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Originally Posted by Puddinpop

Thank god Bay didn't direct Godzilla... Holly ****. When it's another director, it's called build up. When it's Bay.. it's those pesky humans. EVEN if he's got nothing to do with the story. Not pointing the finger at you personally but I see this a lot on the internet now.. I wonder if people realize how trendy and weird it looks when they complain about "the humanz". Ill never understand how some can give a film like Godzilla " with a messy TERRIBLE story and plot that had NO flow to it, weak characters, the only strong character dies a quarter way into the film, and a title character that literally takes a back seat to a couple of giant praying mantises and only has about 20 minutes of screen time in a roughly two hour long movie". THANK GOD classics like Jaws and Jurassic park aren't directed by Michael Bay and being released this year. With this internet trend phrase " why all the humans" so prevalent these last couple of years after a billion dollar rebooted Transformer franchise directed by a man that everyone LOVES to rag on I think these classic films would seriously be torn to shreds if they had Bays name on them.. and that's saying something about todays "critic" imo.

Never ceases to amaze me to see the director of Bad Boys 2 get compared in any way to Steven Spielberg.

If you had at all watched Jurassic Park, JAWS, or Godzilla(which I'm pretty sure you haven't based on your notions about them) you'd understand that those movies AREN'T about the dinosaurs, the shark, or Godzilla.

They're about the people reacting TO THEM. The humans are the main characters, not the monsters.

However, in media such as Transformers and TMNT, where the human characters almost ALWAYS DO take a back seat to the main non-human characters, it would be unusual and terrible for the opposite to happen.

Like, say, in the Transformers movies. Where we get Shia LaBeef and Megan Fox and Shia's crazy wacky movie parents and the BadAss Army Guys™ and John Turturro baring his ass cheeks or getting pissed on by a robot. And, more recently, Marky Mark as farmer inventor just trying to make ends meet and put his kid through college.

The Transformers should have been the main characters. The Turtles should be the main characters. Whether they are or not remains to be seen. I'm betting not.