A Pragmatic Opinion
When Michael Bay was filming Transformers 2, he was significantly hampered by the writer’s strike, yet he forged forward to meet his release deadlines, pulling the project together during a time when this strike was destroying other movies and getting decent quality TV series canceled along the way.
But when Transformers 2 came out, despite doing very well at the box office, literary giants were aiming their high-brow movie-review flame throwers at the project and roasting it alive. (I might have snookered something in there myself at first too, so I was part of the blame game.)
Sure, there were issues and there were huge logistical gaps between scenes. Folks decided they had enough time to dwell on and be offended by the twins. I get it. But Michael Bay achieved something else with Transformers 2… he made a fascinatingly funny-ass movie that had a huge amount of robot action that, once you get past the literary stumblings of the film, you just might find pretty damn funny, and that’s that.
Mid last year HBO started playing Transformers 2 and then it went to their On Demand section. When I was in the mood to watch TV, but nothing was on, I kept tuning in this movie. If for anything, a sound gap to have on in the background. That’s when the brainwashing started and I started noticing things, like how if you quit bitching about the gaps and craps, it’s a fun movie. Period. Seriously, when the Decepticon super-model attacks Sam, Shia LaBeouf lets out probably one of the best on-film girlie screams I’ve ever seen/heard, from any gender.
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