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Michael Bay Leaves 'Transformers' Franchise
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--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 20 Jun 2009, 19:09 ---Of ideas that can be put on paper, "Giant alien robots beat the shit out of each other in highly-detailed, glorious CGI" ranks among the best. The fact that Bay's Transformers failed that basic premise is enough to hold against the guy.
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Not only that, "giant alien robots that beat the shit out of each other and that already have a massively successful history and a huge cult following in the 20-40 year old age bracket that would have the money to take their kids to see this new iteration of the franchise and also to buy their kids the toys"
(And the new toys are fucking horrible, by the way.)
I appreciate a good action film. I can enjoy an action film that pushes believability to the limit. I love Big Trouble in Little China and stuff like Commando, Iron Man, The Bourne Identity, the Indiana Jones trilogy (the fourth movie doesn't exist) and even the first few Die Hard movies. The problem I have with Transformers is that it was basically phoned in. The story is lame. The acting is all lame. The characters are cliched. The plot development is lame. The product placements were unsavoury. The action sequences, which should have been the standout points of the movie, were all as other people have already said, erratic to the point of being almost incomprehensible. Is it too much to ask to have the sequence where Prime & Megatron are fighting (y'know like, the fucking pinnacle of action in the movie) to be something other than a close-up rumble of mechanical parts? The absolute best bit of the first movie was the opening bit in the desert, because I kind of cared about the army characters that were under attack, and you got to see the thing attacking them in a way that was understandable. However, from there it was pretty much all downhill.
The first film was not a good action film, and all the reviews I have read for the second film basically say the same thing: "this is just like the first film, but longer and not as good" so no, I don't believe that it is fair to say that Michael Bay does what he does well at all. Maybe he is able to execute his vision in a precise manner or some shit like that, but when that vision is turgid should the ability to deliver it so well be praised?
Joseph:
Oh man did Roger Ebert savage the new one.
Tom:
Oh, did he ever.
scarred:
Holy shit ahahaha
Alex C:
I find his review to be inaccurate; the one with the aluminum beard is Jetfire.
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