Seibertron wrote:Enjoy the movie for what it is. Life is a lot more fun if you learn to accept the things that you can't change.
This is, in all honesty, one of the best comments I've heard on the game of pro/anti movie Pong. I can(and actually have, in a few threads)what I don't like about the film. But, personally, none of that made me sit up in the theatre and point it out.
Ultimately, Transformers for me has always been about escapism. The 80's TV show helped me through some rough times in my life. The past few weeks, with our car deciding it no longer liked us, we could go into a theatre and for a few hours, forget about all that BS on the outside. I don't mind if other people didn't feel that way, even if other people hated the movie. It does, however, get a little irksome when you go onto a forum, and have to put up with flames and insults because you dared to like a movie.
Really... with all the bad stuff going on in the world... a lot of people liking a movie you detested should probably rank somewhere below "Do we eat too much garlic as a people" in terms of concerns. I mean, whatever made us all TF fans is there, waiting for us on shelves or DVDs. I'm not going to tell a new generation of fans they can't have THEIR Transformers, because I wouldn't want to be told I couldn't have mine.
And now I'll step off the soap box, no matter how nice the view up here is.
On the original subject, Transformers is, if you really look at it, a strange Frankenstein movie of Spielberg and Bay. The action scenes are pure Bay, but the earlier stuff with Sam took me back to all the great old school Amblin films. And a funny thing happens in those scenes... Bay shows that he's got a REAL knack for that sort of stuff. I remember him saying that he'd never done these more intimate scenes, and they come across as well done. I've seen people who absolutely loathe the movie rave about the Autobot Arrival sequence or some of the more character driven stuff... and they insist Spielberg "must" have done those scenes himself. Either that, or we're seeing why Spielberg has such high opinion of Bay's skills(and I won't presume to say I know more about filmmaking than our generation's Frank Capra).
Also, there's not enough discussion of what part the screenwriters have in what we're seeing on the screen. If you want to talk about how the battle scenes are show? Sure. Don't like the dialogue in the movie? That's the screenwriters. Again, I personally liked what they did. But I think the focus of all criticism on Bay illustrates that people have a problem with Bay first, and the movie second.
Since it's looking more and more like Bay will be back, but Orci and Kurtzman are moving on to Star Trek, here's a thought on a writer: J. Michael Straczynski. He's already working on World War Z and possibly Silver Surfer, and I think he could make a tremendous Transformers movie. It's also worth pointing out one of his protoges: Larry DiTillio.
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