Revenge of the Fallen, Anyone else Dislike?

[Saintly]

i fell asleep the 2nd time through the matrix discovery and the first half of the desert fight

[Sky Shadow]

I, personally, have absolutely no interest in the movie universe - it just takes up shelf-and-peg space from aesthetically pleasing Transformers toylines and saves me lots of money.

That said, I was far from disappointed by this movie. Wheelie and Jetfire got some characterisation, I loved its concept of the Seekers and the first new Pretender in twenty years = yay. An 150 minute running time... that's the equivalent of seven cartoon episodes. Did I get seven cartoons worth of enjoyment out of this film? I think I did.

(What I don't understand is why I keep hearing people say they liked the forest scene. It was just yet another generic fight that ended with Optimus Prime falling sideways to the right of the screen. What the heck was up with that camera angle? And was that weird sideways fall just in the IMAX version or in all the prints?)

[roller]

some nobody on channel 7 just badmouthed it

[Paulbot]

I can't stop thinking about the film today!

I will see it again to make my definite judgement, but I made a list when I got home last night of the things I liked and the things I didn't, and the "didn't like" list was the longer one .

There was one aspect that I really didn't like, but I'm going to make a new thread for that discussion after more people have seen and digested the movie.

[klystron]

I really enjoyed it. But then I am quite good at overlooking plot holes and continuity errors. As with most movies, there were some good points and bad points. Maybe some people were expecting too much... I dunno?

Also, I assumed that it wasn't bonecrusher & blackout, but new 'cons with same alt modes. There did seem to be an abundance of constructicons though.

I really thought some of the characters were under-utilised; their screen time scarificed in order to increase quantity of TFs in the movie, maybe.
And yeah, those generic cons were seriously weak. it looked like "they" couldnt be bothered or ran out of time to making new characters (but no doubt there will be a plethora of toys that didnt make the film!). they died too easy as well.

speaking of dying to easy - "only a prime can defeat me" Are you serious Mr Fallen? I reckon skids and mudflap could've taken you down.

[jaydisc]

Major Deja Vu. I coulda sworn I just read half these posts in another thread.

[Gutsman Heavy]

speaking of dying to easy - "only a prime can defeat me" Are you serious Mr Fallen? I reckon skids and mudflap could've taken you down.

well after their tangle with Devvy, I'll bet they would have iced the Fallen with zero effort.

[rampagesss]

Just a quick question who was the blue Autobot at the air base with lightning shooting out of his hands, you only see him in the background there and one at the final fight seen. But he looked awsome when you did get to see him,
so who was he and what was his purpose in the movie

[Kayyasha]

I was very, very disapointed by ROTF. To quote myself from other sites:

The action was great and so was the animation, but this is something I love deeply - if the film hadn't been Transformers I would have enjoyed it for the pretty pretty lights and explosions. But it was Transformers and it just didn't meet my standards no matter how hard I tried to like it. In the first film I understood they needed some human time because their audience hadn't seen Transformers and needed some into, but Bay promised us more screentime for the 'bots. I was wrong to believe that screentime may have been devoted to, y'know, distinguishing them from one and other. But no, it was watching them be blown up.

Devastator went down too easilly. Megatron wasn't a strong enough character. Bumblebee was underused. Soundwave and Ravage were underused. *Insert every Autobot name here* didn't get enough screentime. The Original Primes weren't all that bright and their plan made no sense.

ALSO; this is probably irrelevent to everything and wtf was Bay thinking when putting it in, but....WHERE DID STARSCREAM GET ALL THOSE SPARKLINGS (Hatchlings?) FROM? Because as much as the fangirl in me would giggle hysterically if it were canon, I doubt he's popping them out by himself.