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By: SilentHal

SilentHal — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:25:34 +0000

I completely agree with everything in this review. This film was pretty damn bad. I’m astounded as to how anyone can walk out of this thinking it was a good movie.

People give the excuse that it’s only an action movie or it’s only a Transformers movie and yet this is probably the worst action movie I’ve seen in years. You just have to look as far as recent films like Star Trek and Iron Man to show that you can have a blockbuster that has a brain and a heart and still be a great time at the cinema.

As for it only being a Transformers movie, who the hell goes into a Tranformers movie expecting racist stereotypes, tons of useless human characters and lame, painfully unfunny comic relief (wow, Sam’s mom ate a hash brownie, how ****ing hilarious)?

Someone please take this series out of that hack Michael Bay’s hands, before he goes about destroying even more of my childhood memories.

By: Joel78

Joel78 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:29:28 +0000

Two stars was generous. The movie was poor.

By: ChrisTookeyFan

ChrisTookeyFan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:59:56 +0000

Yep, CGI is killing movies…

Having given up my Cineworld subscription card a year ago in protest at the complete and utter SH*TE Hollywood is churning out on a weekly basis, finding good movies that don`t rely on poorly executed Digital FX makes going to my local fleapit a waste of time.

For example, Terminator: Salvation ISN`T a Terminator movie – previous Terminator movies were CHASE movies, with Sarah/John Connor on the run from nasty cyborgs but the over-reliance on CGI to pull lazy directors` bottoms out of the proverbial fire are the exact same problems with Transformers: ROTF ie bad script, bad acting and all the budget going on digital effects. And explosions.

I think it`s a cultural decay kind of thing, end of Empires and Civilisations, that sort of stuff. It`s no longer Bread and Circuses now, just crap movies aimed at a gullible market of easily exploited twenty somethings.

Am I being cynical here?

By: Dan Camus

Dan Camus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:57:00 +0000

I loved every minute of it. It’s what movies are all about: being somewhere else, loving the adventure, seeing it through the hero’s eyes.

Of course, all those, all film school art critics will not be pleased. After all, movies are all supposed to conform to their sense of what should be significant. But hey, how many global blockbusters have those people made. They can blather all they want about Micheal Bay, but “emotionally moving” isn’t what they world pays gazillions to see. Adventure always taps out emotional, any day. Don’t just check the cinema earnings, though. Look up how much the story earns both in the movieplexes AND the living/media rooms. In the end, people vote with their wallets. This stuff is what we want.

Kudos, Micheal Bay! Thanks for the ride. Where to next?

By: BIG T

BIG T — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:27:35 +0000

Aaron Asadi, mate you are spot on, this film is beyond terrible almost a special effects reel (hey look what we can do). Films should not have explosions for the sake of having explosions, the reasons behind these flash effects should also be well made and thought out and not exist simply to set up another twenty minutes of OTT action set pieces.
The point about the Matrix and Star Wars is a perfect one.

Finally I hope this flops at the box office only only so that next time they atleast have some standards and don’t take cinema goers for fools.

By: Aaron Asadi

Aaron Asadi — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:59:35 +0000

To be clear: a Transformers movie that was a “deep and meaningful love poem” would also be dreadful. What’s interesting is that so many people, like Karl, seem to think that there is no real difference between an excellent popcorn blockbuster (Star Wars, The Matrix) and a poor one (Revenge Of The Fallen). The argument being that so long as there are big special effects, the direction, choreography, plot and performances don’t matter a jot. They do to us.

By: Captain Subtext

Captain Subtext — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:48:14 +0000

Accurate review, Mr. Asadi.

SciFiNow should review these kinds of movies as if they were a serious entry in the science-fiction genre, why lower your standards? Just because it’s sci-fi doesn’t mean it can get away with being superficial. You never hear these complaints about mainstream movie reviews.

By the way, you can give a movie a bad review, 2 our of 5 stars but still say it has it’s charm for a certain audience. No problem.

By: Karl Pethers

Karl Pethers — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:59:15 +0000

I think the reviewer completely missed the point. This film was always supposed to be about action and fun. There was never supposed to be a tone-poem, deep and meaningful love story or convoluted plot.
It was supposed to be fun. I went to see it at the local Odeon and shut down my brain as I shut down my phone and had 147 minutes of fun, explosions and great special effects. The three people with me loved it too and we had a great time.
You plastered the front of SciFi Now with all this excitement and the proceed to complain about the whole film. The interviewees in the magazine told everyone who was actually listening what the film was like, but it’s plainly obvious that the reviewer had not read the article, or at least not listened.
There’s a great deal to like about the film. The plot is supposed to be more or less irrelevant. Transformers is about spectacle. It’s about robots smashing up the place and having a good-old barney with each other. The US military was in the fray doing what it does best (blow everything up) and the human lead stars were there to add a bit of heart. Sam’s parents were great as both the comic relief and the people to worry about Sam and Michaela. The comedy Transformers did exactly what I wanted them to do.
Transformers 2 was not about surprises. That was Transformers 1. Revenge of the Fallen was the smash-up it was supposed to be and I had a fantastic time and will be going again.
This film was everything that we need at the moment. We’re in the middle of a recession, the Government has had it, and all we’re hearing about is Swine Flu. It was time for something to make you smile. And make me smile it did.
Thanks Mr Bay and your team for doing just what I wanted.