Brian Hulnick Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 He has a fearsome reputation as a control freak and megalomaniac, probably why studios love him so much, he gets the job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markshaw Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Michael Bay is a HACK, one that needs to grow up stylistically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan knight Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 I have a lens question about this film, I think. SPOLIERS BELOW... Don't read my spoiler with your peripheral vision... fight the temptation. At the end of the film when Shia and Rosie are kissing, Bay cuts to a two shot of them which is slight OTS Shia and slightly profile to both. This shot has a very close-focus feel to it, almost like macro close, but the image also has a "flat" feel, as if the focus plane it deeper and with less fall-off than a macro shot. There is a similar feeling seen in some of the super-close slow-mo shots of Russell Crowe firing an arrow in the Robin Hood trailer. Does anyone know how this effect is rendered? Thanks, RK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Samuals Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Michael Bay is a HACK, one that needs to grow up stylistically. One that makes the studios a shed load of Cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Matti Poutanen Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 I have a lens question about this film, I think. SPOLIERS BELOW... Don't read my spoiler with your peripheral vision... fight the temptation. At the end of the film when Shia and Rosie are kissing, Bay cuts to a two shot of them which is slight OTS Shia and slightly profile to both. This shot has a very close-focus feel to it, almost like macro close, but the image also has a "flat" feel, as if the focus plane it deeper and with less fall-off than a macro shot. There is a similar feeling seen in some of the super-close slow-mo shots of Russell Crowe firing an arrow in the Robin Hood trailer. Does anyone know how this effect is rendered? It´s the mutual love interest of Bay and Scott: extreme telephoto lenses. To quote the ASC article on Robin Hood (http://www.theasc.com/ac_magazine/June2010/RobinHood/page1.php) We were up to a 1,000mm and longer. We had an [Optica] Elite [T2.8] 120-520mm with a doubler on it. We also used a [Panavision] Primo 3:1 135-420mm, often with a doubler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markshaw Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I would love to have seen what the Transformers movies would have been like under the helm of someone like JJ. Abrams. Or if Spielberg had directed rather than merely exec Produced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Millar Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I'd like to see a David Lynch version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy M Lundborg Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 In case anyone missed it... http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/21560/two-more-weeks-of-baysploitation-in-imax Now I have to go see it to learn what not to do, according to the complaints in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Jeremy, whilst watching the movie take careful and meticulous notes on everything Bay does and just how he does it. Read them carefully to fully comprehend what his intent was Then completely disregard everything he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Samuals Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Bay has almost single handedly managed to "dumb down" Hollywood. I'm hoping studios will soon realize that sorry fact and stop giving him toys to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markshaw Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Well the Blu-ray comes out in 2 weeks but only as a 2D version. The 3D version comes out in a couple of months. Audio will be dts HDMA 7.1. It's gonna sound awesome, even if the film is shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Actually, Blu-ray.com state the audio as Dolby True HD 7.1. Either way it has been described as a kick ass soundtrack. Shame the movie is a P.O.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Yet another new benchmark for how movies should look and sound. Yet another one by Bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Samuals Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Who needs a plot when you can dazzle your viewers with fancy visuals and ear breaking audio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 I would love to have seen how a more competent director would have handled the Transformers Trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hulnick Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 Almost any other director would have been more competent than Bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Jackson Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 As Cruise said in Tropic Thunder "A nutless Monkey could do his job" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Samuals Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 To be fair to him he delivered what the studio wanted, a blockbuster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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