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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not Michael Bay. It's Roland Emmerich. Bay did Pearl Harbour, which was fucking awful.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

From the looks of another comment down the thread, there's gonna be quite a bit of people like me, who get Emmerich and Bay mixed up.

The bombastic, clumsily unrealistic abuse of CGI might fit fantasy or disaster movies, but it is positively jarring in a war movie, which requires a more sober or constrained style of direction. WWII physics of motion shouldn't look like a fucking video game on the large screen, not even the dogfights.

And let's not even get started on the rote and clichéd emotional ~~palate~~ palette in the romantic subplots.

EDIT: a word