Dear Michael Bay, remember when you made The Rock? I liked that movie. Still do, mostly for the ridiculous car chase sequence with the Hummer smashing the hell out of stuff on the streets. Real car, real destruction. And Bad Boys 2? That film is gloriously silly. And again, lots of real world destruction.
I guess my point - or at least the one that I want to lead with - is that I don't hate you, Michael. I really don't. It's just that I have no interest in watching you play a video game. And that's pretty much what you're giving me in the trailer for Transformers 3.
It's big and flashy and noisy and I just don't care at all because it's also far too obviously entirely digital, right down to the buildings. You know what would sell it and make the digital stuff work? An animatronic or two. It'd be like the blinky eye of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park. That one shot bought a whole lot of suspension of disbelief for the rest of the movie. It's not like you didn't have the resources. I mean, the studio backed a big truck of money up to your house to make this thing, why not spend at least a little bit of that building something instead of coding it.
I actually quite liked the Superbowl teaser, but this? Underwhelming.
I guess my point - or at least the one that I want to lead with - is that I don't hate you, Michael. I really don't. It's just that I have no interest in watching you play a video game. And that's pretty much what you're giving me in the trailer for Transformers 3.
It's big and flashy and noisy and I just don't care at all because it's also far too obviously entirely digital, right down to the buildings. You know what would sell it and make the digital stuff work? An animatronic or two. It'd be like the blinky eye of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park. That one shot bought a whole lot of suspension of disbelief for the rest of the movie. It's not like you didn't have the resources. I mean, the studio backed a big truck of money up to your house to make this thing, why not spend at least a little bit of that building something instead of coding it.
I actually quite liked the Superbowl teaser, but this? Underwhelming.
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Underwhelming? The Decepticons wipe Chicago off the face of the map! If Bay's movies were 3 minutes long, he'd be the greatest filmmaker of all time. I'm gullible, despite the shit that was TF2, I'm excited for his final movie installment of the TF franchise. Can't wait for the reboot to have the bots look more like the ones in cg TF Prime show...
Underwhelming? The Decepticons wipe Chicago off the face of the map! If Bay's movies were 3 minutes long, he'd be the greatest filmmaker of all time. I'm gullible, despite the shit that was TF2, I'm excited for his final movie installment of the TF franchise. Can't wait for the reboot to have the bots look more like the ones in cg TF Prime show...
I will say this - at a Paramount merchandising event the other day I got to see about five minutes of finished footage from this and the 3D looks absolutely phenomenal - quite possibly the best use of the technology yet put up on screen. Two sequences in particular - the first when Josh Duhamel and his platoon skydive down into the city while planes crash & explode around them, and a second sequence, glimpsed at the very end of this trailer, where the building collapses and our heroes first slide down the outside of the building one way, before smashing the glass and falling back through the building in the opposite direction looks lots of fun indeed!
I'm not saying that the 2.5hrs of footage which surround these moments will not be terrible, but that there are certainly glimpses of something special contained within.
I think this footage looks pretty sweet. As bad as Transformers 2 is the action scenes were great (that Optimus fight sticks out) and these look like they might be better. Sure it's keeping up with the bigger, louder, dumber philosophy that seems to drive Hollywood sequels but it looks slick. My only hope that the plot isn't offensively stupid like the last film. It would be nice if they made a Transformers movie I wasn't be ashamed to see twice.
Bay is usually good at shooting action (Revenge of the Fallen being the exception) but if you give him too much control over the product the entire thing will go to shit. I don't think it's a coincidence that his creative input into The Rock was kept to a minimum. I know screenwriters have said that he likes to cut anything he deems "boring," which evidently includes scenes of important character development.
The Action looks amazing, but after seeing the first teaser i was hoping Shia LaBeouff wouldn't be in it.
But he is! Damn, that ruins for me all the Transformers movies.
How the fuck did they rope Frances McDormand into this? I mean, apart from a big check.