Michael Bay to direct "Transformers" movie?

interesting combination of phrases here...

All of you now may point and laugh at me for remmbering that.

i did a fantasy casting for this ages ago - Angelina Jolie as Josie Beller and Burt Reynolds as GB Blackrock was as far as i got tho.

we have the technology, i'm sure. the gov't is just hiding it. or saving it.

1st leaked photo...
http://www.pluh.com/images/picofdaystuff/Optimus%20Prime!.jpg

-- Suedey (mincingspoo...), April 8th, 2005.

they should get Tarantino!

Dancing Transformer Citroen Ad (not guerilla marketing)

http://www.nbj.co.jp/newline/images/video/rj/2.jpg

(not really, it's Robot Jox)

(p.s. "Bad Boys II" was his best movie - dude is getting better 'n' better [still the fucking azazel of movies right now but better at it])

[/ bay-style culture-baiting]

I hope Megatron comes up with some really ropey plans, and that Starscream messes up.

I may have added the word "apart" to that opening sentence tbh.

i understand that she's a "hot" woman, but why is megan fox on the cover of every magazine

where did she come from? she was in transformers? that's it? and... she kinda looks like angelina jolie?

Raving about a hot lady in a nerd franchise is a time-honored way of affirming the worthlessness of everything else about it. So this Megan Fox media blanketing is kind of a back-handed way of everyone saying Michael Bay is terrible. c.f. angelina jolie & tomb raider, pamela lee & barb wire.

She is famous for being hot, period. She has admitted in interviews that she can't really act. I read something today where she said that a Michael Bay set is not a very good place for a novice actress to learn acting craft, which makes sense.

He's older than you. And you've said younger guys are a waste of time.
I don't understand why people don't have a f---ing sense of humor. Always assume that I'm being sarcastic. Like when I said those things about High School Musical. I didn't really mean that it's about pedophilia. But if you get high and you watch it, that is what that f---ing movie is about!

Did you watch that high?
Yes, and it blew my mind.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20246950_20263258_20284375,00.html

i kinda like this broad

yah 4 sure i read thinking like damn chick is pretty cool then lol shes dating brian austin greene

''I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.''

This is what a lot of actresses think when they're 22 and the freshest meat on the market. Talk to her in twenty years though and she's the bitter actress in her 40s who talks about nothing in interviews but sexism, ageism and how sick it is that only young actresses get good parts. She should help older actresses by addressing the problem now, when she won't just be speaking out of self-interest.

And you've got a lot of confidence.
I think most people are extremely insecure. As far as girls go, I have a really badass personality. I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation. So I'm not afraid to speak, and I think that's what people read as this überconfidence. I have a mouth and I'm not afraid to use it.

Not true, or at least it wasn't always. I saw her in a comic book store years ago in LA (I know right) before Transformers and all of this. I just remember seeing a beautiful and very, very nervous girl in a comic book store and jokingly thinking "Oh, wow, who's her boyfriend that she'd be persuaded to come in a store like this?" and sure enough Brian Austin Green was checking out at the register. She wouldn't be famous for a while but I would tell friends how ironic it is that a beautiful girl would act so insecure in front of nerds (of all people) in a comic book store. Only later would the anecdote get surreal when said girl was realized to be her.

Brian Austin Green was actually pretty decent in that Terminator show!

What a disaster for Fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXoYK4b_q24

SAM! PUT THE CUBE IN MY CHEST NOW!

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1

almost makes me want to see it

Also: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/07/i_am_a_brainiac.html

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy drank gasoline for five years to obtain "energy" - just as his idols "Bumble Bee" or "Optimus Prime" do in "Transformers," the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

After the boy, in Yibin City, southwest Sichuan Province, had watched the animated TV series, he began to drink gasoline to become a "valiant fighter" like "Optimus Prime," his father told the newspaper.

Are you sure this isn't from the Onion this week.

no mention of a lawsuit? oh chinapaws.

In every article I read about "Transformers" and "Voltron" and "Thundercats" or whatever other 80s franchise they are turning into movies these days reviewer/movie blogs/filmmakers themselves always mention the 'fanboy' demographic. I'm kinda confused about what is meant by that because at first I thought they were talking about the obvious fringe comic convention/serious collector/cosplay mindset. But increasingly it seems like 'fanboy' is being used to describe anybody who was ever a fan of the franchise.

I think for the most part nostalgia automatically dictates that a certain population are fanboys; not necessarily those obsessed with collecting and debating continuities and stuff, but simply males born, oh, 1977-1984. It's significant because the filmmaker will often say they want to 'not upset fanboys' and whenever they say that I feel like they are underestimating the intelligence of these kids.

I never had any illusions about the 'purity' of these franchises and even at a young age I was well aware that they were basically 20-minute long toy commercials, interrupted by more toy commercials. Plus so many spin-offs or rip-offs of these shows came out that I think even as a kid you knew, okay the early 80s Transformers cartoons were awesome but any lousy budget-CGI remakes done in the 90s didn't tarnish that experience.

So does fanboys = hardcore Transformer fans? Or fanboys = males born 1977-1984?

"It's significant because the filmmaker will often say they want to 'not upset fanboys' and whenever they say that I feel like they are underestimating the intelligence of these kids."

I enjoy their pose of deference! That's about all we can get from them.
Fanboys = anyone with an emotional investment in the property s.t. their attendance can be pretty much relied upon regardless of the results. I was shocked at how many posters talked about needing to buy the Bay TF DVD/BLURAYs to further cement their hatred for what he did to it.

So does fanboys = hardcore Transformer fans? Or fanboys = males born 1977-1984?

pretty much the latter i think

Fanboys = anyone with an emotional investment in the property s.t. their attendance can be pretty much relied upon regardless of the results. I was shocked at how many posters talked about needing to buy the Bay TF DVD/BLURAYs to further cement their hatred for what he did to it.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, July 24, 2009 8:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://codebloo.net/stuff/picard-headesk.jpg

Anybody who has spent a year or two following, say, Penny Arcade or some other semi-sentient self-identified dork forum knows the ugly secret of these things - the best way to profit from hardcore folks is to make sure every other significant release in your canonical franchise, be it a game, comic book series or major motion picture, is completely insulting to the customer. They'll wail and gnash teeth and then add the next installment to their camp-out calendar as soon as it's announced.

See, i think any emotional attachment I could have for Transformers would stem from nostalgia for my youth rather than actual attachment to the franchise. But yes, Nunez, you are right.

this is why i will only buy these films second-hand. it's the only way these money-grabbing Hollywood charlatans will learn.

I will download them illegally, watch them with the sound off and the monitor powered down, and will hide behind blueski's user name in case the MPAA complains. I am pure.

man this movie was awesome

lol at complaining about plot holes and how unrealistic this movie is, there's some fish in a barrel over there here's a shotgun

http://i47.tinypic.com/30b0l13.jpg

The kid has news anchor hair.

http://bayifier.com/

Director Admits TRANSFORMERS 2 was no good

ALSO: Fish and water? Who knew?

This (second Bay transformers film) was on TV just now

The design and movements of the robots was so slinky it took away from the sense of them as big, dangerous machines, and the constant explosions and arcing missiles and all the times they should have wiped out everyone out but didn't had a similar effect

Iirc I've only ever seen the first of these, but I did read the comic and watch the cartoon and play with the toys and ... why would a giant robot even want to turn into a fucking car? What's the advantage?

To get little boys to play with you

very interesting video damning bay with damning praise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THVvshvq0Q

Good video. Here's the referenced NYT article on watching West Side Story with Bay

That is a good video

Iirc I've only ever seen the first of these, but I did read the comic and watch the cartoon and play with the toys and ... why would a giant robot even want to turn into a fucking car? What's the advantage?

a) because the toys came first and it was two toys in one and b) so they could disguise themselves on earth

Ebert again

This isn't a film so much as a toy tie-in. Children holding a Transformer toy in their hand can invest it with wonder and magic, imagining it doing brave deeds and remaining always their friend. I knew a little boy once who lost his blue toy truck at the movies, and cried as if his heart would break. Such a child might regard "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with fear and dismay.

I didn't even like the first one. monolithic pacing, wince-inducing one-liners, and too much delay in getting to the *real* destruction.

I admit I do enjoy reading the plot summaries on Wikipedia, more entertaining to digest it in bite-sized format in my Bay-less brain

I get the toy stuff, I just mean within the mythology of the movies etc. If you're a giant indestructible robot, why would you want to pretend to be a VW beetle? Disguise yourself on earth *from what*? Can't the bad robots tell which cars - or which, you know, giant robot dinosaur - is actually more than meets the eye.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/entertainment/new-transformers-movies-feat/index.html

;_;

I'm honestly surprised he didn't try something like this earlier

http://io9.gizmodo.com/according-to-the-last-knight-transformers-have-been-on-1795053150

hokay

still say the original was dire....one of the few times I fell asleep in the theatre at a 7 fucking pm showing

eh, I have only seen the first one and it was such a trainwreck (except M.Fox maybe :) that I never bothered with the rest although I was so ready for nostalgia !
that said, my mega robots nostalgia found a much better recipient with "Pacific Rim".
I wish they would finally make that "Robotech" movie, though.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2017/03/02/the-live-action-robotech-movie-still-lives-on/#314496267307