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If these films are just fluff, theny why are they so overlong?

posted 8 years ago by hucampos
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OK, so the TF movies are obviously made to keep you entertained for a while, and most people agree that they aren't made to "think a lot" while you are watching them, even if you like them.

Which begs the question, why do most of them last for at least 2 and a half hours?

Shouldn't a movie that just wants to offer action and explosions be relatively short?

Instead, all the TF sequels have a somewhat overlong setup, for an even more overlong climax. Seriously, every time I watched any TF movie (except the first one) the final battle becomes dull since they go way longer than an action sequence should go.

Mybe I see something that most people don't see because I studied movie editing for a few semesters, but I still find odd that Michael Bay wants to give people a 3 hour movie for an audience that isn't asking for a movie with that runtime.

[–] politicidal 8 years ago

Because Michael Bay doesn't know the meaning of the word "restraint". Think about it. This goes back to his stuff in the 90s.
His shortest movie BAD BOYS is still nearly 2 hours while the sequel is 147 minutes long! His worst offender PEARL HARBOR was 3 hours in length while THE ROCK and THE ISLAND were also both well over two hours long;oddly the exact same running time at 136 minutes. Even his smaller movies like PAIN&GAIN and 13 HOURS clock over two hours.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

[–] estocade (87) 8 years ago

I was surprised myself(to my detriment). I thought meh 90min I will survive, but after 40 minutes I was ready to leave which did not happen until 2.5 hours later.

[–] CraigJamesReview (1814) 8 years ago

Michael Bay has become addicted to his own excess, so now almost everything he does is overblown.

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[–] Barclays (960) 8 years ago

I doubt mind long movies as long as they are entertaining. This movie sucked so bad and I got bored halfway through it so I walked out. I will never again waste my money and time on another Transformer movie. It left a sour taste in my mouth. I don't even wanna catch up on the previous installments.

[–] harro (508) 5 years ago

This is the biggest mystery about these movies. These movies are BASED ON KIDS TOYS and are obviously aimed at kids, yet they have these ridiculously long running times of 150 minutes+ that practically put the younger members of the target audience to sleep. After 2 hours of this stuff your eyes begin to glaze over as you begin to lose track of what exploding robot flying at the screen is meant to be good and which is bad and in the end you just find yourself yawning "When the fuck is this shit ever going to end ?" The sequels are all at least 50 minutes too long and undoubtedly it was only the fix up job done by Steven Spielberg in the fist movie that made it coherent enough to watch, even if it to, was too long.

[–] Truthtalker (2030) 5 years ago

You are absolutely right

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18415) 2 years ago

Film editing is pretty much dead now.

[–] ADBruno1985 (3574) 2 years ago

It's so everyone can stroke Michael Bay's ego and tell him "If it was just fluff it couldn't be so long"