Michael Bay to direct "Transformers" movie?

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