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[JL21]

That's just about where I was with it, too. I haven't read the book. And I normally don't get off on those "end of the world/survival scenario" movies. But I thought this one was well done.

Any time an actor loses weight or alters their physical appearance in a drastic way, unless they're just ridiculously bad actors, people will heap praise on it. So here's Viggo with pasty skin and black teeth and etc...

Without having read the book, I don't have much of a comparison but I thought the mundane stuff worked great. They dull your senses to give the bigger events more of a shock, more weight. But that's just me.

[omaha_red]

"cheeky" was good

[SHOW]

[cardsfansince82]

One of my friends whose opinion I usually respect on movies hadn't read the book and wouldn't stfu about how great the movie was. I kind of wonder what my impression would be without having read the book. I also need to watch it again at some point because I was tired and half asleep when I popped it in to watch.

[JL21]

wouldn't stfu about how great the movie was.

For me, that's a stretch. It was solid, I liked it quite a bit, but "great" would never enter the equation.

I also did:

-Crazy Heart
Meh. Absolutely nothing special in any way other than Bridges' acting, which we already knew he was a great actor anyway.

-The Messenger
Very good, sort of in the same vein as "The Road" in that it was good, not great. Also, you get to see Jena Malone's bare ass and boobs.

-Invictus
A little emotional for an Eastwood film but also right where you'd expect an Eastwood film to be, quality-wise (think Changeling, Mystic River, Flags of Our Fathers)

[Bo Hart]

* Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - If you enjoyed the first movie because you only focused on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up, then you like this movie if you can only focus on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up. Big Robot fights: 8.5/10, Overall movie: 1/10

Particularly egregious was...

[SHOW]

...Shia's character being revived by the Transformer gods, or whatever stupid-as-hell, totally-of-the-wall concept they threw in there.

[JL21]

* Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - If you enjoyed the first movie because you only focused on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up, then you like this movie if you can only focus on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up. Big Robot fights: 8.5/10, Overall movie: 1/10

Particularly egregious was...

[SHOW]

...Shia's character being revived by the Transformer gods, or whatever stupid-as-hell, totally-of-the-wall concept they threw in there.

[SHOW]

That'd make me angry just because any time a Shia LaBoeuf character dies, he needs to be left dead.

[TimeForGuinness]

* Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - If you enjoyed the first movie because you only focused on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up, then you like this movie if you can only focus on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up. Big Robot fights: 8.5/10, Overall movie: 1/10

Particularly egregious was...

[SHOW]

...Shia's character being revived by the Transformer gods, or whatever stupid-as-hell, totally-of-the-wall concept they threw in there.

[SHOW]

That'd make me angry just because any time a Shia LaBoeuf character dies, he needs to be left dead.

Agreed on both.

[letsgocards89]

* Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - If you enjoyed the first movie because you only focused on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up, then you like this movie if you can only focus on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up. Big Robot fights: 8.5/10, Overall movie: 1/10

Particularly egregious was...

[SHOW]

...Shia's character being revived by the Transformer gods, or whatever stupid-as-hell, totally-of-the-wall concept they threw in there.

As an admitted Transformer nerd I was reading some message boards and discovered:

[SHOW]

I guess in the original cartoon series Rodimus Prime (the leader of the Autobots after Optimus died) entered the and spoke to the original Primes. This is essentially what they did with Sam. As a TF nerd I appreciate homages to the original series. However, I didn't know it at the time and thought it was some weird transformer heaven.

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On a side note, a strange thing happened to me with regard to TF2. I watched it in the theater and hated it. I was pretty disappointed. But a few months later when my sister-in-law was over at the house and wanted to watch it, I loved it. I don't know why, but now I really enjoy watching it. *shrug*

[TimeForGuinness]

* Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - If you enjoyed the first movie because you only focused on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up, then you like this movie if you can only focus on the big robots that fight a lot and blow sh*t up. Big Robot fights: 8.5/10, Overall movie: 1/10

Particularly egregious was...

[SHOW]

...Shia's character being revived by the Transformer gods, or whatever stupid-as-hell, totally-of-the-wall concept they threw in there.

As an admitted Transformer nerd I was reading some message boards and discovered:

[SHOW]

I guess in the original cartoon series Rodimus Prime (the leader of the Autobots after Optimus died) entered the and spoke to the original Primes. This is essentially what they did with Sam. As a TF nerd I appreciate homages to the original series. However, I didn't know it at the time and thought it was some weird transformer heaven.

[/end TF.nerd]

On a side note, a strange thing happened to me with regard to TF2. I watched it in the theater and hated it. I was pretty disappointed. But a few months later when my sister-in-law was over at the house and wanted to watch it, I loved it. I don't know why, but now I really enjoy watching it. *shrug*

Heh. Actually I was waiting for Rodimus Prime to emerge after Optimus died.

I really enjoyed the older Jetfire rather than the cartoon version...plus he was an SR-71 Blackbird, how can that not be awesome.

Plus, somewhere in either movie, they should have had Bumblebee play the following over his radio:

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[MrSaigon]

Michael Cera has become to me what it appears Shia LeB[bunch of vowels]f is to some here, but this is a pretty fantastic, promising preview. Plus my love of Edgar Wright can swallow my annoyance with Cera:

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