![]() Kennedy fast-tracked the moon landing not to beat the Soviet Union in the space race, but rather to secure a site where a giant Autobot vessel had crash-landed after a big war on Cybertron. Speaking of which: in the series’s latest bit of tongue-in-cheek revisionist history, it is disclosed that John F. Though a computer-enhanced actor briefly appears playing President Obama, no Transformer is on hand to thank him for rescuing the auto industry. What’s the difference?īut this is not about me: it’s about the war between Autobots and Decepticons, rival tribes of extraterrestrial fighting machines - literally! - capable of assuming the shape of motor vehicles. ![]() ![]() I can’t decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. Perhaps my own enjoyment of “Dark of the Moon” is further evidence. Bay’s “Transformers” movies, “Revenge of the Fallen,” released in 2009, struck me as not only the worst movie of that year - measured in raw box office dollars, it was certainly among the most popular - but also as irrefutable evidence that our once proud civilization was in a state of precipitous decline. I apologize if this sounds like faint praise, but let me provide some perspective. Bay’s best movies and by far the best 3-D sequel ever made about gigantic toys from outer space. I’m not judging, just describing, and since today’s theme is bluntness, I might as well come out and say that “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is among Mr. ![]() And then there is Michael Bay, whose films are symphonies of excess and redundancy, taking place in a universe full of fire and metal and purged of nuance. There are filmmakers whose work is characterized by thrift, efficiency and devotion to the subtleties of cinematic expression. ![]()
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