Here's my view. I'd pick it up and watch it again if I felt like watching a good movie and relaxing. It has its flaws, but it's not an awful movie.
RotF had good parts- there's no doubt about it. The CGI orgasm was exactly what I wanted from the sequel to the 2007 movie, and there's some crazy fight scenes and better characterization for the Decepticons. But for a movie about giant robots kicking ass, there's not a lot of Autobot representation, and the majority of its third act is just a fetch quest. It's just a shame that they decided to focus so heavily on the Twins in the third act, because literally up until Optimus Prime's death, it's not that bad of a movie. It just has a long, drawn out, crude third act, what with man thongs and humping and whatnot. I say, edit out everything after Prime's death, and you have a great sequel- one that could have set us up for a fantastic third movie, which, if the third act had been better paced and written, would have made a great ending to a trilogy.
who remembers this: Bonus! Rob's Transformers 2 F.A.Q.s! - Topless Robot - Page 1 still valid and still funny.
I'm genuinely surprised people are still making threads about this movie. I've never seen a legitimate argument in favor of ROTF. I've never seen somebody argue that the plot made sense, that half the things that were in there needed to be in there, the acting was credible, or that the humor was any good. Unless you're going to do any of the above, I wouldn't recommend making any threads about this movie. IIRC, Natch liked TF1. Dude just has taste, I guess. I love that this is coming from a guy who hates Animated. Also, the post below does a better job replying to this than I. Well put.
So....you're implying that liking TF1 and not RotF means you have taste, but liking RotF means you don't..... Also, Topless Robot would be have a better TF section if they didn't let their feelings on the movies control their articles. Not once have I read an article there that was Transformers related that didn't take the time to throw in just how "terrible and stupid" the movies and Michael Bay are....
hmm musta missed the "It's a humor site" thing in the site name. Of course it's not going to lean towards anything. I mean, have you seen the rest of it? I mean they take nothing on that site seriously. However it doesn't make the link I put up any less valid.
Well, we're all different. I wanted more from it. The CG spectacle was impressive, and I did appreciate that side of things, but it wasn't enough for me to give them a free pass for all the other nonsense.
ROTF would have been just as good if not better then the first movie if it weren't for the writers strike. Also I liked ROTF. People take the small problems it sorta had and turns them into the biggest travesty on cinema.
Come on now. Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo are the biggest travesties in cinema. Revenge of the Fallen was a bad Transformers movie, but not the worst movie ever.
I think ROTF was a really good movie. I can understand why some didn't enjoy it, but I really liked it. Especially since I didn't have to go through watching all that Sector 7. In the 2007, I mainly only like the fight with scorponok, the part where the Autobots come in, the part with Bumblebee vs Barricade, at Hoover dam and the huge fight downtown. And since the action seemed ongoing, it was more exciting to me.
I couldn't really take that whole hacker plotline in the 2007 movie. It was pretty redundant stuff, and I didn't find those characters likeable or amusing. I liked that there was at least more action in the sequel. At the same time I didn't think they paced the action very well. There's some spectacular stuff, but it would've been all the more powerful if it'd been driven by a compelling story.
No movie will ever please anyone, we all know that. Fan of a franchise or not. When I heard that they were actually making a TF movie, well I was like a frickn little kid again. Something I watched everyday and played with all the time, it was like a dream come true. I felt bad for my wife and still do because she had to listen to me go on and on. I love the movies, big robots fighting that turn into vehicles, what else could you ask for. Also getting to watch them with my son and him getting into something that I loved as a kid.The story lines are all right, not like the comics, but still good. Look at the cartoons we grew up with, loved them, but watching them now sometimes and noticing all the odds and ends is like, what??? Guess Im rambling, point being love the TF movies through and through. Just my opinion.
