Whoa! Wow! Whoaaa! These were the words that I was expecting to post yesterday. What could have been better than planning for a baseball game and a Transformers movie at IMAX on its opening night? Apparently, the Toronto Blue Jays comfortably won against the Cincinnati Reds. Okay, that’s one. Second is the midnight premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the sequel to Transformers (2007). Directed by Michael Bay, executive production by Steven Spielberg, written by three friggin’ writers, Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzmen & Ehren Kruger and to the main assets: Special effects by ILM and starring Megan Fox, repeat, Megan Fox.
The hype had been there for a year. I loved the first film despite its cheesiness. I might have watched it more than a 50 times and the trailers of the new film a 100 times each. I bought tickets for four shows(in a row) and every T that I could get for the shows. I got there as early as 10PM but I was astonished that I couldn’t find a seat; after a little fight, I got one at a corner. The whole atmosphere was so exciting; I was sharing all the details I know with the guy at my side. We both agreed that the only cons in this film will be the duration and Linkin Park’s “New Divide” compared to their “What I’ve done”.
Then it began with a ‘traditional’ Optimus Prime’s message explaining the transformers’ relationship with humanity 19,000 years ago. Then Bish Bish Bham Bham, Autobots & NEST begin to “exterminate” the Decepticons and Michael Bay tries to have a plot for Sam Witwicky. Anyway, I’m not going to talk about the remaining two hour bham bham. You can read the rest of the movie plot at wikipedia, if there is one. By the time the movie got completed, I was virtually exhausted. “What an amateurish piece of shit!”, I began to wonder. The only guys that seemed to have done the job are from ILM and you gotta give them credit. The special effects were astounding and I was able to recognize every transformer in the movie, unlike most others.
Shia LaBeouf looked tired and boring, Megan Fox, who was super hot in the first film, is a stripo’bot in this film. Sam’s parents, Ron and Judy, Leo Spitz, Simmons and other human characters were irritating. Isabel Lucas, a pretender, tried to remove some burden from Megan Fox. Anyway, who cares about the humans. Let’s get to the robots.
The fans of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime will be overjoyed to see them intimidating Decepticons here. Megatron is a total loser in this film(hey, at least he doesn’t repeat his own name a hundred times). We could only get a glimpse of Ironhide, Ratchet, Arcee, Sideswipe, Jolt and most other Decepticons. The roles of Jetfire, Soundwave, Scorponok, and Sideways were disappointing, with Starscream’s leading the lot. It is not the same Starscream that we were expecting to watch on the big screen, especially, after seeing him and Megatron “fighting” in the trailer. The worst of the lot were Mudflap and Skids, unofficially known as the “Jar Jar Binks” of Transformers. I really hoped that Devastator destroyed them both.
So, Where did this movie fail? First of all, it’s a Michael Bay film and he is the first one to be blamed. All you need in his movies are some great action scenes, explosions, hot girls, and a wafer-thin storyline. That’s exactly what Transformers (2007), had and that’s the reason it succeeded. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen fails at everything save the explosions part. There is no story, no acting, no directing, nothing. Too many plot-holes filled up the screen right from the moment, Go. I don’t know what Michael Bay was thinking, that the audience of today are stupid? Too many sexual innuendos, a couple of humping, robots fighting are certainly not going to help a movie. It’s just too unfortunate for a serious fan like me to write off a Transformers film. It’s going to take a lot from Bay’s side to make me walk into a future sequel.
In three words: This movie stinks!
and in three days, I’m leaving Toronto for friggin’ two months. It’s not that I love Toronto and love being there all the time, but, I prefer it over the nearly-dull “Fort McMurray”. I have got to endure it for a while
in Toronto. Hope, I will see them again.
lol! That was rough time. We were playing on a climb and slide @ school or as we call “circus” derived from the Tamil word, “sarkamaram” The adventurer, which I am, tried to make it to the top from the other side. I made it almost to the top and there I was betrayed(remember Lion King sequence?) by Dileep(no man, i’m just joking; you were a good pal). After that I went to live with my parents and also lost my “double promotion”. The only teacher who I remember is Suriya. She was one of the greatest teachers and dancers ever. I really miss teachers like you, ma’am.
Can you remember that “Stic” pen, that the math teacher presented it to me(5th std)? 
I really miss you now, you know. To my class teachers:
The simple reason is because I was obsessed with actresses like Trisha. The only gentle ladies I remember talking to are Ranjani & Nivethitha(through orkut), and Kavitha, Nisha, Saranya, & Akshaya.
