Transformers: Age of Extinction
Written by Ehren Kruger
Directed by Michael Bay
USA, 2014
I took a course on auteur theory in school and in the first class my prof asked me if Michael Bay was an auteur. A more apt question would be is Michael Bay the modern John Ford? Since Bad Boys he has made each of his movies in the same style: his style. All of these films are entertaining if you enjoy big dumb action films. Just like John Ford’s oeuvre is entertaining if you like Westerns of all shapes and sizes. So with that being said, Age of Extinction is Michael Bay’s masterpiece in the auteurist sense. It is exactly the film that Bay has been trying to make since Bad Boys. Does that make it a good movie though?
This film is still a part of the Transformers mythology that Bay has been...
Written by Ehren Kruger
Directed by Michael Bay
USA, 2014
I took a course on auteur theory in school and in the first class my prof asked me if Michael Bay was an auteur. A more apt question would be is Michael Bay the modern John Ford? Since Bad Boys he has made each of his movies in the same style: his style. All of these films are entertaining if you enjoy big dumb action films. Just like John Ford’s oeuvre is entertaining if you like Westerns of all shapes and sizes. So with that being said, Age of Extinction is Michael Bay’s masterpiece in the auteurist sense. It is exactly the film that Bay has been trying to make since Bad Boys. Does that make it a good movie though?
This film is still a part of the Transformers mythology that Bay has been...
- 6/27/2014
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