Re: Bay directing TF2
Shouldn't this be in the good news column?
I agree. Bay is a one trick pony. He is very good at blowing up great big piles of cash and making it look good. At everything else he ranges from mediocre to just plain awful.
Now that the movie's made a few bucks, I think its time someone with more well rounded ability step in. Here's a few directors I think Paramount/Dreamworks should be sending scripts to.
Tony Scott (Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State)
James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator 2, and that movie with the boat in it)
Sam Raimi (Army of Darkness, Spiderman 1, 2 and 3)
Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns)
Peter Jackson (King Kong, Elves and Dwarves on Vacation: Middle Earth I, II and III)
Steven Spielburg himself should take a good look at this one. It's been a while since he's cranked out a good summer action hit.
My top choices are Raimi or Singer, two guys who understand comic book superheros (which Transformers absolutely are). But Singer's no doubt working on another Superman AND he's lost points from me for working with that nutjob Cruise on Valkerie. Raimi is shopping around on Spidey 4, but could probably find time to keep Bay from running our favorite Giant F---ing Robot series into the ground.
Thoughts?
EDIT Re: Why the Giant F---ing Robots were so complex looking instead of smooth like the G1 cartoons
Now that I've seen the movie, I'm convinced they did the right thing to redesign them. I think the reason has to do with realism and scale. Remember that you're used to looking at cartoon Transformers on TV screens standing around on cartoon backgrounds. If you blow that up to a 60 foot wide movie screen, its guaranteed to look stupid. And fake.
Look at it this way; we all know what the underside of a car looks like right? Now, imagine a movie where this car grows arms and legs and a head, but all that mechanical complexity suddenly disappears and the robot has a smooth surfaces except for a headlight or some wings sticking out. That'd be lame.
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