Monday Night Poll: Why Did You See 'Transformers 2'?

It was 11:00pm and was drinking and other shannanigans with diehard fanboys of Transformers and we decided "why not". ended up being wayyy too many people for the midnight. I remember vividly when before the start came up I quoted "What if this sucks?" and sure enough it was worse than finding a baby in several different trash bins. But I will let it have its day on Blu-Ray for 2 1/2 hrs. I also found myself staring at Megen Foxs tits than the robots going at it in the back. (then again it was the only time the camera stood still)

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Toys and toys alone, but Michael bay can draw in a huge crowd with whatever he does it seems.

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It's pretty obvious. People liked the first movie because it had giant robots fighting in cool locations. It appears part 2 had even more giant robots fighting in even cooler locations. You think the guy who says "Woot, robot fights!" is going to read the New Yorker's reviews before he goes to see it?

People like seeing a mindless action movie with cool effects. I don't think any summer blockbuster is ever particularly critically successful, with notable exceptions like Dark Knight. Why would TF2 be any different?

Sad to say, you could take Bay's name off the movie and watch that RT score go up 20-30%. Movie fans just hate the guy. But he knows what the general public likes.

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Justin Harris, you don't seriously believe that 'movie fans just love to hate on Michael Bay' crap, do you? People hate Michael Bay because of the movies he makes. This would have received poor reviews from any director because it's an illogical, incompetent and boring mess.

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This is the first movie of the so-called Summer season that I have gone out of my way to see on opening day. I despise his previous movies except for Bad Boys (haven't seen BB2 or Island) but I still thought it was near genius to have him direct a literal commercial for toys. I don't know anyone that thought his Got Milk commercial wasn't brilliant. I was so pleased with Transformers, although a blue sky on Mars drove me nuts. The sequel was even better, in that it was insane to think that you could walk out of the Smithsonian and into the desert. But also that giant robots fought each other for several minutes, that's what we paid to see. It's kind of like watching movies that suck but are fun to watch (Plan 9, Reefer Madness, Troll 2, Twins), although there are gaping logic holes it doesn't affect how much fun the movie experience is.

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Because I didn't believe it could be THAT bad.

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I wasn't planning on seeing it until somebody told me a bunch of people were going to the midnight showing and I figured I had nothing to lose.

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I wanted to see big robots fighting each other on the 6 story Imax screen and to see Megan Fox that big too lol.

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I was looking forward to part 2... So was my kids ,there are toys every where made of transformers...@ fast food kids meals ,dept stores Ect.... But to my shock as I sat there enjoying the movie I could not protect my kids from sooooo much profanity... Why and there are so many advertisment geared towards kids who like the transformer ...this movie was not for them ... then why have advertisement geared for them ...........Transformers 1 was better it pull the people to want to see transformer 2...it whould have still been just as great without the profanity...I hope T 3 will be alot clearner..

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I didn't see Transformers 2. I absolutely refuse to pay any more money to Michael Bay...and here's why:

I used to be a Bay apologist to an extent. I figured that, no matter how stupid the movies were, they would have some great action. After all, Bad Boy and The Rock are really cool action flicks, right?

Well, Armageddon has good action, but the characters are cardboard and the acting/directing is WAY over the top. Pearl Harbor took a horrible event in American history and turned it into a popcorn flick. (Imagine if they did that with 9/11...War Of The Worlds notwithstanding.) Bad Boys II took characters that we kinda liked and turned them into complete assholes. It was, quite possibly, the most mean-spirited action movie in recent memory. It took the fun of the first movie and pounded it into the ground.

Then came the cinematic abortion that was The Island. There was nothing good about that movie beyond Scarlet Johansson in a tight, white uniform. Everything was bad. It was a two hour commercial for about 15 different products. An absolute insult to its audience.

Transformers was his third best movie and it's a load of crap. Prime saying, "My bad"? Bumblebee peeing on John Turturro? Michael Bay peed on my childhood. There was NO story at all. It was just a bunch of piles of broken glass going at each other. But then you couldn't even tell what those piles were doing because the camera was constantly moving in WAY too close! Bay has COMPLETELY forgotten how to shoot an action scene! He thinks it's enough to just have two big, metal behemoths bang into each other. And, sadly, it appears to be.

So, yes. I refuse to pay to see Transformers 2. Michael Bay should stay true to his word of 10 seconds and stop making terrible summer action movies. There's a way to make them good, but he has lowered the bar so much that no one wants to make them even decent. Intelligence has left the theatre and it's his fault. He is Uwe Boll with a budget.

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I really enjoyed the first, really enjoy seeing movies at Imax, really enjoy watching giant robots fight and really enjoy watching Megan Fox being Megan Fox.

TF2 offered a pretty potent cocktail of those elements so I went and saw it. It wasn't as good as the first, but it was still great fun.

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I watched the movie because i thought it was just going to dumb Michael bay fun but instead i was kinda bored with the movie and the second reason i saw it was because initially David Chen on the SlashFilmCast talked about how bad it was and i was like how can this movie be worse the first in terms of plot and story and then the days following the internet was buzzing including this site about these racist stereotype characters and i had to know what stereotypes and how bad (and they were really bad and i wasn't really offended because of racial aspects to the characters more because in a movie in 2009 we still have lame one dimensional and to me it came off like "Fuck You, I Bet They'll Eat It Up" to the audience and their intelligence). I'm glad i didn't go to the midnight screening and paid full price for this movie and instead saw it for half price at afternoon matinee last Thursday, but with the crowd I did see it with made sad because they would clap and cheers every five minutes in the fight scenes and gasp in awe when (Spoiler Alert) Optimus Prime is killed halfway through the movie in the forest fight scene, which the movie hadn't earned that emotional moment. In Closing the movie is okay if you don't pay full price and it a an okay movie to kill time with.

Tanget: I liked the blunt foreshadowing in the movie where optimus prime talks sam in a cemetery, real subtle guys

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I went because i wanted to see the hoopla concerning mudflap and skidz! yea i laughed!

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