Don’t get me wrong, I sincerely enjoyed Transformers and am looking forward to the sequel. Megan Fox was certainly a big part of that but besides her it still held up as a fun summer movie.
However, the way that fight scenes are shot in that movie makes them an unwatchable mess. Too many detailed moving parts on the robot chassis combined with close in shots make it inpossible to know who’s hitting who. The reason that style of filming works in the Bourne movies to the extent that it does is because you can make out the discrete human beings moving around wearing clothing usually of one solid color to differentiate them from their fellow combattant. Had the movies stuck closer to the TV show where the robots are all solid boxes or if they pulled the camera back a bit for the fights it wouldn’t be a problem. I sure hope the sequel does the latter.
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I just hope this new one is actually about robots instead of teenagers with problems.
I hope we see the return of Mountain-Dew-Bot.
He was the best, refreshing and deadly.
Actually the “close up visceral” camera angles didn’t work for bourne either. I hate seeing a jumbled blurry mess of fists and feet and occasionally a textbook. I get that the shaky cam adds “realism” but i don’t go to the movies for a real fight. And as for transformers the close up blurriness was to hide the falling short of the CG.
Did they say that in the DVD extras?
Good enough movie for me.
I just wish i could see more of the action though :s