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IreneHow I wish Revenge of the Fallen ended
July 9th 2009 03:07
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the movie.
I often rate movie trilogies on the merits of the second movie and how it bridges the series together. Amongst geeks it is usually agreed that The Empire Strikes Back is one of the best movies in popular science fiction and fantasy. The reasons are too numerous to mention here. With the outstanding box office receipts for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF), it is obvious that we will receive a third edition of the ongoing battle between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Despite the tremendous response in the box office to the second installment in the Transformers franchise, the film itself has largely received negative feedback from critics and fans alike. During a discussion with a recent viewer of ROTF, we discussed how the movie could have been improved and provide a lead in to the eventual third movie.
ROTF culminates with a huge battle between the nameless hordes of Decepticons and the Autobots/humans. Optimus Prime is resurrected, and then Jetfire sacrifices himself so that his parts can augment Optimus temporarily in order for the latter to battle with the Decepticon leaders, Megatron and the Fallen. Prime succeeds in forcing a retreat from Megatron while destroying the Fallen, with all the human protagonists surviving (unfortunately). The movie ends with a voiceover by Optimus, which is intended to leave the viewer with a nice warm fuzzy feeling before the credits roll.
Originally the Fallen was the first Herald of Unicron, the Chaos Bringer. Unicron was first introduced into the Transformers universe in 1986 in the theatrical release of the Transformers animated movie, and was voiced by the late great Orson Welles. That film’s producers had made a great choice in selecting a larger-than-life actor to portray a Transformer the size of a planet and with untold power and knowledge. Unicron was pure evil. If we could have the writing and production staff of ROTF go back in time, this is what would have made the movie better than Bayhem with a sprinkle of bad acting:
The final act of the film has the resurrection of Optimus Prime, and the Fallen trying to activate the Sun Harvester in order to use the energon to power his lord and master Unicron (who’s not been mention until this point). Prime fights and kills the Fallen, but instead of the Fallen doing the melting face thing during a quick death, the Fallen slowly dies and expresses regret for failing his master, then utters a threat to Prime and the Autobots explaining that they are too late that his master has come and will take his vengeance on them all. Then the Fallen does the face melting thing.
Starscream makes his “coward” comment to Megatron, behind whom we see the daytime moon and another planet behind it. Megatron directs the Decepticons to retreat. Prime, along with the humans and gathered Autobots, look to where the Decepticons are fleeing and see Unicron for the first time. In a shot from Prime’s point of view we discern that Unicron is getting closer. Prime then states to the group, “The Chaos Bringer has come, and I fear that we may not be able to stop him…” Then we cut to the surface of Unicron as his great maw opens with a feral roar and a burst of energy before quickly cutting to black.
With an ending like the above, the viewer is prepared to experience a whole new kind of awe at the technical expertise of ILM, and set to purchase their ticket for the next ride on the Bayhem machine.
I often rate movie trilogies on the merits of the second movie and how it bridges the series together. Amongst geeks it is usually agreed that The Empire Strikes Back is one of the best movies in popular science fiction and fantasy. The reasons are too numerous to mention here. With the outstanding box office receipts for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF), it is obvious that we will receive a third edition of the ongoing battle between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Despite the tremendous response in the box office to the second installment in the Transformers franchise, the film itself has largely received negative feedback from critics and fans alike. During a discussion with a recent viewer of ROTF, we discussed how the movie could have been improved and provide a lead in to the eventual third movie.
ROTF culminates with a huge battle between the nameless hordes of Decepticons and the Autobots/humans. Optimus Prime is resurrected, and then Jetfire sacrifices himself so that his parts can augment Optimus temporarily in order for the latter to battle with the Decepticon leaders, Megatron and the Fallen. Prime succeeds in forcing a retreat from Megatron while destroying the Fallen, with all the human protagonists surviving (unfortunately). The movie ends with a voiceover by Optimus, which is intended to leave the viewer with a nice warm fuzzy feeling before the credits roll.
Originally the Fallen was the first Herald of Unicron, the Chaos Bringer. Unicron was first introduced into the Transformers universe in 1986 in the theatrical release of the Transformers animated movie, and was voiced by the late great Orson Welles. That film’s producers had made a great choice in selecting a larger-than-life actor to portray a Transformer the size of a planet and with untold power and knowledge. Unicron was pure evil. If we could have the writing and production staff of ROTF go back in time, this is what would have made the movie better than Bayhem with a sprinkle of bad acting:
The final act of the film has the resurrection of Optimus Prime, and the Fallen trying to activate the Sun Harvester in order to use the energon to power his lord and master Unicron (who’s not been mention until this point). Prime fights and kills the Fallen, but instead of the Fallen doing the melting face thing during a quick death, the Fallen slowly dies and expresses regret for failing his master, then utters a threat to Prime and the Autobots explaining that they are too late that his master has come and will take his vengeance on them all. Then the Fallen does the face melting thing.
Starscream makes his “coward” comment to Megatron, behind whom we see the daytime moon and another planet behind it. Megatron directs the Decepticons to retreat. Prime, along with the humans and gathered Autobots, look to where the Decepticons are fleeing and see Unicron for the first time. In a shot from Prime’s point of view we discern that Unicron is getting closer. Prime then states to the group, “The Chaos Bringer has come, and I fear that we may not be able to stop him…” Then we cut to the surface of Unicron as his great maw opens with a feral roar and a burst of energy before quickly cutting to black.
With an ending like the above, the viewer is prepared to experience a whole new kind of awe at the technical expertise of ILM, and set to purchase their ticket for the next ride on the Bayhem machine.
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