Bay says no to Transformers 2 because of blu-ray?

savemejebus · 21-08-2007 03:59PM #1

Interesting news, Michael Bay has posted on his official blog/site that paramount has pissed him off with their dropping of blu-ray.

I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks! They were progressive by having two formats. No Transformers 2 for me!

http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2299

not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.

projectmayhem · 21-08-2007 04:01PM

i can understand writing a blog post about your lack of understanding of paramounts move (no one gets it, since blu-ray software sales are higher then hd-dvd), but to not do a movie over it is a bit ridiculous.

as someone said in the ps forum, upscaled dvd ftw...

garthv · 21-08-2007 04:05PM

Woooohooo!
No more Michael Bay....best news ive heard all day

Petey2006 · 21-08-2007 04:21PM

That decision is as retarded as Bay's movies. Still, great news! Hopefully he'll quit the business altogether!

humanji · 21-08-2007 04:32PM

He's taking his ball and going home. In fairness, a sequel would most likely be shìte

koneko · 21-08-2007 04:40PM

Is that real? Did he really say that?

Just when I thought he couldn't be more of a muppet. Toys out of pram galore.

senordingdong · 21-08-2007 04:43PM

Very silly indeed.
As I read he was holding off signing on because he was using it as leverage for a bigger budget so that there could be more Tranformers.
Best he could hope for now is to go crawling back...then where will his leverage be.

Galvasean · 21-08-2007 05:17PM

This only a day after he said he was happy to do 4, 5 and 6. Bay has finally lost it.

monkeyfudge · 21-08-2007 05:22PM

They'll only go and hand the project over to some other hollywood douche bag like Brett Ratner.

hallelujah · 21-08-2007 05:27PM

Transfomers is a load of over-hyped tosh. How can any educated person leave the cinema after watching that thinking 'Yea, that was class'.

21-08-2007 06:32PM

hallelujah wrote:

Transfomers is a load of over-hyped tosh. How can any educated person leave the cinema after watching that thinking 'Yea, that was class'.

Quite easily. You can't really go to see it expecting depth and charachter development. Its about giant robots disgused as cars ffs.

The Freeman · 21-08-2007 06:50PM

Petey2006 wrote:

That decision is as retarded as Bay's movies. Still, great news! Hopefully he'll quit the business altogether!

post of the week, right on the money, he is a crap director! (bar 'the rock' which is actually a good film)

The Freeman · 21-08-2007 06:52PM

hallelujah wrote:

Transfomers is a load of over-hyped tosh. How can any educated person leave the cinema after watching that thinking 'Yea, that was class'.

come on man, it does exactly what it says on the tin, what were you expecting schindler's list with robots!:rolleyes:

Galvasean · 21-08-2007 06:56PM

The Freeman wrote:

come on man, it does exactly what it says on the tin, what were you expecting schindler's list with robots!:rolleyes:

Based on some of the reactions I think thats what some people honestly expected. Now whose uneducated?

The Bollox · 21-08-2007 06:59PM

hallelujah wrote:

Transfomers is a load of over-hyped tosh. How can any educated person leave the cinema after watching that thinking 'Yea, that was class'.

well I thought it was fantastic, probably because I walked in expecting a big pile of shíte, and that's what I saw, but a big pile of shíte with robots = teh win

cooperguy · 21-08-2007 07:06PM

hallelujah wrote:

Transfomers is a load of over-hyped tosh. How can any educated person leave the cinema after watching that thinking 'Yea, that was class'.

Not everything has to be deep and meaningful. I like good character development and moving story lines but a bit of popcorn fun I can enjoy aswell. There is no need to look down your noes at it.

The Freeman · 21-08-2007 07:06PM

Galvasean wrote:

Based on some of the reactions I think thats what some people honestly expected. Now whose uneducated?

who said anything bout uneducated dude?

please elighten me with your 'frame of referance' regarding your 'above statement'?

ixoy · 21-08-2007 08:54PM

hallelujah wrote:

Transfomers is a load of over-hyped tosh. How can any educated person leave the cinema after watching that thinking 'Yea, that was class'.

Because they expected silly, fun entertainment and may have gotten it? I know I did. I didn't want something cerebral or educational because I wanted to leave my brain behind. Got what I paid for.

Galvasean · 21-08-2007 11:06PM

The Freeman wrote:

who said anything bout uneducated dude?

please elighten me with your 'frame of referance' regarding your 'above statement'?

Don't worry that wasn't directed at you. Someone else asked "How can any educated person leave the cinema after watching that thinking 'Yea, that was class'."

~Rebel~ · 21-08-2007 11:46PM

This upsets me not. The movie will still be made, its too much of a cash cow not to be. But this means theres a chance a better director will put a better spin on it, making the transformers the main characters and largely cutting out the military. Anything after that and i dont care. Stick to letting the techies sort out the battle sequences, and ideally actually have the camera in positions where you can see everything which happens.

Of course there is always the chance someone even worse will get it but fingers crossed. Nightmare scenario = Uwe Boll Presents "Transformers".

Vokes · 21-08-2007 11:55PM

Or maybe a worse scenario...

Ang Lee presents Transformers 2

The $200mil epic robot sequel where Lee delves into a deep examination of the Autobot pscyhe + no action scenes :eek: *snore*

21-08-2007 11:58PM

Would Spielberg do it instead? Anyone but Brett Ratner:D

Vokes · 22-08-2007 12:01AM

Dunno about Ratner. Surely his first move, ala Xmen 3, will be to kill off the main 2 characters, Prime & Bumblebee in the first 20mins

22-08-2007 12:04AM

God I hope they don't get rid of Prime. He's too cool to kill off ffs. Just thekind of thing Ratner would do though.:mad:

Davidius · 22-08-2007 12:10AM

The reason I didn't like Transformers as much as many others: Too many stupid humans. The robots were side characters in their own film FFS.

What's wrong with good old DVD anyway?

franman · 22-08-2007 08:03AM

He's already retracted his statement

http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=6233

Paligulus · 22-08-2007 10:06AM

Wow. He really made himself appear extremely unprofessional with all that. Quick someone take his internet connection before he really gets out of hand....

mickoneill30 · 22-08-2007 10:14AM

Are those posts really by Bay though? You'd expect a director to be a bit more informed about Blu Ray / HD-DVD. He's now basing him doing a sequel on the fact that "300 rocks" on HD-DVD. Fair enough, it does but should he not have done and do more research before deciding to do sequels. Sounds like an idiot.

senordingdong · 22-08-2007 10:54AM

The Freeman wrote:

post of the week, right on the money, he is a crap director! (bar 'the rock' which is actually a good film)

Where exactly does all this Michael Bay bashing come from?
Is it just Pear Harbour?
Because if anyone bothers to look, they'll see he has some class films under his belt.
Like....Bad Boys 1 & 2, Armageddon, The Rock and The Lionel Richie Collection.

Mitch Connor · 22-08-2007 11:47AM

senordingdong wrote:

Where exactly does all this Michael Bay bashing come from?
Is it just Pear Harbour?
Because if anyone bothers to look, they'll see he has some class films under his belt.
Like....Bad Boys 1 & 2, Armageddon, The Rock and The Lionel Richie Collection.

i think it comes from the first two questions Bay asks when he sees a script.

1. Where is the love interest, cause people don't relate to movies unless there is a love interest.
2. How many things can i blow up....can i blow up that catering truck? That chair over there looks like it could have a cool explosion, can i blow it up?

monkeyfudge · 22-08-2007 11:47AM

I don't know about Lionel Richie... but all of those were terrible, terrible films...

Téa Leoni was nice to look at in Bad Boys though...

Bay says no to Transformers 2 because of blu-ray?

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