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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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Not a great deal else has been announced so far but it looks like Paramount are now moving forward with the sequel to one of the summer's most successful films. Bay had stated on his blog recently that he was ready to go but that Paramount where dragging their heals. Looks like this will be filmed after the strike next summer is resolved. Bay is also being linked to a movie entitled 2012, about the supposed End of Days.

The LA Times reported last week that both Spielberg as exex producer and Michael Bay as director where both back on board but this has yet to be confirmed by either party.

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The original cost about $150M so I reckon this should come in for about $200M. If any cast return they'd have already been locked into at least two pictures so even if Shia Lebeowulf becomes a huge star in between, he'll still have his fee pretty much agreed.

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Looks like this could still go before the major strikes potentially kick in next year (Actors and directors). Also seems like Bay wants to mess with the fanboys who slagged him off during the production of the first movie -

From Joblo.com

it seems like it is far enough along to proceed with pre-production, location scouting and advance VFX work, but will face serious issues if the strike continues for several months. Michael Bay also had an interesting conversation with Rotton Tomatoes, wherein he let it be known that he was planning to keep everyone on their toes with the sequel:“One thing I do know is I know how to screw them up more... We’re going to leak a lot of false information all over the place. I now know their game. They’re going to get a lot of script treatments that they think are going to be the script. They will never see the script. We’ve got scripts and treatments written up that we’re going to leak. No one’s going to know. There’s one out that’s fake right now. There are going to be many others.”
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It wasn't. It was a two hour long eBay/iPod/Mountain Dew/Xbox/Hewlett Packard/Nokia advert with Michael Bay's own insufferable brand of American Army Porn splattered across it.

And it was fun. Fucking hell, anyone would think a Transformers film would turn out to be Shakespeare or some shit.

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I can see this getting circular.

I didn't think it was shit at all. I thought it was fun, brainless, brash, loud, enjoyable and disposable. You can hark the 'shit filmaking' all you want like everyone else but the simple fact is that if it didn't have the Transformers name slapped on it it wouldn't be getting half the derision and hate that it's received. To be honest, looking at the source material (OMG!!! TEH PRODUCT PLACEMENT!!! It was a cartoon made to sell toys, shock fucking horror) I think it turned out quite well. I'm not saying Bay is an amazing director, nor am I saying it's an amazing piece of cinema, but it really doesn't deserve the knocking it's got.

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I can see this getting circular.

I didn't think it was shit at all. I thought it was fun, brainless, brash, loud, enjoyable and disposable. You can hark the 'shit filmaking' all you want like everyone else but the simple fact is that if it didn't have the Transformers name slapped on it it wouldn't be getting half the derision and hate that it's received. To be honest, looking at the source material (OMG!!! TEH PRODUCT PLACEMENT!!! It was a cartoon made to sell toys, shock fucking horror) I think it turned out quite well. I'm not saying Bay is an amazing director, nor am I saying it's an amazing piece of cinema, but it really doesn't deserve the knocking it's got.

I think it would be getting more to be honest. It was surprisingly (and unjustifiably) well reviewed in quite a few places.

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Come on, we all know reviews mean fuck all in this day and age. I'm more on about the bandwagon jumping hatemongering that has plagued the film from the moment it was announced Bay was directing. Just look in the original thread, there's posts in there that make it sound like this film raped peoples mothers before shitting in their beds. I honestly don't see why people hate it so much? Is it because expectations were too high? Was it because it's Bay and, oh my god, by default going to be rubbish? Is it because the snowball started rolling and the general opinion is that it could never be any good so everyone jumped aboard for a good old bashing? Because if you think it's that fucking bad you can't have seen many bad films.

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Hey there,

Transformers was better than most other releases. It was great fun too.

Goaty out

^_^

Haven't seen the first one but... Actually I have nothing to say. Just felt that I should so that I didn't just post a smiley face dude.

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Come on, we all know reviews mean fuck all in this day and age. I'm more on about the bandwagon jumping hatemongering that has plagued the film from the moment it was announced Bay was directing. Just look in the original thread, there's posts in there that make it sound like this film raped peoples mothers before shitting in their beds. I honestly don't see why people hate it so much? Is it because expectations were too high? Was it because it's Bay and, oh my god, by default going to be rubbish? Is it because the snowball started rolling and the general opinion is that it could never be any good so everyone jumped aboard for a good old bashing? Because if you think it's that fucking bad you can't have seen many bad films.

It's terrible for so many reasons and I couldn't give a fuck about the old Transformers cartoons.

It's got a shite script, and I don't just mean the dialogue. The pacing, the setpieces, the jokes, the whole structure of the film is flawed; the special effects (although technically quite impressive) are hard to follow; the robot designs can't be told apart during the battles because Michael Bay doesn't seem to want you to know what's actually happening; it's at least an hour too long.

Actually managing to make a film about massive robots fighting each other boring is an impressive feat, I'll give him that.

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Transformers was an excellent action film. Well shot, surprisingly funny and with some gorgeous CG. Brilliant popcorn movie and did what it set out to do, entertain people who still like fun. You grouchy bastards are like Anton Ego, you just need a little bit of love to re-spark the happiness. Except those who thought it was worse than Superman Returns, those just need psychiatric help.

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I saw Transformers last week, and it was ok not bad but definetley not good. Too long, far to much screen time taken up with the humans storyline, pointless desert war scenes and fights that were hard to see what was going on.

Get out! The A10 and AC-130 scene was awesome. Plus I advise anyone watching this film to do so in HD. The difference is incredible. Everything that looked blurry in the cinema was suddenly in focus and easy to follow.

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I've only seen it once, and the only cheesy part of the film was Primes "One shall stand, one shall fall" speech. Other than that I enjoyed it enough, although Megatron was far too powerful for my liking. Tearing Jazz in half like he was nothing was a bit much.

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Transformers was an excellent action film. Well shot, surprisingly funny and with some gorgeous CG. Brilliant popcorn movie and did what it set out to do, entertain people who still like fun. You grouchy bastards are like Anton Ego, you just need a little bit of love to re-spark the happiness.

No, because see Ratatouille was good fun. Transformers was style-less, loud, cynical, over-long shite. No redeeming features whatsoever.

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