The Internet is buzzing this morning with the thought that director Michael Bay may have borrowed clips from his other films for Transformer: Dark of the Moon.
Some on-line users are saying that Bay has borrowed action sequences from 2005’s The Island for the third Transformers installment.
A YouTube user has posted a video comparing car chase scenes from the two movies, in which certain shots are strikingly similar.
We’ll led you decide for yourselves based on the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7kcqB3thJM
So he borrowed bits of his own movie to put in another flick of his, potentially to save money for other sequences. I’m not quite understanding the controversy here.
It’s a couple special effects shots that he’d done before. Who among us hasn’t taken an extremely minor element or two from a past story and thrown it into a current one?
He did it in the first Transformers movie, using shots of navy aircraft carriers filmed for Pearl Harbor. So this is standard for Bay
I remember seeing two war films from the 70s, both from the same studio in the UK. Both films used the same footage for the ending bombing run, about 10 minutes of screen time. Don’t know if the scenes were filmed for one of the movies, though I suspect there may have been some actual footage from the war.
633 Squadron and Mosquito Squadron.
This is standard practice, although mostly done now for TV shows to reduce costs.
At one time it wasn’t at all uncommon for films to borrow scenes from another movie. One of the most obvious was the epic wartime film Midway (1976). It borrowed quite heavily from footage shot for another earlier war epic Tora, Tora, Tora (1970).
No big deal if he did, this is standard practice and nothing to be ashamed of, . The other likely answer is that there are only so many ways to film a crash scene and since we are deluged with them they look the same after all this time. This for me is the reason I do not go to these “junk” movies anymore.
I wouldn’t mind if he borrowed from Apollo 13 for the beginning sequences.
Considering the giant plot holes and Optimus acting like a jerk, something like this is minor.
At least it was from his own movie.