Video summary: "Ok we just got nominated for all the razzies, we gotta show a video to remind people why I'm an awesome Director!" Fuck you Michael...
like that camera rig filming driving backwards shot so hes first to use it like how he does things he doesnt stick with normal boring camra rigs hes not afraid t otry somehing new he never used before
i think my audience are a bunch of of in-bred ******s, and in-bred ******s like explosions... thus the secret to Bay's success.
Yeah, because it would have taken him at least as long as the effort it took to phone in AOE........... Oh snap
Exactly what I was thinking! Shame shame, Bay, trying to bribe your way out of this one are you? It would just be a quick vid of him rummaging through the trash. If he were to make a vid on robot designs, it would be him building a garbage sculpture from same trash.
I appreciate Michael Bay's fearlessness as a choreography of action - most of it in camera - but I still really dislike the way he shoots and edits. It's interesting he talks about the audience being oversaturated in action sequences when that is - to my mind - his real problem. There's always so much going on in each frame, and the sequences are often so long that I no longer feel excited or even interested past a certain point. To use a highly unsuitable comparison - it's the difference between seeing one naked girl and being shown four hundred. There's only so aroused you can be before it all becomes a blur. Plus he still doesn't seem to get that good action is always based on the amount an audience cares for the characters in jeopardy. It's really important. And his characters, particularly the barely-sketched Transformers themselves, are paper thin and interchangeable. I'm honestly staggered when people say they cried when Optimus Prime died - I couldn't care less, despite this being supposedly one of my favourite fictional characters. For me the action in movies like Die Hard, Aliens, and Indiana Jones is just SO much more effective even though it is largely much smaller scale. And grand sequences like the final fight in Avatar are just beatifully shot and cut in way Bay simply cannot master. His lack of geography, sense of pacing and inability to restrain himself for the good of his audience leave me entirely cold.
At the level Mr Bay works, scripts - and all required changes to them - are very definitely okay'd by the director. If he wanted better material it would be extremely easy to ask for it. But he doesn't.
