source, called the matrix. Original. This energy source can either blow up the sun or to bring Optimus back to life.
What follows is about 45 minutes of mindless CGI and pyrotechnics that give us the utterly pointless Devastator, complete with hanging scrotum. I kid you not.
It also gives us robots fighting robots that is so confusing and utterly boring after so much of it that I was actually excited to see Sam get blown up and die. Shock horror again.
He has a near death experience and is told that he has to fulfill his destiny by the ghosts of Autobot past. He comes to life and brings Optimus back who then kills the Fallen.
Then the end of the film comes far too quickly and was obviously just a means to segue to the eventual third movie.
This is 147 minutes of my life that I will never get back. It does have it's good moments and qualities, but overall it's a let down.
It's all over the place, story wise and I just felt that the film makers just ticked the sequel boxes to make money.
Sorry to let people down, if I have at all.
But I'll be genuinely surprised if anyone gives it a flawless glowing review.
someone get the jumper cables!!!
