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Transformers Scene at the MTV Movie Awards
May 20, 2009
Related Articles From Other SitesPosted by: anyeh on May 20, 2009 at 12:29:19
sweet
Posted by: Lee Thomson on May 20, 2009 at 12:29:32
These are never any good will not show to much hope I have prevented someone going "FIRST"
Posted by: John Fonseca on May 20, 2009 at 12:41:44
That's cool
Posted by: i am batman on May 20, 2009 at 12:46:51
big friggin deal
Posted by: Tom Waits on May 20, 2009 at 12:59:18
I'm...not excited...
Posted by: OMG on May 20, 2009 at 13:07:53
****yaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn****
Posted by: prozac-pedro on May 20, 2009 at 13:45:50
woopty freaking doo
Posted by: Harish on May 20, 2009 at 14:10:15
More interested in where they'll go with the parodies... Hope whatever they do is not TOO cheesy, there was a time when I found it hilarious... but that's dwindled badly over the years... in my opinion.
Posted by: atomz on May 20, 2009 at 15:03:11
i love transformers...... f#u*k harry potter no one likes it and the last one had no good ending. transformers ROCKS
Posted by: The Watcher on May 20, 2009 at 15:05:07
What's up with this site bloody pop ups everywhere now.
Posted by: Jeramy PBF Studios RedbeardsBooty.blogspot.com on May 20, 2009 at 15:08:06
I'm not a big fan of RTV(RealityTV), I mean MTV.....hehe....sorry...honest mistake. The MTV Movie Awards are usually fun to watch and now I feel like I actually care about watching this year.
Posted by: Dustin on May 20, 2009 at 15:30:51
didnt think it was possible for MTV to make me want to NOT watch transformers...lol
Posted by: Honest Fan on May 20, 2009 at 15:32:08
Early screening moviegoers hailed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the new action film starring Shia LaBeouf, as not as much of an unforgivably awful piece of formulaic commercial pabulum as it could have been.
"You know, I have to hand it to DreamWorks Pictures (Paramount).," Miami resident Tom Peebles said Monday. "Transformers was terrible, but it actually had one or two decent parts. I really have to say: It could have been a lot worse!"
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, loosely based on the 1990’s cartoon series, has similarly shattered other viewers' bottom-of-the-barrel expectations, offering a small number of redeeming features instead of the expected none.
"That one part where the car blows up, but then turns into a robot was sort of cool, I guess," said Bangor, ME's Sally Burrows. "And it was kind of funny when that other truck thing burped. Oh, and when Shia LaBeouf ran scared from that other robot—that was, though not exactly funny, at least funny-ish. My kids seemed to like it. Well, Mindy, at least."
"Mindy just turned 7," Burrows added.
According to Ivan Berger, a self-described film buff, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen trailers—featuring atrocious computer-generated animation, cringe-worthy shots of LaBeouf running and yelling to intolerable grunge music, and love interest/sidekick Megan fox's flirtatious mugging—set audience expectations very low.
"At first glance, Transformers, the story of a sexy group of robots who fight villainous other robots, seemed like the kind of formulaic, committee-written marketing opportunity—Garfield, New York Minute, and so on—that has become the summer-movie standard," Berger said. "To everyone's surprise, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen proved marginally better than that."
"Judging from the ads, I assumed I'd want my eight bucks back," Berger added. "But after seeing the movie, I was pleasantly surprised to find I only wanted three, maybe four bucks back, tops."
A half-realized camp attitude, which suggested that the filmmakers were aware of the film's poor quality, impressed viewers, as well.
"After seeing a billboard with Shia LaBeouf running around with that foxy girl from the first movie, I really thought I'd have to leave midway through," Los Angeles resident Brian Gunderson said. "But you know what? Some of the action scenes were halfway non-shi#y. Definitely curb—as opposed to gutter—level. Also, I found myself paying attention to the character development once or twice. I guess I underestimated it. I'd say it actually merits one and a half stars."
Critics joined moviegoers to applaud Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for not having been worse. Tom ****inson of WHO-TV in Des Moines called Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen a movie that "doesn't exactly roar, but does kind of purr at times, I guess." Ellen Norbury of Hollywood Reviews Online said, "It's a better-than-failed effort, sure to provide two or three halfway-fun moments."
Some industry insiders hope the film signals an end to the "worst-possible" trend in motion pictures.
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen bucks the trend established by such recent blockbusters as Punisher: War Zone, The Spirit, and even a few years ago’s Van Helsing, which met audience predictions head-on by being exactly as bad as they seemed like they would be," media ****yst Roy Oglive said. "It's possible that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will increase audience expectations, making them judge subsequent releases by a harsher standard. The American viewing public may actually come to expect movies not to be totally horrible."
Unfortunately, Oglive said, that may prove to be both a blessing and a curse.
"If moviegoers forget to keep their expectations low, the occasional almost-okay moments in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will lead to further disappointments down the road," Oglive said. "When the next “Spider-Man 3” comes along, they'll be devastated."
In the meantime, moviegoers are relishing the experience of a night out at the movies that they don't completely hate.
"It's so refreshing to take the family out to what you assume will be the absolute worst movie of the year, and then find out it's only among the year's worst movies," said Janice Davenport, 27, of Jeffersontown, KY. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the kind of once-in-a-blue-moon summer blockbuster that makes going to the movies slightly less non-fun again."
Posted by: Monte Cristo on May 20, 2009 at 15:32:22
Wyngarde, you just come off like an idiot when you say that! How can you say that transformers is crap?!
Posted by: Monte Cristo on May 20, 2009 at 15:38:11
Nice try Honest Fan... But nobody gives a flying F about what you just wrote. Everybody is still going to see this movie!
Posted by: B.A. Baracus on May 20, 2009 at 15:38:41
@Honest Fan
You never cease to amaze me!
Posted by: Honest Fan on May 20, 2009 at 15:40:08
@ Monte Cristo
What exactly is "a flying F"? Sounds painful.
Posted by: time? on May 20, 2009 at 15:42:51
Honest Fan, you have way too much time on your hands, as evidenced by your post (which I did not waste my precious time reading completely). Stop masturbating in your parents' basement, get a job, and stop complaining about a movie you haven't seen yet. We all know you're going to go see the movie even though you are *****ing about it now.
Posted by: dragon_dude on May 20, 2009 at 15:44:51
gentlemen please, give some credit for the well put cgi...personally i think adding shia LaBeouf was a mistake, transformers was like batman begins in a way, reason: batman was a military movie much like transformers should have been, i mean come on just use the army and not the cheesy actors who will destory it.
megan fox is hot tho lol
Posted by: Monte Cristo on May 20, 2009 at 16:15:43
You know the 4 letter word that starts with an "F"
First of all, he's most likely not even done with the film! He probably has like another week of editing, and the only person that has seen a rough cut is Steven Spielberg
Posted by: Jawad on May 20, 2009 at 16:48:07
Terminator: Salvation was awesome!!!
Posted by: Al on May 20, 2009 at 17:06:30
Whoop dee f'n doo!!!!! Showus more and keep spoiling the movie. Just show the whole damn thing already!
Posted by: cat on May 20, 2009 at 18:07:08
new footage - nice!
can anyone say Soundwave?
oh, do we have email replies here?
Posted by: J. Eddy on May 20, 2009 at 18:21:47
Everyone takes this way to serious. This is a movie about robots. "A boy and his car." That is what Bay said it was about to begin with, you shouldn't expect more. I am a fan of 80's cartoons, very much so Transformers. If your worried about the source material then maybe the movie should be a cartoon. But wait their is already a cartoon transformers movie, it rocked, it cursed, it had Orsin Wells in it. Take the movie for what it is. At least all us fanboys aren't sitting around saying, "I wish they would make a live action transformers movie, that would be cool. Robots punching robots. Things blow up. People run away screaming. That is all it needs.
Posted by: rooster on May 20, 2009 at 19:42:44
I think Honest Fan needs to go back to watching The Reader or some other ghey arthouse movie from the creativity they have shown in the so-called 'article'.
Props for clever writing though...you shouldve been a spin doctor.
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