Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Bay, 2009)

[shariqq]

Direct links to download the Superbowl Trailer.

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[ayaa1977]

Well, I thought there was an oath that each one of us took about Michael Bay's movies. I was gonna honor it but now after you guys sold-out I will take my oath back
But seriously, that big robot that transformed into a car was awesome!!

[shariqq]

That oath is for Uwe Boll and Bret Ratner.

And you have to cut him slack, after all, Bay made The Rock!

[ayaa1977]

Well that's true, the Rock was KICKASS, but he also made Bearl Harbor. Anyway, I will give you Boll, he is just bad, and not the "so bad it is good" kind of bad. However,  Ratner made X-Men 3 which was better than everyone expected from him. In the other hand he made Rush Hour 3 which made me hate Chris Tucker even more.

[shariqq]

Ratner made X-Men 3 which was better than everyone expected from him.

<gasp!>

[ayaa1977]

Well it was Shariqq, and that bridge scene was almost enough to make up for all what is wrong about the movie. I know that X-2 was phenomenal, but we can't be too greedy, can we? I know Ratner is not Bryan Singer, but I still managed to enjoy X-Men3 for what it was.

[shariqq]

I dunno man, but that movie comes very close to being the worst Superhero movie ever. Infact, aside from the smaller and lesser known character-movies, X3 has got to be THE worst superhero movie ever! That bridge scene, or any other scene in the movie, how could have anyone done something as bad as that?! Man, Batman & Robin was better!

[ayaa1977]

I beg to differ, Batman and Robin was worst, I do thing X-3 had it merits. As for Worst superhero movies I have two that you can't refute: Catwoman, and Elektra.
If you want the critical consensus:  on Rotten Tomatoes x-3 has 56 score, and on Meta Critics it scored 58. While Batman and Robin scored 12, and 28 respectively, Elektra scored 9, and 34, and Finally Catwoman scored 12 on Rotten Tomatoes, and 27 on Meta Critics.
While I enjoyed Batman and Robin when I was younger (I was 20 then I should have known better), I now think it was laughable. Elektra was visually beautiful but was so empty otherwise, and Catwoman was plain bad in every way. Therefore X-3 still a better movie, and I think the biggest hurdle it faced was coming from a director that everyone thought he is a hack, and the fact that the first 2 movies were extremely good. Had it came from someone else, I think that it would have been viewed on a different light.

[fizz]

While there is no doubt that there have been far worse movies than X3 - Elektra, Catwoman being obvious, but even straight to DVD quality stuff like Punisher, X3 was made on a much bigger scale and budget (not that big budgets are a reflection of quality, but you get my drift...) using more or less the same crew as X2 (Dante Spinotti was DP!!), but it was still so horrible. I mean, you had the same actors as before, underperforming and delivering the cheesiest, hammiest lines in the film series. If that isn't a testament to how pathetic Rattner is as a director, I don't know what is (and this coming from a Red Dragon apologist like me!). The movie was nothing more than a greedy, over-eager studio indulgence that made money. If people (or critics) have low standards because of who is working on a film, then discerning audiences shouldn't follow their lead.

[shariqq]

...and as low as Batman & Robin scored, it is bad enough to be good. Those lines that Ah-nuld uttered as Mr Freeze are forever parodied, and Clooney (jokingly) considers his nippled Batman role as his career-defining move!

X3 is just compost.

[ayaa1977]

Cheesy!! Really? That what you have against him? If you wanna cheesy/bad dialogue, how about Storm saying to Toad from Bryan's Singer X-Men: "You know what happens to a toad when it's struck by a lightening? The same thing that happens to everything else". That line make you fat just listening to it, that how much cheesy it was.
If you are holding cheesy lines against a comic book movie, then perhaps you shouldn't watch any of them, even the great "The Dark Knight" quite few of those. Anyway, I thought the writers should be the first to be blamed for dialogue before the director.
By the way you don't have to be a Red Dragon's apologist, it in fact a good movie, better than Hannibal.
Bottom-line, Brett Ratner may not be an auteur filmmaker. He might be a studio whore, and he is a hack for sure, but at least he knows it, he doesn't make a movie claiming for more than entertaining value. He make entertaining movies that satisfy the average moviegoer, films that do well at the box-office, and as far as I know he is one of the highest paid director for this very reason.
I can't believe you got me to defend Bret Ratner of all people, now I'm angry at myself.       

[fizz]

Every Superhero movie is allowed a certain amount of cornball. But X3, in comparison to its brethren, took this to another level, and I quote.

I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!

In one single movie, the entire legacy of the Dark Phoenix saga, something I grew up on, was destroyed by the inclusion of this plot into the film in a way that seemed to be handled almost half-heartedly.

[fizz]

And yes, Red Dragon is a far superior film to the dreadful Hannibal.

[shariqq]

Back to topic:

Three of the Transformers 2 action sequences were shot with IMAX cameras. Woohoo!

[shariqq]

New teaser, with extended scenes from the Superbowl teaser.

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