Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen: It's never too early for anticipation!

Forget about elections, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Hadron, climate change, credit crunches, what you are gonna have for lunch, faltering relationships, your annoying co-workers and etc., for a while. Come anticipate next years MOST AWESOME film event!

Ice-cream truck combiner! OMG!!!

Oh dear! REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (/suggest ban)

7 CONSTRUCTICONS = 1 badass Devastator

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-9/devastator-confirmed-for-transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-165770/

Is it going to be even more boring than the first one? I can't wait for my leg to fall asleep again!

no dinobots no cred

http://mattgunn.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/megatron_large.jpg

"Feel the WRATH of my bom-BAST!"

I'm opposed to the proliferation of Autobots as they put container drivers out of work.

Trailer here: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809943432/trailer

According to wiki, Soundwave and the Constructicons are in this. Hopefully there will be more focus on the robots this time, but i doubt it.

my friend is working on this. she says Michael Bay is a horrible person to work for.

Horrible person makes horrible films shocker.

OK, having watched the trailer, looks as ineptly filmed as the first one, plus stars the same irritating humans! Will half of the running time be devoted to C-grade high school movie antics like last time? I won't be paying to find out.

i think that's exactly what this sequel appears to be.

Same old sfx and transformer motion as last time, which was fun on the first watch - but didn't stand up to any repeated viewing due to wafer thin everything-else.

It looks like it's going to be a horrible combination of 'Armageddon' and 'War of the Worlds'. I'd have thought Spielberg would know better.

Meantime they've alleged already booked an opening date for the third one in 2011.

can't get excited until i know all the talent from the first two are back for da 3rd

Mike Patton to play either Mixmaster or Long Haul.

"where's the "Evidence", puny fleshling?"

Can a moderate person please change the Fall to Fallen?

This film will be awesome on many levels, and sunk on many levels too. Jetfire as an old guy with a stick is just awful. Arcee dies early on. Sideswipe! Ravage! 60 robots in total!

I'm also kinda anticipating GI Joe too.

thanks!

Are there any fan-made TF movies that are better than this? please post them if they exist. surely desktop consumer nerd-level CG is up to the task by now.

my bandmate is hard at work on this. she has been keeping a jar of bay leaves on her desk in anticipation of the end of her 70+ hr work weeks

bay leaves???

like Michael Bay Leaves?

nice

oh, and Wheelie is a remote control car. Which means there will be a toy that is the same size as the 'real' Wheelie, which is just great...shame it's Wheelie though.

He's a total doucher from what she tells me

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please explain the bay leaves because right now i'm picturing a pagan ritual in which keeping bay leaves in a jar inflicts supernatural harm upon michael bay.

*sigh*

its a reminder to herself that some day, Michael BAY will LEAVE and the date that BAY LEAVES will be a relief for her

He's a total doucher from what she tells me

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hey don't fall into the trap of thinking that because someone's creative work is worthwhile that therefore they're a nice person.

hmm don't think I ever shared either of those misconceptions about Michael Bay

What other pun-based totems has your bandmate made in tribute of nightmare bosses?

hmm don't think I ever shared either of those misconceptions about Michael Bay

But they're such fun.

during her tenure in the Bush administration... xp

man, i'm so distraugt to have my nice-guy illusions about michael bay shattered

god, who cares

i hated the first one so much - tonal balance was off, twas hard to tell what was happening at any given moment, etc.

the trailer i saw before 'star trek' has the most shamelessly porny intro shot of megan fox. anyway this movie predictably looks horrible. spielberg should spend his producing time on better projects imo.

I saw the first one drunk, and it really smoothed out all the awful scenes that involved talking.

no that didn't really help. but still for some reason i kind of anticipate this. might be related to shamelessly porny shots obviously.

lolz my friend at ILM just asked me for a list of "songs about cars and/or robots"

just list the complete Kraftwerk discography

em...maybe not all of it

Btw Megan Fox not hot enough to make me want to see this. First one was bleh.

i like this trailer better than the one upthread

(double-click to view)

blerk, I can't believe film makers are still using that 'meteorite smashing through a building' effect, so fucking over done now. not to mention the rest of the tired and yawnsome effects visible on that trailer.

i don't care. i want to see this movie. (good point on the meteorite thing tho, hmmm)

The first film was great!

The meteorite thing is all propaganda, so that when we do get hit by one we'll be all "ho hum a meteorite, been there, done that"...

great?

yes, all it lacked was Nic Cage.

yes. great.
when you go to a movie expecting to see robots fighting and explosions, and what you get is robots fighting and explosions - you have is a great move right there.

^*what* you have...

i hated the first one when i saw it but upon repeat viewings on cable it grew on me. not great but fun and the battle scenes are pretty dope

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/access-hollywood-megan-fox-michael-bay.html

Megan Fox: Michael Bay's Like 'Napoleon' & 'Wants To Be Like Hitler'
by Access Hollywood    September 2, 2009

Megan Fox on the cover of WONDERLAND Magazine's Sept/Oct 2009 issue Mariano Vivanco/WONDERLAND Magazine LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Megan Fox starred in the biggest movie of the summer, the Michael Bay-directed "Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen," but according to the actress, the director almost killed her and co-star Shia LaBeouf with his "Napoleon" and "Hitler" tendencies.

The box office bombshell unleashed on Bay in an interview with Britain's Wonderland magazine in its September/October issue.

And Megan's comparisons don't stop with just the 19th century dictator.

"He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he's not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward," Megan continued. "He has no social skills at all. And it's endearing to watch him. He's vulnerable and fragile in real life and then on set he's a tyrant."

And according to Megan, Bay pushes his actors to the almost breaking point while filming.

"Shia and I almost die when we make a 'Transformers' movie," she told the mag. "He has you do some really insane things that insurance would never let you do."

However, Megan isn't the first Hollywood star to bite the hand that helped make them into a household name.

During an appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in July, Katherine Heigl noted her return to the "Grey's Anatomy" set was greeted by some long days.

"Our first day back was Wednesday [of last week], and I keep saying this because I hope it embarrasses them - [it was] a 17-hour day," she told Dave on July 20. "I think it's cruel and mean."

And while Heigl may have said the comment in jest, ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson didn't find her remarks too funny. He fired back at the ABC TCA presentation in August, saying "I think it's unfortunate. People are going to behave in the way they choose to behave. There are so many people who work so hard on 'Grey's,' and all of our shows, without any notoriety and those are the ones I'd be concerned about, people who feel like they're being criticized or looked down upon."

On Wednesday, it was announced that Heigl would take a five-episode hiatus from "Grey's" to shoot the romantic comedy "Life As We Know It."

Also in July, "Twilight's" Rachelle Lefevre was replaced in the vampire series' third movie, "Eclipse," due to a scheduling conflict. She told Access in a statement that she was "stunned" by the studio's decision and "never did I fathom I would lose the role over a 10 day overlap. I was happy with my contract with Summit and was fully prepared to continue to honor it. Summit chose simply to recast the part."

Summit responded to Rachelle's statement saying, "We feel that her choice to withhold her scheduling conflict information from us can be viewed as a lack of cooperative spirit which affected the entire production."

My husband was talking to someone who did stand in work on this movie, and Bay threatened to murder him several times during the shoot. But I guess he did that to everybody so nobody really took him seriously.

He made the CGI bots run on time

Sounds like Bay and Christian Bale need to work together, in the presence of an extremely well-concealed Webcam.

hahahaha YES

It's true Hitler threatened all his actors too.

Oh so that's the next 'Hitler has a fit' subtitling meme, then.

I heard Michael Bay was giving everyone on the set free health care too.

I'm surprised she'd even heard of Hitler, let alone Napoleon.

Does an anecdote exist that makes Michael Bay seem like a decent human being? His mother probably had one once.

Crew Letter Originally Posted on MichaelBay.com:

"This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.

Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.

Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina - second thought - she's no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional.

We know this quite intimately because we've had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.

We are in different departments; we can't give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan's panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sour pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.

Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We've traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such - the grump of the set?

When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we've had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) easily another 45 minutes in the chair!

So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to "working with Hitler". We actually don't think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn't realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let's get some facts straight.

Say what you want about Michael - yes at times he can be hard, but he's also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason - he simply wants people to bring their 'A' game. He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors. He's one of the hardest working directors out there.

He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he's loyal, one of the few directors we've encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.

Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don't insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt!

And who is the real Megan Fox? She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we've all worked around. She's as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. She shows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone's hard work. Never a thank you. All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.

Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We've heard the A.D's piped over the radio that Megan won't walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John's done seventy-five movies and she's made two!

Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there's the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn't know that one of the grips daughters wanted to visit their daddy's work to meet Megan, but he wouldn't let them come because he told them "she is not nice."

The press certainly doesn't know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn't let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, "I can't believe Michael is [frick]ing forcing us to go to the [frick]ing pyramids!" I guess this is the "Hitler guy" she is referring to.

So this is the Megan Fox you don't get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to.

But 'Fame' is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em' come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!"

-Loyal Transformers Crew

an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.

These days most moms probably have something worse.

Hey Ned, do you have the power to delete the accidental post I made w/ this in the fifteen songs thread on ILM? I acc. posted it in that thread.

JEEZ. :-D Yeah hold on.

Danke!

Was lent this. Tried to watch it. Made it through 17 minutes, with all the Sam's family/girlfriend interations on 2x speed. Couldn't watch any more. Stupid, witless, unfunny, ineptly filmed and incredibly fuckwitted. And that's just Megan Fox [bada-dum!].

http://www.rifftrax.com/files/imagecache/product/files/Transformers2Web_0.jpg
http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/transformers-revenge-fallen

As with the first one, I'm going to wait until the RiffTrax version

― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:33 AM (5 months ago)

Glad I waited! Still this movie is so fucking long that it's just exhausting to watch and concentrate on the riffs.

STILL:

"Is there anything lower than playing a mime in a Michael Bay movie?"

"Megadeth, report to Hanger 18."

Turturo: "I am directly beneath the enemy scrotum."
Bill: "Okay, somebody won a bet there. 'Dude, put the line I'm directly beneath the enemy scrotum into this movie. If it still makes money, I'll pay for a weekend in Vegas.

Enjoyed this.

"BLERRUGGGHHAAAA!!! Tastes like lousy screenwriting!"

not enough transforming for me

should probably start a new thread, but can't be bothered.

Shia says Transformers 3 brings the heart back to the franchise

finally, they're getting back to what everybody wants from the franchise: the relationships

heart = matrix of leadership?? oh no they used that shitly in the second one or the first one or both the first one and the second one

http://i41.tinypic.com/r7n7e1.jpg

Plus no Megan.

RIP the heart of the franchise

LOL

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/05/video-heidi-montags-audition-tape-replace-megan-fox-transformers-3

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1319918/Transformers-3-hit-second-accident-Stunt-car-slams-real-Police-SUV-unscripted-crash.html?ITO=1490

Glad nobody was seriously hurt, and the cop deserves a medal for shutting down this film for a day...

Movie extra Gabriela Cedillo suffered brain damage and partial paralysis last month when she was hit in the head by a flying metal cable.

fucking hell

man f8ck this

kinda amazing how the hood of the bumblebee disappears

This message is specifically to Pedantic Hamsick. Yeah, I agree that Transformers II was a wash; with changes to core characters and the additions of questionable characters. But there's one constant fact, The Transformers Movies are ONLY about the the real stars, the Autobots and Decepticons, not about some loser humans which are placed into the movies for fillers. To tell you the truth, I don't know why Megan Fox is such a marque' in this production, REAL Transformers followers know that PETER CULLEN is the ORIGINAL VOICE of OPTIMUS PRIME; who just happens to be the real star of The Transformers... In case you can't follow what I'm saying; Optimus Prime is that big blue and red customized tractor trailer that was kicking ass all over the place. As a matter of fact, I'm glad that Megan Fox is out of the production; the real stars are Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumble Bee, Devastator, etc. but, if you really knew anything about The Transformers, you would know this already...

- Robert L.M. Smith III, Heidleberg, Germany, 14/10/2010 03:14

This message is specifically to Pedantic Hamsick. Yeah, I agree that Transformers II was a wash; with changes to core characters and the additions of questionable characters. But there's one constant fact, The Transformers Movies are ONLY about the the real stars, the Autobots and Decepticons, not about some loser humans which are placed into the movies for fillers. To tell you the truth, I don't know why Megan Fox is such a marque' in this production, REAL Transformers followers know that PETER CULLEN is the ORIGINAL VOICE of OPTIMUS PRIME; who just happens to be the real star of The Transformers... In case you can't follow what I'm saying; Optimus Prime is that big blue and red customized tractor trailer that was kicking ass all over the place. As a matter of fact, I'm glad that Megan Fox is out of the production; the real stars are Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumble Bee, Devastator, etc. but, if you really knew anything about The Transformers, you would know this already...

http://musiccourt.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/robert_smith.jpg

- Robert L.M. Smith III, Heidleberg, Germany, 14/10/2010 03:14

Disintegration (Upon Impact)

cover my face while the autobot dies!
in the revenge of the fallen
in the revenge of the fallen

maybe they'll let him handle the musical if Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is a hit

s1ocki, the producers were absolved of wrongdoing in the accident that partially paralyzed that particular extra. Her family is furious -- can't really blame them.

This particular accident tho was the police department's fault from what I've read. I'd always wondered what would happen if someone accidentally drove onto a closed set, and well, now I know! lol

the Indiana OSHA chose not to fine or cite the production, which is not the same as being absolved of liability for the civil suit, afaict

yea that is still ongoing, they're mad because they feel the producers were at fault

there's seriously no liability if you get paralyzed when a piece of metal flies into your head during a stunt shot??

I feel vaguely confident in asserting that "Dark of the Moon" will be marginally better than "Revenge of the Fallen".

for a start, it's in 3D, so a week or so of eyelid flutter will be a guarantee.

i did not feel great when the skyscraper split in half in the trailer

I feel vaguely confident in asserting that "Dark of the Moon" will be marginally better than "Revenge of the Fallen".

there is no way it could be worse

there's no way it could be WO- oh heh

I'm looking forward to reviews that top Ebert's description of the last one as sounding (I think) akin to running pots and pans through the dryer.

If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

I was close enough.

The Chicago Tribune one is the review that described the movie as "like listening to rocks in a clothes dryer for 2½ hours."