holds up in narrative and CGI almost 17 years later
Holds up in narrative and CGI almost 17 years later
you mean Megan Rain right?
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17 years
Wtf…
Arrival scene is still epic
The AC130 scene and F22 raptors are sick, the entire base intro scene was also sick as well. Great movie and CGI looks real good for 2007.
It's actually almost 18 years.
MEGA TROON
bring the rain
I don't know about narrative. Shia is annoying and Megan Fox feels like the actual MC who is being creepily ogled by the cameraman. but the CGI is undeniably amazing. It's crazy that a movie from that era looks better than any modern movie. Probably my only complaint is the overuse of orange and teal that was so common back then
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I didn't like that look much at the time either but i cant deny that now it fills me with nostalgia.
No. It was back when they took time to make good CGI. Today they know consumers will take any CGI slop. Add on Shia and Fox where not big stars yet so they didn’t spend half budget on them
It's amazing that he literally phoned it in during the 5th movie
Almost 20 years old
the CGI is far and away better than anything now
SAD
Based Bay and his embarrassing commercialslop making filmsnobs seethe and cope.
We must defend and promote Michael Based Bay's shit movies all over the interwebs.
If you look through the credits, you'll find no more than a handful of pajeets in the huge list of people who worked on the effects: imdb.com
The ones on that list aren't from some sweatshop in Bangalore or Mumbai either. Compare that to the most recent Transformers movie: imdb.com
Yeah, wasn’t out sourced nor on insane schedule to get done. Back then CGI was mostly done by ILM and few other studios. Add on audiences expected good CGI because it wasn’t fully excepted yet over practical effects. I remember when Ang Lee’s Hulk came out people were skeptical of The Hulk being entirely CGI
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Post-production on this movie was actually pretty quick. It wrapped filming in October 2006 and was released in theatres the following July. Less than a year for a very complicated looking movie. Rise of the Beasts finished shooting in October 2021 and released in May/June 2023.
The difference is as you noted, though. The effects artists weren't third worlders rushing work out at the lowest cost. There's also something to be said about Bay not trying to make a movie in post. We just heard about Fantastic Four getting reshoots ... now. For a movie that's due out in late July. There's no way that isn't going to be hastily inserted blue screen shit.
Where did it all go wrong?
Wow, didn’t realize it was that fast of the shoot. Seemed like was a long time and after teaser trailer that it came out. Still remember teaser
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That teaser was actually from 2006. It was meant to kickoff the film's proper marketing a year from release.
It was kind of crazy just how quickly this movie was put together. Bay signed on as director in 2005 and it was finished like 2 years later. I don't know how that compares to the other movies of the era, but very few effects heavy films have that kind of turnaround these days. That's despite a lot of them costing more and looking worse.
Bay is a pro at action movies. Like Lucas when he did the prequels. He put them out fast and for way less than most action movies because he was using his own FX studio ILM
I'll never believe the world saw this human and crowned her the hottest woman of all time. I see a 5/10 at best. Explain yourselves.
BAYFORMER MEGATRON'S DESIGN FUCKING SUCKS
Almost every single megatron design sucks, i dont care what anyone says his g1 look is fucking retarded. Armada is pretty cool.
All the decepticon designs are god awful, at least the Autobots kept most of their classic 1984 paint jobs.
The CGI holds up incredibly well, and back in 2007 everybody took it for granted thinking CGI would only get better. Look at the Davy Jones CGI in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie from around that time as well.
The CGI is better than the last 4 transformers movies lol. After the trilogy the CGI started looking fake as fuck.
It looks like the sun is actually glaring off of his shoulder and into a camera, genuinely how did they do it? Are there any good documentaries or interviews about the team that did this?
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I think they basically had "pieces" of metal et cetera that they used on set as references in regard to the sunlight and shadows. There is a shot in the first or second movie where a Transformer passes over a human character and actually casts a "real" shadow on them even though the Transformer itself was obviously done in post. I guess Bay just has a good eye for that kind of thing.
The last Knight made absolutely no sense
because it was unironically 4 different movie scripts crammed into one
See that makes sense now.
Insane that Last Knight literally made half a billion dollars less than Age of Extinction, and it only came out 3 years later. I guess that's why Bay gave up making any more Transformer movies.
How is that insane? I don't see the connection between time between films and money earned.
Because 3 years is only a brief gap between these kinds of blockbuster movies. If it came out 9-years after the original like Sin City: A Dame to Kill For or Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga then it would make sense why people lost interest and it underperformed compared to the previous film. Age of Extinction made $1.1 billion dollars at the box-office, nobody thought the next movie would take a $500 million dollar haircut.
God that Bumblebee prologue on Cybertron was so fucking kino!
Oh okay that makes sense sorry for being so dense