{"id":6950,"date":"2014-06-27T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2014-06-27T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T13:21:10","slug":"transformers-4-age-of-extinction-no-one-seems-to-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=6950","title":{"rendered":"TRANSFORMERS 4: AGE OF EXTINCTION- No one seems to Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI too have a saying: I don\u2019t care\u201d <\/h2>\n

–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lockdown- the Robot Bad Guy<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is my favorite line of dialogue in Transformers 4: Age of Extinction<\/em> for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n

First of all, it\u2019s a hilariously dumb chunk of words that perfectly encapsulates the Movie IQ of this film. Any and all that transpire during the film\u2019s 2 hours and 45 minute running time (!!!!!!) has a low intelligence sheen about it.<\/p>\n

The saying \u201cI don\u2019t care\u201d also reminds me of my own motto: \u201cI am hungry.\u201d Words to live by. Words to cherish.<\/p>\n

Also \u201cI don\u2019t care\u201d is the underlying theme of the entire movie. It\u2019s apparent that no one cares. Mark Walhberg doesn\u2019t care. He (thankfully) replaced Shia LeBeouf as the lead non-cartoon character in the film and I can\u2019t imagine it could be out of love for the craft. Couldn\u2019t possibly be the reason to take on a role where you run away from invisible nothings to be added later in post-production. The role did not challenge him the way playing against a talking teddy did and this is no David O. Russell film. He got paid and I never fault an actor for taking a role for the money. It\u2019s a job. Good for you Mr. Markie, you are in a huge, vapid blockbuster.
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\nMichael Bay doesn\u2019t care. He truly can\u2019t. He doesn’t care if his movies make sense or have any sort of pace to them. He doesn\u2019t care that the movie rambles and repeats essentially the same action scene over and over to the point of mental torture. He doesn\u2019t care that he only puts uber-thin women in his films with nothing better to do than run around in slow motion and scream for help. He doesn\u2019t care that he has turned into a remake\/sequel machine that has spent the last 7 years of his career producing horror movie do-overs and 4 of these bloated Transformers <\/em>movies. What\u2019s next? He\u2019s the producer of another 80\u2019s cartoon come to computer generated life, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.<\/em> Why? I\u2019m guessing that it must be the money here too but I do fault Mr. Bay for whoring out for dollars.<\/p>\n

Because Bay used to have promise. While there was much debate about his storytelling skills, Bay\u2019s early work had a heavy, unique aesthetic that in some ways set him up as the heir apparent to Spielberg. I\u2019m speaking visually only but I had hopes that he\u2019d find himself the right screenwriters and make a couple great films. Instead he found this funky groove and looped on it. 4 of these noisy films. And while money (or access to new, fancy cars ????) may be the driving force behind this repetition, the reasoning cannot be that he cares and he wants to entertain.<\/p>\n

Hell, even Optimus Prime seems over it.
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\nFinally, when Lockdown utter those words of wisdom it made me realize that I don\u2019t care. Up to that point I was noting plot points and character names. Performance quality (I still love T.J. Miller) and weird gaps in plot logic. But \u201cI don\u2019t care\u201d resonated deeply and I realized that anyone who comes to see Transformers 4 <\/em>\u00a0is doing so because they want to see giant robots turn into cars and to care about any of that other junk is a waste of energy.<\/p>\n

So to those that do care: There are robots that turn into cars and they do it a lot. There are also huge robots that turn into dinosaurs. If that\u2019s all you care about, you will not echo Lockdown\u2019s sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI too have a saying: I don\u2019t care\u201d –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lockdown- the Robot Bad Guy This is my favorite line of dialogue in Transformers 4: Age of Extinction for a couple of reasons. First of all, it\u2019s a hilariously dumb chunk of words that perfectly encapsulates the Movie IQ of this film. Any and all that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8926,13270,13757,23168,23213],"class_list":["post-6950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-hasbro","tag-mark-wahlberg","tag-michael-bay","tag-toys","tag-transformers-age-of-extinction"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}