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I think Ebert liked Transformers 2

imaguitargod

imaguitargod

And by "liked it" I mean "hated it with a rage that burned with the force of 10,000 suns". Here's what he had to say....I love it when things get bashed to hell in a review:

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
I find it amusing that creatures that can unfold out of a Camaro and stand four stories high do most of their fighting with…fists. Like I say, dumber than a box of staples. They have tiny little heads, except for Starscream®, who is so ancient he has an aluminum beard."
 
That is funny.

I heard a recent bashing of the new Indiana Jones as well.

The guy (on talk radio, I forget who) Pointed all that was great about the first 3 movies, (all of which I agreed with 100%) and then went on to explain why the "Crystal Skull" sucked so horribly.

I will assume that since he was 3 for 3 on the others, he is probably 4 for 4. I will watch it right after I watch the new transformers.;)
 
I sat through half of it.

Probably only because that chick was god awfully hot.

Even that couldn't save it.

You liked the crystal skull though IGG?

And I thought Jar Jar Binks was the raping of our childhood.....

But I guess you can be violated more than once.
 
Lol.

But nothing goes 3 movies deep in violating our childhood memories, except money grubbing king deuche Mark Lucas.

While we are at it, Aerosmith and metallica are trying pretty hard to ruin something once pure and good.
 
I liked the first TF, this is nothing but a nod to ILM.

And the fact it's a top movie..speaks to the general inteligence of the USA. Addled MF ADD Sheep.


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QuadShotz said:
I liked the first TF, this is nothing but a nod to ILM.

And the fact it's a top movie..speaks to the general inteligence of the USA. Addled MF ADD Sheep.


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Come on QUAD. WTF?????!?!?!?!??!?!??!;)

I get the muddled kitty talk at the end, but some of the abbr. do not compute.

"a nod to illiterate log mills............addled motherphuckers attention deficit disorder Sheep."

Close?
 
TF = Transformers
ILM = Industrial Light and Magic, the FX company that rendered it.

The rest is pretty close. ;)

Loved this tidbit:

From: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/trivia
  • One ILM animator's computer, while rendering Devastator, reportedly overheated and its internal circuitry melted.

  • Prior to shooting, Megan Fox had lost weight, so to improve her figure Michael Bay prescribed a "cake diet" for Fox to follow. Through eating mostly cake, Fox gained 10 pounds of weight within three weeks.

  • If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.

  • A single IMAX shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop. If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year's premiere.

  • According to the animators at ILM, the combined robot Devastator is made out of 52632 pieces. This is more than ten times the number of individual parts found in an ordinary car; if these pieces were laid end to end they would stretch from one side of California to the other (180 miles), and if stacked up together from tip to tip they would be as tall as 58 Empire State Buildings.

  • It took 140 terabytes to process the CGI for all the robots in this film.

  • Special effects supervisor John Frazier spent seven months setting up a 1000-gallon gasoline bomb, which would be used for an explosion in the Giza Guerilla. It took longer to set up the bomb than it took to shoot the whole film. Shia LaBeouf called it "the biggest bomb ever filmed with actors in the history of cinema."
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Oh, the IMDb rating of 6.8 testifys to the number of 14-19yo boys who must dominiate the voting... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/ratings
 
If you want to sit in some air conditioning, turn off your brain, enjoy some wicked fx, then TF2 is one of the best. I didn't go there for a story, I didn't go there to think deep thoughts about good vs evil or the dehumanizing effects of technology. I went to see it to have a good time, and it delivered brilliantly.
 
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