Rumor: Michael Bay in Talks to Make Two New Transformers Movies

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Jason Statham you say?

I'm in.

Statham was also in a Uwe Bolle movie. His presence does not guarantee success or watchability for that matter.

So in addition to Bay's long list of credits, we can possibly add "Big Fat Liar" to it.

 

[rednose1]

Please no. Just......stop.

I liked the first transformers alright. Afterall, everything was new and fresh there. Then in the second movie, so many "WTF" moments left me angry. How did they hide the huge in city fighting when the second movie has them hunting Decepticons in secret? Why can't Bumblebee talk? How is it that Jazz is dead, but Megatron comes back after having the cube shoved in his chest. (On another note, what was the purpose of the cube? Initially they said it could restore life on Cybertron, then its some weapon. Also, how did Shia know how to use the damn thing anyway? The government had it for who knows how long and just knew it made electronics come alive, Shia comes along and LOL kills Megatron.)
To be fair, its not only the Transformers movie I have a problem with. Any movie series that has huge holes in continuity from one film to the next irks me. Call them remakes then, not a series.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Well, couldn't be worse than the other live action Popeye cartoon.

Yeah, you say that, but it's Michael Bay.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

That's it settled then. We cannot achieve anything until Lucas and Bay are both removed from the gene pool. Throw Cowell in there as well.

I'd pick throwing in Uwe Boll in there first anyday.

Sorry, I'll have to stand up for Uwe Boll at this juncture.

Sure he makes bad films, but he makes BAD films. These are films of insanely detailed levels of badness. Films that exemplify bad acting, bad dialogue and bad canon.

What he doesn't do is promote them as good.

Bay works on making a realistic robots battle over Dawson's Creek script with CGI'd teenagers having a CGI'd love while the robots battle to become human. BECAUSE HUMANITY IS THE BEST OF ALL RACES, AS LONG AS THEY'RE WHITE.

Lucas has a spasmodic timeline where he shovels CGI'd humans in front of CGI'd set pieces and constantly raises the CGI'd stakes to the sword fight LIGHTSABRE BATTLE. And then the Good CGI wins.AS LONG AS THEY'RE WHITE.

Cowell is just a confidence trickster who throws money into making simple puzzles WITH CGI REAL PEOPLE LOOK REALLY SHINY AND THEY MIGHT WIN BIG MONEY TO HELP THEM OUT OF THEIR CRIPPLING DEBT AND ONLY YOU CAN HELP THEM OUT OF THEIR LIFE OF DRUDGERY BY GIVING US 90% OF YOUR PHONE CALL SO WE CAN THROW THEM CRUMBS.AS LONG AS THEY'RE PRETTY

Boll just makes crappy movies. Nothing wrong with that on the big scale.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

His presence does not guarantee success or watchability for that matter.

I disagree. That man is a God among manly men. You need look no further than Death Race, Crank, and Crank 2: High Voltage.

If these new Transformers films are anything like the aforementioned, then indeed, count me in.

 

[tahrey]

How is this allowed to happen? And who allowed it? God damn it, reality.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Well, at least I get to look forward to more ranting reviews from the Internet over in the coming years.
Always a blast; always entertaining.

Well...could have been worse. Could have been directed by Roland Emmerich.

I'd take Emmerich's retarded writing over Bay's non-existent plot writing any day of the week.

Emmerich may put together these huge, bland casts of characters we never get to really know in his movies, but at least he's never given us shit like Skid, Mudflap, Leo, or "DEEP WANG".
Or John Turturro's man-package 40 feet across on a movie screen.

 

[GeorgW]

I thought he specifically stated many times that he didn't want to make any more transformers movies?
I can get that you want to make a new Transformers movies, they made a lot of money. But why rehire the guy that pretty much every critic and fan hated?

....because he made a lot of money. Like you just said.

Do me a favour. Find the amount of money that the first animated Transformers movie made. The one that critics at the time either ignored or hated, but the young fans who are older now loved. Okay, you won't - it mad $5.9 million, meaning it actually was a bomb and failed to make back its budget. Now get me the numbers for the ones Bay made, the one critics hated but the young fans adored. Okay, I'll do it for you - together, they made over 2 and a half billion dollars. 450 times the amount of money the supposedly "superior" one made.

But that first movie was decades ago. Now all the child fans are old and have enough money to go to the theaters. You think parents spoiled their kids back then like they do now, those kids had to beg to go to that movie? Plus more people are into "geek" culture, I know I wouldn't have been all that comfortable going out to watch a Transformers movie in 1986 (provided I'd been born then)... Things have changed since then.
The Transformers name sold the tickets, not the director. Why not just keep making Transformers movies, but make them good?

 

[GeorgW]

I thought he specifically stated many times that he didn't want to make any more transformers movies?
I can get that you want to make a new Transformers movies, they made a lot of money. But why rehire the guy that pretty much every critic and fan hated?

....because he made a lot of money. Like you just said.

Do me a favour. Find the amount of money that the first animated Transformers movie made. The one that critics at the time either ignored or hated, but the young fans who are older now loved. Okay, you won't - it mad $5.9 million, meaning it actually was a bomb and failed to make back its budget. Now get me the numbers for the ones Bay made, the one critics hated but the young fans adored. Okay, I'll do it for you - together, they made over 2 and a half billion dollars. 450 times the amount of money the supposedly "superior" one made.

But that first movie was decades ago. Now all the child fans are old and have enough money to go to the theaters. You think parents spoiled their kids back then like they do now, those kids had to beg to go to that movie? Plus more people are into "geek" culture, I know I wouldn't have been all that comfortable going out to watch a Transformers movie in 1986 (provided I'd been born then)... Things have changed since then.
The Transformers name sold the tickets, not the director. Why not just keep making Transformers movies, but make them good?

If that were true, then the first movie would be the most successful, followed by a sharp decline in ticket sales. This is quite the opposite - each Transformeers movie made about 300 million more than the last. Besides, by that logic, no geek property would ever lose money, ever. How'd Green Lantern do?

If I recall correctly Green Lantern just barely broke even, but I'm not really invested in the topic.
Maybe you have a point, but I still don't see why Michael Bay is necessary. So people like action movies, no surprise there, however there are plenty of great action directors. I don't think Michael Bay did anything that another director could have done just as well or better with the first 3 movies.

 

[Yosato]

It'll no doubt be shit, but the possibility of Jason Statham means I'm interested.

Anyone else notice that the 'Transformers' is only three letters away from 'Transporter'? What an odd coincidence.

 

[Alandoril]

Well the films can't get any worse can they? Oh God, can they!!??

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Screw this crap. I gave up on Transformers after the first movie. I hold to my childhood memories and Orson Welles voicing Unicron. Michael Bay can rot in hell.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Wat.

I mean...

Spoiler: Spoiler'd for the sake of spoilers

How the fuck do you revive a series that you brutally killed off the big bads to? Then again, a revival deus ex machina really wouldn't be beyond Bay would it, if it meant another two movies that will gross an inordinate amount of cash.

I'm morbidly curious as to what the hell he'd do with the series if he was greenlit for another go, but I really hope it falls through.

Doesn't Unicron pretty much heal all the bad guys before using them as his own personal army or something?

 

[Krion_Vark]

So, let me get this straight. Not only has filming back-to-back (this is talking Hollywood Blockbusters only here) resulted in good films (critically at least) 1 time -- the Harry Potter 7 films -- but now studios are going to do this for three major franchises? I don't understand. We've got Fast and the Furious 6 and 7 being shot back-to-back, we're going to have the new Terminator films shot that was as well. Add the Breaking Dawn split and this new Transformers revelation -- I dunno, doesn't it just seem like too much reliance on a technique that has had very mixed results in the past? Just look at the 2nd and 3rd Pirates or Matrix films.

Oh well. In the end, it's all about the money.

Is Lord of the Rings considered a Hollywood blockbuster? Because despite their release schedule all three movies were shot at the same time.

 

[Eveonline100]

That's it settled then. We cannot achieve anything until Lucas and Bay are both removed from the gene pool. Throw Cowell in there as well.

Why don't we also throw in Bobby Kotick?

 

[Josh123914]

Hmm, I'll just leave this here assuming I haven't been ninja's yet, Robot Chicken kinda hit this straight on the head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObMElJJM31g

 

[GeorgW]

I thought he specifically stated many times that he didn't want to make any more transformers movies?
I can get that you want to make a new Transformers movies, they made a lot of money. But why rehire the guy that pretty much every critic and fan hated?

....because he made a lot of money. Like you just said.

Do me a favour. Find the amount of money that the first animated Transformers movie made. The one that critics at the time either ignored or hated, but the young fans who are older now loved. Okay, you won't - it mad $5.9 million, meaning it actually was a bomb and failed to make back its budget. Now get me the numbers for the ones Bay made, the one critics hated but the young fans adored. Okay, I'll do it for you - together, they made over 2 and a half billion dollars. 450 times the amount of money the supposedly "superior" one made.

But that first movie was decades ago. Now all the child fans are old and have enough money to go to the theaters. You think parents spoiled their kids back then like they do now, those kids had to beg to go to that movie? Plus more people are into "geek" culture, I know I wouldn't have been all that comfortable going out to watch a Transformers movie in 1986 (provided I'd been born then)... Things have changed since then.
The Transformers name sold the tickets, not the director. Why not just keep making Transformers movies, but make them good?

If that were true, then the first movie would be the most successful, followed by a sharp decline in ticket sales. This is quite the opposite - each Transformeers movie made about 300 million more than the last. Besides, by that logic, no geek property would ever lose money, ever. How'd Green Lantern do?

If I recall correctly Green Lantern just barely broke even, but I'm not really invested in the topic.
Maybe you have a point, but I still don't see why Michael Bay is necessary. So people like action movies, no surprise there, however there are plenty of great action directors. I don't think Michael Bay did anything that another director could have done just as well or better with the first 3 movies.

Be absolutely shameless. It was explosions, boobs and dirty jokes. Critics and you hated it, but evidently there was a gigantic audience that loved it.

You keep looking at this as if the movies made money despite Bay. You need to acknowledge they made money because of Bay.

You're probably right. Still, there are plenty better movies out there with explosions, titties and dirty jokes, why did the people choose this one?