Michael Bay Rumored To Bring Us a Metroid Movie

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LordTheNightKnight said:
Just learn to follow what is happening. I can follow his movies.

My whole family can.

Just get faster eyes and shut up.


Sorry, I am just sick of people blaming Michael Bay because they can't follow his editing. And that does seem to be the most common complaint. Yet if the editing were truly bad, why aren't more people turned off by that? It seems they don't mind. This is not about quality. Being able to follow camera work should be an ability, not taste.

So that means People who like his movies don't have bad taste. They can just follow those movies better.

A hell of a lot of people are turned off by it, actually. As Naznatips said, though, it's not that people can't followthe editing, it's that it's terribly done. You can have hyper kinetic editing without doing it as awfully as it is in his films. Mouon Rouge! had many more edits per minute than any Michael Bay film, but it's not done poorly in that film, so it's not an issue. Michael Bay rarely shows you anything with his edits. They don't go to anything in particular, they don't create any tension, they don't really do anything other than put two disparate frames of film together one after the other. I hesitate to even all it juxtaposition, because when you juxtapose two things you are putting them next two each other in order to contrast them, and there's very little contrasting of images to create a whole in Bay's editing style. It also doesn't do the other thing editing is supposed to do--create visual rhythm. When you get that much thrown at you at once you stop feelign the rhythm, and instead is because equivalent to white noise--it creates as much tension as if there were no edits at all. Less tension, even, because we are so accustomed to montage that the lack of it can cause tension.  Not so with Bay's films. It's just a contsant assualt to get inured to.

I once saw a great review of Bad Boys II that started "Somewhere on the floor of the editing room for Bad Boys II lies the greatest car chase ever shot on film." It's not on the screen, though, because of the butcher job done by the editor.