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Comparing Transformers to Godzilla

According to an online Godzilla filmography (http://www.geocities.com/chrisjkoch/godzilfi.htm), there were some 25 Godzilla films made. I loved the early ones, but lost interest sometime after Rodan and Mothra (although I must admit I was fond of Ghidrah, the three headed monster). It got to the point where you needed a score card to keep track of all the monsters, and which were good and which were bad. That's the same with these heavy metal Transformers. But whereas it took more than a handful of Godzilla movies to get to the yawning point (with apologies to the fans who disagree about the Godzilla films, and love 'em all), it took just a few minutes before I felt the same way about the new Transformers film, "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen." "Fallen asleep" is more like it.

Every time there were Transformers on the screen, the film got boring. On the other hand, every time there were characters being funny, it was enjoyable. Unfortunately, it was much more of the former and far less of the latter. Thankfully, there were ample scenes of Megan Fox as girlfriend Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox, by the way, in name alone, is definitely more of the "latter," but I digress - and no puns about the use of the word "ample"). There were also some delightful moments whenever Shia LeBeouf's movie mom, Julie White as Judy Witwicky was on the screen, and whenever John Turturro as Agent Simmons was around.

 

I had a friend named Ari who said the 2007 Transformers film was his favorite movie of all time. And he would never watch scary films under any circumstances. That first film in the franchise was certainly much better than this new release, which is no better than the first one most of us forgot about from 1986: The Transformers: The Movie.

 

In a summer thus far lacking a true blockbuster film like last year's "Dark Knight" or "Iron Man," this is the biggest box office success so far. In just five days of release, 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' has racked up a ridiculous $200.1 million in box office receipts. Audiences must be starving for something special. They'll need to keep looking.

 

I'm not sure if you consider the Transformers films to be monster movies, but there is one great (*mini-spoiler alert*) sci-fi/fantasy/horror scene where a female college does the best monster morph since we first saw Robert Patrick's cyborg do it in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Alas, there just isn't enough horror, enough fun, and never enough Megan Fox.

 

If there's a third Transformers film (if? sorry, there surely will be), I'd rather you "Drag Me To Hell" (part two).

 

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