The Island 2005 is Michael Bay's Minority Report
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As far as my speculation goes, I think, it is safe to assume, the following happened: In 1994 ( before doing
Bad Boys )
Michael Bay signed a 10 year contract with
Jerry Bruckheimer which expired in 2004 ( after
Bad Boys 2 ). Knowing that the contract is about to expire, 2 years prior ( in 2002 )
Steven Spielberg, in an attempt to get on good terms with Michael Bay, added a small reference to Bad Boys into his film
Minority Report. And then took Bay under his supervision for the next 10 years. Starting with the 2005 film
The Island. And through the
Transformers franchise. Bay returned the favor by showing a concept car designed for
Minority Report ( Lexus 2054 aka Lexus Minority ) multiple times in the background of
The Island. Still that's just a theory. I don't actually know what happened. But it seems plausible.
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Transformers 3 has only 1 flaw
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Megan Fox. Megan Fox is the only flaw of
Michael Bay's
Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The script by
Ehren Kruger ( who wrote
Top Gun: Maverick and
F1 ) was written with Mikaela Banes ( Megan Fox ) as the girlfriend of
Shia LaBeouf's character Sam. But because of some drama behind the scenes ( which involved
Steven Spielberg for some reason ), she ultimately dropped out of the project, in very late stages of pre-production. Forcing the team to quickly patch her character out in a very forced and obvious way, replacing her with
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley who worked with Bay on Victoria Secret commercials. That ultimately made the film very confusing, emotionally.
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Buzzy Lee - Strange Town is a Music Video we need more of
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It is strange to review a music video, but
Buzzy Lee's masterpiece
Strange Town deserves some praise. I think Buzzy Lee, who co-directed the music video with
Jeff Leeds Cohn knew that they didn't know what they were doing. So the whole thing, spoiler alert, is poking fun at their own directing.
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Spaceballs takes the Jews vs Nazis theme to a whole new sexual climax
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Jewish filmmakers like to poke fun at Nazis.
Spielberg did that with
Indiana Jones and
Mel Brooks does it here with
Spaceballs. But unlike the original
Star Wars for which
Spaceballs is almost direct parody, Brooks goes onto another level to measure pipis with the Nazis.
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Transformers 4 is a ballsy brave film
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So here is a movie from
Paramount Pictures that was executive produced by
Steven Spielberg with
Stanley Tucci playing a villain and
Mark Wahlberg playing a dad of a teenage girl. The movie touches on very hard emotional topics of sexual abuse and age discrimination. And
Peter Jackson does a very good job... Oh... wait... it's not
The Lovely Bones... ah... yeah... so...
Transformers: Age of Extinction!!!
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Transformers is Good if You Take it Seriously
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I decided to re-watch the first
Transformers film today, but differently. Instead of indulging in it as mindless entertainment, I decided I want to actually view it seriously, as I would with somebody like
Steven Spielberg, who, by the way, was an executive producer on the film.
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Alien: Romulus is too good to be scary
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The film suffers from the same problem something like
War Of The Worlds by
Steven Spielberg suffers from. It is too good for its own good. You have so much dopamine from the good stuff that it overshadows any Norepinephrine from the scary stuff.
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Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood 2019 is Tarantino respecting the audience
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People often complain about dumb movies with too much unnecessary spoon-feeding. We get so much explaining and over-explaining that the brain hurts sometimes. You already know what is going on. You are following the story. You don't need no god damned reminder of what you are watching. And yet the studio heads still think that you are too dumb to understand what's going on in front of you on the screen.
Respecting the audience on the other hand is a leap of faith on a part of a film-maker and only the greatest do that well.
Quentin Tarantino with his 2019 film
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood takes the hardest such leap of his career.
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What Lies Beneath
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Have you ever wondered what would
Alfred Hitchcock do in the age of CGI and VFX? What kind of strange insane shorts he would come up with? Well
Robert Zemeckis set out for himself a challenge to find out. He is notorious for using visual effects creatively. A lot of people might be familiar with the mirror shot he did in the film Contact. So something like trying to make a Hitchcockian thriller of the 21st century was just about the right kind of thing for Zemeckis.
Please Help Me With Activity Pub
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This article is published on a website which is powered by
BDServer. And I'm trying to make this website support ActivityPub, so you could for example, subscribe to me from your
Mastodon account. Yet it is easier said than done.
If you have any experience with ActivityPub, web-development or Python, please consider helping me. We have
BDServer Matrix Chatroom.
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RoboCop 1987 foreshadows a lot
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There are ( at least ) 3 types of movies: Corporate bullshit, like the shit Disney produces now a days, which for some reason are popular as heck; smart films with a strong message, which win awards but fail at the box office; and the third type: a film with a message, disguised as corporate bullshit, to trick the audiences that it's the shit they wanna see, while actually being the shit they need to see.
Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film
RoboCop is from the third type.
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Die Hard is a phenomenal showcase of filmmaking talent
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Somehow, for all these years I avoided the first ever
Die Hard movie, even though I had watched the sequels. And even though the sequels are varying in quality, the first film is a fucking masterpiece.
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Gone in 60 Seconds ( 2000 ) is better than it's rating suggests
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What is it with
Jerry Bruckheimer of the late 90s and early 2000s and with
Nicolas Cage? First in 96 we get
Michael Bay's
The Rock. A year later in 97 Jerry puts Cage in
Simon West's
Con Air. And then in 2000
Dominic Sena under the supervision of Bruckheimer puts Nicolas out of his Cage and into a driver's seat of 1967 Ford Shelby GT500, in the subject of this review, the loose remake of
H. B. Halicki 1974 film
Gone in 60 Seconds.
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Nope
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I was avoiding
Nope for a few reasons. One of them was because people kept saying that it is very disturbing. It has a scene which I thought was to traumatize me. Now that I actually saw the film I can tell you that
Jordan Peele, the director of
Nope is not
Lars Von Trier and therefor the scene is not actually that bad. To be quite frank, it seems like shooting that scene the way Lars Von Trier would have done it probably goes against the message of the movie.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a writting masterclass
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In
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning the mission is so impossible that there is a possibility that either
Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt, the entire world, or both will die. Not to mention that Tom Cruise himself can die. Because in this one he climbs from one plane to another mid flight.
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