With a couple of years hind sight I’ve seen the orginal M.Bay version of Transformers a couple of times now. I have to say it;s grown on me. You know my initial response to it was like getting butt fucked without any warning or lube by a very well endowed explosion obsessed action junkie that thought for some fucking reason Optimus Prime should have lips (To better convey emotion don’t you know). No doubt then I was not that much of a fan of the first Baymatic Transformers movie, not initially at least. It annoyed me for a while, I felt short changed – both because I thought the film did not do my childhood favorites justice and because I thought the overall vision of the movie was shite. I still stand by the latter.
Now I can tolerate it and after watching it again on Wednesday in preparation for the sequel I have to say I enjoyed it as a movie (the lips on prime still fucking annoy me though as much as a big boobied lady that does not like having them played with).
Anyway, fuck that – I’m going to have a go at telling you about Transformers: Revenge of the the Fallen. So as you can imagine I was looking forwards to this movie, a lot. to say I was excited about it would be a marginal understatement. If you know me then you know how excited I can get about certain events and heading to a midnight showing of for me one of the summers biggest movies had me a tad giddy.
So was it any good then? Well I saw it with a group of friends, it opinion was split down the middle. I thought the movie was pretty much all types of awesome, I could not have been more into it, I was certainly not disappointed. Everything was better than in the first movie.
The effects and fights scenes are awesome, the comic relief very good and highly amusing. The overall pacing of the movie also great. Story wise it’s not too bad. Not perfect either I have quite a list of things that I dislike about it a fair bit, some of these niggles carry over from the first because well they should have been explained and never do get explained. Ok so let me get the most controversial out of the way Megan Fox. No, just no. She cannot act at all. I don’t find her hot I’m sorry I just don’t she does nothing for me and tbh her lack of acting ability brings the movie down a notch or two.
Next up a carry over or two from the first movie. Mass shifting, still not explained. Nada not even mentioned. Why the fucking hell can you not get it out of the way and tell us wtf is going on with that. Oh and what’s with them looking all fucked up and war ravaged in robot mode but as soon as they transform suddenly everything as a showroom shine? That’s just not good enough tbh, total bullshit it really made me sad.
Four geeks, too much caffeine and one midnight movie premier
Some new beef’s include the lack of sticking to the original back story, Optimus been a descendant of the Primes? Wtf are these the movie equivalent of the Quintazons? What’s the dodgy matrix key all about when when we have the cube thing from the first that was supposed to be something like Vector Sigma? A massive niggle is WTF is going on with the Organic element to the transformers (the hatchling scene with Megatron, Scarscream and the Fallen wall just total fail)? Some of the really dodgy robot designs – notably Skids, Mudflaps and to a lesser extent Wheelie. Why the hell those designs made it in is beyond me they broke a otherwise pretty good believability factor IMHO. Not explaining the importance of Energon, WTF is powering these things then? Lastly Jetfire. Oh dear…. I really cannot say anything else other than no. Just no.
OK OK I might be taking it too far, but I either want it explaining in the movie or I want a source book where I can read about this shit. I find it highly annoying that I’m just expected to beleive this stuff. Come on stop fucking about and spend a little time establishing stuff ffs really it would make all the difference.
Right I get it you think I didn’t like it? No I did but let’s face it I want a movie that I’m never going to see, I want a the perfect fan flick and it’s never going to happen, I get that. One of the main differences with seeing this over the original is that I knew my expectations would be too high, so I was not disappointed I had them set a realistic level and in all honesty I had them exceeded which was pretty awesome. Also I saw the movie with a group of friends that I really like spending time with and happened to be equally up for seeing it, that really makes all the difference, the conversations before and after a movie like this with people that really care about it too discussing the little details etc gives it all more life.
Go see it all of you. Go with friends have a great time and enjoy a movie that is massive in scale and action. Don’t expect some of it to make sense but then I guess to the vast majority of people that won’t matter. It’s a fun movie that really is very good. Probably the best of what we are going to get out of the franchise. I’m not sure about a third in the series I might be wrong but I for me they should leave it here.
Right next up to get excited about, Harry Potter and G.I Joe. Glee.
nothing like a cooling shower on a hot summers evening and a fresh baldy to boot! PS I take responsibility for my own actions while tweeting in the shower :D
mushroom cooked gentley with onions pine nuts and toasted sesame seeds, resting on a bed of romaine lettece sprinkled with crumbled wendsley dale and cranberry cheese. Drizzled with a good balsamic and a little olive oil. Accompanied with buttered malt bread and a medium sweet white.
We watch what I want human swine OBEY ME
