stunt_muppet

It's interesting watching The Rock and seeing just how many...distinctive Michael Bay touches I can find now that I've watched some of his later movies where he was given freer reign.

Example: Not every single shot is a tracking shot, just most of them. And action scenes are still over-edited to hell and frenetic to the point where you can't tell what's going on. Technology porn, lock-n-load montages, fireballs, gratuitous slow-mo, high-level government officials taking advice from an unqualified outsider, sassy black stereotypes, sassy gay stereotypes...the gang's all here, really.

Damn but I do love Ed Harris, though.

Oh, lord, why is there a minecart under Alcatraz. What is this...why is this evening happening. I don't understand this movie anymore.

No, actually, I changed my mind. This is in fact an improvement. Indeed I feel all of Michael Bay's movies could be improved by the addition of a gratuitous minecart chase, and I certainly expect to see a few in Transformers 3.

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