Wow -- another widely spaced, snotty post that manages not to say very much -- thanks once again for that.
hey don't hate on the wide spaces
I just find them easier to read though
I didn't know they bothered you...
not to say very much? your just not listening.
"TF had other things to think about" ? LOL... Whatever that means.
OK, more to the point, transformers has different things it tries to focus on besides the typical Emmerich lingering wide shots of disaster stricken city scapes. destruction of city scapes was the draw in that particular production. Transformers had other selling points. Why you compare the selling point one film to another film that uses it as an after thought is beyond me...unless of course to propagate you misguided opinion about said films short comings
(watch out here comes my sarcasm)
hey, guess what? the hand to hand combat in transformers kinda sucked compared to that in Enter the Dragon!
really? for all his lack of story telling I figured bay would atleast make the fighting amazing.
(end sarcasm)
"other things to think about"
besides, last I checked landing transformer pods didn't necessarily cause explosions the likes of what transpired in ID4.
Bay obviously tried to insert a violent, shocking devastation scene into ROTF as an homage to his own earlier disaster films (funny how Bay only includes "homages" to himself, but that's another issue).
obviously
Overlooking the fact that the devastating disaster scenes in ROTF actually have the gall to reference 9/11 while being shoehorned inbetween lame extended comedy segments involving Sam's parents and humping robots, they also fail on a visceral level when compared to those seen in ID4.
The editing of the main alien attack in ID4 gives us scenes that actually linger on the expanding devastation and aftermath of the aliens' death-rays, unlike Bay's 3-seconds-is-too-much school of editing.
Despite the many silly parts in ID4, these main destruction scenes delivered an effective punch to the movie audiences, and I recall very well the stunned silence in the theater when those particular scenes ended in ID4. In ROTF, the audience response after the big "Armageddon" scenes seemed to be merely impatience to get back to the robot action. Despite the jarring and out-of-place imagery of thousands of sailors and civilians dying in the midst of the comedy that was ROTF, those scenes didn't even take the time to deliver their punch in the most effective way.
as said before, TF2 never tries to be a "serious" film. ID4 actually does, and it does so magnificently
TF is far more lighthearted, or should bay have actually went into families of all the soldiers that died? People continue to claim this movie as something it's not and then give it a failing grade in doing so.
Did rush hour really deal with all the international bureaucracy involved in international policing in a serious way? No. And no one is pointing their finger at that.Does power rangers actually deal with the many lives lost each time the monsters dance around cities? No
Transformers was always intended to be light hearted, I'm sorry if you wanted a sappy end of the world drama.
pearl harbor for all it's faults, is a movie about the loss of many peoples(soldiers) lives and thus it fully lingers on not only the devastation of the events but the aftermath. Transformers didn't need to do that again...not when the focus was on sams adventure.
BTW -- just for fun I'll mention that I also watched Bad Boys 2 this weekend -- and even it is more coherent and better-edited than ROTF. Simply put -- Bay could have done a lot better than he did with this film - even in comparison with his own work.
I'll accept that as a reasonable opinion,
especially in light of how you've expressed your feelings about TF2.
But by all means -- please continue with your own grasping.
sure, I'll start with comparing the action in bays films to that of sesame street in an attempt to show how great it really is...
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