After watching "Transformers 5", many viewers could not avoid being disappointed. The "Transformers" series has come all the way, word of mouth is declining, why director Michael Bay has been insisting on shooting, while the audience has also flocked to buy tickets to enter? Is it because of the love of watching exaggerated stunts, or for the childhood memories of "Hasbro"? The following points are worth thinking about:
1. Michael Bay has a deep insight into Hollywood's tendency to make sequels non-stop. In Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Michael Bay deliberately uses the old theater as a scene and borrows the character's words "The movies nowadays, that's the trouble." Sequels and remakes, bunch of crap", self-deprecating.
2. In the face of today's popular trend of audiences diving into small screens such as mobile video, Michael Bay's audiovisual experience on the big screen has always been unmatched by other screens. Mechanical designs like the Transformers are actually a way to counter the small screen — the fragmented and scattered parts and fast and dense flow must be seen clearly on the big screen, even if the eyes can't see them one by one, but the overall sensory experience is quite shocking.
3. Blessings from famous people. Although film critics have criticized the "Transformers" series, the directors have a lot of respect. For example, Ridley Scott praised the Transformers series as "digital masterpieces" because "That's hard to do... I admire it because I haven't got that patience to do that. But he's got the kind of brain that makes it work」。 This is from the perspective of creation, the scale of creation and complex special effects of "Transformers" are indeed difficult to control. Christopher Nolan, who likes big productions, also praised the "Transformers" series.
4. Michael Bay's editing is a bit crazy, but each shot does have a fine design. His perspective is dramatic, and even the exploding fireballs are not just a few fireballs like a normal movie, but like fireworks in a cannonball. In particular, Michael Bay likes to shoot high-speed moving objects rushing toward the camera from the back or bottom of the frame, a technique reminiscent of the famous American printmaker Edward Ruscha, who is based on action scenes from the silent film era. We don't deny that Michael Bay has a design mind, after all, in the nineties he still feels great about several blockbuster action movies, but the visual design is atmospheric and always matches the content. "Rich is willful", Michael Bay went to the sea this time, very crazy, he is not without beauty, the underwater drama also carefully added beautiful jellyfish.
Michael Bay and the Transformers series are a difficult mystery to be disliked, but cannot fail to acknowledge their success. Will this series continue to be filmed? Michael Bay said he wouldn't shoot Transformers again, but I'm sure he'll soon "change his mind". As for whether next time he will "conscience discover" and make it possible to integrate it, or will he continue to sink and exaggerate? The Earth cannot withstand the ravages of Transformers too many times