Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

[Kopek]

Bay blows shit up. The end.

[Face]

OMG WHAT ABOUT SHIA'S SMUSHED FINGERSES?

[The Ape]

LaBeouf Back on Transformers Set Thursday
Source: Entertainment Tonight, Film School Rejects August 14, 2008

Both Entertainment Tonight and Film School Rejects are reporting that Shia LaBeouf is returning to the set of Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Thursday.

Shia and his passenger/co-star Isabel Lucas were hit in the early morning hours of July 27 by another driver who had run a red light in Los Angeles. LaBeouf underwent surgery on his hand to repair damage caused by the accident. Reports in late July said that it would take a month before LaBeouf would be back on set, but that appears not to be the case.

DreamWorks/Paramount is targeting a June 26, 2009 release for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

[zero]

Rodimus prime?

[ADD]

More Megan Fox, less Shia La Suck. I hated the first Transformers except for Megan Fox and Bernie Mac. She better get naked in this one.

[The Ape]

The good news according to her interviews she is dying to do so...let's hope that happens sooner than later.

[zero]

she seems to be on the right track usually the young starlets want to keep her clothes on she wants them off

[The Ape]

God bless her.

[Blackface_RDJ]

Rodimus prime?


rodimus in the form of a ferrari would be badass

[MDiver01]

I think it should be a standard that young hot actresses have to get naked before 25.

[The Ape]

In a perfect world....just think of all the missed opportunities so far.....

[MDiver01]

I try not to. It makes me sad.

[ADD]

No shit?!?!?!

Even dead, he's more entertaining than little La Bouf

[zero]

poster has been revealed
and yes rodimus prime as a ferrari would be pretty bad ass

http://www.iheartchaos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/poster_transformers-revengeofthefa.jpg

[thestronz]

In a perfect world....just think of all the missed opportunities so far.....

So I thought about it...

Jessica Alba (27), Natalie Portman (27), Emmanuele Chriqui (28), Elisha Cuthbert (26), Jennifer Love Hewitt (29), Rachel Bilson (27)

Next year Scarlett joins the club.

[nuclearjew]

Jennifer Love Hewitt seems older than 29.

And why is this called Revenge of the Fallen? Is Megatron going to get revenge? Is Jazz going to get some revenge for being a stereotype? What's going on with this destined-to-be-a-piece-of-shit?

[bixby]

http://i38.tinypic.com/20j0ach.jpg

[TheImpossibleMan]

The first film was terrible. I refuse to pay to see this; it's either sneaking in or illegally downloading for me.

[Claydon]

as if the first one didn't suck enough

[nuclearjew]

as if the first one didn't suck enough
Your av makes it look like Phelps is wearing a sportsbra.

[vasili denisov]

And why is this called Revenge of the Fallen? Is Megatron going to get revenge? Is Jazz going to get some revenge for being a stereotype? What's going on with this destined-to-be-a-piece-of-shit?
I've got a problem with the title because you've got this verb that you associate with violent activity and this noun that makes me think of immobility. It's like calling it "Transformers 2: Carnage of the Reclined".

[Claydon]

Your av makes it look like Phelps is wearing a sportsbra.

what does that have to do with the fact that the first transformers and michael bay suck ass?

[nuclearjew]

Nothing, I was just making an astute observation.

[Draven X 23]

Jennifer Love Hewitt seems older than 29.

And why is this called Revenge of the Fallen? Is Megatron going to get revenge? Is Jazz going to get some revenge for being a stereotype? What's going on with this destined-to-be-a-piece-of-shit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_(Transformers) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_%28Transformers%29)

[Blackface_RDJ]

dear Lord, can we get back to talk about HotRod being a Ferrari?

its a popcorn movie...not meant to win oscars, but to entertain us with badass looking robots

[muthastone]

this will be michael bay's most slam-bang movie yet.

[nuclearjew]

dear Lord, can we get back to talk about HotRod being a Ferrari?

its a popcorn movie...not meant to win oscars, but to entertain us with badass looking robots
Yeah, too bad there will be way more Shia LeBeouf than actual robots.

[Draven X 23]

Well of course. Robots are expensive to make. Shia isn't because he is real... kinda.

More Megan Fox isn't a bad thing though.

[nuclearjew]

I don't think it's a matter of expense, it's more of a matter of the studios thinking that people can't handle 90 minutes of robots without too much humanity. Just like how Spider-Man only wears his mask for 15 minutes in each movie...the audience has to constantly be reminded that you're watching Tobey Maguire. It sucks.

And that link for "The Fallen" sounds completely convoluted, this movie will suck if they follow that plot.
Although the Fallen's origins are only suggested in his comic book appearance, they would be fully explained in Dorling Kindersley's Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. One of the original thirteen Transformers created by Primus, the robot who would become the Fallen betrayed his creator by siding with Primus's dark twin, the malevolent planet-eater, Unicron. In the final battle between Primus and Unicron, the Fallen fell victim to the same fate as his master, sucked through a black hole into another dimension. However, while Unicron emerged into another universe, the Fallen was not so fortunate, finding himself trapped in the "underspace" between dimensions.
It'd be cool if this movie got trapped in the underspace.

[Draven X 23]

I thought Tobey only wears the mask because he wants more face time on screen. Like Topher did with Venom.

[ADD]

More Megan Fox's tits!

[svtdriver]

Just to offer another opinion here. For a guy who grew up with Transformers as a kid, I'm actually excited about this. Granted, Michael Bay is hit-or-miss with his blockbusters, and Megan Fox definitely wore too many clothes in most of that movie, and Optimus Prime saying "My bad" every two seconds was mildly irritating...

Alright, fine. Transformers kinda sucked...

There I said it.

Regardless, it'll be interesting. I MIGHT have the urge to actually buy a ticket to go see it. Especially if there's more Starscream in the next one and he stays an F-22A for that one.

[vasili denisov]

this will be michael bay's most slam-bang movie yet.
That may well be true; yet skeptics question whether its bangs will be as slammy as this previous release.


http://fapomatic.com/0833/287252.jpg


Only one of these has a "kick ass guarantee". Also, this poster, unlike "Revenge of the Fallen" prominently features human tongue. In addition, I draw the jury's attention to the Jon Voight-less quality of this picture; unlike "Revenge", this film is Jon Voight-less.

[ADD]

Alright, fine. Transformers kinda sucked...

There I said it.



There's no kinda about it

[Night Hawk]

Am i the only person on this board that liked transformers?


with the exception of lines like "BUMBLEBEE STOP LUBRICATING THE MAN"

[ruffdog]

Am i the only person on this board that liked transformers?

I liked it

[Night Hawk]

I liked it


Ok Correction.. Are we the only TWO that liked transformers?

[ADD]

Transformers makes Death Race look like Gone With The Wind

[ruffdog]

Ok Correction.. Are we the only TWO that liked transformers?

face liked it

[Night Hawk]

Transformers makes Death Race look like Gone With The Wind


Gone With The Wind.. SUCKS..

jk

[ADD]

Not as much as Transformers

[Night Hawk]

Not as much as Transformers


What sucked about transformers?

[ADD]

Everything except Megan Fox and Bernie Mac

[Night Hawk]

Everything except Megan Fox and Bernie Mac

I really dont get what sucked about this as a movie... without specific examples.. i have to say you are just hating because its "the in thing to do".

[ADD]

No. I hated it because it wasted 2 hours of my life. It was fucking terrible. Terrible writing, terrible boring script, Shia La Bouf. It's probably the worst movie I've ever seen in theaters. Michael Bay made yet another turd. I expect the same from the 2nd one.

[Night Hawk]

No. I hated it because it wasted 2 hours of my life. It was fucking terrible. Terrible writing, terrible boring script, Shia La Bouf. It's probably the worst movie I've ever seen in theaters. Michael Bay made yet another turd. I expect the same from the 2nd one.


Which is again not specific at all... You hated it to hate it.

What about the story did you not like. I thought it worked and I understood it completely. I just don't see how you make a movie about transforming robots hiding as cars into a more serious movie. The movie was as good as the idea let it be.

[ADD]

I can't hate a movie because I thought it sucked and it bored me to death? 10 minutes I couldn't wait for it to be over. I didn't like anything about it. The stupid kid with hsi robot friends, him hiding them from his parents, John Tuturo and his task force, I could go on. It fucking sucked.

[Night Hawk]

I can't hate a movie because I thought it sucked and it bored me to death? 10 minutes I couldn't wait for it to be over. I didn't like anything about it. The stupid kid with hsi robot friends, him hiding them from his parents, John Tuturo and his task force, I could go on. It fucking sucked.


Then why are you in here talking about the second movie? I thought it was very good...

If people hate movies so much, why do they discuss them in forums.

[ADD]

Because last I checked, people talk about movies if they like them or not. Just like sports, or music.

[Night Hawk]

Because last I checked, people talk about movies if they like them or not. Just like sports, or music.

Touche.

[misterfatt]

if you didn't like the first movie, there's a very good chance you didn't like the original show, animated movie, and that you take things too seriously.

[HAWK]

I liked it

[Night Hawk]

if you didn't like the first movie, there's a very good chance you didn't like the original show, animated movie, and that you take things too seriously.

and therefore must be unamerican

[CAB]

i liked it.. it was mindless action flick with some humor and a hot chick thrown in... typical Michael Bay movie... chances are if you dont like any of Bay's other movies, you would not like Transformers

Bay's last two films
The Island - action flick with random appearance by Buscemi (humor) and Johanssen (hot chick)
Bad Boys 2 - action flick with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence (humor) and Gabrielle Union (hot chick)

its a formula that has lent itself to making a shit ton of money... why change it to appease a minority of people who dont like that kind of movie?

[Night Hawk]

Damn good post for only having 4 posts.

[CAB]

i pick my spots...

[Creepnation]

Transformers was alright. All the autobots turned into pretty gay vehicles though.

[three50zoom]

Johnny 5 Alive!?

[MDiver01]

ban

[intlbizman]

Transformers is the best DVD I have to test for 5.1 surround sound!
Then Megan Fox's cleavage is great for testing 1080p up convert vs 480p DVD no convert.
I agree CAB made a good post that really owned.

[MDiver01]

One half of the writing duo of the upcoming TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, Robert Orci, has been kind enough to answer questions about the flick over at the TFW2005 messageboards. The thread is currently at 82 pages but the moderators have been cool enough to put a whole bunch of questions and answers at the beginning. Here's a small little taste:


Q: Mr. Orci, by going at the lenght of the script, is there any small indication at all about what the runtime of the sequel will be? Also: I think you can answer this one safely. Is Ratchet coming back?


A: Going by the length of the script can be tricky because the action is longer in reality than on the page. We're trying to keep it to two hours, but I get a feeling it'll be about the same as movie 1. Ratchet could be on assignment in Alpha Centauri. Who knows?


Q: With all this news about Icecream twins, "Wheels" and so forth, I'm a bit worried that we won't get to see very many new "Classics" characters. Should I be worried?

A: Slightly -- but there will be plenty for die hards.

Q: How many country will receive visitors from space? From what we know by now,france chinaand united states will be there,is there anymore? Will there is any chance we'll get a teaser trailer before the end of the year? How many title ,before the choice of revenge of the fallen,were in the race?

A: The story for part 2 is more global, for sure. Teaser will surely come out before the end of the year. None. Alex Kurtzman came up with the title, and it was the only one we put up on the cover of the script.[/color]


Read the rest of it over HERE (http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/180451-welcome-mr-robert-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions.html). The Fallen gets his revenge on June 26th of next year.

[patcooper]

i loved transformers. the blu-ray comes out on Tuesday i cant wait to pick it up.

[Creepnation]

It's a terrible movie but I kind of like it anyways.

[zero]

It's like the ugly puppy that everyone thinks is kind of cute but that no one really wants to admit it.

[Night Hawk]

It really is NOT a terrible movie..

If you enjoyed the cartoon and the show growing up. And you have at least half your brain. You enjoyed Transformers.

[nuclearjew]

It really is a terrible movie..

If you enjoyed the cartoon and the show growing up. And you have at least half your brain. You wanted to kill Michael Bay.
fixed

[freegood]

Yeah... what I watched was not Transformers. It was some Discovery Channel abomination only Michael Bay could pull off.

Nice special effects, but Transformers in name only.

[JT]

Some pics my buddy took with his phone 4 days ago in Long Beach.



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http://i33.tinypic.com/5eivbr.jpg

[Archetype]

Nice special effects, but Transformers in name only.

Was Transformers anything other than robots though?

[JT]

This was also on the set. I haven't been keeping up with what was going on with this movie so I can't tell you what/who it is.

http://i38.tinypic.com/20ze7f8.jpg

[Ethix]

http://jalopnik.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2008/08/Corvette-Centennial-Design.jpg


C7 Corvette concept. Maybe it'll be Hot Rod.

[Face]

I'm gonna go with Mirage, Hot Rod HAS to be red, there is no alternative

[TheImpossibleMan]

It's just a concept, maybe that is Hot Rod and they haven't painted it yet.

[Face]

you're an idiot

[JohnQRotten]

http://jalopnik.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2008/08/Corvette-Centennial-Design.jpg


C7 Corvette concept. Maybe it'll be Hot Rod.

I heard Tracks is in this movie and he was a corvette in G1. Not that very many of the Autobots have had the same alt modes as in G1 so far.

[Blackface_RDJ]

devastator in Transformers 2...

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/?p=3314

i hope they do him right...they constructicons forming devastator should be omgwtf awesome in cgi


ps...dear God i hope they include the dinobots...grimlock ftw

[chaos2015]

Shia runined the first one for me, he was trying too much to be funny. It would be cool to see roddamus but it would suck that he would probably be a corvette

[Philips25]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51568

Empire (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=23925) has debuted these first three photos from Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=37679) as well as a new cover featuring Optimus Prime, while USA Today has published two articles on the filming that took place at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico that stood in for much of a battle that will take place in Cairo, Egypt in the movie. There's some spoilers in the articles, but you can read them here (http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-12-28-transformers-main_N.htm) and here (http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-12-28-transformers-side_N.htm).

The anticipated sequel, starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Isabel Lucas, Rainn Wilson and Jennifer Alden, opens in conventional theaters and IMAX on June 26.


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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51575

Last night, we mentioned (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51568) that Empire magazine had debuted three new images from Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=37679) as well as a cover featuring Optimus Prime, and that USA Today had published two set visit articles. Now, the newspaper has added more new images to its website (http://www.usatoday.com/life/l081229_transformers2/flash.htm?gid=831) that you can check out below!



http://img230.imagevenue.com/loc481/th_90839_untitled5_122_481lo.jpg (http://img230.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=90839_untitled5_122_481lo.jpg) http://img18.imagevenue.com/loc1183/th_90840_untitled6_122_1183lo.jpg (http://img18.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=90840_untitled6_122_1183lo.jpg) http://img150.imagevenue.com/loc671/th_90845_untitled7_122_671lo.jpg (http://img150.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=90845_untitled7_122_671lo.jpg) http://img107.imagevenue.com/loc598/th_90852_untitled8_122_598lo.jpg (http://img107.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=90852_untitled8_122_598lo.jpg)

[Philips25]

http://mos.totalfilm.com/images/t/transformers-2-concept-art-online-800-75.jpg

Some likely new concept art from Transformers sequel Revenge Of The Fallen has been shoved online.
While we’re hesitant to call anything here 100% official, the new image of Megatron (who we hear is dredged up from the ocean floor to aid the Autobots in fighting a new, worse threat) certainly ties in with current information.

This time around, it looks like the evil robot menace will transform into a tank - and you can see all the images in the thumbnails at the bottom of this post, just click on them for the larger images.

Ravage
Less successful, in our Transformers-loving opinion is the look of what is being labelled Ravage.
Fans of the original Transformers ‘toons will know that Ravage is the panther-like ‘bot who travelled as a tape contained within fellow Decepticon Soundwave, alongside Laserbeak and who usually preferred to stay in his animalistic form.
And though he certainly looks nasty here, he also seems more than a little designed.
Of course, these could both be smokescreens generated by Michael Bay’s paranoia department, but the leaks are starting to become more regular. Now we just need a trailer. Or an official pic. Come on Mike – how about it?

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[Hoser]

Shia wasn't bad for the role beacuse they needed a pathetic whiney bitch that needed the robots to protect him. If they had some alpha male playing his role it wouldn't have worked.

I liked the movie for what it was, mind numbing entertainment. it wasn't and Oscar worthy movie, it wasn't full of bone chilling suspense. It was a movie about robots and shit blowing up, it covered both very well, thus making it a good movie for what it was.

It really seems that people who didn't like this movie were either expecting way to much from this movie, expecting some sort of award winning movie (haha) or take themselves way to seriously and just can't enjoy a movie for what it was.

I'll see this, not sure if in theaters or download, but I will probably like it again for what it is.

[highone]

That concept Corvette gets my cock hard.

[Nature's Folly]

That Shia LaBeouf gets my cock hard.

Fixed.

[Philip Lombard]

http://comingsoon.net/nextraimages/transformers2poster.jpg

New poster is goatse-ish.

[Le Goat]

and also not there

[Philip Lombard]

http://img136.imagevenue.com/loc769/th_73137_transformers2poster_122_769lo.jpg (http://img136.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=73137_transformers2poster_122_769lo. jpg)

[bkoo29]

Can't wait for this movie to come out. I liked the first one but I wished they could of based all the transformer according to the cartoon. It would be more authentic. nonetheless, it was a great movie.

[fastjohnnybuell]

Ever notice that every movie LaBeouf does, he always manages to say..."No...No...No...Noooo" about 600 times?

I liked the first Transformers, but they could have gotten a better actor for it. I watched the special features on the DVD and LaBeouf said he gained 25 lbs of muscle during the making of it. Fox said she gained 15lbs. Obviously it was all in her tits.

[highone]

Her tits are ripped!

[Mr. Bateman]

the actual teaser poster

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/thedrummerkid88/tf2posterbright.jpg

[highone]

Any word as to when a trailer is being released?

[highone]

I heard Tracks is in this movie and he was a corvette in G1. Not that very many of the Autobots have had the same alt modes as in G1 so far.

Meet "Sideswipe" (courtesy of Hasbro)...

http://www.411mania.com/siteimages/usesideswipe_13741.jpg

[arod2105]

Trailer is supposed to be out soon. Its either going to air during the Super Bowl, or it will be attached to a movie in Feburary. Most likely during the Super Bowl, from what I have heard so far.

[Mr. Bateman]

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awesome

[nuclearjew]

FAIL

[Face]

fale

[Mr. Bateman]

god dammit paramount. i will see if i can find another one

[Mr. Bateman]

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there we go

[Face]

I have never been so hard in all my life

[Mr. Bateman]

yea there was an HD version up earlier. this just looks so amazing

[jax]

oh shit oh shit oh shit

[Rumpleforeskin]

So that bigass fucking thing must be Devastator?

[Will-Kill]

I'm guessing Sam gets his wrist hurt from the Drunk Driving Decepticon that crushed/hit him.

[arod2105]

LOve the tv spot, can't wait til next week when we get the first teaser trailer with Friday the 13th.

[doubleocrow]

I hope this time we'll see more robot action and less acting. The TV spot looked good, but so did the spots for part 1 and I was kinda bored when watching most of the movie.

[highone]

I'm guessing Sam gets his wrist hurt from the Drunk Driving Decepticon that crushed/hit him.

Nice!!! :)

What's also funny is that I have no doubt in my mind that Michael Bay will have some sort of corny joke in the finished film that pokes fun at Lebouf's drunk-driving mishap.

[420monk]

480p Trailer
http://rapidshare.com/files/193158521/GoLeech.org_presents_transformersrevengeofthefalle n-sbspot_h480p.hdmov

[ClarkKentTB]

the superbowl trailer was awesome

[Philips25]

http://img188.imagevenue.com/loc1075/th_06854_TFormers01_123_1075lo.jpg (http://img188.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=06854_TFormers01_123_1075lo.jpg) http://img187.imagevenue.com/loc951/th_06860_TFormers02_123_951lo.jpg (http://img187.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=06860_TFormers02_123_951lo.jpg)

[highone]

SCHWING!

[Hoser]

Meet Devastator

http://jalopnik.com/assets/images/gallery/12/2009/02/medium_3272771970_12ea136891_o.jpg

How to build Bumblebee (http://jalopnik.com/5151146/how-to-build-bumblebee)
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/02/Bumblebee_Chicago_Auto_Show.jpg

[Hoser]

K2pe4A79Fi0

Some of the cars (http://jalopnik.com/5151539/transformers-2-never+before+seen-autobot-running-footage)

[comicfan]

I am still not sold on whether I am going to like this one or not. I miss Jazz.

[Hoser]

BTW that was one awesome GM commercial I posted.

[Celtickliq]

Bootleg trailer....get it while you can


-rDBQAz08FY

[Pax Britannia]

Well that was fairly awesome.

[Le Goat]

first half of that could'bve been Armageddon Part Deux

[gigantor]

Well that was fairly awesome.


Indeed, i'll definitely be seeing that.

[Will-Kill]

Giant Bilboard size to Little Bug size.
Sweet.

[Face]

fucking fuck...

[Mr. Bateman]

sooooo online HD version when?

[FlipHKD]

Not sure when but heres another link to a cam of it
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/13/transformers-2-full_trailer/

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Transformers II : Leave your brain at the door

[eleveneighteen]

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809943432/video/11834123

Full trailer at Yahoo

[Kopek]

More shit blowing up. Mr. Bay, you know what the public wants and you deliver every time [except for Pearl Harbor of course].

[highone]

Actually, the best part of Pearl Harbor was the actual attack, so at least Bay had it right from that standpoint.

[doubleocrow]

Shit, looks I am going to get sucked into this one too. Damn you Michael Bay! You better make this much better than part 1!!

[Philips25]

http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/nouser/meganfoxtr19e46536a.jpg (http://bandwidth.se/view/15210) http://bandwidth.se/thumbs/nouser/meganfoxtrca7983c4.jpg (http://bandwidth.se/view/15211)

[highone]

MMMMmmmmmmmegan Fox!

[johnnychacski]

MMMMmmmmmmmegan Fox!

[TMJ]

Mmmmmmmmmbad body art!

[Mr. Bateman]

holy shit

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[Face]

hot damn!

[Gary_Busey]

Can you name every Transformer in that trailer, Face?

[Face]

no

[johnnychacski]

I was excited as it is, but with every trailer I get more and more excited, it's gonna be great.

[arod2105]

Yeah i can't wait for it to come out. We really haven't seen a whole lot of footage, so it makes the anticipation even higher.

[Hoser]

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/transformers-2/trailer

Not sure if this is new or not, but I havent seen it yet

[Face]

*fucking boner*

[Titus_Pullo]

I read some of the Go-Bots will be in this one.

[johnnychacski]

Saw new trailer at Wolverine, and god damn this movie is going to be amazing.

[Hoser]

I think the action and animation will be amazing, not to sure about the story yet, but even the most cheesy storyline can be forgotten with giant transforming robots blowing up shit for 2 1/2 hours.

[Hoser]

Screenshots can be seen here

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/other/Transformers-Movie-Images/Transformers-2-Trailer-3/

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/05/Transformers2Trailer_03.jpg
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/other/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6268&g2_serialNumber=2
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/other/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6331&g2_serialNumber=2
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/other/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6541&g2_serialNumber=2

[johnnychacski]

Me likely that Megan Fox screen shot.

[arod2105]

I would agree, she lloks damn good. Man I can't wait til next month. This will be the movie that might just own the summer this year.

[Rumpleforeskin]

Well, they got rid of Anthony Anderson and that ridiculous australian chick, so it's automatically going to be better than the first one as far as I'm concerned.

[ADD]

Me likely that Megan Fox screen shot.

That was the best part of the trailer this morning.

Shia makes me want to kill people, though

[Ace Rockola]

Well, they got rid of Anthony Anderson and that ridiculous australian chick, so it's automatically going to be better than the first one as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, but they kept the annoying parents.

What transformer was the one at the end of the trailer sucking up all the sand?

[highone]

I'm guessing that's Devastator.

[Will-Kill]

I wonder if The Fallen was seen in the Trailer.

[bootska]

<sighs> childhood ruined.

[Face]

your childhood sucked anyway

[bootska]

Michael Bay sucks.

I could give a rats behind about the cleavage or the overly stylized robots.

I wanted the robots from the original series. It practically took an act of congress to get Peter Cullen to voice Prime.

He removes the story and adds more explosions and boobs.

Pearl Harbor was crap. Armageddon was the worst movie of the 90's.

[patcooper]

Michael Bay sucks.

I could give a rats behind about the cleavage or the overly stylized robots.

I wanted the robots from the original series. It practically took an act of congress to get Peter Cullen to voice Prime.

He removes the story and adds more explosions and boobs.

Pearl Harbor was crap. Armageddon was the worst movie of the 90's.


yeah who wants to see tits and cool looking robots.

and i was not a fan of Bays movies until the first transformers and that switched me right around. The Rock and Bad Boys are pretty damn fun flicks.

[johnnychacski]

Michael Bay sucks.

I could give a rats behind about the cleavage or the overly stylized robots.

I wanted the robots from the original series. It practically took an act of congress to get Peter Cullen to voice Prime.

He removes the story and adds more explosions and boobs.

Pearl Harbor was crap. Armageddon was the worst movie of the 90's.

And I could give a crap about your opinion.

[Will-Kill]

I see nothing wrong with Tits and Robots shooting each other....now some Robo on Robo action...thats hot.

[AlanSmithee]

Well, they got rid of that ridiculous australian chick, so it's automatically going to be better than the first one as far as I'm concerned.

yeah but they have added another one, Isabel Lucas.

[Duncndisorderly]

I read some of the Go-Bots will be in this one.
Please god let it be true, only buggy man and dumper can save this movie from its inevitable fail, that or someone killing shea la queef in the first 30 seconds followed by a two hour long megan fox naked montage scene

[NoGravitas]

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[Skybase]

BEST THING EVER

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Mm, I like me some of that.

[Face]

I already have the Soundwave MP3 player, this would go alongside that perfectly

[Jericho]

looking through imdb....the voice for Jazz is Eddie fucking Winslow! hahahaha

[Face]

did you know the other winslow daughter(the one who was written out of the show) ended up doing porn? its da troof!

[Jericho]

Yeah, I saw her on Celebrity Rehab, noob!

[Face]

whore

[Okie Medicvet]

I have never been into the transformers and heard the first movie sucked so didn't bother to even watch it, but the trailer I saw before watching Star Trek just made it look so awesome I have to admit I am intrigued.

[NoGravitas]

I already have the Soundwave MP3 player, this would go alongside that perfectly

Pics please? Sounds awesome.

[Face]

Pics please? Sounds awesome.
http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT79162

there's also a white version and a blue version, I have the blue one

[Pax Britannia]

New trailer. Similar stuff to before but some new shots:
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[Mr. Bateman]

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hmm not exactly sure how i feel about that.

[WET HOT MESS]

I wanna watch it!

[Face]

awesome!

[Le Goat]

Retarded

[Fiend1138]

really? fuck you michael bay for always adding cheese ball attempts at humor.

i mean seriously, 'he's a little salvage bot, so let's make him sound like a bitter pissed off New Yorker'

'genius mr. bay! you did it again!' claps...

[NoGravitas]

Wheelies voice sounds familiar....

[NoGravitas]

Yup - he did Yancy Fry in futurama

[Stax]

really? fuck you michael bay for always adding cheese ball attempts at humor.

i mean seriously, 'he's a little salvage bot, so let's make him sound like a bitter pissed off New Yorker'

'genius mr. bay! you did it again!' claps...

It's the George Lucas logic, like having the bartering cheap asshole (that bug guy) who owned Anakin have a giant nose and a very very very Jewish voice.

[Le Goat]

MCG > MBay?!



hmm

[HAWK]

Uhh. No.

And I don't even like MBay.

[Le Goat]

Mc G > You

[defprophet]

I was told by my sister that Transformers was coming to my small town in WI a week early, and when I looked through the paper sure enough comes out tmrw night at midnight. Am I wrong on the release date and it isn't early? Is this something going on all over the country? or is it just the local theatre being stupid?

[ShitBreak]

Since it's a small butt-fuck town in Wisconsin, maybe they finally got around to releasing the FIRST Transformers movie?

The sequel will probably come out around there sometime in 2012.

[defprophet]

One would think that, but no it's the new one that's being advertised. The theatre sucks it's only 2 screens but it stays up to date on movies and we can drink beer in the theatre so that's cool.

[Superhuman]

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hmm not exactly sure how i feel about that.
That was painful to watch.

[Blackface_RDJ]

i heard devastator comes equipped with testicles

[Face]

guess that's one more thing he has that you don't!

erm... 2 more things

[Mr. Bateman]

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[Celtickliq]

pffff Michael Bay's Terminator is way cooler than McG's.

[TMJ]

Holy Fucktards.

Bigger, brawnier and better – much better – than its predecessor, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” fucking dominates a mediocre summer.

The script is less silly this time around, though Bay’s sense of humor remains childish and mildly racist. But from an action standpoint, “Revenge of the Fallen” is unmatched. It's smoother. Bay actually pulls his camera back and keeps it (relatively) stationary so we can appreciate the AMAZING robot creations. I'm a jaded fuck, and even I uttered "Holy shit" at least three times. This is the quintessential Michael Bay film, and I mean that as a high compliment.

In a summer season that promises an “event” picture every weekend, Bay’s “Transformers” sequel is the first to deliver the goods.

[ShitBreak]

What did you guys think about the pacing of the movie? I can't really comment since I haven't seen it, but a lot of early reviews have been complaining that after the first hour, the movie drags.

I want to just chalk it up to people being ADD-riddled retards who have to have shit blow up every 5 minutes to keep their attention.

Just wanted y'alls take.

[TMJ]

I'd kind of agree. It's way too long. But all of Bay's movies are too long. And the humor is aimed at retards. But again, nothing new. However, the action is unreal. Bay steps it up. So, credit where credit's due. But yeah, you feel the film's length. Dude needs to make a 90-minute motherfucker. I'm not sure he's capable.

[ShitBreak]

I'd kind of agree. It's way too long. But all of Bay's movies are too long. And the humor is aimed at retards. But again, nothing new. However, the action is unreal. Bay steps it up. So, credit where credit's due. But yeah, you feel the film's length. Dude needs to make a 90-minute motherfucker. I'm not sure he's capable.

When I read a interview with him a day or two ago, and he said he needs to get away from the shit he's been doing and do "something with no explosions"....I literally laughed my ass off.

I can see it now. a 90 minute rom-com, directed by Michael Bay.

[Celtickliq]

Interesting TMJ. Because like, it sucked and stuff.

Actually, I found it funny the movie made Obama come off like a dick. So that didnt really suck. Everything else did. Fucking Terminator in a Transformer film. wtf.

[Celtickliq]

Trailers attached to Transformers are....

Aliens in the attic
Last airbender
Gi joe
9
Harry potter
2012

[TMJ]

Obama? How on earth did you connect Obama to anything happening in Bayformers? Aside from the line on the TV that said he was being taken to a safe bunker in the middle of the U.S.?

[Celtickliq]

Obama? How on earth did you connect Obama to anything happening in Bayformers? Aside from the line on the TV that said he was being taken to a safe bunker in the middle of the U.S.?



Well..... Its established Obama is the President of the United States not some fictional character. So when its the Presidential Order that the N.E.S.T. be shut down and that turns out to be the wrong this to do, Obama and his staff are not very likeable.

[TMJ]

But ...

All of Bay's movies need a government/administrative stooge for the director to belittle. See Jon Voight (T1), Joey Pantolaino (the Bad Boys films), William Fichter (Armageddon) and John Spencer (The Rock). It's not politics with Bay. It's pure formula!

[Le Goat]

I heard this thing is getting some seriously bad reviews. I refused to pay to see the last one, which was a good idea, so I think I'll use the same strategy this time. Maybe wait a week to see it on Cam.

[Jericho]

I heard this thing is getting some seriously bad reviews. I refused to pay to see the last one, which was a good idea, so I think I'll use the same strategy this time. Maybe wait a week to see it on Cam.
There's already a kinda crappy one floating around

[Le Goat]

I kinda wanna see the cool Graphics, so I need a bit better version. I'll prob just watch it on Mute

[TMJ]

Michael Bay movies don't fit in a Cam.

[Le Goat]

Neither does your mom





MOTHER FUCKING OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH!


wut

[TMJ]

Touche?

Douche?

LaBeouf?

[RedBEARD]

LaBeoufie-doofie.

[TMJ]

Don't hate, Red. It's beneath you.

[RedBEARD]

Kid's got a fun name, is all!

[Mr. Bateman]

that was in no way better than the first one. i thought it was terrible, other than the action. if it wasnt for the special effects it would be a shit of a movie.

-too much terrible michael bay humor
-convoluted plot
-no structure
they just tried to do too much. it had spiderman 3 syndrome. man am i disappointed.

the balls on devastator for example

[Nataku187]

The story made sense to me, but I'm a huge TF nut so I know the idea behind the Fallen and TF lore, convoluted as it is, it does have structure. It's a good sequel, huge body count, had way too many loose ends at the end. Be sure Transformers 3 will happen, with or without Bay.

[Face]

damn, prime fucked some shit up, then got his shit fucked up, then proceeded to fuck more shit up

you really just can't keep a good optimus down

[Celtickliq]

I think I am the only one who didnt go for the GI Joe vs Transformers ending.

[TMJ]

But Bay always has a HUGE military presence, Celt. Soldiers fought robots at the end of the first one, too.

[TMJ]

And what is "convoluted" about the plot? Bad robots want a shard of the Allspark. Good robots try and stop them. Boom.

Did I miss anything?

[Celtickliq]

But Bay always has a HUGE military presence, Celt. Soldiers fought robots at the end of the first one, too.



Here is my issue with everything.... and this is coming from someone who really liked the first Transformers and Bad Boys 2.....



Everything that made the first movie work isn’t in there.

The humor in the first was there, but it was only certain characters like Mom, Dad and Agent Simmons. I guess some Bumblebee. Transformers 2 it seemed to be pushed way past the limit. Everyone is in there for comedy. I understand the Bay comedy element, but I don’t need every character.

The story structure was terrible. I don’t care about length (it’s like 10 minutes longer than the first) and I don’t care about the plot bc it’s a popcorn flick. I care that there was no threat. I didn’t care for the villain, which to me wasn’t thought of as a "the" villain simply bc he was some robot bitch who kept pushing the point that he will have revenge. Big woop to his flashback scene. Really boring. No threat what so ever.

As for the Autobot Transformers, in the first movie, they were actual characters. They were involved in moving the plot forward. They had consecutive lines of dialogue. They were almost human. You cared when Bumblebee was captured in the original. Now, it’s like they are just giant robots shooting things. Again, boring.


I am not looking for perfection. The first one was no where near perfect. Just a little consistency. In Transformers 1, US military had no effect on the robots. With RotF, and not including the demise of the Devastator, USA guns and tanks and bombs all do the job just fine.

That stuff bugs me. I can give a shit about the continuity of Shia’s bandages showing up throughout the movie. I can care less about the racist robots. I can deal with Meghan Fox not looking hot with her slow motion tits bouncing off her chin. I can deal with the Terminator who made its way into the film. I can deal with Green Day songs. It’s a popcorn flick. I just ask make me say “ooh that was cool” instead of “that was awkward and silly.”

[Skybase]

A review on MSN.com. I haven't seen the movie yet, but if this holds any truth... Hrm.

Transformers': Nothing Meets the EyeJames Rocchi, Special to MSN Movies
http://entimg.msn.com/i/rev/msnReviewLogo.gif In 2007's "Transformers (http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie/transformers/)," director Michael Bay (http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity/michael-bay/) (who is also responsible for "Pearl Harbor (http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie/pearl-harbor.2/)" and "Armageddon (http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie/armageddon.4/)") brought the Hasbro toy line to the big screen in the perfect marriage of plastic, mass-production subject and plastic, mass-production director. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen/)" brings Bay, his armada of effects technicians and his cast back to continue the Earth-bound battle between two rival groups of alien robots who can disguise themselves as vehicles so as to better hide among us. Based on a mythology created to rev up the promotion and profits between a toy line and an animated show during the '80s, "Transformers" was big and dumb and loud and fake, full of slapdash storytelling and special effects that leapt off the screen and clawed at your retinas in the hope of distracting you from just how badly made the movie was. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is not as bad as "Transformers"; somehow, in the face of long odds, it is actually worse.
Where the first film was desperate, this one is desperate and sad. Where the first film sent mixed messages about ethnic and racial groups and women, this one is overtly racist and sexist. Where the first "Transformers" was clumsy, "Revenge of the Fallen" is paralyzed with its own stupidity. I literally could not stop laughing out loud during "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" -- not at the moments intended as comedy, which are not funny in any way, but rather at Bay's superhuman ability to look at his own film and not see that it's nothing but broken bits, desperate distractions and empty explosions. (I can imagine Bay braying "Wonderful! Cut! Print!" after every scene regardless of its quality, Ed Wood (http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity/edward-d-wood-jr/) with hundreds of millions of dollars, not just hundreds.) Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman wrote this summer's fun, smart, breezy "Star Trek (http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie/star-trek/)"; alongside Ehren Kruger, they're credited with the screenplay for "Revenge of the Fallen." How can one of these things be so good and one of them be so bad? Look to the director's chair, and who makes the ultimate decision about what goes onscreen and why, and you'll get that Bay has no interest in character or story or real excitement or any aspect of moviemaking that's built on anything more than the retinal equivalent of a sugar rush.
And, to deal with the token objections of the film's defenders, I have an inner child; he's just not an inner idiot. And if how much money something made had any correlation to how good it actually is, doctors would recommend you get more cocaine instead of more leafy greens. And no, I can't shut my brain off and have fun, anymore than I could rip out my tongue and enjoy a meal, because my brain is where I feel fun. And I could talk about the plot and characters and performances of "Revenge of the Fallen," but why should I care about those things when it's so clear that Bay doesn't? Many will walk out of "Revenge" praising the action and the special effects, but they'll be indicating that they don't know what they're talking about. The action is badly cut, confusing and incoherent, with no sense of space or distance or dynamism aside from close-ups of brutal blows and long shots of explosions. The effects are either too swift to be truly seen (Wasn't one of the pleasures of the Transformers toys slllllllowly ... clicking ... each change into place?) or so phony you can't bear to look (like when walking big-rig Optimus Prime, a giant multiton mass of metal, moves and fights with the lithe lightness of a 12-year-old gymnast). "Revenge of the Fallen" isn't good; it's just expensive, and while Michael Bay can't tell the difference between those things, a reasonably intelligent person can.
And I haven't even begun to talk about the racist-caricature robots of "The Twins," who speak in thug slang and "aren't much for reading" and talk about getting "up in that ass," and one of whom has, I wish I were kidding, a gold tooth. Or about how when the film isn't drooling over Megan Fox (http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity/megan-fox/)'s poreless, lifeless form and visage, it's busy calling women "bitches" and throwing around "pussy" as an insult. Or how Shia LaBeouf (http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity/shia-labeouf/)'s "performance" has him spend half the film doing third-rate Danny Kaye tricks to depict mental freak-out and the other half running in slow motion yelling "Optimus!" If Bay wanted to make a big, epic science-fiction battle, he failed by adapting a toy and television series made for kids; if he wanted to make a family-friendly adventure, he failed by larding it with violence and sex and smutty "humor" and dog-humping sight gags. Transforming robots can be two very different things, through the miracle of special effects, but Bay's bloated blockbuster wants to flip between high-octane action and fizzy-fun kids stuff and winds up failing at both. If you tell me you loved "Revenge of the Fallen" -- really, truly, loved it without reservation or complaint -- then you've essentially told me you can't tell something from nothing, good from bad, craft from cost. The best thing about "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is that it's perhaps the funniest movie of the year (Oh, look, Optimus Prime's fallen robo-corpse is being lain to rest at sunset, waaaah-wwwwwwanh, sad-trom-bone ...). The worst thing is that ticket-buying masses will shower stupid spectacle with success one more time because they don't want, need or expect anything better from big Hollywood.


http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen/

[TMJ]

That review was penned by a soulless, gutless kid toucher who spent the majority of his screening spilling popcorn kernels into the lap of the 12-year-old sitting next to him so he could administer the old "brush off" technique. Despicable.

[johnnychacski]

I enjoyed the movie. The pacing was beyond horrible, but the action is awesome, and well that is what Transformers is, an action movie. I will agree with the humor being to much, and at times stupid.

[ShitBreak]

That review was penned by a soulless, gutless kid toucher who spent the majority of his screening spilling popcorn kernels into the lap of the 12-year-old sitting next to him so he could administer the old "brush off" technique. Despicable.

His review is what a good chunk of critics are saying though. I'm reading terrible review after terrible reviews from critics.

Yet the masses are all walking out drooling on themselves, kicking each other in the crotch saying "NOMG ROBOTS AND BOOM AND POW AND AWWESOME"

With that being said...I'm TOTALLY going to the theatre this weekend!!!

To finally see The Hangover.

[Le Goat]

lol

(CNN) -- "A movie studio," Orson Welles once said, "is the best toy a boy ever had."
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/24/transformers.reviews/art.running.courtesy.jpgMegan Fox and Shia LaBeouf run from destruction in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."


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Michael Bay must know the feeling. In making a movie that's literally about toys -- "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" -- the director had access to a reported $200 million budget, the high-tech talents of Industrial Light & Magic and the It performers Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, reprising their roles from 2007's "Transformers."
Audiences, so far, have been excited. Fandango.com, the movie ticket-selling Web site, reported that it sold out more than 2,000 midnight and wee-hours showings of the film, which opened Wednesday.
MovieTickets.com, another ticket-selling site, reported that "Transformers" had broken into its list of the top 20 pre-sellers of all time, ahead of films such as "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/video.gif Watch the Transformers make their change » (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/24/transformers.reviews/index.html#cnnSTCVideo)
Passions have been running so high that a New York iReporter said (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-281195) that police shut down a Manhattan theater Tuesday because the waiting crowd -- which had been gathering for hours -- started getting out of hand.
But there's one group that's not impressed: those traditional killjoys, movie critics.
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'Transformers' only wants to be 'summer fun' (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/23/ent.transformers.movie/index.html)
iReport.com: Love the robots, hate the rest (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-280580)
EW: Q&A with Megan Fox (http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/06/more-from-our-megan-fox-interview.html?cnn=yes)


The film is earning a 21 percent rating at the review-aggregation site RottenTomatoes.com (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_revenge_of_the_fallen/), marking it as one of the most poorly reviewed films of the year. (At rival Metacritic.com, it's not doing much better, with a score of 42 out of 100.) But what's really striking is the vitriol with which some critics are attacking "Transformers," to wit:
• Eric Childress, eFilmCritic.com: "The single worst film to be released thus far in the summer of 2009."
• Peter Bradshaw, The (UK) Guardian: "Like watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan."
• Manohla Dargis, The New York Times: "Cretinous."
• Steven Whitty, The Newark (New Jersey) Star-Ledger: "Can you thwart a migraine for two-and-a-half hours?"
CNN.com's Tom Charity didn't think much of it either (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/23/review.transformers.revenge/index.html).
Even some of the movie's hoped-for audience -- the fanboys who have admired Transformers since the toys first appeared in the 1980s -- weren't kind. One CNN staffer compared it to one of the all-time bombs, the George Lucas-produced "Howard the Duck." iReporter "davidseaman" called it "the worst movie I've ever seen." (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-281656)
In a cheeky review, iReporter "Achiever" praised Bay "for his excessive use of the 360 spinning crane cam" and the frequent slow-motion shots of Megan Fox fleeing.
"I'm certain that scientists will be able to extrapolate many books on information in the field of boob jiggling," he wrote.
Of course, there were words of outright praise as well. Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman, who gave the movie a B, hailed the Transformer characters for having "wizardry and grandeur." Newsday's Rafer Guzman enjoyed Bay's "obvious delight" in making the film. And iReporter Rajiim Gross described the film as "awesome."
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In the end, none of these lines will matter. The only line Bay, producer Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood execs are paying attention to is, of course, the bottom line.
The first "Transformers" made more than $300 million domestically. If "Revenge of the Fallen" gets into that neighborhood, it will be another indication that giant robots can be readily transformed into cold, hard box office cash.


bigger lol

(CNN) -- "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" -- the most terrible revenge since Montezuma's -- is louder, longer and lamer than the 2007 hit it succeeds.
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Which is saying a lot.
Long story short: The Decepticons are back, fixed on destroying Sam (Shia LaBeouf), Optimus Prime and the Earth, in that order.
Produced by Hasbro -- the accompanying trailer for "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" suggests that the company's not-exactly-subtle strategy is to mass market war toys for boys -- "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a grotesque exercise in hyperinflation. At 149 minutes, it's longer than "2001," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" or "Star Wars." In fact, this may be the emptiest epic ever made.
Director Michael Bay is famous for blowing things up, but you could invade a small country with less firepower than he expends on this extended-length commercial.
For all his sound and fury, Bay isn't much of an action director. There's no rhythm in his slam-bang cutting, no discipline in his orientation, and there's so little to distinguish an Autobot (the good Transformers) from a Decepticon (the bad) that at any given moment, it's a toss-up who is pulverizing who. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/interactive.gif A guide to the Transformers » (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/23/review.transformers.revenge/index.html#cnnSTCOther1)
Combat scenes are a bewildering blur of crunching metal. On top of that, the humans are essentially bystanders and onlookers here, so that LaBeouf's primary contribution to the fighting is to run away, duck and cover. It's the same deal for Megan Fox, only in lingering slow motion. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/video.gif Watch the Transformers do their thing » (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/23/review.transformers.revenge/index.html#cnnSTCVideo)
The Defense Department does get the opportunity to show off its hardware, even if most of the missile strikes fall wide of the mark -- probably because there aren't enough Decepticons to sustain heavy losses. If he ever needs another job, Bay should consider a move into arms procurement.
At least the nonstop carnage is on a scale to satisfy the demolition derby crowd, down to destroying one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The effects work is mostly rock-solid, and the Transformers themselves have a chromatic showroom gleam. As a kind of 21st-century Mechano movie, it could have hit the right buttons.
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iReport.com: Love the robots, hate the rest (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-280580)
EW: Q&A with Megan Fox (http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/06/more-from-our-megan-fox-interview.html?cnn=yes)


It's not the extravagant fireworks display that rankles, it's everything else: the dull and pompous exposition, the trite characterizations, the tacky love story, the dismal comic relief and incongruous pretensions to the status of a popcorn epic.
Here's a sample of what Bay throws at the wall in the hope of generating some stray laughs: small dogs humping. Hysterical middle-aged women. Autobots with effeminate voices. A miniature Decepticon dry-humping Fox's leg. John Turturro improvising. Tasers. A cowardly Latino. A short Arab. Snails.
None of these things is funny. Not in this movie, anyway.
The truth is, Bay is a rotten fit for this assignment; he's much too self-important to recalibrate his approach for the younger audience this material demands.
Memo to Michael: It's a toy movie. Your audience is predominantly teen and pre-teen. My kids don't need to see your salivating soft-porn fantasies or your reactionary militaristic politics.
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Most of all, none of us needs to sit through 2½ hours of this inane and mind-numbing movie. Better it should be melted down for scrap.

[Night Hawk]

since when is the target audience preteen to teen? I am pretty sure most fans of Transformers are gonna be in their mid to late 20s by now... does this last guy not realize that Transformers is not a new series?

[Philips25]

hmm... just got back from seeing it.

Not the disaster that people have been saying but also not stella... very much a 3/5 movie, bloated, overlong, muddled but still has enough explosions and SAS members to make it a solid if not outstanding summer blockbuster.

Although Isabel Lucas as random Robo Species Babe was a probably the high water mark of pointless pandering to teenage boys...

[CrazyCarl]

since when is the target audience preteen to teen? I am pretty sure most fans of Transformers are gonna be in their mid to late 20s by now... does this last guy not realize that Transformers is not a new series?
they still have to sell the toys

[Face]

they still have to sell the toys
the toys are selling as much to schmucks like me who still buy the odd one as they are to children

hell, the couple that I've bought(Prime, Bumblebee) are WAAAAAAAAAAY to complex for any kid under the age of maybe 12 to figure out... christ, even I had trouble transforming Prime for the first couple times, and I've been doing this shit for 25 years

[ADD]

The reviews/critics on various radio stations for this thing are better than the movie

[zaksisi]

Movie is terrible. The action is so rando, repetitive and chaotic that it ends up being boring.

[ADD]

It's also a series of dick jokes.

House is being run a muck by little Decepticons, quick, let's flash to dogs humping. I hate you Michael Bay. I pray one day Bay, McG and Boll can work together. It would be the worst thing ever made and still would make $200 mil.

[Hanover Fist]

I forgot which review I saw that said the only thing worse than the script in this movie is the plot. I think it was on the Yahoo reviews.

[Le Goat]

I saw that too. lulz

[Le Goat]

extremely good cam I found

http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/28365

(once again, hit the red link at the top that says 'click here to launch ninjavideo player...' let the applet load and say 'online' then hit play on the player, if the player doesnt show up, hit refresh)

[Superhuman]

What a terrible movie. I wanted to sleep at some parts.

So many painful, cringe-worthy scenes.

[Le Goat]

The second I heard Linkin Park song (literally 2 mins in) i'm already hating this movie.

[Superhuman]

Seriously....I never thought a Transformers movie would have long parts of boringness.

[ADD]

This movie was about 30-40 mins to long

[Le Goat]

I actually think this would've pwnd if Spielberg would've done it. He's fallen a bit the past few years, but he's still 10000000000000000^10 better than Bay



and i'm only 18mins into the movie

[ADD]

The only good thing about Bay is he loves explosions

[Face]

and big robots who beat the shit out of each other

seriously, are you expecting high art?

[Le Goat]

Ok. that's it. I heard Green Day's '21 Guns'.


I'm hitting stop on this shit.

[ADD]

But they play it again. (I loathe that song)

[Nataku187]

Man if you hated this movie, you sure are gonna hate GI JOE. Seriously everyone complained about not being able to see which robot was fighting who, they gave us a lot of bot on bot action. Does anyone go to UFC to see a slapping contest? This is all about explosions, corny jokes, robotic voices, Megan Fox running in slow motion, etc. I enjoyed it, I love TFs, it a good TF movie, doesn't have to be a great movie to do that.

[ADD]

The corny jokes, especially when awful aren't welcome

[ShitBreak]

I love how fucking iggnorant and retarded the people who like the movie are. "It's supposed to have a weak plot and corny jokes! It's just about big robots blowing shit up!"

No. A movie that is supposed to be shitty for "good" sakes are called B-movies, and have bad acting, over the top gags, small budgets, and corny jokes.

Michael Bay movies have bad acting, over the top gags, corny jokes, and a 250 million dollar budget.

[misterfatt]

I love how fucking iggnorant and retarded the people who like the movie are. "It's supposed to have a weak plot and corny jokes! It's just about big robots blowing shit up!"
oh my god, a fan boy who is upset over a faithful adaptation of the source material? no way.

the people who say that michael bay raped their childhood and dislike both movies probably don't even remember their childhoods or simply never watched the cartoon.

at this point in his career, if you don't like a michael bay film, it's your fault, not his. his "style" isn't going to change, so if you decide to invest 2.5 hours into something you're not interested in, you're the idiot.

[ShitBreak]

Well if you like the movie, good on you. Just say you like it. It's the people who try to defend it by saying it's supposed to not be good that irk me. I had someone actually tell me that last night.

And I'm not a fanboy. At all. I wasn't a TF kid. I didn't watch the cartoon or the animated movie until recently.

[zaksisi]

This may be Bay's "style" but this is his worst movie I have ever seen, so I am not attacking the way he makes movies which do usually suck, but this one is extra bad like it was made by a 2 year old. An episode of beast wars also had better storytelling than this movie, just cause its transformers doesn't mean it has to be total shit.

[Nataku187]

Come on, Bad Boys 2 was way worse then Transformers 2.

[ADD]

I'll sum it up this way. It was a fun summer movie at times. But overall, it's was a piece of shit film. There's a difference between fun and good.

[Mr. Buzz_Kill]

Wow, shitformers 2 was worse than shitformers 1! Way to go guys!

[ADD]

I think Goat owns a porno called "Shitformers". No word if he has the sequel.

[NoGravitas]

Man am i dissapointed to hear this. Was really looking forward to seeing this film and i fail to see how michael bay could fuck up a film about giant collateral damage causing robots. At least i wont over-hype it for myself like i did star trek though.........

[ADD]

It has it's fun, and the robot battles are better. But people saying it's a "good movie" is what's bothering me. But then again, the Wayans Bros. have made zillions. So I can't say I'm surprised.

[NoGravitas]

Really i wasnt expecting American Beauty here. As long as the robots and the fighting are awesome (feel dirty for using that word in the context) then ill be happy. Just heard alot that the shitty humour and piss poor plot make it entirely unwatchable

[ADD]

If you're over the age of 14, yeah that's pretty dead on.

[NoGravitas]

Damn. Havent seen terminator yet but ive heard thats underwhelming as well. I honestly thought this summers movies would be spectacular but i was very dissapointed with star trek and have heard nothing but bad things and "mehs" about terminator and transformers