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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has all-at-once inspired the web like it was Snakes On a Plane: Part Deux. Except, unlike Snakes, all this love and inspiration is happening as soon as people have had their first glimpse of this (no acceptable adjective exists yet) movie.
Now that it’s been released and panned with more pomp and poetry than we could ever pray for, critics are getting lucid, Photoshoppers are getting phrenetic, and the whole damn internet has found itself in some sort of Bacchanalian revelry fueled by a spectacle that supposedly fucks you for life disembowels the brain like no movie before it.
Here’s a road map of all the fun we’re being subjected to- enjoy!
Roger Ebert pens one of his most brilliant negative reviews ever.
One of the coolest viral video sets I’ve seen – if only I stumbled on some of these- wow.
Matt Dentler collects the most negative review blurbs of the movie
hahaha… I’m just amused/grossed out on so many levels.
1. I’m REALLY mad that A.O. Scott didn’t get to review this for the NY Times (note to the Times: A.O. SHOULD BE REVIEWING EVERYTHING IN LIFE). I would have loved to compare his and Ebert’s.
2. Charlie Anders seriously needs to get a hold of himself.
3. I don’t know if I can bring myself to spend the money on this one. But my bad action movie fascination is beginning to stir.
I really wish I could have made the midnight premiere last night. Michael Bay has ruined so many things: 20th century history, space exploration, Orwellian science fiction. It seems only fitting that he continue his all out war against my consciousness by salting the earth of my own fond childhood memories.