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I watchted Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen last night.  Honestly, for me, I really liked it a lot.  I had heard of 'plot weakness' and the like, but I just enjoyed the whole affair. 

Favorite parts:

Anything with Megan Fox  :wub: (ha ha)

In reality, I loved the actual battle scenes between the Transformers...the last movie left a lot of it in the back ground-- you knew the fights were taking place, but didn't see a lot of actual action.  This one, there was a lot more 'robot on robot' action.  The Optimus Prime vs Megatron and Optimus Prime vs The Fallen were great!  Plot was good enough to keep my attention, and I think it did as good a job as it could with keeping with the original story line-- granted, variances, but it kinda tried.
 
I read a funny review about this film. Apparantly there is a scene

(accompanied by some shitty and sad sounding music) where the robot cries when he can't go to the prom.

For the rest the reviewer thought it was kinda overdone.

Director: "Ready, mr. mainrole? GO!"
*unending storm of metal/robots/chases/action/attacks etc. follows*
 
The music was supposed to be cheesey, cause the Bumblebee lost his voice again, and had to use the radio to 'voice' his feelings--he was dissappointed because he wasn't allowed to go to college with Sam-- Bumblebee is very dramatic to show his emotion, since he can't speak.
 
I wasn't a huge fan of it.  The last Transformers blew me away, but this one was pretty blah.  I mean, the robot fighting scenes were great!  But to be honest, I hated everything else.  There was tons of unnecessary conflict, they made Megatron the lackey of some nameless Decepticon....the dialogue was terrible, there was pointless humour.  I wasn't pleased at all.

The battle scene in the forest, though, may be one of the best ever.
 
I thought Transformers was one of the most retarded things I've seen in a LONG time. The 'humour' was shit and juvenile, pot jokes, a certain gesalt has balls, those FUCKING red and green cars. By the end of the movie, I wanted to see them get ground up or viciously and graphically ripped apart by some Decepticons.

The story was really terrible, and it as much as I'm a fan of tits, even when coupled with explosions, they do not make a plot. Most of the action was useless, but I do admit that the scene where Prime says 'I'll take them all on!' was savage. Sadly, that was the only redeeming moment in the two hours or more or crap that the movie was.

Oh and what the hell was the deal with Jetfire? Christ, when typing this, I'm just getting more and more angry. When I saw the first movie, I loved it the first time I saw it because of those nostalgic memories of Transformers as a kid. Once I saw it again though, while not wearing rose tinted glasses, I thought it was quite bad. It's a cinematic masterpiece compared to it's sequel however.

In other sequel reviews, Terminator Salvation was also terrible. The last third is a Terminator 2 rip off, and everything else was muck. Bale used the Batman voice, and showed none of his usual ability when acting, and lots of the plot didn't seem to match up with previous movies. Is it really too much to ask for an hour or two of robots shooting at humans, like the start of T2 and parts of T1 had?

Rant over.
 
I hated how Bay didn't treat the Transformers like characters.  He barely introduced us to any of them, even the ones who were major characters (the twins, as much as I hated them).  As I read in one review, "Michael Bay can make a very enjoyable action film, but Revenge of the Fallen is what happens when nobody tells him 'no, you can't have giant testicles on Devastator'."
 
Now Watching: The 1998 HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon".  In anticipation of the upcoming 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, I decided to download this series produced and directed in cases by the ever-amazing Tom Hanks.  The twelve episodes of this series detail the evolution of the Apollo program.

One of the things the series attempts to do quite well is fill in the gaps between the two major space movies of the 1980s and 1990s - The Right Stuff and Apollo 13.  The former movie details Project Mercury, whereas the latter deals with the failed third lunar landing mission (and starred Mr. Hanks).


Episode 1: Can We Do This

This episode deals with the origins of NASA and the concept of a lunar landing as a goal for the 1960s.  It specifically addresses the Project Mercury (in passing) and Project Gemini (overall), leading us through the ten intermediary missions of 1964-65, introducing us to the characters who will later lead the great pioneering missions of Apollo: Neil Armstrong, Dave Scott, John Young, Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, Buzz Aldrin, and more.


Episode 2: Apollo 1

No discussion of the Apollo Program can be complete without an indepth look at the cataclysmic events of Apollo 1, in which astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed by a fire during a routine pad test.  This episode follows competing characters from NASA and North American who argue over who solved the problem, and astronaut Frank Borman, who tries to convince people to put this aside (including the US Congress), and move on with the program.


Episode 3: We Have Cleared The Tower

Apollo 7, commanded by Mercury and Gemini veteran Wally Schirra (who only recently died), aims to prove that Apollo can fly.  This shows us how close Apollo was to failure after the fire, but how the competent command of Schirra and the hard work at NASA got the spaceship to fly, and fly well.


Episode 4: 1968

1968 was a turbulent year in the United States - the war in Vietnam was escalating, two major assassinations, the terrible riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and Richard Nixon was elected.  In NASA, 1968 was just as rough: they were still dealing with a 18 month delay in Apollo after the fire, and the Lunar Module was rather behind on schedule.  So the head fellows at NASA decided to take a risk: they decided to move missions around and send Apollo 8 to the moon for Christmas.  So three men: Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first to leave the influence of our planet, and spent ten orbits in our celestial counterpart.  An aside: despite the terrible and great things that happened in 1968, it was those three men named Time's Men of the Year, not Nixon nor RFK nor MLK.


Episode 5: Spider

If men were to walk on the moon, they would need something to get them to the surface.  This episode details the concept of landing on the moon, showing us the many different methods that NASA considered before using the manner we are all familiar with.  It talks about the men who created the Lunar Module at Grumman in Long Island, and the difficulties in creating it.  And finally, it details Apollo 9, the first mission to take a Lunar Module, Spider, out for a spin.


Episode 6: Mare Tranquilitatis

In the penultimate episode, we follow the crew of Apollo 11 from selection to landing, detailing one of the most famous and important days in our combined history.  It tells the story of how these men trained and prepared for landing on the moon; it followed the mission of Aldrin and Armstrong on the surface.  Overall, this is the most dramatic episode in that it very carefully done, to treat this mission with the respect it deserves.

There are 6 more episodes I haven't seen yet.
 
Anyway, it's a hella good series.  I thoroughly loved the other Hanks miniseries, Band of Brothers, and am looking forward to his next one.
 
Hunlord said:
I thought Transformers was one of the most retarded things I've seen in a LONG time. The 'humour' was shit and juvenile, pot jokes, a certain gesalt has balls, those FUCKING red and green cars. By the end of the movie, I wanted to see them get ground up or viciously and graphically ripped apart by some Decepticons.

The story was really terrible, and it as much as I'm a fan of tits, even when coupled with explosions, they do not make a plot. Most of the action was useless, but I do admit that the scene where Prime says 'I'll take them all on!' was savage. Sadly, that was the only redeeming moment in the two hours or more or crap that the movie was.

Oh and what the hell was the deal with Jetfire? Christ, when typing this, I'm just getting more and more angry. When I saw the first movie, I loved it the first time I saw it because of those nostalgic memories of Transformers as a kid. Once I saw it again though, while not wearing rose tinted glasses, I thought it was quite bad. It's a cinematic masterpiece compared to it's sequel however.

In other sequel reviews, Terminator Salvation was also terrible. The last third is a Terminator 2 rip off, and everything else was muck. Bale used the Batman voice, and showed none of his usual ability when acting, and lots of the plot didn't seem to match up with previous movies. Is it really too much to ask for an hour or two of robots shooting at humans, like the start of T2 and parts of T1 had?

Rant over.
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Nice to know I was right to save my money and time, go me  B)
I'm happy still watching the 1986 animated film and the first gen series, lol, screw everything else.

I agree somewhat with the Star Trek comments, it was a good film and a nice refreshing look at the universe again. Not sure whether it will get to the Khan/Q/Picard levels of legendary but its got the potential.

As for Terminator...I kind of guessed it wouldn't be that great when my only reason to have a look was because Bale was involved - as with many older film series, in my opinion the newer films don't exist. Die Hard 4.0 has so far been the only continuation I've enjoyed to the level of its older brothers. Everything else such as Indiana Jones and Star Wars only exists as its original trilogies, they never made a 4th Indiana or a pre-trilogy, lol, thats just silly ;)
So, for Terminator, imo it ended with 2. 3 was pointless and it seems this new one is equally so. Its annoying Hollywood are resorting to old film series instead of making original, new ones but I guess it will balance out eventually, they will run out of series to flog eventually, right?
 
Wrong, buddy...

Once they've flogged anything and everything twice over, they state: "We will relaunch the franchise..."
 
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