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Anyone else impressed with this movie? I have to admit I liked it, though I previously had no interest in it. I was a huge fan of the original animated series but then lost interest in them right after (hated the new art style). I caught the movie after it showed on HBO and man!...what a great ride it was. Enjoyed the hell out of it.

It's a great movie for sure. However, most of the 80's fanboys hated it. I wasn't a big fan of the corporate sponsorship forcing the vehicles to be of one brand. The sequel should be pretty good.

yea i cant wait for the sequel

I haven't the slightest clue what the storyline will be though.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an upcoming science fiction film due for release on June 26, 2009. It is the sequel to the 2007's Transformers, which was the first live action Transformers film. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg return respectively as director and executive producer, while Shia LaBeouf reprises the role of Sam Witwicky, the human caught in the war between Autobots and Decepticons. Shooting began in May 2008.

Bay desired to give the sequel a bigger budget for a global scale and better characterization for a larger cast of robots. The main hurdle in getting the film produced was overcoming the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, as well as possible strikes by the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. Bay met his shooting date with the help of previsualization and a scriptment by his writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and series newcomer Ehren Kruger.


Premise

Roberto Orci described the film's theme as the robots confronting "being away from home", with the focus between the robots and humans "much more evenly balanced".The tone will be similar to the first film, but "the stakes will be higher", (with a more global sensibility), and there will be more focus on the science fiction elements. Orci also said "we'll be better at modulating [the humor] this time". Structurally, the plot will be "more organically interconnected in that TF1 had the structure of 3 story lines coming together at Hoover. TF2 will have a different structure."




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