Kurt Wimmer for Transformers, please!

[clarinetx]

Kurt Wimmer should be picked for the next Transformers sequel. After all, Michael Bay's busy with his two other projects Prince of Persia & 2012, despite promising to do the sequel. And giant robots is something he should explore with his Gun Kata ideas, along with his keener eye for action and his emphasis of innovation, tactics & strategy in his action scenes. And Kurt staged those scenes in full view, not in quick-edits & jump cuts, where we can not only make sense of the action scenes, but also experience them & see how they are done, like he did with the arm-holster sequence.

To make this simpler, here's a Harry Potter analogy:

When the first Harry Potter was made, it gave directorial duties to Chris Columbus, who makes bland family films, despite Home Alone's success. Over time, the movie franchise hires more competent directors who have stronger sense of art direction, cinematography & atmospherics.

Transformers is like Harry Potter, with Michael Bay being just the Columbus for the first Transformers. In the next sequels, the producers might consider hiring better, more competent action movie directors like Kurt Wimmer, & Sandy Collora (Batman: Dead End), as well as others from around the world like Pierre Morel (Banlieue 13) or Christopher Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf).

Any great directors that can stage action scenes which emphasise strategy & tactics rather than using edits to cheat.

But they should consider Kurt Wimmer to do Transformers next.

[Wraith]

I can't see Wimmer directing Transformers, but I'm sure he'd do a hell of a lot better job with it than Bay. He'd probably pay more attentiion to the Transformers' characterizations.

I agree with the assessment about the Harry Potter movies.

[Prestan]

nothing sweeter than watching Optimus Prime doing gunkata. no wait! eating a rib eye steak while watching Optimus Prime doing gunkata. sweeeet.

personally i wasnt too fond of how transformers came out. i thought it dragged on way too long, had too much focus on the boy and the teenager jokes, and the secret agents, imo, should have been more serious and bad ass, instead of contributing to an overflowing bowl of comic relief. and lol at the final fight scene. "i know, lets hide the cube in the a highly populated city with crowded builidings for the transformers to demolish."
half an hour of fighting later: boink! stuck the cube in megatrons chest! problem solved!

sure, let Wimmer take a whack at it. maybe then it'll focus more on the transformers and less on us pesky humans who ultimatley cant do squat against giant robots.