I firmly believe that exploitation films have taken a whole new meaning and are no longer the work of ambitious seedy individuals with their 8mm cameras.
The new exploitation films are works of ambitious misled directors armed with unlimited budgets, IMAX3d cameras, greedy studios and casts who could only care about the paycheck.
The budget ensures that you don't need to exploit a single premise, god bless money/power...
Because now you can exploit everything..
1) Single premise movie based on a toyline with silicon wafer thin plot......lets make a 2.75 hour movie on it.
2)15 yr old girl wearing alluring clothing, but wait shes 17.....that's legal.....where??!!.....lets make a 2.75 hour movie on it.
3) Big 3 Car manufacturer who needs to sell cars....but that means many many useless characters and screen time.....no problem...lets make a 2.75 hour movie on it.
4)Talented actors need to get paid, and the cinemagoer has to have underaged , in your face romance ala Blue Lagoon , and the boss secretary romance ala Iron man and others.....lets make a 2.75 hour movie on it.
This doesn't seem like an entirely bad thing BUT ALAS.
There are hardly any Transformers (maybe 12-15) who are half baked, and who don't even get 50% of the screen time.
If you are going to keep reminding us that the chick in the movie is 17 and its legal to allude to statutory rape but not show it,THAN WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE MORE SHOTS OF THE SAID GIRL IN A LITTLE LESS CLOTHING SAYING EVEN NICER THINGS than shouting dad every 2 mins...what kind of exploitation film is this??
GM needs to sell cars, and their paying for it, so why not show the entire range including vintage ones, add new car transforming robots,(when did we care about staying true to the toyline anyway), A MONTAGE OF CHOICE GM CARS WITH THE ACCOMPANYING SIGHTS AND SOUNDS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE INTERESTING THAN THIS MOVIE.
If we are going to pay talented actors just because they need the money, MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BETTER WRITTEN SCRIPTS AND DIALOGUES,SOME MORE CHEMISTRY etc etc. The supposedly funny and epic parts were "Ohh so not what they wanted it to be".
While I've watched my fair share of exploitation films (not including The Blue Lagoon and its bad Sequel .....hmmm brooke shields.......slurrp), this movie unfortunately doesn't succeed at EXPLOITING ANYTHING BUT THE AUDIENCE.
The few things going for this movie is the phenomenal CGI, a few good action scenes, the honest acting,and the "ï still cant get over how amazing it is" IMAX 3D format.
I cant help but feel watching it in any other medium especially on a small home screen would knock of 2 stars of this movie.
-s tries to exploit everything succeeds at none of them,mostly bad dialogues, plot holes etc etc.
+/-s good honest acting with a wafer thin script.
+s IMAX 3D, superb CGI, some genuinely entertaining scenes especially in the second half.
The new exploitation films are works of ambitious misled directors armed with unlimited budgets, IMAX3d cameras, greedy studios and casts who could only care about the paycheck.
The budget ensures that you don't need to exploit a single premise, god bless money/power...
Because now you can exploit everything..
1) Single premise movie based on a toyline with silicon wafer thin plot......lets make a 2.75 hour movie on it.
2)15 yr old girl wearing alluring clothing, but wait shes 17.....that's legal.....where??!!.....lets make a 2.75 hour movie on it.
3) Big 3 Car manufacturer who needs to sell cars....but that means many many useless characters and screen time.....no problem...lets make a 2.75 hour movie on it.
4)Talented actors need to get paid, and the cinemagoer has to have underaged , in your face romance ala Blue Lagoon , and the boss secretary romance ala Iron man and others.....lets make a 2.75 hour movie on it.
This doesn't seem like an entirely bad thing BUT ALAS.
There are hardly any Transformers (maybe 12-15) who are half baked, and who don't even get 50% of the screen time.
If you are going to keep reminding us that the chick in the movie is 17 and its legal to allude to statutory rape but not show it,THAN WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE MORE SHOTS OF THE SAID GIRL IN A LITTLE LESS CLOTHING SAYING EVEN NICER THINGS than shouting dad every 2 mins...what kind of exploitation film is this??
GM needs to sell cars, and their paying for it, so why not show the entire range including vintage ones, add new car transforming robots,(when did we care about staying true to the toyline anyway), A MONTAGE OF CHOICE GM CARS WITH THE ACCOMPANYING SIGHTS AND SOUNDS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE INTERESTING THAN THIS MOVIE.
If we are going to pay talented actors just because they need the money, MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BETTER WRITTEN SCRIPTS AND DIALOGUES,SOME MORE CHEMISTRY etc etc. The supposedly funny and epic parts were "Ohh so not what they wanted it to be".
While I've watched my fair share of exploitation films (not including The Blue Lagoon and its bad Sequel .....hmmm brooke shields.......slurrp), this movie unfortunately doesn't succeed at EXPLOITING ANYTHING BUT THE AUDIENCE.
The few things going for this movie is the phenomenal CGI, a few good action scenes, the honest acting,and the "ï still cant get over how amazing it is" IMAX 3D format.
I cant help but feel watching it in any other medium especially on a small home screen would knock of 2 stars of this movie.
-s tries to exploit everything succeeds at none of them,mostly bad dialogues, plot holes etc etc.
+/-s good honest acting with a wafer thin script.
+s IMAX 3D, superb CGI, some genuinely entertaining scenes especially in the second half.