thebusiness said:
Are you guys serious?

It's a $100+ million live action Transformers fucking movie. Are you seriously telling me that when the spaceship turns into a robot and the truck turns into a robot and they start fucking each other up that it won't be the best thing ever committed to film?

Put that way, yes. I think it's 200 million+, though, so you can get super psyched.

My biggest problem, as indicated by a few people in this thread, is that Michael Bay is directing it, and I really can't stand watching his movies. The Rock I'm actually fine with for whatever reason, but after that he started doing these endless flashcuts where I can't tell what the hell is going on and just sit there praying he holds a shot for more than like three seconds. Which he doesn't, unless the camera is twirling around the room or something. I find Armageddon, for example, pretty much unwatchable.

I know how you feel.,,,I used to hate Michael Bay. But then I saw Bad Boys 2. He took the buddy cop genre and dropped a nuke on it, Michael Bay movies are the most perfectly dumb, fun movies you can possibly hope to watch, because the plots are stupid, but the action scenes are so friggin incredible. I'm trying to explain the attraction.

His movies are comparatively compulsively watchable in the same way that "b-movies" like horror movies are, except Michael Bay has a-list actors and impossible budgets. Forget that the movie you're watching was made on a budget that could have solved world hunger. Laugh at the shitty dialogue soak in the top notch cgi (yeah, cgi is so overdone and i'd still rather watch old fashioned clunky stop motion animation), and try to picture any way that the movie you're watching could possibly be more entertaining.

Just realize Michael Bay is perfect for the right kind of movie. Historically-based romance action epic? No. Movie where big things turn into big giant robots from another planet that speak English and shoot missiles?

Seriously, if you don't want to see this movie then you probably wouldn't see a Transformers movie no matter who made it.

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA

March 2004

DEC 31, 2006 01:08 AM

Nope. I understand what you're saying, but I don't think Michael Bay movies (by which I mean anything after The Rock) are watchable on any level whatsoever. I just can't even follow the action enough to appreciate anything; I just grow annoyed and want to yell at the screen and get an idea of what I'm looking at. It drives me insane. The good guys are in some impossible position and flashcut/flashcut/flashcut/flashcut/flash cut/flashcut/flashcut/flashcut/flashcut (elapsed time: 2 seconds) they are free and I don't have a clue what they did. I'm not against escapism at all, and I'm not against silly summer action movies...but my god, is that difficult to sit through.

Plus they're all like 2 1/2 hours long.

constellationsix

USA

March 2006

DEC 31, 2006 05:47 AM

Well, in that case I won't even mention how I like Tony Scott too....

Nokturn

United Kingdom

April 2006

DEC 31, 2006 08:12 AM

Megatron looks more like a silver version of Shockwave.
This would destroy any framework for a sequel... assuming they'd follow the comics.
Which they probably haven't.
I don't know why I'm posting this- i don't care anyway, its Michael Bay

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constellationsix

USA

March 2006

DEC 30, 2006 11:46 PM

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA

March 2004

DEC 31, 2006 01:08 AM

constellationsix

USA

March 2006

DEC 31, 2006 05:47 AM

Nokturn

United Kingdom

April 2006

DEC 31, 2006 08:12 AM