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Author Topic: Can someone clear something up for me?
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Post Re: Can someone clear something up for me?
on: March 26, 2012, 23:12
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[b] For example, I can buy that vampires and werewolves exist. I can't believe that they both fall in love with the same vacant-eyed twit, have nature-based powers that break multiple laws of biology and physics, or would allow themselves to be lorded over by a group of effete cretins whom any group of 2 or more newborns could destroy at any time.

This.

Even more egregious are movies that lay down the 'rules' in Act 1, and then blatantly break them in Act 4. Cf. Highlander 2 and Bicentennial Man.
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Post Re: Can someone clear something up for me?
on: March 27, 2012, 08:14
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My own experience is that I really enjoyed the first film. It was fun, it had some good action and kept moving, and--for a Michael Bay film--it was relatively straight-forward. I particularly liked the absence of one of Mr. Bay's favorite shots: the camera spins around an object one way, while the image spins the other way. I bought the Blue-Ray and watch it every now and then. It's fun.

I don't know what happened with the second, but I suspect Mr. Bay felt he could now be safely unleashed. I found it to be an incoherent mess, almost offensive in its relentless stupidity. I honestly found it jaw-droppingly stupid.

I kind of expected the same stupidity from the third film, so to my mind it didn't reach quite the dizzying depths of the second. But I still found it to be overly-"complicated." Not sophisticated, as in "Hey we have a big story to tell" but complicated, as in "The more stuff we throw on the screen, the more people will think this is smart, and also, the more toys we can sell."

I don't begrudge either film its success, but such success baffles me.
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