As for this knife, my intuition is as follows:
This is a textbook-style Hollywood commercial movie, with hot scenes and ups and downs, a joke in three minutes, and a hot scene in five minutes. The whole film has few cold spots-of course, the premise is " "TF2" tells the story of Transformers. And all this is worth the fare.
But when it comes to the so-called humanistic value, plot logic, and ideology, when your mouth is filled with popcorn, you can say "Who care?" to the doubter with ulterior motives: "Who care?", looking at the other person's stunned eyes, it actually feels pretty good. Cool.
I thought that the generation who was obsessed with Transformers when they were young should express their overall recognition of the film, but today I chatted with a guy of the same age about "TF2", and he came up with the first sentence ""TF2" is really bad!", such as Drinking on the head, still smashed me.
For a specific chat, it turns out that the most dissatisfied with this public is some settings about Transformers in the film, such as robot magic is the most unacceptable for him. And the King Kong has too few literary dramas, almost all of them are reduced to supporting roles, which made him think that the film should be renamed "The Lord of the Rings: Sam Sending Fans".
In all fairness, these views of his are indeed quite pertinent. The moment the old fallen King Kong raised his staff on the top of the pyramid, the knife was also hit by Xiao Lei, but he was relieved immediately. After all, "Fallen Teacher" appeared as one of the thirteen sages who were the ancestors of the Transformers. No matter what form of life this civilization is based on, witchcraft will inevitably appear in the early stages of its social development.
Of course, in order to straighten out this idea, we must first get rid of the existing understanding that "Transformers are mass-produced robots manufactured by the five-faced monster on the production line". If you can’t understand this, then you can only complain about others with the "real TF fans" of the textual research faction!
if you serious you lose! This sentence is really appropriate to answer the question of whether "TF2" is "faithful to the original setting".
As for the role of the Transformers, I think it is necessary to make a bold speculation.
The huge success of "TF1" on a global scale has surprised the US authorities to discover another excellent platform to showcase the "American spirit". Don't tell me that you think the United States is so strong that it does not need to do this. Before the financial tsunami broke out, the United States might not have to be like this. But now, the American spirit is being severely tested by the economic recession and the surge in unemployment. At this time, ordinary people who are already annoying enough can hardly watch any troubles in the theater.
Then what is the most appetite for the audience at this moment? Obviously it is an American main theme movie with "freedom, unity, fraternity, personal heroism, etc." as its selling point. And this is exactly one of the genres that Hollywood is best at, and when it comes to the ability to grasp and manipulate such films, director Michael Bay (hereinafter referred to as Mr. Mai) is even better. Now that everything is ready, everyone naturally hits it off—during the filming process, the U.S. military has received strong support, and a large number of active fighters, tanks, and military have become the props of the film. The kind of US military image propaganda film that the audience saw in the movie also fully proved this point.
The military has laid down enough capital, and Mr. Mai will definitely reciprocate. So, the Decepticon fighter who once single-handedly swept the US military base in "TF1" turned out to be struggling with M1A2 gunfire in "TF2". Poor worm.
Of course, you can say that these Decepticons who became cannon fodder are just hatched rookies, and their failure is due to a serious lack of combat experience. But the invincible Hercules was defeated under the attack of the electromagnetic railgun. He has already made the facts very clear-no matter how cunning your terrorists are, they will not be able to beat our brave American soldiers!
After going around such a big circle, in simple terms, in the face of an attack by the Decepticons, an alien terrorist organization, if you want to highlight human resistance, then the role of the robots will naturally be affected, regardless of whether you are a Decepticon. Or Autobot.
To put it another way, from the perspective of the creators, letting humans take the lead is much cheaper than letting robots play the role. The computer special effects are no problem. It is no problem to blow up a pyramid aircraft carrier. It is still a little powerless to fully show the joys, sorrows and joys of the robot. After all, Bumblebee’s "sad as a diabetes"-style surging performance can be considered a good joke once or twice, but if it is handled in this way, the whole movie will be completely out of control.
In fact, as far as Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, and Starscream are not too few in the scene, I feel that almost the characters in the cartoons appear before me. Of course, perhaps in order to make up for the audience's expectation of "the evil is invincible", the dual-sword and dual-gun version of Optimus Prime is much more brave and good at fighting than the previous episode.
In particular, Megatron and Starscream are worth mentioning. The rival scenes of the two brothers are almost a copy of the animation that year. The leader of a terrorist organization with arrogant and arrogant ambitions, and a traitorous second child who always thinks about usurping power, really brings us too much joy.
I remember that there was a shot of Starscream in F22 state, very handsomely throwing an elegant arc above the pyramid to fly to the upper left corner of the screen and draw out. After half a second, the camera did not turn, as if it had been hit hard. He fell back to the apex of the pyramid in embarrassment. Next came Megatron's angrily. This set of shots made me laugh until my stomach hurts, as if I was back in front of my childhood TV.
"This episode feels like watching a cartoon!" I remember the Raiden kid in the same car said on the way back from the theater, and this is one of the feelings of Ben Dao after watching the movie. The plot weakened to the pure popcorn level, the vividly imaged characters, and the robots that once again challenge the visual limit of "hand-to-hand" combat are all elements that make the movie more "non-connotative".
But we might as well take another angle. In addition to the usual elements of commercial movies, what are the success factors of "TF1"? Nostalgia and innovation. Where is the nostalgia? Those characters who are in the audience's memory. Where is the innovation? It lies in the all-round re-interpretation of the Transformers body (don't tell me that when you watch "TF1", you find that Optimus Prime is no longer the hero of the high school when you were a child).
"TF2" is actually still this way of thinking. However, under the premise of diminishing marginal utility of visual impact (remember the cheers of the scene where Optimus Prime was deformed in front of Sam in "TF1", right? In "TF2", a dozen times more complicated Hercules performed When the combination was not made, the audience was not HI to this level). When the road to innovation has become more and more difficult, how to play the role of nostalgia more effectively?
It is estimated that the teachers of Mai took a few days of head shooting, and thought of a way-let's just follow the original cartoon idea, add new characters, add some big scenes, add some jokes, and make a live-action cartoon! This method is not clever, but for now, the effect is pretty good. At least in the scene when Starscream persuaded Megatron to retreat at the end of the film, I did see Megatron, who had always fought and failed repeatedly in the cartoons that year.
In general, as the second part of the "TF" trilogy, "TF2" has basically completed the task, so there should be no need to worry about commercial results. If you adjust your mentality, you will treat yourself back to the boyhood when "girls are good, but not as good as Transformers", then you will definitely be able to get full movie-watching pleasure in this film.
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