Do you think MBay will feature a slow-motion sequence exclusively for a specific Transformer who has super-speed? Like how the Flash works, or Quicksilver? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gtVshq66jY Spoiler He does more awesome stuff than that in the film. But on the other hand, I think every Transformer has gotten a brief slow-motion sequence. No need to keep for one robot what all the other robots already have.
I don't think so. I think that Michael Bay is a director that likes to do ensemble action sequences and it might slow down the action to much to show a lot of a scene from one characters perspective.
No. And I'll give you the one reason why. The special effects. In every Transformers movie, they primarily use shaky cam to cover up the poor action sequences, poor special effects, or usually both. A slow motion shot is the exact opposite of shaky cam. Where shaky cam hides the details, slow mo magnifies them. There are some slowed down sequences, but they're very brief and not nearly as flashy(no pun intended) or as slow as what say Quicksilver does. Though, it's not really needed unless they introduce a character like Blurr, which honestly wouldn't surprise me if they want to capitalize on the popularity of the aforementioned characters. I think Bay just includes the little slow motion he does because people complain about the shaky cam and he doesn't want to look like the shallow director he is. He's very paint-by-the-numbers. If he wasn't doing Transformers, he'd probably still be directing music videos or working for someone like Asylum or Troma.
I don't recall how much actual shaky cam is in each movie. I just remember it was a major point of criticism. And there's more ways that shaky cam to cover up not-so-perfect CGI. Nonetheless, the point still stands. To make it look good, it would dramatically inflate the budget for that scene to spend the time and money animating it. Not to mention the work it takes writing and choreographing a scene worth doing in slow mo.
Critics pay less and less attention to Transformers with each film released. There's barely been any shaky cam for the last two films, and all Bay films use slow-mo all the time, albeit only in short bursts. I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if they tried for a longer slow-mo scene in TF5.
OP is wondering about a scene where one character is moving at "normal" speed, and everyone else is moving in slow-motion. Like Quicksilver in X-Men.
Given that Flash and Quicksilver are so popular there is a case to be made that people tend to love speedsters. If we go back a bit to days when Transformers had superhero like powers then Blurr is already pretty much an established character to get a speedster into Transformers without saying hey they are just coping what is popular. But the problem is the Transformers use slow motion so often that slow motion effects for Blurr really wouldn't seem that special. Part of why the Quicksilver scene in Days of Future Past worked so well is because they didn't fill the rest of the movie up with slow motion shots. I like the idea I'm just not sure Paramount would be willing to go the robots with superpowers road or that Bay would ever give up the load of slow motion shots to make a speedster scene really pop.
