>>112316641>I have never once gotten this complaint. The robots are color codedEven in a still, can you make out any of the features without zooming in and squinting? The edges of the moving parts? You can't. It's even worse when the bots are moving and a giant fucking streetlamp blocks your view. And not only is the screen so messy, the fucked up lighting and shadows everywhere makes it even harder. Might as well paint Optimus' face grey with some black smudges because you can't see any of his facial expressions. Why even bother spending all that money on CG when you can't see any of it on the screen? All that wasted computing power just to draw some black and chrome smudges you can barely distinguish.
You don't want just "oh yeah, red blob with orange sword is Optimus". You want to be able to see every single part presented nicely. Instead all you get is "god I can barely follow and RECOGNISE anything other than torso, legs, and glowy moving sword, and I am not sure where the second robot is supposed to be". If Optimus is popping a half-squat before swinging that sword straight up, you want to be able to recognise and see it as it's happening, not on the 20th rewatch with the video brightness turned up to 120% so that some of the shadows are slightly less opaque.
After Bay's mom complained about the EXACT SAME THING and he fixed how it fucking looks everywhere in movies 4 (I think) and afterwards, it finally stopped looking like shit and in Bumblebee, the robots actually look sane-ish and not dark shadowy blobs with chrome peeking out. He didn't fix the problem completely but man, did everything look less whack after a few movies. You don't see that complaint in the Bumblebee movie even if the final fight happened in the middle of the night.
There's nothing wrong with trying new things but Bay fucked up hard with his stupid "decepticons look like spiky tentacle monsters with no visible features" schtick. Might as well hire John Boyega to make Cybertron Rim 2.
