Optimus Prime: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings."
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Variety's David Cohen saw the latest "Transformers" movie --- "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" --- and filed this report on its reference to President Obama, but not, at least in his eyes, in a good way.Cohen writes, "So as usual in these movies, the federal bureaucrats are portrayed as annoying if not villainous. The President's man, "Galloway," is a bespectacled blowhard who becomes an obstacle to our brave fighting men and their alliance with the noble Autobots. Operating specifically under presidential authority, he makes all kinds of mischief. He says the President wants to try "diplomacy" against the evil Decepticons and hints the President would consider handing over Shia LaBouf's character to be killed by them. He eventually is ditched by the fighting men (tricked into parachuting out the back of a transport). All this is par for the course in this kind of movie. In the first, there was a Rumsfeldian secretary of defense (played by Jon Voight) and a bit of dialogue from "the President" clearly meant to be Bush, with an obvious Bush impression on the dialogue.
"However, if memory serves, no real politicians were named in the first movie. The SecDef isn't Rumsfeld. The president is not called by name.
"In this movie, exactly one real-life politician is named: "President Obama." They went out of their way to make sure they named the craven, obstructionist president as Obama."
Well, I hope it’s better than the last one. Maybe they got Megan Fox to keep her mouth shut. And that vanilla guy who’s the lead. What’s his name? The one with no charisma.
On a side note, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have had it in for Bay for a long time. Their "Pearl Harbor sucked" song in Team America was flippin' hysterical.
My grandson saw it yesterday, he texted me right after the movie - disappointing. Said to wait till its on dvd, not worth the money.
I was thinking the same thing!! Great line from the first movie.
I like the first one and believe this one will be just as good.....I’ll watch any and all they make for pure relaxation and enjoyment........
Not everyone likes every movie that comes out...if someone doesn’t like these, then that is fine.....move along and let the rest of us enjoy.........or tell me the movies you like so I can bash them........
A top selling novel may only sell 100,000 copies......millions could care less about it....it can still be a great book to those 100,000........
So... can they make it all the way through the sequel without any masturbation jokes?