Comments on: [REVIEW] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

By: Richard Christensen

Richard Christensen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:03:56 +0000

This may be the first time, probably not the last, that we diagree, but thats what blogging is all about.

By: Ryan Ferrier

Ryan Ferrier — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:29:27 +0000

Yeahhhhh I’m gonna disagree just a tad with you, Rich. Speilberg had a definite influence on the first film (the whole ‘boy and his car’ concept was his) but for the sequel ol’ Stevie had very little to do with the flick; pretty much a name-drop only because it’s Dreamworks.

As for Kurtzman and Orci… yes they are lazy writers at times, but they’re still decent. There was another writer on the film, Ehren Krueger who was brought in after KurtzOrci, and that’s the main source for all the shit. All the offencive bits and stupid gags – for the most part that was Bay and Krueger.

Bay absolutely fucked this up, not the writers or producers. Bay almost didn’t land the gig for the first one, but he did and it made a disgusting amount of cash; for the second one they gave him a stupid amount of control.

No one bash’s Speilberg because the dude is gold! I don’t know where any hate for Speilberg comes from. Other than Indy IV name one of his flicks in the last 15 years that has genuinely been a poor movie.

I tells ya, Bay and Krueger have their shitty handprints all over this one.

By: Richard Christensen

Richard Christensen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:04:28 +0000

I would not call T:ROTF as big a pile of shit as you make it out to be, yeah it has some major flaws and issues, but that aside, I actaully enjoyed the movie, after doing my best to look past the numorous issues I had with it. I won’t bash the film, nor will I bash its director, becuase I firmly believe that if any blame needs to be cast, it should be cast upon the writers (sadly they were the same ones that wrote the superb Star Trek film) and Speilberg, the producer of both. Of course no one thinks to bash Speilberg, becuase he is Spielberg and he can get away with murder if it came down to it, because he is Steven “Fucking” Spielberg. It was he who aquired the rights (via Dreamworks) to Transformers, it was he who sought out Bay to direct it, after numourous ither talents lobbied for the chance. So really if you want to play the blame game, don’t stop at Bay, go right to the source, the writers and producers responsable for this so called Schlock.

There I have said my peice

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:06:24 +0000

I think that Kurtzman and Orci deserve a heap of the blame. The wonder twins were granted golden boy status and along side Bay that formed a triforce of cheese that couldn’t be critiqued during production.

But it’s a business and they made their money. High fives all around.

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By: GigabyteGuru

GigabyteGuru — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:00:53 +0000

Great review Ryan. I agree 110% with everything you said. I went into this film already knowing what a stinker it was, but still willing to give it a chance for mere entertainment value. Well guess what, I wasn’t entertained at all. I swear a fucking monkey could produce and direct a better film! The movie basically had too much of everything that is wrong. It is so obviously flawed I am shocked that people are willing to see the film multiple times. Michael Bay has completely and utterly destroyed the franchise. I will NOT buy the DVD and I am definitely not looking forward to a sequel. Michael Bay can go suck on Devastators massive metallic manhood.

By: Ben Rankel

Ben Rankel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:39:48 +0000

“God forbid we demand a little more *from film*” – When will comments become editable? Sigh.

By: Auburn

Auburn — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:32:09 +0000

I sure am glad you wrote that review. Mine consisted of, “It fuckin’ sucked.” To be fair, I was still trying to wrap my mind around a robot’s need to hump…

Unfortunately, as I spoke with an individual today that had seen it a total of 5 times in the past 5 days, I realized that there really is no hope for the future. Be warned: I think if you set eyes upon the movie again, you’ll turn into a pillar of salt. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking that fire and brimstone will reign down upon the creators.

By: Ben Rankel

Ben Rankel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:24:15 +0000

Thanks for an intelligent review. I had myself maligned by people at a party last night for commenting on all the points you made above and calling the film a steaming pile of shit.

I’m tired of bullshit excuses for this film. “Megan Fox is hawt”, “what do you expect form a Michael Bay film”, and “I just wasn’t to turn my brain off and watch things explode!” If you tout this movie as enjoyable or a success of cinema, you don’t deserve to breed.

Unintelligent fucks will defend this film and berate anyone with a mind for finding problems with it. God forbid we demand a little more form fill. Lemming continue to dive over the cliff into the movie though. Heads splitting open on the rocks below, spilling out money. The only critic movie produces pay heed to.

This movie offends humanity.