Comments on: Roger Ebert on Transformers 2 http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294 These are our principles. If you don't like them, we have others... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:59:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brandon http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34593 Brandon Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:13:25 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34593 I went and checked it out last night on IMAX which frankly was a bit overwhelming but so long as you check your brain at the door this movie is good escapism. Don't go in there expecting Shawshank Redemption. Strangely my biggest problem with the movie was the over sexed up Megan Fox. It honestly just felt like she was trying to hard to be sexy and it felt forced and contrived, sort of like watching Marilyn Monroe sing happy brithday to JFK for 2 and a half hours. Not to mention her lips looked like they had an inner tube in them. Other issues; you still can't tell what the hell is going on during the fight scenes. There were two really aggravating Transformers named Mudflap and Skids who you just wished would die. As bad as they were they were still not near the Jar Jar Binks Hall of Shame. One thing I was super, terrific happy about (I'm saying it that way in honor of the Transformers Japanese origins) is Prime was awesome. He was a robotic John Wayne; honorable, strong willed, uncomprimising, and merciless to his enemies. Another positive was there were some definite digs at Obama's policies on fighting the war on terror, this is part of what has turned off a lot of critics I think, and the whole movie just had this America F**k Yeah feel about it that I loved. I went and checked it out last night on IMAX which frankly was a bit overwhelming but so long as you check your brain at the door this movie is good escapism. Don’t go in there expecting Shawshank Redemption.

Strangely my biggest problem with the movie was the over sexed up Megan Fox. It honestly just felt like she was trying to hard to be sexy and it felt forced and contrived, sort of like watching Marilyn Monroe sing happy brithday to JFK for 2 and a half hours. Not to mention her lips looked like they had an inner tube in them. Other issues; you still can’t tell what the hell is going on during the fight scenes. There were two really aggravating Transformers named Mudflap and Skids who you just wished would die. As bad as they were they were still not near the Jar Jar Binks Hall of Shame.

One thing I was super, terrific happy about (I’m saying it that way in honor of the Transformers Japanese origins) is Prime was awesome. He was a robotic John Wayne; honorable, strong willed, uncomprimising, and merciless to his enemies. Another positive was there were some definite digs at Obama’s policies on fighting the war on terror, this is part of what has turned off a lot of critics I think, and the whole movie just had this America F**k Yeah feel about it that I loved.

]]> By: fritz8945 http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34585 fritz8945 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:50:09 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34585 Well put! Well put!

]]> By: JohnFN http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34568 JohnFN Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:59:16 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34568 Yes, part of the most cynical marketing ploy in history. "Lets kill off the old toys, make new ones, and the kids will buy the new ones. Forget all our endearing characters." Quite the catastrophe. The show last one more season. They brought back Prime in the final episodes, when Hasbro realized what a huge mistake it had made, but by then it was too late. Yes, part of the most cynical marketing ploy in history. “Lets kill off the old toys, make new ones, and the kids will buy the new ones. Forget all our endearing characters.” Quite the catastrophe. The show last one more season. They brought back Prime in the final episodes, when Hasbro realized what a huge mistake it had made, but by then it was too late.

]]> By: JJ http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34559 JJ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:31:28 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34559 ^ "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." :-) ^ “This movie doesn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.”

:-)

]]> By: JS Lawalin http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34557 JS Lawalin Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:42:18 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34557 That was a pretty brutal review from Ebert, but my all-time favorite diss was his review of "Freddy Got Fingered". Behold: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010420/REVIEWS/104200304/1023 That was a pretty brutal review from Ebert, but my all-time favorite diss was his review of “Freddy Got Fingered”.

Behold:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010420/REVIEWS/104200304/1023

]]> By: JimmyC http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34555 JimmyC Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:34:05 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34555 Out of all the reviews so far, my favorite quote comes from James Berardinelli: "The robots are all back: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, Megan Fox." Out of all the reviews so far, my favorite quote comes from James Berardinelli: “The robots are all back: Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, Megan Fox.”

]]> By: Kit http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34554 Kit Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:25:03 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34554 THEY KILLED OF PRIME?!?! The bastards. THEY KILLED OF PRIME?!?!

The bastards.

]]> By: Republibot 3.0 http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34552 Republibot 3.0 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:52:26 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34552 ...and then they killed Prime off in the first ten minutes of "Transformers: The Movie," reducing a generation of children to tears, and more or less trashing the franchise. The next season of the show was set in the then-future-year of 2006, and continued primeless, and featured a few minor crossovers with GI Joe. (Cobra Commander in one, we get a breif glimpse of Flint in another, and the chick who was assigned to them by the government was Flint and Lady Jaye's daughter) It never recovered. Likewise, GI Joe: The Movie that same year killed off Duke (Or tried to), which makes one wonder what kind of love/hate relationship the studio had with their own shows. …and then they killed Prime off in the first ten minutes of “Transformers: The Movie,” reducing a generation of children to tears, and more or less trashing the franchise. The next season of the show was set in the then-future-year of 2006, and continued primeless, and featured a few minor crossovers with GI Joe. (Cobra Commander in one, we get a breif glimpse of Flint in another, and the chick who was assigned to them by the government was Flint and Lady Jaye’s daughter) It never recovered.

Likewise, GI Joe: The Movie that same year killed off Duke (Or tried to), which makes one wonder what kind of love/hate relationship the studio had with their own shows.

]]> By: JJ http://www.threedonia.com/archives/9294/comment-page-1#comment-34540 JJ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:22:38 +0000 http://www.threedonia.com/?p=9294#comment-34540 I was going to see it, but this movie has gotten such godawful reviews down the line that I cannot grace it with my finances. I was going to see it, but this movie has gotten such godawful reviews down the line that I cannot grace it with my finances.

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