Michael Bay Ripping Off His Own Movies?????

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Originally Posted by MikeDaWiz

Why waste the money by buying another car to destroy. Who cares if he has the money to buy another one, Doesnt mean you have to.

Most cars that are wrecked in movies are rented. And they're usually tons of them for said purposes. Had no one gotten hurt, they would have rebuilt and rechecked the rig in order to wreck another car.

The big expense comes from the location. It takes a lot of paperwork to secure a location for specific amount of time. Since someone was hurt and a criminal negligence investigation had to take place, filming gets halted and you lose the time for which you reserved the location. On top of that, if you do manage to eventually separate more time for the same locationn (which involves drafting brand new contracts), you also have to figure out how to get the actors back (as they often move on to the next project before the current one has even wrapped).

It's way too many balls to juggle so the next best solution is to licence footage from other productions in order to complete the sequence (like how G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra used footage from Black Hawk Down to complete Duke's flashback sequence).

The reason people are making a big deal about this one over other movies is because people tend to pick appart movies they don't like yet gloss over such things when it comes to the movies they do like.