Okay, Bay, you’ve won this round….
As we all know, TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON came out recently, made a crap ton of cash, and will probably spawn another sequel unless Bay and Spielberg are truly bored with the franchise and decide to take a break.
Now, anyone who knows me knows that I have choice things to say about Michael Bay the Director. Most of it is harsh. As a matter of fact, anything after THE ROCK (1996) has probably put me in a hate coma, or something close.
With TRANSFORMERS, and TRANSFORMERS whatever the sequel is, he pretty much took everything I hated about him, Hollywood, and corporate America for that matter, and put it all into a big ball of bad cinema that only, occasionally, had sparks of true awesome. And I only say that because, like anyone else born after 1980, I am a huge TRANSFORMERS fan. Not a super fan, but I grew up on the stuff.
I’m thinking of that scene from the first TRANSFORMERS, where Optimus Prime lays down some ownage on Bonecrusher. Like it or not, that scene was eye popping. Awesome. Robot on Robot battle porn. Great stuff.
TRANSFORMERS: Dark Of the Moon? Loaded with that. But, even better, it has even more ROBOT moments. The whole Sam thing? Still there. But who cares. The supporting cast isn’t as insufferable this time around, and they even managed to give it a (somewhat) cohesive plot.
But the absolute best part? They took out the junk effect. That garbage on garbage look? I couldn’t even see it! It plagued the first two films, but this time around they slowed it down and just showed us what the hell was going on. Amazing.
Anyway, this wasn’t meant to be some rambling love fest. I just had to admit it. This time around Bay brought me into the fold. I have to give it to him.
TRANSFORMER: Dark of the Moon is one kick ass, awesome action movie.
There. Now get out of here.
GO!