CinemaSins is tackling Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, which is barely better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, just in the time for the 4th installment of this Baychise coming out on Friday. With Transformers: Age of Extinction, somehow still classified as a movie director Michael Bay has dropped actor Shia LaBeouf (replacing him with the much more marketable and experienced Mark Wahlberg), increased the runtime to nearly 3 hours long (No, no, no! I might be stuck whatll likely be schlock for that long?!) cut it down to one screenwriter (so he can blame it him on later: his name is Ehren Kruger) instead of 2-3 like in the previous motion pictures, and teased the character Grimlock (Will there be multiple Dinobots in the flick? Does the title Age of Extinction have a double meaning?) in the trailers. Ultimately, what does this mean? Hopefully stronger acting from our lead. The rest...? Well, nada good Im afraid. Kruger co-wrote Revenge with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the worst Transformers entry to date (it should be required watching in classes to explain how not to make a film for aspiring directors and screenwriters). Putting all of your eggs in one basket could really backfire. Will it feature robots fighting robots? Yes. Shall the audience be able to distinguish which one is actually winning or whats exactly going on during these clashes? No. Raise your hand if you sick of that and too much slo-mo, please. Paramount Pictures, Michael Bay, and everyone else involved with creating these Transformers motion pictures, do you want to know how to succeed with this franchise and not be remembered as a joke? Bay youre cool with being compared to Uwe Boll? Ed Wood? Focus on the Autobots and Decepticons. Make us care about them. Make them unique from each other, visually. All this tech for CGI, still, somehow, dullness. Dont you dare show another damn red car destroy another red car...We want to be able to root for them. Instead of attempting to entangle metal object from metal object while theyre clashing with each other. If you insist on having the military or humans being a major component, dont make them idiots. Or the protagonist. Theyre secondary characters. Theyre not the reason people are willing to paying for an overpriced ticket to witness destruction between mechanical cartoon nostalgia characters. It is about the robots. Stories about humans are told by other movies. But, not in Transformers. Theyre the stars of the picture, obviously. Less action, more story. More story doesnt mean infuse needless comedy into it either. I dont understand why this is difficult. Story equals the main narrative. How hard is that? Theres a ridiculous amount of source material available! Yet, this trilogy suffers from writing woes. Stop using CGI and action sequences as a crutch! Quit being lazy. Whatever the excuse is. One last thing: if theres a female character that exists as solely eyecandy in Extinction...ARRRRRRRGHHHH! Really last thing: Also, way to introduce the lone female Autobot Arcee in Revenge and then kill her off before it even ended. Love that gender representation. UGH! When others Autobots die, theres grieving and a mention of names. For Arcee...? Nah, screw that, blargh. Kay, my rants over. https://youtube/watch?v=4ORoPgZLeuc
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:03:52 +0000
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