Saw it today, not the first showing but more so the 3rd screening of the day. Pretty sweet...nooooww:
za robots
-soundwave launching ravage. Sure, he wasn't a cassette player and ravage wasn't a cassette but it was
loosely the same formula in terms of infiltration.
-prime vs. megatron, starscream, &...either blackout or grindor? not sure. Twin blades, and....okay I'm a kid that grew up in the 90s but even i got a bit heart-wrenched when Prime died in the 86 movie. So when i saw him impaled by Megatron's blade it was a "holyyyyy ****!" moment. In the theater i was actually saying "...why??? why do it again????"
-the matrix of leadership. The fact that it was called the Matrix just gave me chills I guess, especially one of the Primes "the matrix of leadership is not found, but earned" or something like that. I do wish it served more of a purpose in an 'Honor' retrospect. Then again in G1 they basically used the Matrix to solve almost anything.
-Jetfire you old hunk of junk! Like an old fart and it was pretty amusing. He still made himself badass; squashing scorponok, ripping out his own spark(that was his spark right?)
za humans:
-is the asshole Government official gonna be a reoccurring role in these movies? At least Lennox sent him a nice farewell
-what was that? the 'pretender'? What an original idea! *cough*terminator*cough*
-Sam!!! you...decent character. Something I like about Shia here I just can't put my finger on. As cheesy at is, at least we get to see his bond & relationship with the autobots. Especially after...Prime :sweat:
-Mikaela, eh. Slow motion running all in the dirt, what more do you need?
-The military really showed off their stuff here. Seeing the F-15s getting ready to take off even got me a little amped and damn...they still got owned.
za other stuff:
- were there 2 sets of constructicons?
- why was the Arcee team considered 'twins'...I saw 3, dude...3.
- Okay, again with the appliances turning into transformers, are they speculated as 'neutral' or what they appear to be which seems to be decepticons. Why is that?
- Soundwave's just...up there throughout the whole thing? Sure he serves his purpose but what now after?
- Prime made the Fallen look like a chump. He had a spear and he had the force; "only can be defeated by a Prime". That context made the anti climatic fight seem as easy as maybe even Iron Hide being able to take him out.
See? Not a perfect film but honestly, some of the 'faults' I did find with it kind of contributed to the laughs. I also noticed not as much references were made or did I miss them?
The plot itself; sam knows about the matrix, decepticons want to know too. Autobots therefor try to protect sam, someone bigger and badder shows up and now we're in more ****.
so...
1st movie:
- Sam knows glasses=cube's location
- Decepticons want sam for cube's location
- They Find Megatron, cue uber fight scene.
- Autobots win by an alternate possibility of victory (put the cube in MEGATRON's chest)
This movie:
- Sam knows about matrix
- Decepticons want sam for the matrix's location
- The discover about The Fallen, cue uber fight scene.
- Autobots win by an alternate possibility of victory (Jetfire combines with Prime
You know what? I could say it's mundane and dry because of a recycled formula from countless other movies, tv shows, and books, I think it's a matter of doing something similar in a new and fresh fashion. The way it worked this time around was that it was done on a grander scale.
It worked but then at the same time it didn't. The smaller group of transformers in the first one allowed us to get to know the characters a bit, allowing us to easily identify them by varying characteristics. In
Revenge of The Fallen some of these dudes just got wiped clean: Jolt being in and out of the scenes and plot, sideways being sliced in half in the BEGINNING, arcee and chronia and...whoever the last one was. We get slight taste in who they are but other than that not much at all.
Although I think the most important aspect of this film is one word: Fun. Mudflap and Skids made for an amusing duo and as immature as some jokes might be (yes I, a teenager using 'immature') you either laugh at them or you laugh at the idea as to the producers utilizing them. The comedy made me laugh, the action blasted my mind, and nostalgia got the best of me. It's summer, I'm tired of homework, it's hot as hell, so why not?
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