Oh Omaha! You'll want to see this: Michael Bay. Steven Spielberg. Peter Cullen.
Michael Bay? Michael "The Island" "Pearl Harbor" "Armageddon" "The Rock" Bay? Unless Spielberg has Bay on a leash with a shock collar this is going to suck hard. It's be beautiful, noisy, exciting, and meaningless.
Get out your "Cycle of the Hero" cards and be prepared to take notes: Bay never does anything except by the numbers. Armageddon is a crappy movie with lousy physics. The only reason to watch it is the utterly gorgeous launch sequence with some of the best music ever produced for a launch sequence (is that a category recognized by the Grammys?). But if you take a sheet of paper and write down the name of every characters along one side, and the "cycle of the hero" as enumerated by Joseph Campbell along the top, you can tick off each step as precisely as a metronome as the movie proceedes. Everyone gets their own mini-cycle. Even the heroine, who does nothing more than sit out the flick in a cushy chair. I bet this flick will do the same.
Michael Bay? Michael "The Island" "Pearl Harbor" "Armageddon" "The Rock" Bay? Unless Spielberg has Bay on a leash with a shock collar this is going to suck hard. It's be beautiful, noisy, exciting, and meaningless.
Get out your "Cycle of the Hero" cards and be prepared to take notes: Bay never does anything except by the numbers. Armageddon is a crappy movie with lousy physics. The only reason to watch it is the utterly gorgeous launch sequence with some of the best music ever produced for a launch sequence (is that a category recognized by the Grammys?). But if you take a sheet of paper and write down the name of every characters along one side, and the "cycle of the hero" as enumerated by Joseph Campbell along the top, you can tick off each step as precisely as a metronome as the movie proceedes. Everyone gets their own mini-cycle. Even the heroine, who does nothing more than sit out the flick in a cushy chair. I bet this flick will do the same.
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