I think I’m one of the last people on the planet who still isn’t talking shit about Michael Bay, especially in light of the Transformer films (the last two of which I haven’t seen). I do feel a little bit cheated by the trajectory of his filmmaking, because after The Island, I really thought we’d see him exercising more of his storytelling chops, but he seems to be moving further and further away real characters and cohesive plotlines.
Anyway, it kind of made me laugh when I saw a commercial for the new Need for Speed game the other day that began with the prominent statment, “A trailer through the eyes of Michael Bay”. The guy already has the reputation of making films with all the reality of a video game, so I suppose it’s a natural fit for him to direct a trailer for one, though I don’t know it’s necessarily the best career move. Regardless, I went online to check out the full trailer.
Yup…that’s a trailer for a video game all right. I doubt it benefits in any way from having Michael Bay direct it. Honestly, I’m not even sure what Michael Bay did here. What does “through the eyes” even mean? Maybe all he did was pick out the music. Whatever.
Though I’m not going to lie–it does look exciting.
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I got nothing against Bay. He’s only guilty of trying to make movies that people will find entertaining. For some reason, that makes him the most hated man in Hollywood. If anything, I wish his movies had MORE action and stuff blowing up.
heh. Well, I tend to think he has enough action and stuff blowing up, but yeah, it’s hard to deny the guy has filmed some good action sequences. Though I’m sure there are plenty of people who will deny that.
You know what movie sucks? The French Connection. Seriously. Have you ever watched this supposed classic? It’s so slow, boring, and full of thoroughly detestable characters. And that car chase which is considering by many people to be the best of all time is pathetic and boring.
Give me The Rock any day.
I feel as though you and I may have actually watched that movie together back in Charlottesville. In any case, I’ve seen it, and if I’m being honest, I didn’t think it was that great. It just felt dated to me, I think.
You should do a “top 10 overrated action movies” post on your blog. As far as I can tell, nobody has done that.
A while ago I thought about doing a “top ten most overrated movies” list, where I’d include shit like Juno and Napoleon Dynamite, but I decided against it because I didn’t want to do anything intentionally mean just for the sake of being mean.
But maybe.
I don’t know if I could think of ten overrated action movies anyway. Is the French Connection even considered to be an action movie?
Oh, and by the way, I actually downloaded the demo for this game a few days ago. It was neat. Great graphics and pretty exciting, but it was too… cinematic or something, if that makes any sense. Like, the camera zoomed in and out and moved around as you made turns and stuff. It was a bit too high concept for me.