ROTTEN TOMATOES: Bay Prepares to Fake Out Transformers Fanboys Comments

Bay Prepares to Fake Out Transformers Fanboys

by Fred Topel | November 10, 2007

Summary

Michael Bay went through the wringer with the fanboys on Transformers. He addressed every concern -- early designs, scripts, remaining faithful to the source material -- and delivered a movie that won over most audiences, grossing nearly $320 million in America alone. But with Transformers 2 in development, Bay isn't taking any more lip service. Back to Article

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FireflyFan4evr writes:
on Nov 10 2007 10:58 AM

Transformers was an incredibly enjoyable action film made by a guy who can ONLY make action flicks- and did a pretty good job. I knew I wasn't going into an Academy Award worthy (except Visual Effects and Sound) 2.5 hours that would make me change my belief on the whole nature of the world. If you go into a movie knowing what you should expect, then it will be much better. Stop bashing Bay for doing what he does best, and while it chokes me to say it, he did it pretty f***ing good on this one.

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Thunderstruck writes:
on Nov 10 2007 11:16 AM

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Oh he did a good job. Quit whining.

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DarthWonka writes:
on Nov 10 2007 11:24 AM

Transformers 2: The Remake

The next one better be the Transformers movie we should have gotten the first time, with the TFs taking center stage.

Sheesh. It's not hard.

Think if the Toy Story movies were about Andy and his friends with only special appearances by the toys.

That's my complaint about Transformers. It featured them; not starred them.

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taran72 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 11:53 AM

I thought Shia was OK. The movie had other problems, like being too long and too confusing. Too much human, not enough robot.

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meadowblaster writes:
on Nov 10 2007 12:20 PM

The movie was about 15 minutes of "woah, that was cool" while the rest was pure ****e.

It was a really really bad movie.

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apostate writes:
on Nov 10 2007 01:31 PM

I liked the first movie. Which would be the first Bay movie I have ever liked. So the chances of himing making another movie I like is quite small.

Also this nonsense he came up with about fake scripts is absurd. It's like a how to on how to undermine your own fan base. What a dick.

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Johnnymojo88 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 02:32 PM

it was a terrible movie anyway... let it die in peace.

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Odo19 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 02:48 PM

I loved the first movie even if it was pretty brain-dead, but with the sequel the novelty of giant robots beating the crap out of each other will have worn off. The sequels going to need an actual story and more than that the story is going to have to make sense.

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The_Last_Sith_Lord writes:
on Nov 10 2007 04:07 PM

Why is everyone complaining about the time the transformers got? If the movie was centered around them it would fail

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screwhead100 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 04:24 PM

kill off Shia...i agree with that

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AcE! writes:
on Nov 10 2007 04:26 PM

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The hell are you talking about? How would focusing on the transformers make it bad?

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Odo19 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 05:01 PM

If the movie was focused on the Transformers then the only thing that would have changed would have been that the transformers would have seemed more ridiculous because nothing about them or their backstory really makes any sense.

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killermonkey8822 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 06:02 PM

michael bay..... you're an idiot.

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The Great One writes:
on Nov 10 2007 06:59 PM

the guy who wrote Blood and Chochlate is a good writer?

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DarthWonka writes:
on Nov 10 2007 07:14 PM

In reply to this comment (#1267465)
Read former comment by me.

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Warheart1188 writes:
on Nov 10 2007 07:23 PM

This could be all fake info like the upcoming fake scripts! There could NO Transformers 2! Bay could be giving false info about the movie even being made! Ha! Michael Bay you sly dog you! Only YOU could think of ideas like this! And I'm not saying it's a GOOD idea. We've all seen Bay's good ideas get turned into movies.

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Panda_Bear writes:
on Nov 10 2007 07:47 PM

...So this would mean that he already knows that there's a serious leak in his boat...and it's called Shia?

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harrismonkey writes:
on Nov 10 2007 08:26 PM

First off, while it could have been worse- how can anyone claim Bay remained faithful to the source material?!?!

Optimus prime bares resemblance to previous versions, these robots do transform, otherwise details carried over from the source material are not exceptionally faithful.

Big question though is this, given the writers strike, who exactly is going to write all these fake scripts? Michael Bay, or his production assistants? I'm still not sure how exactly they managed to pen a finished script for this movie in the one month after they were hired to write it while doing scripts and rewrites for 3 other movies at the same time. Unless these suposedly striking writers are actually secretly writing right now, I'm going to guess the quality of the script they're going to turn lose on us this time will be significantly worse than last time around.

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AcE! writes:
on Nov 10 2007 08:49 PM

Anyone else think this fake script crap is just a major waste of time and effort?

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dayfalljesse writes:
on Nov 10 2007 09:27 PM

my vote is for unicron as well.
dig up orson welles and have him give some sweet lines from beyond the grave.

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