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Theyre about going through the looking glass of American grotesquerie, where the cinematic indulgence is the point.
With in-your-face filmmaking and a constant air of combat, its prime Bay.
Within the chaos and questionable politics of13 Hours, Bays visual relationship to warfare stands out.
to the side of a tall building.
(Bay later reused some of this destructionforTransformers: Dark of the Moon.)
Decepticons) arrives in this early scene, when a U.S. base is attacked by a Decepticon named Blackout.
To which a cool-as-ice Cage replies: Its not mine.
The result speaks for itself.
And using the THX introduction to break the high rises glass?
Case in point, when a steamboat hovers above a busy Hong Kong street, and then crashes down.
In the words of Stanley Tuccis agape character: Oh myyy Goddd!
And yet it shows that Bayhem is not just a feat of spectacle, but a perspective.
But when that fails, Lugo takes a very Bay-esque approach to it blow him up.
All the while, cars bounce around, and a gauntlet of big explosions surrounds him.
