Actual, Genuine Worst Moments in Transformers 2

By Rob Bricken in Movies, Toys
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 4:00 pm
I really, really didn't want to post anything else about the Transformers movie today. But thanks to FilmDrunk, I have learned something so awful, so tragic about Revenge of the Fallen that I am grinding my teeth in anger and frustration. And shockingly, no, it's Michael Bay's bitchy little letter to Paramount how they're not spending enough millions of dollars promoting RotF.

First, an appetizer of feces -- a new clip from the movie, courtesy of TR reader Niall:

You know, I liked this movie a lot better when it was just Gremlins; I guess the Beef forgot to not feed his fucking kitchen appliances after midnight. On the plus side, I would have difficulty telling Gremlins and Transformers 2 apart, except for the fact that Transformers 3 will helpfully be racist. From Movieline:
There are two robots in the film called Mudflap and Skids, and despite being red and green, respectively, they are voiced in a way that clearly designates them to be the "black" robots. Also, Skids has a gold front tooth (no, I'm serious) and both cannot read.
Now, Movieline has seen the film. This is not a rumor, it's not Bay's stupid disinformation scheme -- there are illiterate robots who speak in ebonics in the movie and one of them has a gold fucking tooth in Transformers 2. Do not compare this to Scatman Carothers voicing Jazz in the original cartoon. Scatman was a voice actor who happened to be black. His Performance was not a racist stereotype.

I cannot believe this is fucking happening. I cannot believe that in 2009 a man who makes these kinds of decisions is allowed to make movies at all, let alone have had a successful career. There's more, of course including confirmation of Devastator's testicles (so let's pretending that's a rumor). Also...
At one point, two characters are in Paris eating escargot and they're accosted by a mime because that's all that happens in Paris, right? Those two things? That and maybe the Eiffel Tower gets hit by something and explodes.
Michael Bay can certainly film an explosion, but he's never had an original fucking thought in his entire life. France! They have mimes and eat snails in France! Duhr! Goddammit, you could put a retarded 6-year-old who has never seen a movie before in a theater showing a Michael Bay movie, and he would still find it trite and cliche. Except when Bay's too lazy to even do that.
Not to worry, though, because set amidst this stereotypical French tableau is a highly conspicuous Budweiser bottle. In fact, the product placement is so egregious and random in Fallen (for some reason, a huge Planters peanuts can is placed smack in the middle of a garage floor during one scene, because that's where one usually keeps food -- on the floor with nothing around it in a huge garage)...
A can of peanuts in the middle of a garage. Something that would never happen naturally, that no human being on Earth would ever do, except Michael Bay for the purposes of product placement. Because he doesn't give a shit and can't fire enough synapses to even understand that food should probably be in fucking kitchen.

Bayformers apologists, you may officially blow me. Despite my constant and incredibly justified knocking of all the shit going on with this film, I was prepared to try and keep an open mind about the movie when I review it this week. I was going to try to ignore the Transformers franchise itself and common sense and just watch it as a popcorn flick. No more. Because there's the lowest common denominator, and below that is river of feces and vomit, and somewhere below that lie Michael Bay films. Because when Michael Bay makes films like this, he doesn't just insult Transformers fans, he insults everybody.
Tags: Hasbro, Michael Bay, Toy Movies, Transformers, Wretchedness

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