With greater investment, more King Kong, and longer screening time, "Transformers 2" convinced Michael Bay that another opportunity to make money has arrived: "Transformers" made him earn more than $70 million, and this time, He wants more.
However, there is a small problem, just like his other movies: "The End of the World", "Break into the Death Island", "Pearl Harbor", "Bad Boy"... the film critics and literary youths are like " "Transformers 2" verbally criticized and criticized it for being "boring and lengthy." Michael Bay went crazy. On his blog, he reminded film critics to "don't forget the lesson", and accused Paramount of not doing a good job in the promotion of "Transformers 2", saying that their advertisements in major media were "brainless". .
On IMDb, the score of "Transformers 2" has been relatively stable, 7 points or more, and on the rotten tomatoes website (rotten tomatoes), its score was 33% the day before yesterday. I checked it after watching this movie today. twenty two%. These two ratings show that ordinary audiences think "Change 2" is a movie worth watching, while film critics and literary youth think "Change 2" is really two.
I very sadly agree with the views of the Wenqing people.
As the most expensive director in Hollywood, Michael Bay has three ways to succeed: explosives, explosives, and more explosives. I say this by no means despising his old man who bombed Pearl Harbor after bombing Death Island, bombing Hoover Dam after bombing Pearl Harbor, bombing Pyramids after bombing Hoover Dam. In fact, I like Michael Bay very much. Thank him for bringing us so many blockbusters that we can watch without using our brains. The ending is always beautiful, love is always complete, the protagonist is always safe, even if it is not safe, it is for national justice. of. Fortunately, without him, Hollywood will lose hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office every year, and "Transformers" makes about 1 billion dollars worldwide. What a great contribution. Although Michael Bay himself drew more than 70 million US dollars from it, he is not a living Lei Feng, right? People have to eat and drive Ferraris and live in luxury houses, right? !
But this time Michael Bay went crazy. On his blog, he warned film critics not to forget the lesson (the more they scolded the box office, the better), and he said that his films were made for real fans.
It seems that Michael Bay has never been able to please film critics and literary youths. I think the reason is as follows: You see, the first films we are exposed to are seldom literary and artistic films. The choice, the scene must be big, the plot must be important, the protagonist must be tough enough-yes, the popcorn movie is the best choice, the war or the end of the world, the most exciting and the most gorgeous. But when I saw more than 200 movies, I found that there were fewer and fewer “blockbuster movies”—after all, Hollywood’s gross box office a year was only around 10 billion US dollars. Where's the horse? So I started watching those famous literary films, what kind of redemption, what list, and those Oscar-nominated movies. Slowly until now, I have watched more than 700 movies, and I found that an interesting character and a subtle, life-like and emotional plot made me more excited than two hours of bombardment.
I may be old, although I am only 25 years old.
I believe those film critics or literary youth have gone through this stage. Really, I am very happy to watch a "blockbuster". I will laugh, but I won't cry, I won't be excited, I just watch my watch frequently. I look forward to surprises, but surprises are getting less and less
I saw a commenter on Rotten Tomatoes who said that only a 14-year-old boy would think "Transformers 2" was worth the price. In fact, I envy a 14-year-old child who can get spiritual pleasure from such a movie, and I can only sit in a chair and count the logical errors of the movie involuntarily.
You see, to make a movie full of explosives, the most difficult thing is to find a good script. This determines whether you are shooting "Break into Death Island" or "Future Water World". It is a pity that the script of "Change 2" is difficult to pass.
This script is full of logical errors: if the fragments of the "square" can resurrect the old guy in the museum, why can't it directly resurrect "Optimus Prime"? If an alien civilization is capable of teleportation, why would it be destroyed by tank shells? If you can imitate human skin, language, and actions, then why send a spy like a robot dog? These problems seem to be true, but in fact they combined, seriously affect the film's sense of inclusion-for a science fiction film, this is fatal. It’s unbelievable that the screenwriter of this film is Roberto Orci, who is also the screenwriter of "Star Trek", which is also a sci-fi blockbuster of this year's summer. Pay for yourself.
The story of an alien destroying the earth is made into a two-and-a-half-hour long film. There is no doomsday scene in the lens, so who is the time allocated to? Oh, a boy’s first day of college and his mother who accidentally ate marijuana, okay, these are nothing, at least let us have a good time, but when the whole film is more than one-third of the time given to the last one Let’s at least look at something different in the desert wars-no! Shelling, bombing, explosion or explosion, several infantrymen and the Decepticons were tied, but it was still the same after adding tanks. The most frightening thing is that, as the chief boss of the film, "The Fallen" turned out to show only two faces in the middle and at the end. It is unforgivable. Hong Kong martial arts films knew 30 years ago that the final boss would rob a civilian girl in front. What kind of evil, so that at least it will die later. If there is no dialogue, I wouldn’t think the movie is over when Optimus Prime KOs "The Fallen" in 5 minutes—huh? It turns out that he is not a small follower!
The only praiseworthy thing about this script is that it has created a frizzy guy. I have to say that he is a little cute, especially when it comes to chemistry with a girl who is too much sexier than him. It's a pity that laughter can't cover up rough plot ideas and uninspired links. Of course, the Mexican boy joined for the sake of laughing fruit, but he actually did nothing and I suspect that this is purely a trick to please the minority audience: after all, the old black is the president, and we also change. But racial egalitarianism did not extend to aliens, so that the people in the car did not speak as much as the Megatrons. Obviously, unlike the original animation, the protagonist of this movie is the same as the first one. It is humans and theirs. Weapons, not King Kong – they are just "Robot".
I've been scribbling this film for a long time. Actually, I said earlier that I'm just like those literary and young people, but I'm tired of aesthetics. This film, at best, is just an ordinary product on the Hollywood modular production line every summer vacation. At least it is not as terribly bad as "Terminator 2018". I just have a hard time finding its advantages.
I’m not old enough to tell who the two gray or colored robots on the screen are, who’s beating whom, and who won, and the aesthetics are not old enough to be for Meryl Streep. To the point of applauding the opposite of Philip Hoffman, but it is difficult for me to applaud a "blockbuster" unless it has such wonderful plots and characters as "Star Trek" and "Ironman".
This is the price of essay writing.
Maybe Michael Bay is right. He wants to make money rather than praise. From time to time, we always need some brainless movies to relax, and he is responsible for providing it.
This is actually quite good. We emptied our brains while watching this film and accepted the baptism of an American advanced weapon commercial-they can defeat the aliens! Smile, go to sleep. Don’t be like me, and write something to it—although it’s just a few random strokes—what makes me mentally balanced is that I am writing and watching "Weeds", wow, this widow’s story is more gorgeous than that. The movie can be so wonderful.
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