by Autobot032 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:05 pm
- Weapon: Switch Blade Tail
Whether or not you like his work, you have to give Bay credit for the following:
1.) He's a hell of a hard worker. He does put the work and time in.
2.) His movies are entertaining to the masses. Not every movie fits every audience, but all of his movies have entertained at least some people.
3.) He knows what he's doing. It's not just the director at fault when a movie sucks, it's the writers and the producers as well.
It's the old "too many cooks in the kitchen..." too many people changing, correcting, editing, etc and when it's all said and done, the movies are chopped. (TF is proof of this.)
The most glaring examples of chopped movies are: Highlander 2: The Quickening (the movie was taken from a little over 120 minutes and chopped (mercilessly) to 90 minutes.
And Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (anyone who's ever watched it on DVD saw there's a piece of footage not seen in the theaters, and when watched on TV, pieces from the theatrical and DVD versions are cut and new footage never seen is added in it's place.)
For Highlander, it was the producers and payroll for the movie studio that horrendously cut the film. For Ace, it was the director himself who felt the movie didn't need the pieces. (He was wrong, but he did it.)
So don't always blame Bay for how a movie is, it's not just his neck in the noose.
Armageddon was visually entertaining (the worldwide damage shots, and special effects were fantastic, so were the stunts.) but the story really really lacked. He didn't pen it, someone else did. It's not his fault that the script was hollow.
Same with TransFormers...sure, Rogers, Kurtzman and Orci could've made something deeper (especially after reading the leaked script from '06) but without Bay's input, the movie wouldn't have been nearly as long as it was (which was actually a good thing that it clocked in at 2.5 hours, had it been shorter, it would've been overkill and too much to process.) and it wouldn't have had the new pieces to the story that we never saw in the original script.
Bay added to it, not detracted from it. He did a fine job of directing it, he just could've done without the shaky cam crap.
NOTE: Realize that I am not a perfect Christian, nor do I profess to be. I apologize if anyone's ever offended by me, I'm not perfect. Don't hold my posts and opinions against other Christians.
