ROTTEN TOMATOES: Bay Prepares to Fake Out Transformers Fanboys

Bay Prepares to Fake Out Transformers Fanboys

by Fred Topel | November 10, 2007

Summary

Michael Bay went through the wringer with the fanboys on Transformers. He addressed every concern -- early designs, scripts, remaining faithful to the source material -- and delivered a movie that won over most audiences, grossing nearly $320 million in America alone. But with Transformers 2 in development, Bay isn't taking any more lip service. Back to Article

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Elixor writes:
on Nov 12 2007 05:52 AM

I love how they're going to go through all this effort to leak false information and "script treatments" when they can't come up with a good original script to begin with.

Who cares. If you liked Transformers, I doubt it had anything to do with the storyline or the script.

IMO the sequel should focus on the adventures of the animated Mountain Dew pop machine from the first movie.

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Astr0creep writes:
on Nov 12 2007 07:08 AM

Kruger from Blood and Chocolate???

That movie sucked donkey balls dipped in a$$juice.

3 good writers, heh?

Since when does MB care about what the writers write? Since when does anyone care? How many movies these days have less then ten complete rewrites by producers who feel they will make more money if the girl is a grease monkey in super tight pants? Since are women grease monkeys aren't lesbians? :p

This is all bullpoo.

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Gimy writes:
on Nov 12 2007 07:50 AM

love the critics to a movie that made over 3 hundy. you guys are frikkin morons. don't change a d3mn thing...the formula was perfect.

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pwnsauce3k writes:
on Nov 12 2007 01:01 PM

Here are two points for everyone's consideration.

1. The film you see does not reflect the talent of the screenwriter. You all know this. When there's a writer you like attached to a movie you hate, it seems easy to remember to scream about interfering studio morons. But at all other times, you go to imdb to look up a writer, recall the movie you saw, and decide the writer is to blame. I'm not saying these guys are good writers. I don't know. But be consistent in your critical methods.

2. We all felt cheated that Prime didn't show up till the midpoint, and Megatron not until the last few minutes. However, you may THINK you want two hours of robot screen time, but you don't. Do we really want to see Starscream pouting in his bedroom, or Ironhide eating breakfast? All the transformers can't spend all two hours doing big epic things. And for non-action, dramatic scenes? For god's sake, they don't even have moving lips, or facial expressions that the human species are hardwired to respond to on an empathetic level.

Someone has brains enough to understand that we need a human presence. Too many human characters in the first one, yes. Yes, we need more robots, but we need more quality, instead of a five minute scene hiding-in-the-front-yard scene and robot pee pee gags.

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minderbinder writes:
on Nov 12 2007 01:07 PM

Sorry, after the first turd of a movie, it doesn't matter what they do. There's nothing that will get me to drop even a penny on anything Transformers related.

I'm still pretty dumbfounded that this movie has been so popular. Are audiences really that idiotic?

Sad.

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Szin Dragon writes:
on Nov 12 2007 01:40 PM

"Those aren't ideas, Michael Bay. Those are Special Effects!"

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CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe writes:
on Nov 12 2007 03:01 PM

Is there Any Chance:) Michael Bay, doesn't know he is one of the many

fake directors that the studio has placed in order to conceal the actual director in

the sequel. which would be great considering the first movie didn't have one;)

and please folks stop the shia hating... and yes megan fox should be naked in the

whole movie then it could almost make up for her non existent acting talent... almost;)

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LJPlayer69 writes:
on Nov 12 2007 03:18 PM

He can use the time and effort into an actual plot and character development in the second movie.

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Sweep_the_Leg writes:
on Nov 12 2007 10:59 PM

Here's a simple idea for the next transformers movie. MAKE IT ABOUT THE DAMN TRANSFORMERS!!! Oh, and how about you go 1 minute without a slow motion hero shot you idiot. Please don't throw in lines from the 1986 movie unless you are going to give them there due I would rather you didn't use the, "one shall stand one shall fall" line while the Disney kid is on the screen saving Prime's ***.

It doesn't matter because Micheal Bay is an idiot.

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chaddukes writes:
on Nov 13 2007 10:16 AM

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you are insane.

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Bernz writes:
on Nov 15 2007 04:37 PM

SOUNDWAVE HAS TO BE IN IT AS WELL WITH RAMPAGE AND LAZERBEAK OR I WILL GET P ISSED..YET I DO KNOW THAT HE MIGHT BE A JET. PPPPPISSSSSSSSEEEESSSSSS ME OFFFF!!!
WELL LETS SEE WAT HAPPENS.....CHECK UTUBE TO FIND SOME INFO...DON BELIEVE THE FANMADE TRAILERS OR PHOTOS! UNLESS THEY ACTUALLY GOT THAT INFO FROM A SITE OR READING

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slickfritz781 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 03:32 AM

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thank you for breaking into my mind

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slickfritz781 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 03:37 AM

btw Id rather stare at a picture of michael bay's chiseled chin for 130 minutes than watch this movie.

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fuj_ball writes:
on Nov 19 2007 08:47 AM

It takes a non-story like this to show us how much smarter Bay is than we are. Damn, and I had been trying so hard to outsmart him, too.

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stormcub12 writes:
on Feb 11 2008 05:45 PM

they should have the team bullet train and armada chartures

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