Transformers: Age Of Extinction - 10 Ways Michael Bay Stole Your Money
5. Soap Opera Dialogue And Characters
The trouble with having human beings in your movie is that they have to, you know, do and say stuff, and the viewer has to be led to care about them. Or you could just graft on Soap Opera Backstory #89 and hope nobody will notice. Much simpler that way. So Mark Wahlberg plays a downtrodden type, a guy whos looking for The Next Big Score or at least some quick cash to stop the bank from taking his house. Then he encounters Optimus Prime and once Earths future hangs in in the balance, voila, all his problems seem to disappear. Well, all except one. When the special effects are out grabbing a smoke, theres an uninteresting subplot about Wahlberg being an overprotective dad and giving Nicola Peltz a hard time about her boyfriend not being good enough. Do you think therell be a scene later where Wahlberg relents and loosens up? Didnt see that one coming.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
