The GF caught the commercial on TV last night and thought it looked kinda cool. It looks like it should be not as cute as the first one, especially with Revenge in the title.
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"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
I just wonder how people find any of this surprising, or when folks announce these views if they think they're telling the world something it does not already know and expect?
The first Transformers wasn't ever going to be anything other than big, loud, and dumb. And it was. The miracle was that it managed to be entertaining. But big loud and dumb was all anyone expected ... or even WANTED, for that matter.
No one but NO ONE expects the second one to be ANYTHING other than bigger, louder, and dumber. More crude, juvenile jokes, more gapingly empty plot, more mindless explosions. No one expects quality filmmaking or good acting or strong write, they expect GIANT ROBOTS BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER.
Transformers is bad, everyone KNOWS it's bad, everyone EXPECTS it to be bad, but that doesn't mean we don't want to see GIANT ROBOTS BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER.
I’m certain that someday it will be acknowledged that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire. It’s so us, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent... and in love with ourselves for it. And Michael Bay is the high priest of our self-engrossment. It’s not enough that we like blowing shit up: the blowing shit up must be transubstantiated into something religious by having, say, a ridiculously gorgeous girl humping a motorcycle, her face aglow in the golden hour of sunset as she watches the shit get blown up, her glossy lips parted just a little in orgasmic joy.
I’m certain that someday it will be acknowledged that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire. It’s so us, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent... and in love with ourselves for it. And Michael Bay is the high priest of our self-engrossment. It’s not enough that we like blowing shit up: the blowing shit up must be transubstantiated into something religious by having, say, a ridiculously gorgeous girl humping a motorcycle, her face aglow in the golden hour of sunset as she watches the shit get blown up, her glossy lips parted just a little in orgasmic joy.
I’m certain that someday it will be acknowledged that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire. It’s so us, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent... and in love with ourselves for it. And Michael Bay is the high priest of our self-engrossment. It’s not enough that we like blowing shit up: the blowing shit up must be transubstantiated into something religious by having, say, a ridiculously gorgeous girl humping a motorcycle, her face aglow in the golden hour of sunset as she watches the shit get blown up, her glossy lips parted just a little in orgasmic joy.
My lord but do people take GIANT ROBOTS BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER seriously.
I'll be skipping this one -- the family loves the first one, but they've ramped up the racy sexual content even more. I don't understand their need to do that. They're alienating a solid demographic for the movie.
Most films with violence (the borderline for kids ones, not slashers) present violence in a fairly kid friendly way. Hollywood blockbusters are very sentimental, with bad guys and good guys. The violence is easy to process for the most part -- Iron Man was a good example. Dark Knight was a little too harsh.
But to a kid who doesn't even know his birds from his bees, there's no real need to have to encounter sex in a twisted, Michael Bay fashion in a Transformers movie. Apparently sexuality is a major part of of this movie, and it is intertwined with the evil of the Decepticons as well. Not the best way to encounter that at a young age, and is the product of a juvenile, unimaginative writer.
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