No.

Secondly, is the review crappy because it’s poorly written or crappy because you don’t agree with it?

Poorly written.

Thirdly, I paid $16 to go to Hoyts, sit in a cinema with a hundred or so other people, and watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in its entirety. After watching the movie, and reflecting on it, I personally found it to be average. The review is therefore my opinion of what I saw. All reviews are, at least in part, a written with a degree of personal bias.

You are entitled to your opinion, but you are also going beyond the scope of the review when you start attacking the movie before you even see it in the first paragraph. That is prejudice, such an ugly thing.

If I’d written the review from the point of view a 14-17 year old hormone driven boy perhaps I would have rated it higher. For what it’s worth, and you may have missed this point, I didn’t say the film was terrible, only that it was an average popcorn blockbuster flick. I enjoyed it for what it was.

No, you didn’t say “terrible,” as you so eloquently put it: “It’s big and it’s dumb.”

Fourthly, you said “Yeah, there is a “human” decepticon. This is also a series of movies so everything you see in every movie need not be explained within the movie in which you saw it.”

To be fair, the film does do a fairly poor job of explaining some of the plot developments, which I think you somewhat acknowledge in that statement. Yeah, it may be a ’series of movies’ (well two so far), but by the same token, the damn film runs for 147 minutes, which is more than enough time to deal with all the films plot elements. Here’s an idea – take out a couple of explosions and spend two minutes explaining why the hell we suddenly have one Terminator-esque Decepticon when all the other characters are stuck as trucks, cars, cement mixers and remote control cars.

Fifth, I don’t believe that it is possible for a movie review to be truly objective, nor do I think I’ve ever read or heard a truly objective movie review.

ob?jec?tive –adjective
“not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased”

I didn’t ask for an objective review – I said “more objective.” Meaning, don’t crap on it because it’s not a Sundance Award™ Winner about gay cowboys eating pudding. Most people aren’t coffeehouse philosophers like you who love to creatively bitch about things and people that aren’t as “unique” as you all are.

A movie review is nothing more than one persons opinion, a personal judgment or evaluation. It is based on the writers interpretation and feelings toward a film. You may not agree with it, but you don’t have to. You may not like it, but you don’t have to.

I’m wondering, do you believe that your comments are objective?

Not entirely, no. Fair? Yes.

Sixth, based on 215 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Revenge of the Fallen has received an average 20% overall approval rating. Similarly, Metacritic has calculated an average score of 35 out of 100 from the 32 reviews it has collected.

So what does that mean? That all the coffeehouse philosophers think the same? Since you bring numerical data to the table, I think the $394M gross from nearly 2,000 theaters that put the movie at the top of the list on Rotten Tomatoes is more telling.

My favorite review so far is from Dark Horizons:
“Bay’s most unrestrained and ridiculous to date. The male teenage cinematic equivalent of snorting cocaine off a hooker’s ass.”

This is confusing – sounds like the movie is awesome, but he didn’t like it. He didn’t like it because of the “stereotypes” – BUT he did like the quintessential coffeehouse philosopher Rainn Wilson. Guess you boys only like your own kind.

I’m guessing you wouldn’t like that review much either, so I wouldn’t recommend you read it.

I read it. He’s an angry coffeehouse philosopher, too.

Didn’t mean to get this involved in arguing over the movie review, but I’m just getting tired of seeing all the same crap in different toilets when it comes to smaller sites that review movies.

While you guys are trying to be so superior by attacking the most financially successful movies the hardest, it comes out making you look like a hypocrite.

Firstly, do you work for Michael Bay?

Secondly, is the review crappy because it’s poorly written or crappy because you don’t agree with it?

Thirdly, I paid $16 to go to Hoyts, sit in a cinema with a hundred or so other people, and watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in its entirety. After watching the movie, and reflecting on it, I personally found it to be average. The review is therefore my opinion of what I saw. All reviews are, at least in part, a written with a degree of personal bias.

If I’d written the review from the point of view a 14-17 year old hormone driven boy perhaps I would have rated it higher. For what it’s worth, and you may have missed this point, I didn’t say the film was terrible, only that it was an average popcorn blockbuster flick. I enjoyed it for what it was.

Fourthly, you said “Yeah, there is a “human” decepticon. This is also a series of movies so everything you see in every movie need not be explained within the movie in which you saw it.”

To be fair, the film does do a fairly poor job of explaining some of the plot developments, which I think you somewhat acknowledge in that statement. Yeah, it may be a ’series of movies’ (well two so far), but by the same token, the damn film runs for 147 minutes, which is more than enough time to deal with all the films plot elements. Here’s an idea – take out a couple of explosions and spend two minutes explaining why the hell we suddenly have one Terminator-esque Decepticon when all the other characters are stuck as trucks, cars, cement mixers and remote control cars.

Fifth, I don’t believe that it is possible for a movie review to be truly objective, nor do I think I’ve ever read or heard a truly objective movie review.

ob?jec?tive –adjective
“not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased”

A movie review is nothing more than one persons opinion, a personal judgment or evaluation. It is based on the writers interpretation and feelings toward a film. You may not agree with it, but you don’t have to. You may not like it, but you don’t have to.

I’m wondering, do you believe that your comments are objective?

Sixth, based on 215 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Revenge of the Fallen has received an average 20% overall approval rating. Similarly, Metacritic has calculated an average score of 35 out of 100 from the 32 reviews it has collected.

My favorite review so far is from Dark Horizons:
“Bay’s most unrestrained and ridiculous to date. The male teenage cinematic equivalent of snorting cocaine off a hooker’s ass.”

I’m guessing you wouldn’t like that review much either, so I wouldn’t recommend you read it.

Yeah, there is a “human” decepticon. This is also a series of movies so everything you see in every movie need not be explained within the movie in which you saw it.

As far as all transformers being people and trying to take over the world, the decepticons don’t give a crap about taking over the world, they just want the energy from earth and they want to destroy the autobots – that’s why they don’t all transform into people. The only human they actually remotely give a crap about is Sam and that’s because he has information about an energy source on Earth.

Try to be more objective when you write your reviews and people won’t think that you suck.