Topic: Transformers: Age of Extinction
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It's not that it isn't a high art masterpiece, it's that the action sequences are constructed like shit. I am all for giant robots destroying one another, but if I can't tell what the fuck is going on because of incomprehensible editing and shakycam, I'm not going to enjoy it.
I actually quite enjoyed the first movie for the bit of popcorn fun it is, but the other two were just terrible. This looks like it's going more in the right direction, but the trailer for the third movie looked pretty cool. We'll wait and see, I guess.
Someone on twitter described the action scenes in Transformers perfectly, and it sums up why I never much liked anytime the robots start fighting: It looks like someone threw a drum kit down a flight of stairs.
The brilliance of the design of the original cartoons was that they were blocky and chunky with no more than two primary colors and distinctive silhouettes. When any two of the Bayformers start fighting, I literally can't tell where one ends and the other begins. And if I can't tell who is punching what with who, then why should I care?
It looks every inch the Michael Bay Transformers movie that we've already had three times before - likely with the same low level of coherence and plot absurdity. Perhaps the humour is slightly more on target this time as they won't be parents, Malkovich, Turtorro, Chang from Community, LaBeouf, etc. I am confident, however, that Mr Bay will disappoint and force some completely unfunny scenes in there.
I didn't much like Pacific Rim, but at least that movie did robots so much better.
Hell, some of the TV series have actually been pretty good. There are existing stories to draw on if they really wanted to.
It really says a lot about Michael Bay and the Transformers films when you can show me a giant robot riding a dinosaur wielding a sword and I still have no interest in seeing the film.
Interesting. It would make sense, he got into this business in the early to mid-90s before color correction was a thing, so he would've had to learn how to do all of this practically.
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