(July 12, 2014 at 4:59 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Just going to leave these here. They evidence why Michael bay is a hack and how all the transformers films are identical in both script and layout. They're a con designed to get your money from you:
Can't link the video as it's on their website but worth watching too
http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-ba...-the-moon/
Oh sorry, just to clarify, I will not be watching transformers 4. If I ever do watch it (nope), I'm certainly not paying for it.
(July 11, 2014 at 7:47 pm)Rabb Allah Wrote:
To be fair I must disagree.
I can certainly empathise with the whole 'I just want to see an action film', but transformers isn't an action film, it's vomit on a screen. I left transformers 3 about 20 minutes before the ending because I was getting a migraine. I didn't feel like I'd missed anything. Hell I've still not watched transformer 2 and I don't think I missed anything by not watching it either.
Michael bay has rehashed the same script 4 times, and people still pay to see it. I'm not one of these people that hates Michael bay because he just makes the same format movie over and over, I hate him because he makes the actual same movie, and they all suck balls. The scripts are simplistic, almost childish, the characters are forgettable, the humour is childish, borderline sexist in some cases, and the famed action scenes are often so confusing and mind numbingly complex that you lose all focus on what's going on as your brain tries to compute who is fighting who and what forgettable robot character is trying to kill which forgettable robot character.
Again, it's down to personal taste. But there are action films out there which have less than half the budget, and less than half the 'action', which are still 10x better to watch and lose yourself in. I cite one example, dredd, which I thought I'd hate, but actually turned out to be fucking awesome owing to how simplistic and light tough it actually was.
"I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime."(Michael Bay).
You are talking to a guy who literally has a library of films and knows the worst from the best. What you have said is rather circular in that you say you do not criticize Michael Bay for making simple actions films but you then criticize him for being simplistic which is the norm of action films. I am not even a Bay fan as I only recall seeing Transformers but he still did a good job with the 1st film