Quintus 5,399 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I like Michael Bay, he's an auteur with an instantly recognizable style, which isn't something that can be said for a lot of directors. The Rock is still one of the best action movies ever made. I'm looking forward to Pain & Gain, which looks like Bad Boys without Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.Vintage Koray Savas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Films are heightened depictions of reality. There are certain things in real life that are quite ordinary and mundane that wouldn't translate to exiting cinema.Every bank robbery on film is severely exaggerated. Banks don't carry more than tens of thousands of dollars. All of a branch's money could fit in one backpack.If you mean that a realistic asteroid mission wouldn't make exciting cinema, you're terribly mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 Films are heightened depictions of reality. There are certain things in real life that are quite ordinary and mundane that wouldn't translate to exiting cinema.Every bank robbery on film is severely exaggerated. Banks don't carry more than tens of thousands of dollars. All of a branch's money could fit in one backpack.The reverse is true for Die Hard With A Vengeance.It would have taken hundreds of trucks to take out all the gold from the Federal Reserve, not 14.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,456 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I still maintain that the last 40 minutes of Transformers is action moviemaking at its finest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I read NASA uses this film to test people on how much stupid can they detect in it.They also do this with The Core no? Now that was a stupid movie...I haven't seen the core (and I probably don't want to) but Armageddon contains about 168 things that are simply impossible. Not counting the improbable ones. So they use it to test people, asking them to differenciate the impossible from the improbable and so on. Makes for an original test for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,734 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I still maintain that the last 40 minutes of Transformers is action moviemaking at its finest. +1Preaching against Zimmer haters is one thing but.... this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Not to be contrary for the sake of it, but I honestly thought the action packed climax of that movie was horribly directed. I couldn't tell what the FUCK was going on. In no universe is that mess of cgi and explosions textbook, unless you look like a fucking arachnid from the nose up. Lee - who otherwise quite liked Transformers: The Movie. Hasn't seen the sequels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,456 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Exactly - Transformers is action movie making at its worst! The way it is shot and edited, it becomes impossible to tell what's going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Lee, wasn't The Movie the animated classic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I have no idea. I'm talking about the one with the tanned midriff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,456 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Wojo is referring to the fact that the title of the 1986 animated movie is titled "The Transformers: The Movie"; The 2007 Michael Bay directed live action Transformers movie is simply titled "Transformers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Jay just wants a gold star. That movie came out when Megan Fox's midriff was three months old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 like Wojo, it's a guilty pleasure,but Deep Impact is a much better film to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 DEEP IMPACT is mushy christian propaganda with a really despiceable ideology behind it. It was dethroned by I AM LEGEND nine years later, though. Brónach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 DEEP IMPACT is mushy christian propaganda with a really despiceable ideology behind it. It was dethroned by I AM LEGEND nine years later, though.LOL, that's so funny.Christian propaganda??? It was directed and produced by Jewish filmmakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Almost the same in practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 perhaps you found that Morgan Freeman as President praying as a Christian to be propaganda but considering that every president professes to be a Christian is just the way it is.I think that Deep Impact portrayed the events more real than Armageddon and more real emotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 In simply thought it was BOOORING. I was a bit inmature at that point to tear it apart, scientifically speaking, so I can't go into that.I don't think I've ever seen a good asteroid disaster film. Another one in cinema's to do list, and it's been how many? And then you get people saying everything has been done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 The father/daughter death scene on the beach is the one highlight - it's absolutely hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Not to be contrary for the sake of it, but I honestly thought the action packed climax of that movie was horribly directed. I couldn't tell what the FUCK was going on. In no universe is that mess of cgi and explosions textbook, unless you look like a fucking arachnid from the nose up.Lee - who otherwise quite liked Transformers: The Movie. Hasn't seen the sequelsIf you have a problem keeping up, isn't that a problem with you and not necessarily with the film? Editing in action films is very important, so don't immediately disregard my point. I understand if there are thousands of cuts in a scene that there's only so much you can expect out of the audience, but I never had a problem with Bay's editing. There's definitely more breathing room in a Bay production than in Paul Greengrass' movies or Quantum Of Solace.The marriage of visuals, music, and story is perfect in the last act of Transformers. Don't read story as in script or dialogue, but rather as action and movement, progression. It's hair-raising stuff. I despise pretty much everything that came before, with the exception of the Skorponok attack. I also despise Revenge Of The Fallen and haven't bothered with Dark Of The Moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,456 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Every time I kill a house centipede, I feel like Will Smith in I Am Legend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Yeah it's probably old age at fault. Old people haven't the coordination they once had for these movies.Holding my piss in for two hours is difficult enough as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Don't read story as in script or dialogue, but rather as action and movement, progression.Wouldn't script and dialogue be part of that by definition?I gaven't been able to get past the first half the film, the one time I tried to see it with people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 perhaps you found that Morgan Freeman as President praying as a Christian to be propaganda but considering that every president professes to be a Christian is just the way it is.Joey, for GOD'S sake, all the Adam & Eve stuff, the ark, proper american teenagers standing atop a mountain at the end with their newly adopted child (finally one without having actually to indulge in dirty sex - a garden eden without sin) - all this in aid of the thought that mankind has to be wiped out to be redeemed and should damn well be happy about it because the right ones will survive (as the film clearly takes sides who should live or die). DEEP IMPACT is, when i start thinking about it again, a repulsive movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Lol, for a movie to be considered actually repulsive by some it usually means its divisive, like art. You're investing too much analytical thought into it pub, because Deep Impact is just soap opera dreck and not even worth being repulsed by. Taking your own critique a bit too seriously again, perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 perhaps you found that Morgan Freeman as President praying as a Christian to be propaganda but considering that every president professes to be a Christian is just the way it is.Joey, for GOD'S sake, all the Adam & Eve stuff, the ark, proper american teenagers standing atop a mountain at the end with their newly adopted child (finally one without having actually to indulge in dirty sex - a garden eden without sin) - all this in aid of the thought that mankind has to be wiped out to be redeemed and should damn well be happy about it because the right ones will survive (as the film clearly takes sides who should live or die). DEEP IMPACT is, when i start thinking about it again, a repulsive movie.thanks for the chuckles, seriously you should put that in your comedy act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Wow, if Deep Impact's implied agenda is that repulsive, how do you feel about a less subtle film like Ben-Hur? Or conversely, Dogma or South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I think it stands to reason that being subjected to those little ideological pills over the years of course is a) a mirror of society at large and b) a subtle way of introducing certain 'realities' to people feeding on them. I know that most will chuckle at the thought that TWILIGHT, TRANSFORMERS & Co. and their implied subtexts have any bearing on society as a whole - i'm sure it does although i admit i'm not sure in what way, exactly.If anything, this belongs in a thread devoted to Michael Bay, who is one of the number one sledgehammer salesmen for this line of stuff.@Wojo: stop being facetious. BEN HUR's subtitle is 'A TALE OF THE CHRIST', not OCEAN'S RISE, CITIES FALL, HOPE SURVIVES' Brónach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Wow, if Deep Impact's implied agenda is that repulsive, how do you feel about a less subtle film like Ben-Hur? Or conversely, Dogma or South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut?don't get him thinking.next he'll latch onto the idea of Jorel sending Earth his only son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 At least this one doesn't use christian analogy in aid of a rotten worldview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 next he'll latch onto the idea of Jorel sending Earth his only son.As if that stuff was only Christian.Leaving aside the "American Way" silliness, Superman has a positive world view. Superman can be the opposite of what publicist is saying about Deep Impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Jorel again. I don't know who this is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 A Liberace impersonator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 so in the next 15-16 years will Bay be apologizing for Pain and Gain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Not to an audience like you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 he has no need to apologize to me. I am not his audience.I hear Mimi Leder has apologized to all the heathens of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 That's Jor-El. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Don't read story as in script or dialogue, but rather as action and movement, progression. Wouldn't script and dialogue be part of that by definition?I gaven't been able to get past the first half the film, the one time I tried to see it with people. Well then you can't really relate to what I'm talking about if you haven't seen the whole movie. I meant it as staging the action. There's a great sense of ebb and flow in Bay's directing and how he goes from point A to B. one only needs to watch something like the car chase in The Rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I remember seeing that when I was a kid. I remember actually thinking that it was messy.Actually, I just saw it again on youtube. You can call me spoiled by Cameron and Spielberg and things like Children of Men and Tintin and what not, but this just feels messy. Some shots are a bit wtf for me.Here's something with vehicles that I enjoy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0JMVal0cdYIt feels cleaner, like there's room to breathe and a greater sense of scale. And it puts some nicely angled, "iconic" looking shots in there that add badassery to the situation.As for what you said of Bay being an author, which I think has others laughing, I'm going to agree with you. Regardless of quality, the films of the guy contain a lot of clear repeating patterns and a clear personal mark. If one likes it or not, that's another story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 The others I could really care about but ya I too don't mind Armageddon. It's definitely a popcorn (almost typed poopcorn) flick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,239 Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 I read NASA uses this film to test people on how much stupid can they detect in it. They also do this with The Core no? Now that was a stupid movie...I haven't seen The Core, but at least it had a good score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 I remember seeing that when I was a kid. I remember actually thinking that it was messy.Actually, I just saw it again on youtube. You can call me spoiled by Cameron and Spielberg and things like Children of Men and Tintin and what not, but this just feels messy. Some shots are a bit wtf for me.Here's something with vehicles that I enjoy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0JMVal0cdYIt feels cleaner, like there's room to breathe and a greater sense of scale. And it puts some nicely angled, "iconic" looking shots in there that add badassery to the situation.As for what you said of Bay being an author, which I think has others laughing, I'm going to agree with you. Regardless of quality, the films of the guy contain a lot of clear repeating patterns and a clear personal mark. If one likes it or not, that's another story.Absolutely. There are signature filmic elements that Bay uses in every film. I actually think there's a YouTube video that compiles all the repeating camera movements from each of his films. The first thing in the Pain & Gain trailer is a plane flying over the MIAMI sign, which is in both Bad Boys films and I think something else.I love Children Of Men and Terminator 2, so I wouldn't argue that those aren't brilliantly directed films. Perhaps I'm "spoiled" by growing up on The Rock and Con Air and the Bruckheimer/Simpson era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackR 95 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Armageddon is a guilt pleasure favorite.If it were on TV right now, I'd be watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 456 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Exactly - Transformers is action movie making at its worst! The way it is shot and edited, it becomes impossible to tell what's going on.That's why I like the third one, just because Bay was forced to shoot and edit the action scenes differently for 3D. Especially the last 35 minutes of Dark of the Moon allow viewers to soak in the detail and enjoy the action for once. It's refreshing to see.You are right on the money about the first two Transformers films. The action was badly shot and edited, especially the last 20 minutes of the first one. It also nearly put me to sleep several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,064 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 so in the next 15-16 years will Bay be apologizing for Pain and Gain?Actually that film looks somewhat amusing.The Transformer films are awful, which is a shame because the first hour of the first film feels like Bay had it under control with guidance from Spielberg.After that it went to crap. I still have no clue WTF was happening in the last hour of that film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Armageddon is a guilt pleasure favorite.If it were on TV right now, I'd be watching it. It seems to be mandatory for being a good JWfan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,636 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Did he really have just sixteen weeks to prep., shoot, edit, and release a film?! That's got to be some sort of a record, hasn't it?I might get rapped in the mouth for this, but...is there an extended version of "Armageddon"? I just feel that it is far too fast, like everyone had a bus to catch, or something.A bit of slowing down, coupled with more character development, would have helped the film. "Armageddon" had the spectable, but "Deep Impact" had emotion...plus it had Vanessa Redgrave, and that's always a good thing...Thank the maker that the owners of the rights to "The Glass Inferno", and "The Tower" pooled their resources.P.s. I've never registered the Christian allegory in "Deep Impact". Personally, I think that there is more Christian allegory in "The Abyss", but that is a whole other story... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,456 Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 The originally posted quote was taken out of context, what he was actually saying was he only had 16 weeks to edit the film. The Criterion DVD of Armageddon is an extended cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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