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Clues about moviemaker Michael Bay's decision to leave the Transformers world behind have been revealed in a leaked email to Paramount studio bosses.
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He said, "After the three and a half years I've spent making these movies, I feel like I've had enough of the Transformers world. I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions."
something without any explosions
Where is the real Michael Bay, and what did he do with him?
Aliens. Has to be.
I just watched The Wrestler. I'm not sure what I think of it.
I don't think I'll ever watch another Aronofsky.
Pi was good and interesting, and I loved Requiem for a Dream, but The Fountain was just nonsense. The Wrestler was a very different kind of movie, and I couldn't even see what was so Aronofsky about it except for the occasional editing quirks. There wasn't a lot of narrative thrust, but it was still interesting to watch the guy's life, just as it was. I didn't like the end, though. I guess I was expecting something more uplifting?
I loved Requiem too, as much as it was difficult to watch. Ellen Burstyn gave the most acutely egoless performance I've ever seen.
The director whose movies I'll never see again is Lars von Trier.
I remember really liking Dancer in the Dark, but I haven't seen anything else.
I have such mixed feelings about Von Trier. What he produces is so brilliant and so unlike anything else out that that I have tremendous admiration for him as a filmmaker.
On the other hand, if Nicole Kidman and Emily Watson got together and had him quietly murdered in his bed, I wouldn't shed any tears.
I made the mistake of watching Dancer in the Dark with my family. So f***ing bleak and depressing. We all just sat there at the end, horrified, and then they all yelled at me for picking it.
"Favorite Things" is not a song I can listen to anymore.