"Some dumb shit's happening here." "Some dumb shit's happening here."
There’s an entire section of this site’s readership and the world in general who find the latest Transformers film to be the best in the series and some fine example of action filmmaking of the highest order. I like to call those people LOONIES. The movie didn’t have the backwards-assed sense of action geography of the second horror show but it was still madness shot at a screen.
My Movie Microscope of Part Three. My Movie Microscope of Part Two.
Then again, being the best Transformers movie is a lot like being the best drowned kid at the lake.
I enjoyed the first film but it was as flawed as a diamond mined by Jeff Healy. The series got bigger, louder, dumbed, and more successful from there so it’s no great surprise to hear that more is on the way. What is surprising is that Michael Bay is still the man in charge (per The Vulture). While he’s now shed the baggage of Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf (and his awful parental subplot), it’s not like Bay has anything more to prove. In fact, with his chops and power it seems we need to have Bay elsewhere doing other big ambitious things that stretch technology and intellect. I joke, but I love having Michael Bay out there. I want him out there. I want to see where his batshit brilliance next surfaces.
Well, apparently next is his “passion project” Pain and Gain. Murderous bodybuilders! After that it’s more robots with beards.
Hopefully after that we’ll see him go big or go home. We want him on that wall, we need him on that wall. We just don’t need him doing any more Transformers movies.
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Nick Nunziata, I will take the term…Loonie, as a…Compliment! Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is just an…Awe-Inspiring film. I hope there will continue to be more of these…Transformative Rock Em Sock Em Robot Extravaganzas directed by the…master of BAYhem!
You’re the exception, Duke. I expect nothing less than delightful acceptance from you. You’re a loony of a different feather. A great loonie!
Nick Nunziata, Thank you…Again, for the compliment. I do also wish to see Pain and Gain. Maybe the…2nd bodybuilder could be…Scott Adkins turning PAG into a team up of a…Joe and an…Expendable!
Personally, I would have always been curious to see Bay’s take on a Superman film. He’s got the action thing nailed, and already has plenty of experience with slow waving American flags which you know would show up at some point. A Bay directed Superman film would have at least been more fun than Singer’s flaccid attempt with the material.
I actually found “Dark of the Moon” too be more of a drag than “Revenge of the Fallen”…I sat in awe and watched the nonsense unfold before my eye’s..Really the last 2 Transformers movies have stories that could have been ripped from my backyard in ’84 as I took on Megatron with my brand new Optimus Prime on “the swingset of doom”!..:)
No more Bouf, but I think the next one will just be the parents taking over the franchise. That seems like the easiest way for Bay to insult the audience more than he already has.
Bay apologist here, LOVE the man’s work with Bruckheimer, hated TF 2. Thought 3 was…….okay. Loved TF 1. I’m curious to see Pain and Gain, i believe he said it was a “no explosions” film and his attempt at a Tarantino type story? Anyways he hasn’t rocked my world since 2003 with Bad Boys 2, and i actually own and enjoyed The Island. Here’s to hoping he’ll skip TF 4 and get back with Bruck on a NON-Bad Boys 3 project <you CAN’T top 2>
God I hope Bay moves on. There’s got to be a dozen semi-intelligible action/sci-fi properties floating around that would be a much better use of Bay’s “talents”. There’s nothing cool about robots and not one story worth telling on screen in the whole Transformers universe. Give me The Rock or the Island any day. Simple action films with good characters and great casts. Who the hell thought Shia LaBoeuf and John Tuturro could carry an action franchise??
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