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Revenge of the Fallen is a terrible film but this one scene is really good
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Revenge of the Fallen, where I will always fall asleep for like 45 minutes during fight in the desert and wake up to the exact same battle in the desert.
The only thing good about that film is the Devastator Transformation scene, which was cool as fuck. But then everything was garbage. Actually I take that back the Forest Fight was good but still Optimus is a fool for trying to kill them all.
Ugh such a garbage film
Ugh such a garbage film
And that's why we got stuck with a season of rodimus prime. G1 prime is an idiot. He has an intractable foe whose underlings are all dangerously incompetent and collapse into inighting the second he is out of comission for even a minute....naturally he keeps letting him go when killing him would pretty much end the war instantly.
Hate the bay films all you want, but criticizing them because the soldier fighting a war against a genocidal enemy actually kills said enemy is deeply, deeply stupid.
It's like being pissed of at Vision for killing ultron. Or Iron man for snapping thanos. Or a 3rd act of literally any even numbered starwars film. The one good thing about the bayformers movies is that Optimus isn't nearly as stupid and irresponsibly self righteous as G1.
I just can't make sense of these fight scenes. They never seem to be the actual focus of the shots; the camera is just kind of pointed towards them but not actually aimed at them. I can't tell who's who. I don't know what hurts a Transformer so I don't know who's supposed to be winning. Does it hurt them when they get their arms ripped off? Can't they just stick them back on? Does it hurt when they get punched? It's all just visual noise.
The only decent fight in a terrible film, and even it gets ruined by the terrible attempt to recreate Optimus' death from the animated film.
That said, I could listen to Peter Cullen recite a prescription checklist and get hype. The man is audible badassery.
That said, I could listen to Peter Cullen recite a prescription checklist and get hype. The man is audible badassery.
The way he says it doesn't sound like Optimus Prime or at all heroic to me. He sounds like a drunk asshole at a bar about to blindly start swinging until he falls over and someone has to drive him home.
yeah the transformer designs seem liked they were intentionally designed to be inscrutable
Like, there's a reason why "Optimus Prime died for a bunch of NPCs!" is a standing joke in the g1 community. Old Prime was a bit of a moron a lot of times.
Hold up, you read the novelization of Michael Bay's Transformers: Dark of the Moon?
I always found these movies really boring. I am an action nut but there were no peaks and valleys in these movies just none stop frenetic pacing that made the action sequences blur into one another. Even when there was no action everyone seemed to be on speed. The first one was ok but not anymore imo and the rest are actually annoying to watch and all the action feels the same.
I actually enjoy most of the franchise because the action scenes are always pretty impressive. I appreciate how they went "fuck it, let's just go crazy" with the 4th movie where there's giant alien spaceships pulling stuff up from the ground then letting them fall, so you have these giant robots, dinorobots, cars and whatnot fly up then crash down into buildings and such. They went full on Dragon Ball Z at that point and I was totally in tbh.
It's more than likely that it was filmed on location.
Bay doesn't really do green screen as much and a lot of his stuff are practical and on location.
I literally knew it would be that scene OP. Absolute kino in that shit movie. Dunno how people have trouble tracking who is fighting who in the movies. Pretty damn obvious from their shapes and parts of their vehicle mode showing.
I feel like it fails to have any real impact, both emotional (outside the nostalgia-fueled childhood love of Prime) and physical (never have giant robots fighting in the woods looked less like giant robots fighting in the woods).
The transformers in Bumblebee look like transformers, not too-complicated-metal-transformers as per the other films.
The intro is just jaw dropping.
that is not green screen. they shot on location with the robots
Yeah, I like it a lot. The movie obviously sucks, but this fight is a lot of fun.
I actually think Revenge of the Fallen had some great ideas (Transformers globetrotting adventure, digging deeper into the lore, taking Optimus out of the picture for a chunk of the movie), but, you know... Michael Bay got his hands on it.
I actually think Revenge of the Fallen had some great ideas (Transformers globetrotting adventure, digging deeper into the lore, taking Optimus out of the picture for a chunk of the movie), but, you know... Michael Bay got his hands on it.
I think so. I believe there was an incident with a chain snapping and seriously hurting an extra on this scene, so they reused crash footage from another movie.
The resurgence of good Transformers media (animation, comics) has retroactively made the bay movie characters look worse with each passing year.
It's relevant to the action scenes because even a scene like that is still borderline inscrutable. What in the hell was anyone thinking.
It's relevant to the action scenes because even a scene like that is still borderline inscrutable. What in the hell was anyone thinking.
Seems I might have been mistaken.
$18.5M Settlement In Transformers 3 Filming Accident
A Cook County judge has approved an $18.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of a young woman who was severely injured while working as an extra on the movie Transformers 3
chicago.cbslocal.com
Looks like the injury I was thinking of, happened during the filming of the 3rd movie, not the 2nd. Pretty gruesome nonetheless.
Yeah that's grim wow.Seems I might have been mistaken.
..$18.5M Settlement In Transformers 3 Filming Accident
A Cook County judge has approved an $18.5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of a young woman who was severely injured while working as an extra on the movie Transformers 3
Looks like the injury I was thinking of, happened during the filming of the 3rd movie, not the 2nd. Pretty gruesome nonetheless.
Fun facts:
- Parts of the highway chase are lifted from The Island released 6 years prior to Dark of The Moon (oh.. and a stunt/double woman got here head split open by a snapped cable during shooting of the Transformer scenes):
- The Optimus fight in the OP wasn't finished on time for the international release of the movie as it required more rendering time because of last minute changes and the fact that it was in IMAX resolution compared to the other scenes in the movie.. Theaters in germany (and other EU countries IIRC) actually received the unfished version with a cropped aspect ratio.
No offense OP but that action framing in this scene is atrocious. its like if a 2nd grader directed a movie. your eyes have no idea what to look at. its piss poor at best.