Rating of
1/4
About as funny and cool as an unborn fetus
memento_mori - wrote on 06/04/13
Michael Bay is just terrible.
Admittedly, the first Transformers movie was mildly entertaining, but consisted mainly of loud noises and cars no one can afford. Then the second rolled along... And the third... And now there will be a fourth.
I could write this review on any of three movies, but I picked Revenge of the Fallen, because it is by far the worst. I watched it once in the theater and thought it was okay. Having forgotten about it, a year later I watched it on DVD and couldn't believe the bullcrap that was actually put on screen, financed wholly by Paramount. Here's my theory: They keep making more, because mainstream audiences love these movies. All three movies are in the top 50 most grossing movies of all time, earning back their budget by a billion times. Paramount's philosophy of money-making displays what is wrong with the movie industry today. They don't want to make a good movie, they want to make an expensive movie, written and directed by a donkey's descendant named Michael Bay. I bet the script looked something like this:
EXT. DESERT - NOON
There's like a bunch of explosions around this like team of army guys who look totally cool with their big guns. The guns go pew pew pew, while the camera does a cool-looking shot from under them, making them look like they have double-chins.
