Paramount Launches Best Director Oscar Campaign for Michael Bay’s Work in Transformers 4

IN A WORLD…where movies all kind of suck…where Hollywood focuses solely on sequels and reboots of old franchises…one studio strove for excellence above all else, by believing that Transformers: Age of Extinction was worthy of a Best Picture Oscar.

Or at least that it should be considered for one. Behold:

In addition to their bid for Best Picture, Paramount would like Transformers: Age of Extinction to be considered for the following:

The movie has an 18% fresh score on RottenTomatoes.com, but hey, a billion dollars is pretty indicative of serious cinematic quality, like in this scene where Transformers riding dinosaur robots battle some other robots, one of whom is smoking a robot cigar:

Pure art.

[h/t io9]
[Featured image via Paramount]

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