Malcolm Franokuski: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Friday, November 14, 2014

Shane Dyson: The Boyfriend That Shouldn't Be In "Transformers: Age of Extinction"

Let’s talk about Jack Reynor’s character, Shane Dyson. Now Ehren Kruger made this character an average man. A man who loves to drive race cares. That character is unrelated to me and I'm going to talk about it.

Tessa (played by Nicola Peltz)
© 2014 Paramount

Ehren Kruger obviously made this character a boyfriend of Tessa (a daughter of Mark Walberg’s character) so that the movie can still have male appeal. You know why can’t Kruger and director Michael Bay (or even producers Ian Bryce and Lorenzo di Bonaventura) make Tessa a butt-kicking chick rather than a sex object. That way, the movie wouldn't focus on the stinkin relationship between Jack Reynor and Mark Wahlberg’s characters.

Speaking of a stinkin’ relationship. *pause* Yeah, the paring of Shane Dyson and Cade Yeager is REALLY awful. The reason why Shane’s boyfriend and also Cade’s daughter has been kidnapped, the reason why this stupid movie focus on the stinkin’ relationship between Shane and Cade is to make this movie with male appeal.

I’m not a fan of the Transformers series or the action genre at all. But honesty, could Mr. Kruger (once again the screenwriter) or Mr. Bay (I think he’s the worst director of all) actually put Cade in danger instead. That way Tessa could be a butt-kicking chick and could team-up with his boyfriend to rescue her father as possible.

Second of all, I know Shane Dyson is a race car driver. But I got to be honest, he is no good at driving backwards when flying cars dropped from the sky.

Also, why Ehren Kruger and Michael Bay (or even the producers of the movie; I can’t confirm which one come up with the Shane Dyson character but I believe it’s Kruger and Bay) make Shane Dyson older than Tessa (who’s played by Nicola Peltz). Is it because of Jack Reynor is hot? Is it because Kruger, Bay, and the producers thought that having an older boyfriend and teenage girl in the movie would be a good idea? Is it because they’re a fan of NASCAR? Or is it because they want to insert a debate of whether it’s okay for a teenager girl to have an older boy? Because that tension scene in an old gas station where Shane and Tessa blurted to Cade that they have secretly falling in love is…well…while it’s good to have Cade (ahem, Mark Wahlberg, since he played this useless character) bringing up a very good lesson for a teenage girl not dating someone older, this scene should NEVER inserted in the film at all. (Because there’s no such thing as Romeo and Juliet laws)

Ehren Kruger (the Screenwriter)
Behind The Scenes footage
© 2014 Paramount

Obviously Ehren Kruger and Michael Bay is trying to bring romance again with this movie. You know I have a question, although (once again) I’m not a fan of the Transformers franchise (includes all of the toys and the TV cartoons that are based on it) and the action genre, why can’t Kruger and Bay just focus on Mark Wahlberg alone with only a full adult-cast in it? That way it wouldn't be another teenage movie – or as matter of fact, a teenage boys’ movie.

So basically in order to have broad appeal (apparently appealing it to all audience no matter how appropriate it is), you gotta have an average teenage boy or a very average young man to be a protagonist or the main character. Why can’t Hasbro or Paramount think of something else with the Transformers movies? I mean the G.I. Joe movies….I’m might talk about it next year.

So there you have it. Cade Yeager and Shane Dyson are the main characters that waste the film. I would gave this movie an F. F for Failure!

Luckily Michael Bay is finally moving on after initially rejected directing this movie. Let’s repeat that: Michael Bay initially rejected directing this movie. And let’s hope that Ehren Kruger will either do a very much better job screenwriting or get a pink slip. Also I didn't even mention his name in this post, but I believe Steven Spielberg (who’s actually the executive producer) doesn't
pay attention on the male characters.

Cade Yeager: A Man Who's Not Smart in "Age of Extinction"

Alright let’s talk about “Transformers: Age of Extinction” The most stupidest movie of all. It has lazy writing, lazy film-making, and probably many ways of errors. But since this site is about the treatment and portrayals of boys (and men) in the media, I’m only g
oing to be talking about Cade Yeager and Shane Dyson

Let’s talk about Mark Wahlberg’s character, Cade Yeager. He is a struggling inventor from Texas….who doesn’t take a piss from people who wanted to buy his house…(For some reason, the screenwriter, Ehren Kruger, obviously doesn't know that the retailer didn't put the leaser’s house for sale until the leaser is unable to pay the rent)…who often gets in trouble.

Obviously, Ehren Kruger (once again the screenwriter) wants Cade Yeager to do be a jerk a**.

Actually while he wrote the screenplay, it wasn't Kruger’s idea of a father-and-daughter story. It was stupid director Michael Bay’s idea because for some reason he wanted Mark Wahlberg to join in a new Transformers movie.

While Cade Yeager (once again Mark Wahlberg’s character) might be a weapon guy shooting the aliens, Ehren Kruger the writer obviously doesn't want him to be a good man. For some reason, Kruger wants Cade to be annoying. Like in the battle scene in Chicago where Cade angrily opens a Bud Light bear at a glasses-wearing man

As Jeremy from CinemaSins said as he goes through the sins of the 2-part video, Cade Yeager “is a total asshole” and “MORE USELESS THAN SAM WitWicky”

Look at the picture above, I believe Cade can’t do crap. His house is latter destroyed by Lockdown and now he has to travel with his daughter Tessa and her boyfriend Shane. And Ehren Kruger the screenwriter wants Cade to engage in arguments with Shane, mainly over her daughter. (More on that on my next post)

In the first Optimus Prime vs. Lockdown fight scene, Cade fails to rescue her daughter (He told her to run to the field instead of toward him) so that the movie can center him and Shane as heroes so that the movie can attract teenage boys and young men as part of a broad appeal. Because well. *pause* it’s the media. The media inaccurately knows what boys want to see. (And when I say inaccurately, I mean the media executives and the produces use research that I believe it’s dated) The media uses the “Dismiss in Distress” trope (which I first heard this year since I never heard of those tropes before until I started to discover more of tvtropes.org.).

Oh, when he tries to apologize to Optimus Prime, he makes the laziest speech ever of him turning Optimus Prime for the money, which he said it’s a mistake.

From Jermey (CinemaSins):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHZHSt1CSgo#t=300

So there you have it: Cade Yeager is a stupid man created by Michael Bay and Ehren Kruger.

I’m going to be talking about Shane Dyson, Jack’s Reynor’s character in another post.