Director Michael Bay caught recycling footage for new Transformers film

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.