I went out with the DTech EXCOs and Shiyun to catch Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen at Lot 1. When I reached Choa Chu Kang, I thought I went the wrong place. I haven't come down after the renovation of Lot 1. Moreover I always mixed up West Mall with Lot 1. The movie was great! Those who have not seen the previous movie need not be afraid that you won't be able to catch up with the storyline. Previously the movie was about retrieving the AllSpark cube, in order to prevent the Decepticons from killing the Autobots. Autobots are the good robots who agreed that all life-bearing worlds would be spared. In Transformers 2, it is finding the Matrix of Leadership, a key to power the Sun Harvester to blow Earth.

The storyline was great, full of impact and even some slowed motions. It makes audience into thinking that Optimus Prime is dead, the show can't be continued on in the first 30 minutes. So it would be a guess that any relics that their ancestors has given have the ability to revive them. You will see new automobile robots as well.

Autobots
Optimus Prime, the Autobot leader (Peterbilt Truck)
Bumblebee, the yellow car kept by Sam (Chevrolet Camaro 5th Generation)
Ironhide, the black pickup truck (GMC Topkick Pickup)
Ratchet, the yellow rescue hummer (Hummer H2)

Jetfire, the black blackbird (SR-71 Blackbird)
Arcee, the pink, blue, purple motorbike (Ducati 848, Suzuki B-King 2008, MV Agusta F4)
Mudflap, the red twins ice cream van (Chevrolet Trax)
Skids, the green twins ice cream van (Chevrolet Beat)
Sideswipe, the silver car among group (Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Concept)
Jolt, the blue car (Chevrolet Volt)

Decepticons
Megatron, the Decepticon leader (Triple Changer, tank and jet plane)
The Fallen, Megatron's leader who setup this plan to kill Earth.
Starscream, airplane that appear previously (F-22 Raptor Aircraft)
Soundwave, intelligence officer that hack into Earth's satellite.
Scalpel aka The Doctor, the minicron who wanted to crack Sam's brain.
Sideways, silver car with Demolishor (Audi R8)

Demolishor, the big 14m tall double wheelie (Terex O&K RH 400 Hydraulic Mining Excavator)
Devastator, the 37m robotic gorilla that make up of several construction vehicles
- Mixmaster, a black and silver (Mack Concrete Mixer) truck forms the head.
- Scavenger, a red (Terex O&K RH 400 Hydraulic Mining Excavator) forms the upper torso.
- Scrapper, a yellow (Caterpillar 992G Scoop Loader) forms the right arm.
- Hightower, a yellow (Kobelco CK2500 Crawler Crane) forms the left arm.
- Overload, a red articulated dump truck forms the lower torso.
- Long Haul, a green (Caterpillar 773B Dump Truck) forms the right leg.
- Rampage, a yellow (Caterpillar D9L Bulldozer) forms the left leg.

It might be confused between Sideswipe and Sideways, since both of them are silver cars. Each fighting for their own sides. With response to Kelvin's question "How many Primes are there actually?" Well, The Fallen is not included in one of the Primes. For the live action movie version, there are seven of them. While for the cartoon version there are thirteen of them, Original Thirteen Transformers.

The movie is not just about action-packed and explosions. You get to see funny scenes as well, such as the mini robot Wheelie that plans to steal the shard from them. Later was trained by Sams's girlfriend, torturing Wheelie with the furnace torch. It shows that Decepticons aren't that really loyal to their tribe as well. Leo the guy who thinks he is that great, till he gets close to the futuristic robots. He got stunned by the stun gun while his attempt to break-in into the National Air and Space Museum. Unfortunately, a lot of us feel that the movie was rather short. It didn't really explain about what happen to The Fallen, after Megatron was killed. Likewise the place where they found the Matrix Of Leadership was shot at Petra, The Monastry. It is located at Jordan, while the movie stated they went to Egypt. :D

On the latter side, shooting in the higher resolution of IMAX required up to 72 days to render a single frame of animation. Imagine that, we would have gone crazy over this! While ILM used 15 terabytes for the 2007 film, on the sequel they used up 140. Anyway, Transformers 3 will be out in 2012. Perhaps Transformers: The Rebirth. ;D
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen OST

Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 20:59