An Evening in the Twin Cities: Transformers: Revenge of the fallen

Monday, July 27, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the fallen

Our Rating: Wait

We saw this opening weekend, so the theater was almost packed. That wasn't an issue as we kinda like having more than just a few people in theater because the movie tends to be a bit more enjoyable (crowd reactions, etc.).

That said, we should've waited for the DVD and rented it. The movie moved terribly quick from cut to cut, sometimes seeming as though it was cutting to unrelated scenes just to make the cut. Overall the beginning of the movie was slow much like the last one, and things ended much too quickly to get that real sense of accomplishment, etc.

The fights were pretty good, and the graphics/CGI worked as well as they did in the first, but still we came out of the theater trying to figure out what the movie was about. Instead of saving the world from the Bad Guys, they... saved the world from the Bad Guys. Provided that is the point, but it was a bit difficult to figure out how this movie differed from teh first. They had different plots and stories, but it ended up being much of the same.

Some of it didn't make sense, such as where one bot gives his life to provide his power and parts to another so taht he'd know a power he'd never known before... and then ended up still almost losing with no real change in the fight that we could see.

Basically, it was anti-climax after anti-climax, with a few let-downs inbetween throughout the whole story. And again they spent a lot of time on the humans in the story instead of the alien bots the movie is named after.

All in all we were a bit disappointed. Maryanne commented that she needed to watch the first movie again so that this would make some sense, so we ended up buying a used copy of the DVD from a video rental store (4 dollars!) and watched it. Apparently that didn't help as Maryanne had more questions about this movie after the first one again. Things just didn't quite make sense to her, and I had a similar thought myself.

Wait for the DVD, watch it at home. You aren't missing much.

This review is posted late due to ISP issues.

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Maryanne was in the restaurant industry for 14 years, including one year as a manager for Chili's Grill and Bar. She has experience in fast food, family chain restaurants (with and without alcohol) and fine dining. She has a Hospitality and Tourism Management degree which gives her an understanding of the service industry including travel, hotel, gaming, food and beverage, and entertainment. She is also an actress with some years experience doing short and feature films, online episodic shows, student films, film projects and contests which include both paid and voluntary roles.

William has none of that experience, but instead has experience eating with and entertaining groups of different sizes in a variety of venues in different areas of the Country. That and a knowledge of how things 'should' work in the entertainment and service worlds. He forms his own opinions from that mix of knowledge using a good dose of common sense and a perception of what he feels people expect from dining out at various venues, seeing movies and such.

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Monday, July 27, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the fallen

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