Okay. So. It wasn't nearly as bad as, say, Wolverine. But that leaves a lot of room for it to be really bad! However, there are ... bright spots among the ... oh, hell, it's bad. It's so bad. I love most of the canon it adds to the franchise itself and I still fucking love the human cast but it's awful and here is why—
( HERE I AM SPOILING THE WHOLE DAMN THING )
Expect me to possibly change my mind upon reviewings, because I am probably going to see it again. I didn't hate it, it was just really badly done, mostly it was badly directed? How can I like and hate something at the same time? I have no idea. But I have no qualms at all about laying almost everything that sucked right at the feet of that wicked, wicked man—Michael Bay. He clearly had no idea what the strengths were in the first movie and he played up a lot of the wrong things while leaving out a bunch of the stuff that worked, and ... augh, here is hoping for a better Transformers 3.
Edit: Oh, and Avatar looks hilariously terrible. Like, it'll be good to see it. For laughing. My brother and sister apparently had no idea about the M. Night Shyamalan thing because when they realized what they were watching, they stared at the screen in blank unseeing horror and Bryce said, "... What a twist?"
And I'm sorry to my fandom buddies, I don't know if you guys will agree with me or not about how bad this movie was, but I still like Transformers! I just ... need some good fic or something to soothe away a lot of what I just saw. I might also be less irritated when I wake up tomorrow, I am very tired.
( HERE I AM SPOILING THE WHOLE DAMN THING )
Expect me to possibly change my mind upon reviewings, because I am probably going to see it again. I didn't hate it, it was just really badly done, mostly it was badly directed? How can I like and hate something at the same time? I have no idea. But I have no qualms at all about laying almost everything that sucked right at the feet of that wicked, wicked man—Michael Bay. He clearly had no idea what the strengths were in the first movie and he played up a lot of the wrong things while leaving out a bunch of the stuff that worked, and ... augh, here is hoping for a better Transformers 3.
Edit: Oh, and Avatar looks hilariously terrible. Like, it'll be good to see it. For laughing. My brother and sister apparently had no idea about the M. Night Shyamalan thing because when they realized what they were watching, they stared at the screen in blank unseeing horror and Bryce said, "... What a twist?"
And I'm sorry to my fandom buddies, I don't know if you guys will agree with me or not about how bad this movie was, but I still like Transformers! I just ... need some good fic or something to soothe away a lot of what I just saw. I might also be less irritated when I wake up tomorrow, I am very tired.