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Having set out to Destroy All Retinas with his noisy monstrosity/$200 million surreal art piece Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen -- and now reportedly looking to make a smaller, intimate movie as his next project -- we got to wondering what a giant robot movie would look like if it were in the hands of some of cinema's more idiosyncratic auteurs. Can Autobots and Decepticons find love under the steady hand of Ang Lee? Is there a lonely, confused female Transformer drifting into Sofia Coppola's orbit? Michael Bay, take note: that little understated drama you've got planned --- we hear it's a remake of Truffaut's The 400, um, Explosions --- could benefit from out synopses. Back to Article