Transformers: The Last Knight | 6/21/2017 | Big Budget, Weak OW?

[PDC1987]

1 hour ago, The Futurist said:

Calm down, there are sexualized teen girls in every teen movie since the dawn of time.

 

When Bay does it , it s wrong & vulgar.

 

Because of course.

 

 

 

 

The actress is 15.

[cheesypoofs]

3 hours ago, The Futurist said:

Calm down, there are sexualized teen girls in every teen movie since the dawn of time.

 

When Bay does it , it s wrong & vulgar.

 

Because of course.

 

 

 

 

I just hope the cash me ousside how bow dat girl stays far away from the movie industry.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

 

A Bay movie bringing female empowerment? Well, that's a thing that we don't see everyday.

[Lordmandeep]

The reality is all of these teen shows the female actresses are sexed up and its a bit creepy really.

 

 

Edited March 16, 2017 by Lordmandeep

[antovolk]

 

[Goffe]

cinematography looks nicer than usual. 

[antovolk]

For the dumbasses complaining (and I quote): "how boring. where are my nazis-knights-dragons-transformers, why the kids living in garbage dumps?"

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Meet Izzy in this special new preview of Transformers: The Last Knight, created exclusively to run in theaters with Beauty & the Beast. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVYSyiL4iis

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Looks great!! My most anticipated film of the summer!! 

[Lavochkin]

1 hour ago, antovolk said:

 

Gosh darn this thing looks like a total piece of shit 

[Chewy]

Post-apocalyptic Michael Bay content featuring robots and feminism lmfao this will be swell

[Lucas]

So many overexposed shots...

[dashrendar44]

On 15/03/2017 at 4:13 PM, PDC1987 said:

The actress is 15.

[AndyLL]

55 minutes ago, Lavochkin said:

Gosh darn this thing looks like a total piece of shit 

Looks fantastic.

 

The trend towards strong females continues. 

[The Futurist]

Michael Bay s films always features strong & independant women.

 

 

Edited March 16, 2017 by The Futurist

[MrPink]

1 hour ago, Chewy said:

Post-apocalyptic Michael Bay content featuring robots and feminism lmfao this will be swell

 

With 100% less TJ Miller death 

[Omario]

wow this has to be the shittest transformers trailer i have ever seen even though I have never seen a shit transformers trailer before.

[vc2002]

2 hours ago, The Futurist said:

Michael Bay s films always features strong & independant women.

 

 

 

Like every Megan Fox's role.

[Greener Ranger]

That was fucking awful

[Jessie]

How has she been sexualised? Someone please explain? Just looked like a 15 year old running toward a camera to me, at not one point did it looked like she was a sex object, she just happens to be a pretty young girl lol.

[PPZVGOS]

The De-Masculinization of the Hollywood Action Movie. 

 

Back in the late '70s and early '80s we witnessed action heroes such as Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Confident Alpha-males, who spent their days (and years) at the gym and with some necessary aid from "substances", built-up awesome physiques so that they could be sold to the audience as "action heroes". These heroes became synonymous in popular cultural with masculinity and machismo, starring in such classics as the Rocky franchise (commenced in the late '70s) the Rambo franchise (introduced in the early '80s) The Terminator (1984) Predator (1987) Terminator 2 (1991) etc. 

 

The uber-muscular, juiced-up action hero though, could not last forever. Their replacement process started with 1988's Die Hard, which introduced us to a new type of action hero, one that relied more on wits than brawn. John McClane never really overpowers the "evil-doers", he mostly outsmarts and outwits them. This archetype was further enhanced with such action classics such as Speed (1994) where our hero is not only quick of mind, but also very appealing to a female audience, Mission Impossible (1996) The Rock (1996) etc... This archetype is still partially alive with such long-running franchises as Mission Impossible and Jason Bourne. This type of action hero, is meant to impress the audience much more with his cleverness, sense of humor or even sex-appeal, rather than with his physicality. 

 

The trend that followed the McLane/Hunt/Bourne archetype of the cunning/well-trained hero, was that of the inexplicably effective and deliciously feminine "bad-ass chick". Angelina Jolie was probably the first to embody this new archetype in films such as Tomb Raider (2001) Wanted (2008) and Salt (2010) Scarlet Johansson is the second and even more thunderous specimen of this archetype, with her turn as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in the Avengers franchise starting in 2010 with Iron Man 2 through The Avengers (2012) Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014) etc and also in Lucy (2014) and soon to be in Ghost in the Shell (2017) I never knew a barely 100lbs. pretty young lady could kick the crap out of so many henchmen thrice her size! This one has gotten so far, so as to conquer America's greatest ever franchise: Star Wars! We are now two-in-two with cute young women as our action heroines in the new line of Star Wars extravaganzas, The Force Awakens (2015) and Rogue One (2016) 

 

But the latest trend is the most interesting (from a sociological point of view) one yet. We are now all the way down to the prepubescent girl as our action heroine du jour! With Logan (2017) we have been introduced to the deadly mutant known as X-23, a female child even deadlier and more vicious than Wolverine himself! In this same movie, our old male heroes, the Wolverine and Professor X are now totally, depressingly and at times, embarrassingly past their primes and are desperately awaiting for their impending deaths. Can de-Masculinization go any further than this? 

 

The "empowered female" cliche has by now become so prevalent and overbearing in its cultural hegemony, that even the most placid and cliched of Hollywood directors, one Michael bay, is getting in on the act with his latest opus, Transformers: The Last Knight. 

 

A sub-trend that has also evolved in recent years along with the "de-Masculinization of the Action Movie" secular trend, is the introduction of the "Geriatric Male Action Hero" This has been best embodied by Liam Neeson's Taken series of movies (2008, 2012, 2014) in which a visibly old man, albeit tall and apparently sturdy, can deal with countless of much younger, fitter and far more numerous henchmen. The John Wick movies should also be seen in this light, as of course The Expendable series, which is nothing but a self-parody of now seriously ageing former Hollywood action greats. It would be a naive and superficial mistake to view this sub-trend as a reaction or counter-trend to the feminization of the Action Movie. No, the precise function of the "Geriatric Actioner" is to admit and expose the passe nature of the erstwhile Alpha-Male, a way of gently signing off, politely making room for the newly dominant female gender. The "Geriatric Actioner" both signifies and acknowledges the obsolescence of the formerly dominant male.  

Edited March 18, 2017 by PPZVGOS