Revenge of the Fallen; a disaster movie indeed.

Rating: 1/10 (5 June 2017)

So there is a new upcoming Transformers movie out later this month, which strangely has me reflect on its series. I choose to do a review for this one because it is outlandishly bad; so bad in fact while watching it, it made question if the first one was really any good.
My expectations were pretty low in regards to the first one, which is probably how I ending up liking it. I felt as though the 2007 Transformers is more of a chase movie. Actually they all are, really. However it is the one that is mostly straightforward, in my opinion. It mostly reminded me a lot of Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, which is one of my favorite movies.
Anyway although I understand Revenge of the Fallen was really hyped when it was released and even though I liked the first one, I had zero interest. It was even the number one film at the box office for two weeks! Two weeks! And until Avatar was released six months later, this was the HIGHEST grossing movie of 2009.
I can honestly tell you that there are not a lot of movies that I can say I hate, but this one I hateabsolutely. Not one good thing about it. There is someone whom I am a subscriber to on YouTube who has recently reviewed this movie and although there is a lot he did not like about it, I still feel like he was being a little too easy on it. This film doesn't even look good; there is an extreme intensity of colors. And it's just loud! Non-stop clanging of metal. Can't even tell who is fighting who after a while, much less care. In the end, it is just a noisy, big, bloated, convoluted mess with so much saturation of colors. It literally becomes an assault on the senses. Well, isn't that what to expect from Michael Bay's vision of Transformers? This is by no means Academy Award material. I understand that but if you're going to make a mindless action movie, at least make one that is worth watching. There is no need for this crap to be 2 ½ hours long. There is also no need for gratuitous shots of a skimpily dressed Megan Fox, or John Turturro's ass, or robotic testicles. I didn't even know Rainn Wilson was in this, or perhaps I just forgot. And Shia LeBeouf's roommate in the movie is soerratic, which is incredibly annoying. This movie goes on way too long and with so many subplots. Also, his parents should have had screen time reduced as little as possible. I didn't like them much in the first movie either. None of these movies need to have such a big comic relief and none of it is funny. It all just comes across as so embarrassing. That's how I felt when I watched it, which was on cable. I could never throw my money down the drain on seeing this in a theatre. I guess that's the way it is with these movies: "Run to the aliens, run from the aliens, run to the aliens" Something like that. I always liked that quote.