Transformers? Hey now, let's not overreact...
You know, I see these trailers or online preview blurbs and think I'd like to see these movies, if only they'd let me make them. I remember b.miller had something up a while ago about 'Unbreakable,' where he offered alternate b-sides to 4 or 5 scenes from the film. I kept thinking "Shit, I'd love to pay to see his movie. I felt ripped off leaving the real one."
That's how I feel just about every time I watch a big-bidget trailer these days, as in "Huh. Well, that
could have been cool..." Even the "best" of them (like 'Hellboy') are generally near-misses. Particular tastes and whatever aside, I think you could generally say that Hollywood's most consistent error these days is confusing more with better -- look at the second and last Matrix film, where they basically took everything from the first and multiplied the bad guys, the sensuality, the chases, by 'x' number.
The LOTR trilogy suffered the same fate -- oh look, an impossibly large number of enemies. What last-moment twist of fate will save our heroes
again?
Though on a positive note, so you don't think I'm all piss, as "big budget" action movies go, I enjoyed 'The Bourne Identity,' 'Batman Begins' and 'Kung Fu Hustle' quite a bit. Still, I could have made Bourne and Batman better
