Oy...

[seiberwing]

So I have returned from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, having tried to ignore pretty much everyone ever saying it sucks. They obviously had not understood Bay's art, and by art I mean having a loose plot to explain why things are blowing up.

...my head hurts. That is not hyperbole, my head actually physically hurts from the sheer amount of "what the fuck is this what the fuckery" that went into this movie.


The sad part is that I could see the basis of a good plot peeking through. Transformers on Earth thousands of years ago was a decent idea, the Fallen leading a death-to-humans cult vs. Optimus Prime leading a life-to-all-life cult that is so extreme that it actually puts human life above Transformer life (Autobots = PETA?) is a bit more awkward but okay. More robots was a good idea, apparently Bay at least listened to people complaining there weren't enough. Bumblebee supporting Mikaela/Sam was pretty cute in a weird way. Megatron and Starscream bickering was a reasonable scene.

There were some good characters thrown in there too. Simmons as a positive character was a good idea, although they kept trying to make him comedic and that partly ruined it. Simmons/Leo OTP! Jetfire as an old guy who switched sides was cool, I think he was one of my favorites. Bee was...Bee, even this movie couldn't remove the intense love I have for Bee, Bee is win.

There's potential. But it's all put together so horrifically badly and mixed with the kind of toilet humor that South Park fans would find unfunny that it ruins any potential for being interesting. Someone mentioned on RPG.net that the writer's strike occurred halfway through the movie and Bay had to do a lot of it himself--I think this explains pretty much everything.



I'm sorry, Michael Bay. The fighting robots just weren't enough to win me over. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going over to beexsam to comfort myself with some soothing interspecies slash, because the scenes featuring the affirmation of the Bee/Sam/Mikaela OT3 were probably the best part of this movie.

Comments

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I don't get this garbage about only a Prime being able to destroy the Fallen. No, only a really badass robot is needed to destroy the Fallen, pour every mech and man you've got at him and he'll die like anyone else. The movie wanted to have some mystical thing in there, but we're used to giant robots and the intersection of the two went badly--it doesn't matter in G1, because we were adjusted to expect any and every kind of crack by the fifth episode.

My wallbanger came at the point where the human military got people killed chasing down a Decepticon who, as far as I can tell, wasn't really doing much besides hanging out in China. I think Bumblebee just wanted to settle down with Sam and have a normal life too, you'll notice he wasn't out dealing with that Decepticidal bullshit at the beginning.

[xanykaos.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about? Giant Robots plus random mysticism never goes wrong (http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Beast_Machines).

Ah, I forgot about the Fallen's weird hang up over Primes. I don't know, I chalked it up to villian arrogance, but they did phrase it all prophetic-like. Now I'm getting weird images of the Fallen as Voldemort and Optimus with glasses and a little wand.

You've got a point about China. I...nah, I can't even justify it. I still like the concept of NEST, and I want to read something with Lennox and Optimus being BFF buddies-in-arms or something.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Again, there's that problem of good idea done badly. Humans working with Transformers to help Earth is a great idea and could have led to significant character development--instead it's Baysplosions and macho military posturing.