“Bay remembers the biggest nightmare coming about three weeks before filming was to begin. He had worked with costumes and the production design team to come up with a workable yet cool looking space suit. When he went to see the suits they had made, he says they looked like an “Adidas jogging suit”. The gloves for the suit were store-bought gardening gloves the team was painting grey. Apparently, the designer on the suits was French and had worked with…

Gif-able and meme-amble before those were even terms. 

Watching this in 2019, reminds you of the energy available in the early 2000s. The internet, in that early messy stage, before algorithms dominated was something you could excitedly explore, content felt rich and strange and you didn’t know where you would end up. 

What differentiated this from books and other slower mediums wasn’t so much the satisfaction but the speed. Torque captures this moment with a reverence. Every shot is carefully…