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Often derided as fast-food movies, popular but unhealthy and not worthy of serious cinema-loving people, director Michael Bay’s Transformers movies are better than their reputation suggests, but they also earn some of that derision. Large, loud, unsubtle, and guilty of throwing everything at the screen in hopes enough sticks to make sense and have it be entertaining was increasingly the approach. But, amongst all the noise and flash are quality cinematic accomplishments; spectacular visual effects, splendid sound designs, strong costume work, often sightly cinematography, expressive camera work at times, and invested performances. However, those positives aren’t always enough to forgive the thick plotting, style over substance, and exhaustive and explosive action sequences that seem to pop up before a character’s had a chance to even think about undergoing growth. But being Bay movies does make the series an easy target. While his grasp of the language of cinematic art may be...
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