I hated the cinematography in the first one. I felt like i was watching Cloverfield during the action scenes, the camera was all shaky and you couldn't really get a good look at what was happening. I'm watching this movie because i want to see big ass robots fucking each other up, i don't want to see the robots foot half the time. I want like a Godzilla type of shot, really wide so you can see the two robots just going at it.
Like i always say, these types of movies can have shitty actors, shitty plots and all that jazz. The action can make up for all the shitty parts of the movie, and this first one completely dropped the ball IMO. I hope they do it differently this time around.
This fantasy/superhero genre is probably the easiest, most formulaic one out there now.
Hot chick, awesome action/fight scenes. The rest is really just a filler, a couple of funny moments are nice, good acting is nice, a cool storyline is nice too (even though thats already taken care of because the stories have already been written, and loved my many, just re-do them into a movie, Frank Miller style). The fan base is huge for these types of movies, i don't know how they can possibly fuck them up.