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07Jun2009

Michael Bay: IMAX "The Way to See" 'Transformers'

DateSunday, June 7, 2009 at 10:15PM
The next big, big, big summer movie is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which is still a few weeks away. Michael Bay writes on his latest blog entry (via /film) that the film is almost complete, which I think you'd want if your movie was this close to being seen.

"What you will notice that is strikingly different than Transformers 1, is the level of animation detail. The robot characters (42 in all), you really can feel empathy for them," Bay writes. "What is also very different is the sheer scale of the movie. We have been very tight holding back much of the best imagery in commercials and trailers."

Bay also gives the IMAX version of his film a vote of confidence, telling his readers that if you're going to plunk down money on a ticket, you may as well spend a little extra to see it on the enormous screen. After all, he says, you'll get to see footage not seen in standard format theaters.

"The way to see this movie is on IMAX. Never before has there been 4k rendered character animation shot on full IMAX 70 mm film. This is a first and the results are stunning. You will see Optimus Prime in a few shots where he is actually perfectly to scale on the IMAX 50 foot tall screens."

"For IMAX, I created a slightly longer cut with more robot fighting. Four scenes were shot on IMAX cameras so the screen will fill the full IMAX screen for these scenes."

June 23rd will be here soon, and this is my pre-summer pick to win the box office race for the year, and by a comfortable margin. However, we've seen already this summer that negative reviews have handcuffed some blockbusters. I don't think Transformers would be impervious to that, either, but I do think it will be able to shake off bad press better than Terminator or Land of the Lost have.

And if the first movie's IMAX experience is any indication, that's really going to help this time around.

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