Apr 20 2009'Transformers 2' is a Serious Melodrama

Come slide your cocks into me, one at a time.......

what the what

they are fuckin robots in the disguise! lots of robots, i like robots. i want robots!

boring

Thanks for turning Bumblebee into Jar-Jar Binks. Michael Bay you are a dipshit.

Hopefully, Transmorphers 2 will learn from these mistakes.

Robots crying FTF!!

I hated the first one because of all the stupid teenage angsty bullshit and the whole contrived back story. Why couldn't it have been more like Jack Bauer and Optimus Prime team up to blow shit up for 2 hours. That would have been awesome, instead I have to watch Shia LaBeuf pine over some bitch he likes based SOLELY on the fact that she's a good fuck (he's all in love with her when she's a total indifferent bitch to him). And then I'm expected to take their relationship seriously. Ugh and then they throw it these wacky and zany government guys. Give me a break. I wanna see giant fucking robots beating the shit out of other giant fucking robots.

I'm surprised there wasn't criticism on the grumpy old man decepticon.

This reminds me of that great scene in THE IRON GIANT where Hogarth is in the barn talking to a giant robot - because that scene was awesome and this is not. If Bumblebee played "BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE" maybe this would have worked.

This stinks. The story stinks. Michael Bay is full of himself. I hope this bombs worst than Dragon Ball Evolution.

Even the sheer heat generated by Meghan Fox is not enough to entice me into renting this. Thanks, Michael Bay.

@ 8

Yah, grumpy old Decepticon turned Autobot is in fact Jetfire. lol.

#7
"I have to watch Shia LaBeuf pine over some bitch he likes based SOLELY on the fact that she's a good fuck (he's all in love with her when she's a total indifferent bitch to him). And then I'm expected to take their relationship seriously"

You've just described every single chick flick, soap opera, teenage drama, every single tacked on no need for it love story put into a film that doesn't need a love story in it i.e. action flick, horror flick, chick flick, soap opera, teenage drama etc.

Basically that is what passes for the love story in todays films.
Something to get women to go whilst keeping the feminist happy. She's waaay out of his league (something that in itself is sexist) and she don't need no man so he has to prove himself therefore keeping her the one in control of the relationship and it helps he's too meek to stick up for himself.

You can't avoid it so here's what I do.
Buy it on dvd or download it in HD and fast forward those bits.

Did anyone actually watch it all the way through? There's explosions at the end.

Also,

OH THAT ROUND THING IS BUMBLEBEES BOTTOM JAW!

He'sa is'sa like'a me'sa in da odder mo-bie dat stinky like'a poo.

You guys are so frickin hard to please. That shit looked awesome. Don't judge it on one tiny 1 minute scene. Di you not see all that shit after it? BAD ASS

Okay, a couple things:

- Effects need a LOT of work. Watch as Shia puts his hand and pulls Bee's face toward him - very fake looking, and distracting. Other stuff needs to have some level of obeying laws of physics (so your eyes says, "yea. that looks real".)

- Hope they have written in his broken hand properly. Looks like there's a shot (when he's next to the tree) where they look like they have used a flesh colored finger cover (1:47) . And it doesn't match the white bandage at 1:57.

- I'm all for the summer blockbuster popcorn flick - just if you are going "dark", go all the way.

While I'm all for suspension of disbelief... COME ON. People in this scenario are like ants crossing an elemtary school playground. They might survive one crossing, but the odds get really poor after a few times. The ancient Greeks had it right: "Better the probable impossible than the improbable possible."

What has two thumbs and cant wait to see transformers 2?
This guy!

looks good to me.

I'm not a HUGE fan of Transformers, but I realize it's based on a cartoon. As such, this scene and the movies in general, do a good job of paying homage to the cartoon origins.

Did any of you watch the cartoon? Cause it was silly, and action-oriented. Just like the movies.

What do you expect out of a movie about robots that come from another planet that can transform into things? Bitching about "plot" seems ridiculous in my opinion.

Are people really worried about the physics? Did you ever watch the cartoon?

This movie is going to kick ass!

Maybe it's just me, but these 'Bots just look like individual piles of scrap metal and garbage. I can't tell what/where anything is. Like that picture up there? I stared at it for five minutes before I realized it was a face. THEN it took me another five to realize that was the "Transformers" logo on Bumble-Bee's forehead, and that there was a forehead to be seen.

"-where Shia LaBeouf has to explain-"

*facepalm*

@20

If you saw the cartoon, you'd know that the transformers were wicked cool and wouldn't cry radiator fluid if someone (like Daniel, for example) wanted to go to fucking college. Who gives a flying fuck if someone wants to go to college anyway?

Bay fucked the first one up royally and I have no intention in paying a cent to watch this crap.

I'm all in to mind numbing explosions and jaw-dropping action as the next guy, but you need to balance it with quality acting and decent plot/story.
Sure you can churn out shit like the first transformers or the star wars prequels movies that people with no taste go ape shit over.
But sometimes a director gets it right and makes movies that blow the front of your pants away like 300 or Dark Knight.
All in all, most of you fucks that like this kind of shit were the kind of people that walked out of revenge of the sith talking excitedly on how cool it was to see darth vader go ape shit with his "Nooooooo!". True story.

I attempted to watch the first one on demand a few weeks ago and 15 mins into it I fell asleep and had no idea what was even going on in the story. I turned it off.

I think in 2 years when I am stuck at home with the flu I will consider watching these online.

OPTIMUS!!!!!!

Stick it out.
The films 2 hrs long so you wont get much from the first 15mins.
I definitely picks up and when Megatron finally appears all hell does break loose.

WHAT THE WHAT appears to be an evil Transformer punting the US FLAG OFF OF A BRIDGE!?!? Cue Stan Bush - time to kick some Deceptichops.

You know what I'd like out of a Transformers movie? For the fight scenes to not be an indecipherable blur of parts swirling around the screen.

The movie reminded me of old cartoons where two characters would start fighting and it would just turn into a ball of dust with the occasional fist sticking out from the blur.

I think the bigger problem here is the sheer amount of ire that is somehow generated from people watching movies and/or clips of movies; that is simply frightening.

More to the point, you have to understand the position popular directors like Michael Bay are put in and that is to please the general audience. Now, regardless of what you think about the quality of his movies or anyone elses, you have to concede that he managed to generate success of such a magnitude that there would be absolutely no incentive for any change in chemistry, at all.

Personally, I was thoroughly entertained by the first Transformers, even though I understand full well the negative points brought up by people. Admittedly, the acting is corny at times but what else would you expect from a movie directed at the general audience of America? In a big blockbuster like this, people are going to want a little bit of everything: high octane action and whimsical comedy gags are bound to be strewed about in a tasteless fashion and probably 75%, if not more, of the audience is going to go wild over it.

By all means, be critical of the movie, even when only given a clip of it with no context, but bear in mind, the people that made this movie are laughing all the way to the bank at your criticisms.

They made a Transformers movie?

"Admittedly, the acting is corny at times but what else would you expect from a movie directed at the general audience of America? In a big blockbuster like this, people are going to want a little bit of everything: high octane action and whimsical comedy gags are bound to be strewed about in a tasteless fashion and probably 75%, if not more, of the audience is going to go wild over it."

Since when is tasteless humor and corny acting required for mainstream blockbusters?
Ironman: Bam! Great acting, clever and witty script, solid character arc, huge success as a mainstream popcorn action flick.
Dark Knight: The most psychologically intense superhero movie to date, loads of tension, powerful thematic overtones, and complex characters.
The Bourne Trilogy: Sure it got a bit choppy at the end, but nonetheless a taut, high octane series that didn't make you leave your brain at the theater entrance. And it was a huge success that became an icon of the spy genre.

Don't tell me it can't be done. With the right creative talent behind it, Transformers could have been great, instead of the dumb, overlong mess of a film it was.

I'm not so much saying it can't be done, rather there's no incentive to do it, when it's still go to gross silly amounts of money. Believe me, I wish Hollywood would get back to the basics of good acting and sharp writing, but when it comes right down to it, that's too much damn effort when the ultimate difference in gain is going to boil down to maybe a few millions.