How Michael Bay Transformed Blockbuster Filmmaking

There's a video by Empire Wreckers where he discusses the actual underlying plot of these films as it can be derived from what the movies give us. It honestly makes the movies much better from the frame of reference he falls upon, even as he admits it's not a "correct" reading or anything like that.
It's fanon, but it's a better story than the one we got.

The Transformers movie franchise is the equivalent of a cinematic abusive relationship that just make me all thankful that the MCU turned out SO good and showed audiences that you can have crazy over the top action and spectacle but still have it make sense, and that Michael Bay is just some incompetent, one trick pony hack who just got lucky with the first Transformers and let the success for it just completely go to his head.

ROTF is overhated in this video. My favorite from the OG trilogy.

If Michael Bay was racist and sexist then I want him back with his original formula to slap hard these modern woke critics/audience who want to push their agendas unto everything.

Just watch the scenes you like from these movies and you’ll enjoy them much more rather than sitting through the whole movies

Fantastic video

but robots go boom 😢

Big dislike due to the shy intro.
Oh Bay is so bad, so racist, so juvenile, so cynical..
Wow such original remarks.

thank you for sharing the reason why i love The First Transformers!

Everyone can talk as much shit as they want, and yeah it’s valid, but everyone also simultaneously agrees the first three are the best bad movies ever. I don’t know another franchise that gets so much hate and love at the same time.

Hum… April fools??

Why hate something that made up our childhood.

This is by far the only video that I've seen that doesn't show/give much hate to Michael Bay and Bayverse Transformers

You don’t know the smile I got on my face when I saw 3. Shit just got real

Armageddon was so underrated. Loved it every minute ❤

Dark of the moon will always be my favorite Transformers Film

I had a blast on each movie, MB created great movies imo, he only needs a good script to earn the respect he diserves

“na… let him cook!”

looking back at the Transformers serie, it's insane to see that a decade later it still feels a lot more opulent than blockbusters from nowadays. What we can't blame Michael Bay for is that you can see all the money (and more) put in production onscreen, while the +200m marvel budgets seem now underused

Fun fact guess what transformers last night left on cliff hanger and bc last night flop we never see 6

Peter cullen as optimus prime will always be something special in these movies. Transformers has always had great characters and stories, and thats what the series honestly needed! The story needed to be more coherent and consistent! I love the first trilogy and AOE was alright too, but the last knight just had a stroke in terms of character consistently. Bumblebee was great and i look foward to rise of the beasts!

That first movie was quite magical when it came out and it really made an impact! Its very quotable after all these years and the camera angles and stuff were fun! I like the little machine gun go pro at the end of DOTM 😅👍🏻 being a diehard Transformers nerd, im biased and I'll always feel an attachment of some sort to these movies, especially the first one. I just wish we got more of the actual Transformers as the movies went on as they had ran out of stuff for the actual human actors and such. 😅

I've always thought that the Transformers films visually speaking are incredible. They convey the messages really well with visuals alone. The problem lies in the dialogues which either conflict with the visual language or outright make no sense at all. For example the Bonecrusher scene, the shot on the family car was amazing and showed some genuine terror, what was out of place was the "cool mom". That line alone confuses the emotion of the scene. Then on ROTF the script was utter garbage and DOTM was imo the one that was better written out of them all, the only downside of DOTM is that it was already the third installment, new factor was gone and fatigue for the franchise was starting to show.

First was the revolution, second was the bad one, third was the best one technically speaking but on the wrong time. We don't talk about AOE or TLK.

Say what you want about bayformers but I love them lol 😂

This was a great video made me look at them different especially making like the new one that just came out. Character and live action mixed with cgi was what I loved about the original

I blame hasbro for tooo much interferance

Absolutely fantastic video, loved it.

Love these movies and the fan base so nostalgic revisiting this franchise

Avatar?

"The dialogue scenes are the scenes you need to endure to get to the action. I odn't think any series embodies that quote more than the Bayformers films"
If we were talking about a single movie, I'd definitely saw Death Proof is one of those (watched it last night and the three of us watching it were losing it for the really long dialogue at the bar and etc until the action finally kicked in again at the end), but for a series of movies it sounds like a fair assesment

This describes my vibe of Jurassic Park/ jaws having the same vibe as the early transformers films (mainly 1-3)
tho I never could put my finger on it (even before watching this video, i new Stephen Spielberg was an exec producer)

Always love the 1st movie.

the 3rd movie final battle was terrible

can someone explain how the films are racist and sexist?

The reboot is here so it's goodbye to the Bayformer shit movies👍💯

😂 Avengers?? Are you kidding me???

Well technically yes as of now it’s 15 years old which is crazy, I actually had the chance to go see Transformers (2007) in theaters for its 15th anniversary!!!!! This movie is too me and maybe I speak the same with others, Transformers (2007) is just nostalgic, I mean the Arrival to Earth Scene with that music gives me chills!!!!!! Blackout transformation effects and in fact all transformation effects still hold up!!!!! Next month or in a couple of weeks Transformers 2007 will be 16 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!

Specifically
Organized chaos - choreographed fights filmed very close up (human perspective)
strategic slo mo - showing near misses during action/fight

character development - Sam goes from scared loser to less scared loser to annoyed underdog to underappreciated hero (or something like that) in three films.
World building - government and private sector perspective on aliens shifts over time

I thought the 3rd Transformer film was the best

Bay's Transformers succeded at action and CGI, yet mostly failed at storytelling.
ROTB mostly fails at CGI and action, yet succeds at storytelling.
Bumblebee succeds at CGI and storytelling, yet lacks in action.


07 movie succeds everywhere.

The problem is they went woke. Not improving the character Sam at T3 was the biggest mistake. They could've just removed the female lead and carried out with the storyline. Instead of making the female a lead on the movie instead of Sam.

why does this guy look like cartoon jerma

I'd like to imagine Michael himself saying
"y-yeah... yeah, that's what I meant to do in that scene..."

I liked age of extinction, I don’t care what anyone says

I don't think they're terrible movies at all I just think they show us who the real movie snobs are because they can't help themselves from critiquing the low hanging fruit which is the noisy action because they think that's all there is to the films when there's more to it than that and they're embarassing themselves everytime they complain about it because it's such an obvious and elitist thing to do. Michael Bay is a smarter filmmaker than people give him credit and knows what he's doing and more importantly he doesn't give a shit about what a bunch of small minded nerds think of his films. He knws what it takes to entertain an audience which is a lot more than you can say for other more critically respected filmmakers who know fuck all about entertaining an audience and making films for anyone but themselves which is a fundamentally selfish act in my opinion. You got to make a film for yourself at least a little but not at the expense of your prospective audience imo. There's got to be somethng there which appeals to other people. I'm not saying your film has to make millions and millions but you got to try to be a little entertaining for the sake of making the expensive process of making a film worthwhile. Just a little imo.😅😏

GIVE ME YOUR FACE! 😂😂😂😂😂

We can’t forget that the FBI meme came from the first movie.

How often do you get mistaken for being Nicholas Cage?