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9 months ago
in New Transformers 2 Details Revealed at Hasbro Licensing Summit on /Film
The fight scenes were claustrophobic, and they all suffered from what has come to be known as "MTV Direction". Fast cuts with the camera slamming from place to place until the viewer has a bad case of visual whiplash. I had to slow-frame thru all of the battle scenes to make any sense of who was fighting whom (Not that I cared at that point, because I found all the characters so shallow and poorly written that I could not identify with any of them, or their problems, emotionally speaking.)
This train wreck of a film has two basic flaws.
The first is the most deadly. Over-familiarity. Those producing the film were "in love" with it as kids. Not all of us were or are. So the exposition and the involvement for those who never saw (or never liked or watched) the cartoon and movie is lacking . Their assumption is that "everyone knows" these characters and the basic story. WRONG!
Bay let his ego and all the compu-generated garbage get in the way of one of the basic building blocks of building a film story.
The other basic flaw is equally devastating. Bay might be considered a good director. But he couldn't write his way out of a wet script box made of pink pages. Again, his ego gets in the way, and rather than hire good scribes, and then play to his strength and direct a good story, Bay has let his ego run wild over his objectivity. And What results from that you see all to clearly in "trash-formers"
Yeah, yeah, I know..
blahblahblah merchandising blahblah.It's only a movie blahblahblah Hasbro million bucks blahblahblah.. Save it kiddies, your blathering impresses me about as much as the movie did. (Yeah, and I thought the 80's animated one was awful too And I was working at the studio that made it at the time), so take a seat and keep quiet until you learn something about how movies get made.
By comparison, the animated one was better, which is like saying that measles are better than whooping cough. (Not that anyone young enough to like this new junk is going to know what whooping cough is anyway.) Oh well.
Roci
This train wreck of a film has two basic flaws.
The first is the most deadly. Over-familiarity. Those producing the film were "in love" with it as kids. Not all of us were or are. So the exposition and the involvement for those who never saw (or never liked or watched) the cartoon and movie is lacking . Their assumption is that "everyone knows" these characters and the basic story. WRONG!
Bay let his ego and all the compu-generated garbage get in the way of one of the basic building blocks of building a film story.
The other basic flaw is equally devastating. Bay might be considered a good director. But he couldn't write his way out of a wet script box made of pink pages. Again, his ego gets in the way, and rather than hire good scribes, and then play to his strength and direct a good story, Bay has let his ego run wild over his objectivity. And What results from that you see all to clearly in "trash-formers"
Yeah, yeah, I know..
blahblahblah merchandising blahblah.It's only a movie blahblahblah Hasbro million bucks blahblahblah.. Save it kiddies, your blathering impresses me about as much as the movie did. (Yeah, and I thought the 80's animated one was awful too And I was working at the studio that made it at the time), so take a seat and keep quiet until you learn something about how movies get made.
By comparison, the animated one was better, which is like saying that measles are better than whooping cough. (Not that anyone young enough to like this new junk is going to know what whooping cough is anyway.) Oh well.
Roci
9 months ago
in New Transformers 2 Details Revealed at Hasbro Licensing Summit on /Film
*YAWN* Oh gods, this just to exciting. I think I'll go watch some paint drying. At least that has a better story and more plot than the last trash-formers fiasco did.
Why don't you guys stop being a publicity service for all these pictures, and start asking real questions. These are what passes for real movies these days. They expect us to lay out real money to see them. Why not start treating the films and the film-makers like real people? Dare to ask them about plot, conflict and all the other things that make up a real, good story? Part of your job ought to be to tell us if this film is a turkey in the making before we pay for some studio's big mistake.
Roci
Why don't you guys stop being a publicity service for all these pictures, and start asking real questions. These are what passes for real movies these days. They expect us to lay out real money to see them. Why not start treating the films and the film-makers like real people? Dare to ask them about plot, conflict and all the other things that make up a real, good story? Part of your job ought to be to tell us if this film is a turkey in the making before we pay for some studio's big mistake.
Roci
