Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen

[Alan The Rapist]

Originally Posted by Jeritron Well you're talking out your ass because I think everyone who posts in these forums know that I'm very opinionated about movies, and I can be very hard on movies. They also know that I hate shitty movies, and special effects or cheesiness are not the determining factors in my enjoyment of a movie. If anything they will make me enjoy it less. So why, then, did I enjoy Transformers? Are you ready for it? This may be a first for you....it was fun. And not fun as in "boy there were lots of explosions and the SFX were SICK!1!" No. I think the characters were fun. The robots weren't as uninteresting as you will claim. But the highlight of the movie for me was Shia Labeouf and his parents. They entertained me. There you have it.

I don't think I need to say much more, seeing as the highlight of the movie were the cliche-spouting humans and not, as one might conclude, the TransFormers.

Originally Posted by Jeritron and there was some wit and situational comedy that I enjoyed. Sure, it's not as smart or original as most of the comedy I enjoy. It was "cheap", but it was funny. I laughed at some of the bits. One of the first that comes to mind is the song choices on Bumblebee's radio during the scene with Megan Fox. It wasn't genius, but it was the type of thing I can chuckle at while I sit back enjoy myself in the theater. The movie wasn't nearly as bad as your run of the mill shitty action flick. It was much better than any other Michael Bay movie. It was much better than your average comic book movie, or Nicolas Cage/Brendan Fraser/Jason Statham shit. Better than dance flicks or UFC movies, or the rest of the garbage that comes out. I see a lot of movies. I hate a lot of movies. I think it's grossly unfair to call this movie "bad" just because it isn't a "great film"

Beetlejuice wasn't a "great film". But it was both good and fun. TransFormers was bad. I'm not going to explain, again, that you can like bad movies without needing to defend them as "good" -- hell, I enjoyed Zombie's destruction of "Halloween". Not the way he'd hoped, I'm sure, but I thought it was a riot.

I see a lot of movies, too, and I don't make the "bad" or "great film" cut and dry judgments you might think. But this particular movie was just really bad.