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Explaining the Special Effects Behind Transformers
ntmokey writes "Popular Mechanics has an in-depth look at the special effects behind the Transformers movie, including some exclusive shots from Paramount Pictures. Apparently, using real cars as models presented some interesting problems for the folks at Industrial Light and Magic, who had to figure out how a recognizable chunk of steel can fold into robot. In the end, the solution was the development team getting hands-on in the auto shop. And lots of grease."
The effects will be the only impressive thing about this Michael Bay Cheese-athon.
Special effects are the part Hollywood loves to explain, because they can show off about how many flops they have. What I'd like to know is how a movie with a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars can have a worse script than a lot of the content on YouTube.
I haven't seen Transformers, but I can bet that the script will rank alongside such fetid, barftastic tripe as Star Wars, the later X-Men and Spiderman movies and various other whizz-bang blockbusters. Most of the time I'd rather listen to my brain atrophy than what the characters have to say.
Don't even get me started about the carbon cost of sending the actors around the world to whore out their product, practising their sincerity as they pretend they thought the movie was challenging and inspiring, rather than just a paycheck larger than most of us will make in a lifetime.
The world sucks. Somebody shoot me.
Peter