People may say all Michael Bay action films are similar, but now for the second time, there is proof some of the shots are more than similar - they are the same.
Jermain Oderman, a filmmaker in Venezuela and big fan of Bay movies, happened to notice shots in Transformers 3 are the same as those in Bay's 2005 film, The Island. He posted a split screen online video of the scenes in both films the day after Transformers 3 opened.
Two of the scenes look like he directly copied and pasted them. In the first scene, the only difference is an enormous Transformer robot falls on the car instead of a different sort of machine. There is no doubt it is the same bridge and same car in the background. In the Transformers 3 version, the next shot appears to be on a different bridge.
The second shot in question is of a wrecking car that flips up in the air while smoke flies everywhere. It does not even look like Bay digitally tinkered with this shot.
Part of the hype surrounding Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which is the full title, is it was shot entirely in 3D as opposed to being converted in post-production.
Considering The Island only earned $36 million in U.S. box office sales, Bay may have thought it was a great shot that not many people got to see. To compare, Transformers 3 earned more than $37 million on its opening day.
This isn't the first time Bay has been accused of recycling a shot.
Another online video shows the same shot of warships in 2001's Pearl Harbor as in the first Transformers movie in 2007.
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