Is he bilingual? (Honest question)
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I don't know, I'm more familiar with his work as Umibouzu in City Hunter, and I don't ever recall him speaking English there, even though there is occasional English dialog.
(Appropos of nothing, I'd still love to see a Transformers x City Hunter crossover. There's at least 5 classic vehicles they could do, 4 of which would be easy redecos of existing molds.)
If he hadn't also passed far too soon, I would've loved to hear Andre Braugher's take.
Shame he's passed on (and would be older than Cullen if he was still alive), but Don LeFontaine would have been interesting as Optimus. (He used to be the trailer voice guy, back when that was an actual thing and not just a goofy youtube channel)
Deadline reporting that Spielberg has been appointed by Paramount to focus on creative aspects of the next TF film (alongside Bonaventura)and Michael Bay is still in early talks to direct.
deadline.com
Steven Spielberg And Michael Bay Back For Next 'Transformers' Movie
Paramount has appointed Steven Spielberg to focus on all creative aspects of the next Transformers film, which Michael Bay will return to direct.
deadline.com
Well, Spielberg was the most hands-on with the 2007 movie, not so much with the sequels, so maybe this could be a good thing.
Although, I still wonder what a fully Spielberg-directed TF movie, rather than just a Spielberg-executively-produced one, could have been like (aside from the notion of none of the robot characters ever speaking at all, which was the one bad idea Spielberg originally wanted for the 2007 movie).
Although, I still wonder what a fully Spielberg-directed TF movie, rather than just a Spielberg-executively-produced one, could have been like (aside from the notion of none of the robot characters ever speaking at all, which was the one bad idea Spielberg originally wanted for the 2007 movie).
Very schmaltzy, and I mean that in the best way.
Lots and lots of scenes of people staring at things off-camera in awe/terror/amazement/surprise.
Sooo, just like every other live-action Transformers movie.
At least it might have gotten the awards it deserved, even if he submitted exactly the same movie.
Spielberg involvement (and I hope he's very involved) is a nod in this movie's favor.
I actually wouldn't want him to be fully in charge. It has to be a partnership. Bay and Spielberg have crazy different styles but they obviously worked well together. They clearly were not making the same movie. Spielberg made a friendly alien movie and Bay made a not so friendly alien movie. But it worked. You just know some clueless executives at Paramount had doubts about whether general audiences could be made to comprehend the distinction between the two factions of alien war machines. I wouldn't be surprised if some executives had a hard time understanding it themselves. Bay and Spielberg made the difference impossible to miss.
But at the same time they were making the same movie. Bay's half of the movie is just as full of Spielbergian scenes of people staring at things off-camera in awe. And Spielberg's half of the movie has moments of lighthearted Bayish dorkiness that keep things from crossing the line into feeling pretentious.
But at the same time they were making the same movie. Bay's half of the movie is just as full of Spielbergian scenes of people staring at things off-camera in awe. And Spielberg's half of the movie has moments of lighthearted Bayish dorkiness that keep things from crossing the line into feeling pretentious.
That first movie always did feel like two different movies smushed together, with one being a whimsical coming-of-age story about a suburban American teenager getting his first car which turns out to be a living being in disguise, and the other being a political thriller action flick about the military being attacked by an unknown enemy who's trying to hack into the government and leaving the Pentagon stumped and on edge about who or what this deadly new threat to national security really is.
Makes sense, what with the friendly aliens and the not-so friendly aliens both being in there.
I liked that aspect, jumping back and forth between Sam's shenanigans, the soldiers in the field and the computer data squad was interesting. It fills us, the audience, in about the then-unknown alien robots while maintaining pervasive uncertainty and danger for the characters in all three subplots, and seeing the three stories come together towards the end was kinda cool. Of course, the last act was giant robots beating each other up but having a set number of easily-identifiable robots made it so that it wasn't as chaotic as later movies and the MCU final battles have devolved into.
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It works. It's three different stories in a blender but they're all telling the same story. Humans encounter awe-inspiring aliens and discover that we are almost hopelessly out of our league, but our crazy knack for adapting on the fly is enough to make us worthy adversaries/allies. Every solution the humans come up with in that movie is complete improvisation. The Decepticons have plans. The Autobots have plans. We just do things.
As long as it's never just Bay again. The man had his strengths but even in that first movie there was a sloppiness to the pacing and execution that was hard to ignore.
Part of me just wonders. Bay was the guy (and it turns out, the right guy in many ways) for the job at the time due in part to how no other directors really seemed interested. We've had Knight since, then Capule; have any other directors expressed interest? Because while I get that Bay does bring done charm and effectiveness despite... The other things he brings, I've been ready for a new sense of pacing and humor and heart in these for some time.
Part of me just wonders. Bay was the guy (and it turns out, the right guy in many ways) for the job at the time due in part to how no other directors really seemed interested. We've had Knight since, then Capule; have any other directors expressed interest? Because while I get that Bay does bring done charm and effectiveness despite... The other things he brings, I've been ready for a new sense of pacing and humor and heart in these for some time.
Honestly, I'm not sure why Paramount are looking at Bay & Spielberg, I mean, neither of them had any major hits recently, I know Spielberg's last movie completely bombed at the box office, while Bay's last TF film wasn't exactly great as it was a mess of ideas and also trying to kick start a cinematic universe to try and rival Marvel, thou that didn't go as planned, everyone wants cinematic Universes lately, yet nobody seems to want to put in the effort to lay the foundations and would rather take the hop, skip and jump approach and instead of a spectator landing, its a disaster of a landing, so I honestly question, is it really a good idea to bring these two people back in?