Rinse, cycle, repeat … five times now. The film opens on Cybertron, a robotic planet that is playing host to an explosive conflict between good robots — the Autobots — and bad robots — the Decepticons. His mission: Protect the planet from the Decepticons and prepare for the arrival of the remaining Autobots.
In terms of age, 66 percent of the audience was over the age of Hey Hollywood, make fun movies where with the cast is filled with cool people who aren't just white dudes. People love that shit. Michael Bay films, and especially the action scenes, don't tend to make a ton of sense.
Not just in terms of story, trying to follow the action in a Michael Bay movie is nearly impossible; it's hard to tell what's happening in the 3D space of each shot because so much is going on. There is way too much movement and chaos to be able to actually tell what's happening, and to what character. The heavy reliance of digital effects doesn't help. Compare that to how the Furious 7 team shot the scene of cars falling off the back of the plane. There's very little trickery here; they just pushed those things out of a plane and sent the stunt crew skydiving out to shoot it.
Even the behind the scenes footage is enough to get your stomach to clench. How good does the stunt team have to be?
Look at the timing of the opening shot of the car leaving the plane. There is almost no room for error. The result of all this work are stunt scenes that are both amazing, but make sense visually. It's easy to tell what's going on and follow the action. It looks and feels real because so much of it is real, a rarity in modern films. That's not the only scene that benefits from practical stunt work. There is a scene near the end where a character runs up the side of a bus and jumps off onto another car.
That stunt? From USA Today :. While Gill acknowledges that no shot in Furious 7 is completely untouched by CGI after all, wires and safety harnesses have to be digitally erased , most of it is legit. For this scene, the filmmakers had almost no margin for error and only one shot at getting it right. After all, you can only crash a bus off a cliff so many times. You can joke about the plot and the goofier aspects of the film, but there is real craft to how these action scenes were filmed.
These are stunts that are operating on a whole 'nother level, and they look great on a big screen. If you're a film geek and want to see some of the best stuntwork in the industry, you go to a Furious film. Do you care about reviews? Lorenzo: Well, first of all, I think every filmmaker cares what critics think because, you know, you're being judged.
I think if someone says they don't care, baloney. Does it affect the gross of the movie? Probably a little bit. But, I think the problem with critics and the big movies in general is they don't understand the format.
So, they're judging it against the kind of movie experience that it is not trying to do, nor should it. What I mean is it's like they're locked into like, "OK, let's compare this to a Marty Scorsese movie or a two-hour drama. I don't know about that. Critics liked the latest 'Captain America' movie a lot.
But, my experience with the critics is that when they like a big movie, it's because they're afraid they'r going to so go against the tide that they act like they liked it.
That's my opinion. I think it's baloney. I don't think they understand the form of entertainment and I don't think they appreciate the form of the entertainment. So, I think in that respect, the reason critics don't hurt a lot of the big movies is because the audience is smart enough to go, "I don't care what he's talking about or she's talking about. What I care about is did I have a great experience?
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