Kelsey Grammer Describes his Deleted Transformers: Age of Extinction Scene
Sunday, August 17th, 2014 11:38AM CDT
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It was very violent, and it looked very violent.… Apparently the Chinese government had some input on these things, and they just didn’t want to see a Chinese national get thrown out of the car [laughs] — and then subsequently run over.
He also talks about filming with director Michael Bay.
They start running, and Michael did not let them know how big the explosions were going to be. He said to me, ‘Watch this! Look! They’re really terrified. Look how fast they’re running!
The interview goes on to discuss his other projects, which include The Expendables 3, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and more. You can read the full article by clicking here.
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Posted by Madeus Prime on August 17th, 2014 @ 11:48am CDT
Anyway, according to him, we have another evaluation of Bay's insanity.
Michael Bay wrote:Watch this! Look! They’re really terrified. Look how fast they’re running!
Wow, just, wow.
Posted by Bumblevivisector on August 17th, 2014 @ 12:34pm CDT
Yeah, it reminds me of how Lucio Fulci would get authentic reactions out of his actors by not warning them he was going to turn on the wind-machine and/or mealworm-snowblower.Madeus Prime wrote:Michael Bay wrote:Watch this! Look! They’re really terrified. Look how fast they’re running!
Wow, just, wow.
The difference being, of course, mealworms and wind-machines don't make most people fear for their lives.
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 17th, 2014 @ 12:48pm CDT
Posted by TulioDude on August 17th, 2014 @ 1:35pm CDT
WOnder how this whole chinese thing worked?
Posted by JetOptimus23 on August 17th, 2014 @ 2:29pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Actually bay's comments remind me a little of what Ridley Scott did with Alien (everyone will know the scene).
Simple; because while Scott was working with props that had little to no chance of actually harming the actors, this madman is working with LIVE EXPLOSIVES and decided to not tell his actors how big they were going to be. The chestburster scene was done in a way to make all those reactions genuine, but would not result in horrible injury or fatality. What Bay did could have resulted in awful things, and its his continuing dumb luck that prevented that.
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on August 17th, 2014 @ 3:20pm CDT
Posted by Burn on August 17th, 2014 @ 3:56pm CDT
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:It's clearly obvious that Bay is practicing domestic terrorism.
Oh FFS ... I've seen some ridiculous comments on this site directed at Michael Bay but that's easily in the top 10.
Seriously people ... it was a controlled environment. Bay wasn't the one pushing the button, the explosive experts were and under no circumstances would they have pressed the buttons if the actors were any where near being hurt.
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 17th, 2014 @ 3:58pm CDT
Posted by Bumblevivisector on August 17th, 2014 @ 5:55pm CDT
AFAIK, Bay's safety record was spotless until those 2 accidents in DOTM, so there's hardly a chance anyone was in actual danger. Getting the right performance out of your actors is part of a director's job, and that sometimes does require f@#&ing with them. It's just that his quoted comments made it sound like he was a little too pleasantly surprised at scaring the sh!t out of the talent more thoroughly than he thought he would. It was just a funny/weird thing to say, is all.
Posted by hunter4life on August 17th, 2014 @ 9:06pm CDT
on the other hand, he did a great job with age of extinction because there is 98% of not so stupid gimmicks and i think galvatron isnt such a pussy as much as megatron .
but still in the end, this guy is a danger around everyone due to his obsession with explosives and the manpulation of actors such as mark walberg and kelsey grammer.
Posted by Megatron Wolf on August 17th, 2014 @ 9:06pm CDT
Posted by TulioDude on August 17th, 2014 @ 10:10pm CDT
Burn wrote:OptimalOptimus2 wrote:It's clearly obvious that Bay is practicing domestic terrorism.
Oh FFS ... I've seen some ridiculous comments on this site directed at Michael Bay but that's easily in the top 10.
Seriously people ... it was a controlled environment. Bay wasn't the one pushing the button, the explosive experts were and under no circumstances would they have pressed the buttons if the actors were any where near being hurt.
This
Posted by Deathsanras on August 18th, 2014 @ 12:14am CDT
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:It's clearly obvious that Bay is practicing domestic terrorism.
The guy's an overrated hack and a pyrotechnics fetishist. But aren't there enough real reasons to hate him already - like being creatively vacant, and the train-wrecks the movies are - without resorting to making up this sensationalist nonsense?
Posted by BumbleDouche on August 18th, 2014 @ 4:53am CDT
Deathsanras wrote:OptimalOptimus2 wrote:It's clearly obvious that Bay is practicing domestic terrorism.
The guy's an overrated hack and a pyrotechnics fetishist. But aren't there enough real reasons to hate him already - like being creatively vacant, and the train-wrecks the movies are - without resorting to making up this sensationalist nonsense?
HAHAHAAAAA! My sentiments exactly! I've voiced my dislike for Bay several times, but I've never managed to be quite so succinct. Well done, sir.
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 18th, 2014 @ 5:40am CDT
Posted by Burn on August 18th, 2014 @ 8:00am CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:So this is another hate bay thread now?
Of course it is. What did you expect? I'd say it's the same old crap, but this thread is actually different.
No no, now people actually think he's responsible for the pyrotechnics, people actually think he's the one that sets up the safety perimeter, the guy that presses the button.
Let's just completely ignore the fact that there are professionals that do that sort of thing, let's just throw complete and utter reason out the window, just so they can take ANOTHER jab at Michael Bay for ruining their childhood.
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on August 18th, 2014 @ 8:37am CDT
Burn wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:So this is another hate bay thread now?
Of course it is. What did you expect? I'd say it's the same old crap, but this thread is actually different.
No no, now people actually think he's responsible for the pyrotechnics, people actually think he's the one that sets up the safety perimeter, the guy that presses the button.
Let's just completely ignore the fact that there are professionals that do that sort of thing, let's just throw complete and utter reason out the window, just so they can take ANOTHER jab at Michael Bay for ruining their childhood.
When Michael Bay is doing the principal photography, he is responsible for the entire set. That includes pyrotechnics. If someone is hurt, all faces turn to the director. So if some idiot charged the explosions two feet from someone, the director and producers are responsible for him/her because they hired that person.
Just because I said that Bay is practicing domestic terrorism (which I still believe he is) doesn't mean that I'm hating on him. I could say the same thing about my son or daughter, doesn't mean I hate them.
Posted by chivesbot20 on August 18th, 2014 @ 8:41am CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 18th, 2014 @ 8:54am CDT
Burn wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:So this is another hate bay thread now?
Of course it is. What did you expect? I'd say it's the same old crap, but this thread is actually different.
No no, now people actually think he's responsible for the pyrotechnics, people actually think he's the one that sets up the safety perimeter, the guy that presses the button.
Let's just completely ignore the fact that there are professionals that do that sort of thing, let's just throw complete and utter reason out the window, just so they can take ANOTHER jab at Michael Bay for ruining their childhood.
Its amazing all the things bay can do don't you know. He does everything for the movies, designs, casting, music, rigging, creates all special effects, activates all effects and probably the catering as well. But that's not all! He has the ability of mind control as someone else pointed out he manipulated Walhberg and Kelsey.
I would ask why he gets this hate, but you summed it up already Burn. Bay made a highly successful film franchise out of our beloved brand. How dare he!
Posted by SlyTF1 on August 18th, 2014 @ 10:31am CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Burn wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:So this is another hate bay thread now?
Of course it is. What did you expect? I'd say it's the same old crap, but this thread is actually different.
No no, now people actually think he's responsible for the pyrotechnics, people actually think he's the one that sets up the safety perimeter, the guy that presses the button.
Let's just completely ignore the fact that there are professionals that do that sort of thing, let's just throw complete and utter reason out the window, just so they can take ANOTHER jab at Michael Bay for ruining their childhood.
Its amazing all the things bay can do don't you know. He does everything for the movies, designs, casting, music, rigging, creates all special effects, activates all effects and probably the catering as well. But that's not all! He has the ability of mind control as someone else pointed out he manipulated Walhberg and Kelsey.
I would ask why he gets this hate, but you summed it up already Burn. Bay made a highly successful film franchise out of our beloved brand. How dare he!
People are just jealous he makes more money than they do.
Posted by JetOptimus23 on August 18th, 2014 @ 2:45pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:
I would ask why he gets this hate, but you summed it up already Burn. Bay made a highly successful film franchise out of our beloved brand. How dare he!
A highly successful film franchise with action sequences shot like a flaming lawnmower running over the audience, flat characters, a skewed human-transformer screentime ratio, female characters that exist only to be treated like eye candy, and the twins. And I say that as someone who decently enjoys the Bay movies. But yes its obviously because he makes a lot of money of course
Posted by Burn on August 18th, 2014 @ 3:46pm CDT
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Just because I said that Bay is practicing domestic terrorism (which I still believe he is) doesn't mean that I'm hating on him. I could say the same thing about my son or daughter, doesn't mean I hate them.
Explain how the hell he is practising "domestic terrorism"
Posted by JetOptimus23 on August 18th, 2014 @ 3:49pm CDT
Burn wrote:OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Just because I said that Bay is practicing domestic terrorism (which I still believe he is) doesn't mean that I'm hating on him. I could say the same thing about my son or daughter, doesn't mean I hate them.
Explain how the hell he is practising "domestic terrorism"
Yeah I have no love for the guy but that's not terrorism, its just trying to get a more true performance out of the actors, just REALLY misguided.
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 18th, 2014 @ 4:15pm CDT
JetOptimus23 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:
I would ask why he gets this hate, but you summed it up already Burn. Bay made a highly successful film franchise out of our beloved brand. How dare he!
A highly successful film franchise with action sequences shot like a flaming lawnmower running over the audience, flat characters, a skewed human-transformer screentime ratio, female characters that exist only to be treated like eye candy, and the twins. And I say that as someone who decently enjoys the Bay movies. But yes its obviously because he makes a lot of money of course
Flat characters and female characters you should speak to the writers everything else is a fine complaint, as long as they realize it's just their opinion. In the first couple I didn't find any problems with the fight sequences or plot. That's my opinion (like it's my opinion that DOTM is the worse).
Posted by JetOptimus23 on August 18th, 2014 @ 5:52pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:JetOptimus23 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:
I would ask why he gets this hate, but you summed it up already Burn. Bay made a highly successful film franchise out of our beloved brand. How dare he!
A highly successful film franchise with action sequences shot like a flaming lawnmower running over the audience, flat characters, a skewed human-transformer screentime ratio, female characters that exist only to be treated like eye candy, and the twins. And I say that as someone who decently enjoys the Bay movies. But yes its obviously because he makes a lot of money of course
Flat characters and female characters you should speak to the writers everything else is a fine complaint, as long as they realize it's just their opinion. In the first couple I didn't find any problems with the fight sequences or plot. That's my opinion (like it's my opinion that DOTM is the worse).
I actually think DOTM had the best shot action, mostly because Bay was forced to slow down his editing due to it being shot in 3D. If things go too fast it looks awful in 3D. I also think Carly was a far better character than Mikela (though thats not saying much), still I hated how wasted Megatron and Shockwave were, and the ending. I haven't seen AoE but I've heard good things about it...well more positive things. All in all it was a good remake of "Megatron's Master Plan"
Posted by ZeroWolf on August 18th, 2014 @ 6:16pm CDT
On the human transformers ratio side, it's cheaper to use people then effects, especially how expensive the tfs are.
Posted by TulioDude on August 19th, 2014 @ 10:59pm CDT
JetOptimus23 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:JetOptimus23 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:
I would ask why he gets this hate, but you summed it up already Burn. Bay made a highly successful film franchise out of our beloved brand. How dare he!
A highly successful film franchise with action sequences shot like a flaming lawnmower running over the audience, flat characters, a skewed human-transformer screentime ratio, female characters that exist only to be treated like eye candy, and the twins. And I say that as someone who decently enjoys the Bay movies. But yes its obviously because he makes a lot of money of course
Flat characters and female characters you should speak to the writers everything else is a fine complaint, as long as they realize it's just their opinion. In the first couple I didn't find any problems with the fight sequences or plot. That's my opinion (like it's my opinion that DOTM is the worse).
I actually think DOTM had the best shot action, mostly because Bay was forced to slow down his editing due to it being shot in 3D. If things go too fast it looks awful in 3D. I also think Carly was a far better character than Mikela (though thats not saying much), still I hated how wasted Megatron and Shockwave were, and the ending. I haven't seen AoE but I've heard good things about it...well more positive things. All in all it was a good remake of "Megatron's Master Plan"
I recommend to watch TF 4,this movie,this movie in my opinion has one best human/TF ratio from the series.And if more good words before deciding the official discussion thread has some good wors too.