Topless Robot on why Transformers 2 is not a Transformers movie:
So… yeah. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is not a Transformers film. A Transformers film would have featured robots with personalities, robots that we cared about. It wouldn’t have contained robots that piss and fart and have testicles and and vomit (seriously, both Megatron and Jetfire vomit every fucking time they speak, and god only knows why). It wouldn’t have featured 15 minutes of nonsense about some doofus going to college, nor 15 minutes of footage of military stock footage. And most of all, it wouldn’t have featured a massive close-up of John Turturro’s bare ass.
I grew up with Transformers and love the franchise especially with what they did when the universe was reinvented with Beast Wars and Beast Machines.
I should hate Michael Bay and what he did with the franchise, basically he spat on the geeks’ faces and trampled on our memories for blockbuster dollars. And even though I think Megan Fox is the awesomeness, I would admit that there were too many gratuitous shots of her.
Yet…
I’m ashamed to admit that I actually enjoyed the movie despite the glaring holes in plot, total lack of respect to continuity and lack of character development for the robots.
Why?
Because I never thought I would see big giant robots fighting each other in a live-action movie. And I have.
However, I think more could have been done and I’m hoping for a reboot ten years down the line so that we can chuck the second movie together with Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.
And for people who said you can’t make a movie where the fans care about the robot, I introduce you to Wall-E.
It is pretty sad that the best Transformers movie is still the cartoon version released in 1986 (which I vaguely remembered watching in the cinema).
movies | 01-Jan-10 at 1:03 am | Permalink
The recent transformers movies are just a bunch of folks trying to make money off nostalgia.
I agree that they’re pretty shallow. Even Batman was so much better.