Michael Bay On Possible Hollywood Strike Delaying TF2

What scenes?!?!?!

So Bay is itching to get started huh? Cool. I'd rather wait for a quality product though then get something rushed.

Hm. I guess it is cool that he decides to tell the public things about whats going on. We all know that this stuff is obviously put through some sort of reverse bullsh!t filtering process, but I think he seems to wants to keep the Fans of this franchise chomping at the bit. You know- the whole Carrot-on-a-string thing.

its plain and simple to see
that we have 2 years until TF 2 and by look of thing micheal
bay has a vision in in his mad big explosion's head
of his and this vision may go if not until it's on
paper plain and simple

hasbro i have an idea how about
at the nxt bot con you have a board of say like
70 names from g1 seasons 1 and 2 and have a vote
to see who comes up in the top 10
list in all

bamn i wish i had a time machine to see how
tf2 comes
transformers 4 LIFE

opjet wrote:hasbro i have an idea how about
at the nxt bot con you have a board of say like
70 names from g1 seasons 1 and 2 and have a vote
to see who comes up in the top 10
list in all

Why do all of the characters in TF 2 have to be G1 characters? Instead of your idea how about they take the really obvious choices like Soundwave, Shockwave, and Mirage, and then make a few new characters? Barricade was a new character and a ton of people feel he's the coolest 'bot in the movie. So, common sense would tell you a few new characters is probably a good idea.

Also, am I the only one who finds it extremely ironic that Bay isn't a Bush supporter considering his obsession with the military and patriotism? I always pegged Bay for the type of dude that would follow Bush blindly to the gates of hell.

trilobitepictures wrote:I'm sorry, but how is this news...?

I might do the sequel. I might not. I wanna work on it, but then I'll stop for the strike. Then I might be on, but I don't know.

This article is more on his politcal views than anything else, and I frankly care less about those than I do his abilities as a director. Tell you what, when there's an offical statement about who's directing the sequel, then you can tell us what Michael Bay thinks. The last few bits of "news" from this guy have been pretty pathetic, anyway.

It's news because when the guy who makes the Transformers movie says something about the franchise, it's important. He rarely posts, so when he does, it's news.

Yes, nothing is confirmed yet. But when the man in charge of the new movies says that he's "itching" to work on it, that's a good indication that he'll sign on again.

it's been a slow few weeks for news, I'd figure when Michael Bay of all people says something, fans might want to know about it.

Phenotype wrote:

opjet wrote:hasbro i have an idea how about
at the nxt bot con you have a board of say like
70 names from g1 seasons 1 and 2 and have a vote
to see who comes up in the top 10
list in all

Why do all of the characters in TF 2 have to be G1 characters? Instead of your idea how about they take the really obvious choices like Soundwave, Shockwave, and Mirage, and then make a few new characters? Barricade was a new character and a ton of people feel he's the coolest 'bot in the movie. So, common sense would tell you a few new characters is probably a good idea.

True. I really hate how fans can't look past G1 for potential movie characters, then those same fans claim to be NOT G1-purists, even though they ONLY want G1 characters in the films and want everything to remain as closely to G1 as possible... even though everywhere you turn nowadays it's G1, G1, G1, G1! I don't think there's been this much G1 stuff around since 1984! At least leave the movies for new stuff.

Phenotype wrote:Also, am I the only one who finds it extremely ironic that Bay isn't a Bush supporter considering his obsession with the military and patriotism? I always pegged Bay for the type of dude that would follow Bush blindly to the gates of hell.

Yeah, that little part put a smile on my face as well. Truth be told I like Bay a little more now!

Hehehe, this is why i like Bay, he speaks his mind and is honest and doesnt take any shit. He isnt obsessed with keeping people smiling, he does what HE wants.

Sonray wrote:Hehehe, this is why i like Bay, he speaks his mind and is honest and doesnt take any shit. He isnt obsessed with keeping people smiling, he does what HE wants.

yeah...like adding flames to Prime



sorry...i had to...lol

Switchpoint wrote:So Bay is itching to get started huh? Cool. I'd rather wait for a quality product though then get something rushed.

you musta cried when you saw tf1 huh?

Bouncy X wrote:

Sonray wrote:Hehehe, this is why i like Bay, he speaks his mind and is honest and doesnt take any shit. He isnt obsessed with keeping people smiling, he does what HE wants.

yeah...like adding flames to Prime



sorry...i had to...lol

Unlike some, i actually didnt care about the flames on Prime, not enough to whine about it in every tf movie forum i ever found online and cry like a little baby idiot and send the guy death threats for "ruining my childhood" I actually like Prime with the flames, they make him look more modern and cooler.

you go michael bay! i was thinking the same thing about bush's address LOL same old stuff by mr bush

you did a good lob with the movie i may add,but with the war thats going on im scared for my life.i live in a shelter on wards island and im trying to leave new york because the way that i see it its not safe anymore.but as far as your movie i think it kicks butt,just remember in part 2 to add my all time favorite decepticons
...the stunticons and merge them into menasor because thats my other name because of my height and my very deep voice.
and thanks again.

I think it'd be a bad decision to try to get it all done before the strike. I mean hell, one of the biggest sequel killers is not taking the time to develop it into its own movie & purely going off of the original's momentum to try to get people to accept something subpar. I mean, even though it isn't a movie, that's what happened to Halo 2, & although people still say its good, even the development team says it would have been better if they took the extra time they needed to develop certain parts of the game better (like giving the Brutes reactions to being attacked instead of just continually charging at you despite unloading 15 ammo clips into one.)

Wait untill the strike is over & then give us a quality blockbuster.

How about until the strike starts, they would start writing the scripts? So, there could be not so many holes like in a cheese?

Hey Mikey, think you can keep your political beliefs to yourself? The average joe such as myself doesn't give a rats ass about what you think.

We don't pay you to rant, we pay you to make kick ass movies.

Klozminded-G1 wrote:Hey Mikey, think you can keep your political beliefs to yourself? The average joe such as myself doesn't give a rats ass about what you think.

We don't pay you to rant, we pay you to make kick ass movies.

Heh, true, but technically we dont pay him ANYTHING. The studio does, then he takes a bit out of the box office gross.

Phenotype wrote:Also, am I the only one who finds it extremely ironic that Bay isn't a Bush supporter considering his obsession with the military and patriotism? I always pegged Bay for the type of dude that would follow Bush blindly to the gates of hell.

Support for the President does not equate patriotism. The President is a man. Patriotism is loyalty to the ideas upon which America was founded. As far as I'm concerned, Bush is not a patriot because he is not loyal to those ideas.

Bush has told us repeatedly that dissent from him is unpatriotic, but that's nothing more than job security for himself. It's our patriotic duty to question the President. It's one of the freedoms the Founding Fathers granted the public to assure we don't fall into a dictatorship.

So Bay not supporting Bush is not contrary to his supporting the military and patriotism. If anything, it's a symptom of it.

Blozor wrote:

Phenotype wrote:Also, am I the only one who finds it extremely ironic that Bay isn't a Bush supporter considering his obsession with the military and patriotism? I always pegged Bay for the type of dude that would follow Bush blindly to the gates of hell.

Bush has told us repeatedly that dissent from him is unpatriotic, but that's nothing more than job security for himself. It's our patriotic duty to question the President. It's one of the freedoms the Founding Fathers granted the public to assure we don't fall into a dictatorship.

I'd love to see a single example where Bush has said that...

I'd also love to see an example of the war opposing left doing anything to support our troops and their efforts while under fire... You know, more than meaningless words. More than 'saying' it. Showing it. Standing up for them. Praising them. Their efforts. Their family. Not threatening to cut their funding in an effort to end the war.

As far as Bay's political rant, I'd argue we do pay him. If we don't support his work, he's jobless. Something he LIKELY would have been if not for the success of the movie considering his recent rash of box office BOMBS.

So Bay mentions something that every man and his dog has known about for close to a year now.

Although I'm a tad surprised by his rant against Bush, I assumed Bay was Pro war/military...

trilobitepictures wrote:I'm sorry, but how is this news...?

I might do the sequel. I might not. I wanna work on it, but then I'll stop for the strike. Then I might be on, but I don't know.

This article is more on his politcal views than anything else, and I frankly care less about those than I do his abilities as a director. Tell you what, when there's an offical statement about who's directing the sequel, then you can tell us what Michael Bay thinks. The last few bits of "news" from this guy have been pretty pathetic, anyway.

My feelings exactly!

I love how all this guys coments are about something realy other than what the title sayes with 2 lines concerning the title itself.

If he feels this strongly about the president(who I'm no fan of either) I hope he charged him full price for his DVD.

Sorry that it took so long for me to chime in here, but I just wanted to be sure that he didn't reneg his statments like last time.

I like the job he did for us, but I hate his blog style.

Granted the movie kicked ass, but Bay as a person IS an ass. He flip flops so much I'd swear he was Punch/Counterpunch. Before I say anything else I want to remind everyone that he said he's "not doing a toy movie", that would be like Christopher Nolan saying he's not doing a comic book film (Batman Begins). With that being said, on with the rant-
One min he says he doesn't care what the fans want it's HIS vision, then the next he's leaking pre-production concept art to get their opinion. He gets Cullen because he was the best Prime for the job, but gives the ax to Welker cause he isn't a good Megs, thou from those of us who play the game know that he still is. (And for the record he said that VO actors aren't real actors.) He says he won't do TF2 cause TF1 isn't going to be on Blue-Ray only HD, but then says he changes his mind because he saw 300 on HD. Now he wants to "jump ship" from the studio and come back after the possible strike. If this doesn't show how bad of a human being he is to not stand by his fellow film-maker's side during a strike I don't know what is. Come on people this guy has an ass-hat that rivals Bush's.

What excites me the most about this post is that we have at least 2 year before TF2, if it's anywhere near as poor as TF1 I'm hoping it gets dealyed and stuck in pre-production hell indefinatly.

Yours AK

I'm hoping that if it really gets delayed, they would use the time to make sure that TF2 is better than TF1.
(better not as in more explosions, more romance, more crap.)

optronix91 wrote:I'm hoping that if it really gets delayed, they would use the time to make sure that TF2 is better than TF1.
(better not as in more explosions, more romance, more crap.)

Better as in better characterization, less ponitless human characters and more screentime for the stars of the show AKA the 'Transformers'? Yes I'd like to see that although in order to achieve a better film they may need a better director too.

Yours AK

Alex Kingdom wrote:Better as in better characterization, less ponitless human characters and more screentime for the stars of the show AKA the 'Transformers'? Yes I'd like to see that although in order to achieve a better film they may need a better director too.

Yours AK

And they need a better cameraman who is able to hold the camera still and film without seeming to be in the middle of an earthquake.

optronix91 wrote:

Alex Kingdom wrote:Better as in better characterization, less ponitless human characters and more screentime for the stars of the show AKA the 'Transformers'? Yes I'd like to see that although in order to achieve a better film they may need a better director too.

Yours AK

And they need a better cameraman who is able to hold the camera still and film without seeming to be in the middle of an earthquake.

Actually that is part and parcel of Bays directorial 'Style' is Bay were to go that may well go with him. I would certainly enjoy being able to see the action without having to wait for the DVD so I can pause, slow down and rewatch scenes in order to work out what is actually happening.

Yours AK

More Megatron and Starscream. Come on. They ARE the show. Everyone else is just along for the ride.

IjuinTekka wrote:More Megatron and Starscream. Come on. They ARE the show. Everyone else is just along for the ride.

Starscream? Which one was Starscream?

Honestly that is the responce you'd get from most people unfamiliar to Transformers who went to see the movie this summer. He was bearly present in the movie.

Yours AK

To them he would be the "plane-robot".

Alex Kingdom wrote:

IjuinTekka wrote:More Megatron and Starscream. Come on. They ARE the show. Everyone else is just along for the ride.

Starscream? Which one was Starscream?

Honestly that is the responce you'd get from most people unfamiliar to Transformers who went to see the movie this summer. He was bearly present in the movie.

Yours AK

Actualy... Starscream is the only Decepticon (MEGATRON DOESN'T COUNT) my friends know, it's probably because first he says THIS IS STARSCREAM then Megatron says STARSCREAM MAH BOOOI and finnaly IT'S STARSCREAM!!!

In response to the hate of the human heavy movie - My girlfriend only liked the movie because of the humans. If it were all robots she would have hated it. Humans are very important to keep the mainstream interested.

The only problem is they tend to give humans far too much focus. It is Transformers the movie after all, not Humans the movie co-starring the Transformers.

Giving them all the focus is just a major cop out. Taking the safe route to money rather than making it the way it should be made.

But then, it would be foolish to expect anything else. =(

In response to the "those of us who have played the game know welker still makes a good megs" i have to say no, he doesnt. That voice does not suit the new design of megatron plain and simple. Plus Frank is sounding too old for megatron now.

80sgeek wrote: Now he wants to "jump ship" from the studio and come back after the possible strike. If this doesn't show how bad of a human being he is to not stand by his fellow film-maker's side during a strike I don't know what is. Come on people this guy has an ass-hat that rivals Bush's.

I believe the srtike is a writers guild strike, so where is it that he is not standing by his fellow filmmakers during a strike. He wants to do another movie in between now and may, I dont see a problem with it because like he has said and from the lack of news that paramount/dreamworks is most likely dragging their feet. No writers to write movies= no movie to direct means no paychecks for any directors while the strike is ongoing, and then however long it takes for hollywood to ramp back up production. The reason they are trying to crank out so many movies by may is because 1. they dont know how long it will last if it does happen, and 2. when they do go back to work it will still be a decent period of time before anything gets developed.

I just love it when something about bay comes out and with it out comes all of the "haters" that just want to talk shit just so they can say they talked shit about bay. Now I am not referencing those that have expressed their dislike for him or his movie style from day one (you know who you are) but rather the people that pop out of nowhere and proclaim blind hatred for no apparent reason other than at this point in time its the trendy thing to do.

lol...how sad. I like how people are judging bay as a person, despite the fact that NONE of you have ever met him or know him personally, based on how he acts as a businessman.
You would do the same thing if you needed to make money, or wanted to rather.

Seriously people....get real.

hollywood soesnt need to go on strike they make enough money as it is sequel looking forward to it.

BigDude wrote:

Alex Kingdom wrote:

IjuinTekka wrote:More Megatron and Starscream. Come on. They ARE the show. Everyone else is just along for the ride.

Starscream? Which one was Starscream?

Honestly that is the responce you'd get from most people unfamiliar to Transformers who went to see the movie this summer. He was bearly present in the movie.

Yours AK

Actualy... Starscream is the only Decepticon (MEGATRON DOESN'T COUNT) my friends know, it's probably because first he says THIS IS STARSCREAM then Megatron says STARSCREAM MAH BOOOI and finnaly IT'S STARSCREAM!!!

Ermmm..WTF? Answers on a post card please.

Yours AK