Exactly...he's the one who sought out Bay to start with. After the first one he should have at least changed the director but the big box office figures have enabled Bay to have an upper hand
The Rock is a fantastic action film. A lot of its strengths come through the script and the performances, but Bay's direction is flat-out brilliant as well.
I think Mark Kermode was too kind with his review of this. He didn't even touch upon the racial stereotype robots and dire humour, although I totally agree with all his other points. The worst movie I've seen in this century.
Where is Christopher Nolan when you need him most? Comparing Christopher Nolan to Michael Bay is like comparing a diamond to a lump of coal. Nolan's films epitomise filmmaking perfection whereas Bay's film's are simply dead and fossilised, preparing to be thrown into a furnace. I have very high hopes for Nolan's upcoming film Interstellar. Intelligent, imaginative, genius: everything that Michael Bay is not.
I completely agree! I generally despise Hollywood films for how they'll compromise being able to tell a good story for the sake of getting more $$$ from the audience. But Christoper Nolan is a modern day genius. I will admit to never having sat through an entire Michael Bay film, but from what I have seen is typically bog-standard shit that is glossed up with CGI and flashy fancy lights.
The crazy thing is that Nolan is apparently a fan of Bay’s movies. Apparently a good bit of directors are fans. Maybe they just admire his ability to rake in money? Every once in a while he will do a creative shot (but he seems to always do that same shot where the camera goes in and out of different rooms in a “one take”) but 90% of the time it’s just incoherent shaky cam.
I didn't much like the first film,it was boring but I went to see it for reasons of nostalgia. Nothing prepared me for how boring and terrible this film was though, I turned it off after 90 minutes, it was shockingly bad
I saw this with a friend in the cinema with two other guys sat way at the back in Optimus Prime Masks. Other than that, a completely empty theatre During a ultra-slow-motion scene where Shia Lebouf is almost dying from something and Megan Fox screams "FUCKING DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!" to a medic, I remember turning around, and seeing that the two other guys had left at some point o_ O
Kind of ironic, because these kind of movies are audience packaged. Specifically made for them. But then again, mark is right. The movie is........... i bloody have no words for it.
I was just catching the last thirty minutes of this movie on TV. It’s truly awful. Incoherent. Characters just screaming at each other, whizzing Jetsons sounds, metal clanging, guns firing... It’s like Michael Bay wants to give his audience a chaotic Saving Private Ryan type of experience with a robot movie. Scenes will go from comedic, to suddenly “emotional” with touching music, and back within two minutes. It’s damn near unwatchable.
I kind of like how unapologetic Transformers 2 is with it's action and violence, by Transformers 3 I think they had over used it and I started getting tired of it. I agree with the fact that it is a bit perverse in how women are used to leer in an older audience.
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"Nothing happens very loudly a hundred times" - genius
WHOA, AYE! WHOA! AYE! WHOA! WHOA!
I can't get enough of hearing Mark go "Aeeeey Whaaaaaa!!" Aeeeey Whaaaaaa!!"
Hes dead on too! 😄
You know that it's a Kermodean rant when he compares a films length to 2001!
I feel like the national anthem should have been played behind Marks speech.
03:50!!..... Will live with me forever, this is a comedy masterpiece😂😂😂😂😂😉🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I used to read Mark Kermode's reviews in Fear magazine. Classic stuff. One of my favorite critics, along with Kim Newman and Alan Jones.
"Nothing happens, very loudly, about a 100 times."
I'm going to have to steal that one...
I don't know why the hell Steven Spielberg wanted Michael Bay to direct these films. I blame Spielberg more than Bay.
Exactly...he's the one who sought out Bay to start with. After the first one he should have at least changed the director but the big box office figures have enabled Bay to have an upper hand
Matthew Akisan
Well I blame the idiots who watch this "movies" anyway.
Everyone says this, but Bay is still a bad filmmaker who has no understanding of filmmaking, in general, let alone directing action.
The Rock is a fantastic action film. A lot of its strengths come through the script and the performances, but Bay's direction is flat-out brilliant as well.
It's really not
I think Mark Kermode was too kind with his review of this. He didn't even touch upon the racial stereotype robots and dire humour, although I totally agree with all his other points.
The worst movie I've seen in this century.
Why is showing racial stereotypes a bad thing? Do you even know or just jumping on the bandwagon?
A massive insult to the toys, the original animated movie and the moral values of the cartoon. Didn't mind Meagan tbf :)
Plot: shia labeouf goes off to college and, you know what, robots hit each other
The recent Transformers Prime animated series is FAR better than these hideous train wrecks. Too bad the movies aren't more like the show.
You could do a "Mark Kermode reviews Transformers 3" drinking game. Take a drink every time Mark utters the phrase "robots hitting each other"!
Insert pacific rim here :) 6:00
Where is Christopher Nolan when you need him most? Comparing Christopher Nolan to Michael Bay is like comparing a diamond to a lump of coal. Nolan's films epitomise filmmaking perfection whereas Bay's film's are simply dead and fossilised, preparing to be thrown into a furnace. I have very high hopes for Nolan's upcoming film Interstellar. Intelligent, imaginative, genius: everything that Michael Bay is not.
I completely agree! I generally despise Hollywood films for how they'll compromise being able to tell a good story for the sake of getting more $$$ from the audience. But Christoper Nolan is a modern day genius.
I will admit to never having sat through an entire Michael Bay film, but from what I have seen is typically bog-standard shit that is glossed up with CGI and flashy fancy lights.
MrBannystar =] - The smile of agreement...... =]
Zelnyair "The grin of absolute-agreement" =J
=J =J
The crazy thing is that Nolan is apparently a fan of Bay’s movies. Apparently a good bit of directors are fans. Maybe they just admire his ability to rake in money? Every once in a while he will do a creative shot (but he seems to always do that same shot where the camera goes in and out of different rooms in a “one take”) but 90% of the time it’s just incoherent shaky cam.
The Dark Knight Rises felt like a Michael Bay movie
I didn't much like the first film,it was boring but I went to see it for reasons of nostalgia.
Nothing prepared me for how boring and terrible this film was though, I turned it off after 90 minutes, it was shockingly bad
243 minutes? That'd be 4 hours!
Welled up a bit there when the audience applauded.
I saw this with a friend in the cinema with two other guys sat way at the back in Optimus Prime Masks. Other than that, a completely empty theatre
During a ultra-slow-motion scene where Shia Lebouf is almost dying from something and Megan Fox screams "FUCKING DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!" to a medic, I remember turning around, and seeing that the two other guys had left at some point o_ O
Kind of ironic, because these kind of movies are audience packaged. Specifically made for them.
But then again, mark is right. The movie is........... i bloody have no words for it.
Revenge of the fallen was apalling
the cgi was pretty impressive nonetheless.
I want Kermode to review Transformers The Movie ( 1987 )
+Daniel Nerdal That would be awesome! Orson Wells last performance!
Director Michael Bay delivers A muddled, confusing, too action packed & poorly acted science fiction sequel. (19%) (1/5 stars) (negative)
It’s definitely the worst transformers movie for sure although mr kermode didn’t have that perspective back in 2009 and hated it anyway 😅😂
I was just catching the last thirty minutes of this movie on TV. It’s truly awful. Incoherent. Characters just screaming at each other, whizzing Jetsons sounds, metal clanging, guns firing... It’s like Michael Bay wants to give his audience a chaotic Saving Private Ryan type of experience with a robot movie. Scenes will go from comedic, to suddenly “emotional” with touching music, and back within two minutes. It’s damn near unwatchable.
Hey, wanna watch the first 3 Transformers movies reviewed at the same time? th-cam.com/video/7Rfup0XKx7o/w-d-xo.html
I had a tutor at uni who could say micheal bays name without saying “fucking” in the middle.
I kind of like how unapologetic Transformers 2 is with it's action and violence, by Transformers 3 I think they had over used it and I started getting tired of it. I agree with the fact that it is a bit perverse in how women are used to leer in an older audience.
PHWOAR
The dialogue is horrible and is spoken too fast.
Tell us how you really feel Mark.
Did somebody seriously add a laugh track to this? What were they thinking?
there's a studio audience, genius.
There was a live audience that week.
Bjarku Bet you feel like a bit of a fool now