Bay Prepares to Fake Out Transformers Fanboys
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
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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on Nov 10 2007 12:27 AM or its fake, someone has leaked the actual and they're covering they're *** (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 12:30 AM Who cares! hurry and finish making the movie...give the robots more screen time!, and kill off Shia! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 01:06 AM Shia is awesome, shut up! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 02:00 AM Back up the damn camera and hold it still. Cut the lame jokes. Get a real plot. Hire some good- Screw it. It's beyond saving. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 04:16 AM Megan Fox naked. That is all. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 05:07 AM In reply to this comment (#1266524) Agreed (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 05:45 AM Give the actual Transformers center stage this time. Bring back Jazz. Bring in Wheeljack. Give the Decepticons some screen time, etc, etc. And a word to the wise: if human weapons are effective against the Decepticons, then maybe the Autobots' weapons should be also be effective against them. Just a thought. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 06:24 AM megan fox nude seen with galvatron. mmmmmm... yea..... (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 06:42 AM More explosions. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 06:47 AM Megan Fox nude seen with galvatron? LOL!!! -- and Shea and Optimus Prime havin' a heartbreak? We already got the script -- the tag line could be "A violent love story between a woman and machine". Shea is pissed 'coz the highschool sweetheart he's supposed to bang is banging everyone else but Shea. So he calls his old friend -- the terminator. Now the terminator and human are on the one side and transformers on the other. To make the matter worse, Megatron is resurrected. He wants to destroy both of them. LOL. Final battle between the MAN and the MACHINE. Now Imagine that... And of course it's RATED R. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 07:55 AM bring in the constructicons and dinobots, and have unicron appear in the 3rd!!! DO IT NOW!! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 07:57 AM "One thing I do know is I know how to screw them up more," said Bay. "We're going to leak a lot of false information all over the place. I now know their game. They're going to get a lot of script treatments that they think are going to be the script. They will never see the script. We've got scripts and treatments written up that we're going to leak. No one's going to know." Wow...Bay seems like such a prick. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 08:21 AM In reply to this comment (#1266513) Perfectly said. My thoughts exactly. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 08:54 AM In reply to this comment (#1266513) Hire a real director. Someone who doesn't equate spastically jerking the camera around with technique. Relegate Bay to stunt coordinator, where he can spend his time doing what he does best - thinking of ways to blow **** up. Find a plot that's actually about, you know, the Transformers. Cut out all the crap with pointless hackers and government coverups and all that standard Bay junk. Gigantic robots hellbent on kicking the **** out of each other is cool. Give us that. Give us exactly that. And film them in a way that we can actually tell what they're doing. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 09:38 AM I know everyone here hates Michael Bay, great, we here from you every time his name comes up. I enjoyed Transformers, it was everything I expected it to be. I was a bit wary of all the hype surrounding Shia, but in the end I thought he was perfect. Was the movie perfect? No, but it was fun. I would love to see the Constructicons and Dinobots in the sequel, that would be fun too. I don't quite see how Dinobots could realistically be worked into the story, but maybe Grimlock alone could somehow be worked in. Maybe if he had reached the planet after the energon cube arrived hundreds of millions of years ago and took the t-rex form and was just recently discovered. I'm sure they'll do something like that. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 09:52 AM Its a movie about giant robots from outer space. Don't expect too much...Bay is a perfect match for this project (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 10:04 AM transformers 2 (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 10:06 AM There are going to be several fake scripts leaked to slip up fanboys? Here's betting that each of them is better than the official shooting script. I hear that it was Bay's idea to have Bumblebee take a leak on John Turturro. Figures that such an immature scene would be the brainchild of a man-boy like Bay. Whatever. F*** Transformers. F*** Shia "I got the part because I'm Steven Spielberg's friend" Lebouf. F*** that soul-dead streetwalker looking floozy Megan Fox. And, especially, f*** all the fanboys who whined about the film all the way up until its release, but went to see it on opening day any Goddamn way. You people are the worst of all. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 10:20 AM rustique writes: on Nov 10 2007 07:55 AM bring in the constructicons and dinobots, and have unicron appear in the 3rd!!! DO IT NOW!! Totally agree They sould have the dinobots crash land in a natrual history museum in the dinosaur exhibit .....done dinobots taken care of.....I thought Michael Bay did a great job Transformers ruled good acting realistic looking action and of course the real Optimus Prime...Michael Cullen just made it awesome all you haters keep hating this is going to be an awesome franchise (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 10:46 AM i pray to God he takes out that stupid bimbo and her annoying sidekick. good lord they were stupid an unneeded. i like shia... on his DISNEY SHOW. he can't play that character in every other film he's in! i really hope he's not that way in the new indy flick! (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 11:16 AM In reply to this comment (#1267170) Oh he did a good job. Quit whining. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 02:32 PM it was a terrible movie anyway... let it die in peace. (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
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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 (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 04:24 PM kill off Shia...i agree with that (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 04:26 PM In reply to this comment (#1267465) The hell are you talking about? How would focusing on the transformers make it bad? (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 06:02 PM michael bay..... you're an idiot. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 06:59 PM the guy who wrote Blood and Chochlate is a good writer? (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 07:14 PM In reply to this comment (#1267465) Read former comment by me. (Reply to this) |
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. (Reply to this) |
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? (Reply to this) |
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. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 08:49 PM Anyone else think this fake script crap is just a major waste of time and effort? (Reply to this) |
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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. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 09:49 PM Transformers should never be rated R, and Sam/Spike is integral to the mythos. Shia did okay, but they need to cut out all the stupid comedy and any masturbation dialogue. Megan Fox is nice to look at, but her character is annoying and unnecessary. We need more hot robot-on-robot action, period. No more, no less. We don't need more humans. But of course, Bay is a self-important dick, so he'll never deviate from any of the stupidity of the first one. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 10 2007 10:34 PM Seems like a lot of wasted time, but I don't think people appreciate the respect that this shows for the enthusiasts (aka fanboys) on the web. It might seem devious, but it adds to the fun of it all. Bay doesn't have to even acknowledge the fanboys because he knows the movie will make millions whether they approve or not. It seems silly to have fake scripts, but it just shows that Bay cares about the film. Personally, I never understood why people would want to know the whole movie anyhow before they see it. To his their own, I guess. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 11:37 PM If only the script for the first film had been a fake. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 12:18 AM "If only the script for the first film had been a fake." Amen. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 11 2007 01:27 AM Regardless of how I feel about Bay, I just have to love someone who screws with fans, the fickle, whiny bunch they are. Let them drown in this Information Age. Sure beats constant damage control to soothe them. But this could backfire with fake designs and scripts being better than the end result. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 03:56 AM I really enjoyed the Transformers movie, admittedly not as much as I enjoy listening to the hillarious nonsensical ramblings of fanboys, but still, I enjoyed it. I'm not entirely sure why I'd be expecting a sophisticated script without humour without a director who specialised in action films when I'm watching... a film based on a children's television series created to sell toys, but oh well. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 11 2007 09:18 AM The best part about Transformers was the fact that people complained about Michael Bay directing a movie that is based on a cartoon that was made for the sole purpose of selling toys. Yes, let's debate the merits of Bay's interpretation and get upset when he does not remain faithful to the source material (read: 30 minute commercials) and instead just makes a movie to rake in the money. What betrayal! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 09:54 AM In reply to this comment (#1266513) Agreed. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 10:14 AM Shia has great skills and will be a very successful actor. Don't mistake good comic timing for character type. Seems like someone here holds a prejudice towards a guy who got his start on a Disney show. I think Bay's doing a good thing in leaking misinformation for punks who take pleasure in leaking the story of a film before it's completed. What a way to harm the fruit of hard work of the creators as well as the excitment and anticipation for the fans. I've singed enough NDAs to know the damage that can be caused by unscrupulous individuals. Bay's not the prick, other way around. I say put all that spare time and passion into something constructive. Get really good at something useful in the film industry. Or a bona fide critic. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 10:21 AM I enjoyed the first one and i'll enjoy this one just more fighting would be good and keep the main actors e.g. Shia he was brilliant. i just van't believe i heard some bad comments all ican say is bring on the movies :D (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 11:23 AM the movie didnt really do anything for me, even as useless entertainment eye candy, so, whatever (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 11:24 AM In reply to this comment (#1268530) 380687 High School With Money writes: on Nov 11 2007 01:27 AM "Regardless of how I feel about Bay, I just have to love someone who screws with fans, the fickle, whiny bunch they are. Let them drown in this Information Age. Sure beats constant damage control to soothe them." Well, it's pretty one-sided in this case. So it's not just whining fanboys. If it was someone with genuine clout and talent, and the first one was good, I'd agree with you. "But this could backfire with fake designs and scripts being better than the end result." I wouldn't be surprised at all. In fact, I kind of expect it--especially regarding the scripts. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 11:33 AM Michael Bay: "We have three very good writers." Uh, I clicked on the links for these "very good writers" and I had to use a hand towel to wipe off the **** that was loaded on my screen? Legend of Zorro? Blood and Chocolate? The Ring? These are not "good" screenplays, by any stretch. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 11 2007 11:47 AM I just watched Transformers the other day. That was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Shame on you, Michael Bay. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 12:59 PM i loved transformers, despite it having almost no plot, not enough transformer duke-it-out time, and looking like one giant, 2 1/2 hour long chevy commercial. My guess is that Bay is gonna leak the real script out, but nobody will think its real, just as a ***** you to his fans. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 03:33 PM "I just watched Transformers the other day. That was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Shame on you, Michael Bay. " I've actually found that it's quite good on DVD if I just watch the 20 minutes of the movie where the robots actually fight with the language turned to french so I don't have to listen to any of the dialogue. After about the second viewing I could also follow what was going on in the final battle scene. It no longer seemed incomprehensible. ILM did a great job. I'm looking forward to the next one's DVD release for more than it's theatrical run. :P P.S. I do wonder if Michael Bay realizes just how funny it is that every time Iron Hide goes anywhere he does a bunch of summersault rolls. Because no one can hit you when you're summersaulting. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 11 2007 04:55 PM Make it BEAST WARS that way everyone is happy since there is no humans in BEast wars and beast wars would have a awesome ending (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 04:57 PM Make it BEAST WARS that way everyone is happy since there is no humans in BEast wars and beast wars would have a awesome ending (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 11 2007 07:09 PM I hope in the sequels it doesn't focus on the robots so much. I didn't even get why they were there. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 11 2007 09:02 PM More Grimlock (Reply to this) |
on Nov 12 2007 05:52 AM I love how they're going to go through all this effort to leak false information and "script treatments" when they can't come up with a good original script to begin with. Who cares. If you liked Transformers, I doubt it had anything to do with the storyline or the script. IMO the sequel should focus on the adventures of the animated Mountain Dew pop machine from the first movie. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 12 2007 07:08 AM Kruger from Blood and Chocolate??? That movie sucked donkey balls dipped in a$$juice. 3 good writers, heh? Since when does MB care about what the writers write? Since when does anyone care? How many movies these days have less then ten complete rewrites by producers who feel they will make more money if the girl is a grease monkey in super tight pants? Since are women grease monkeys aren't lesbians? :p This is all bullpoo. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 12 2007 07:50 AM love the critics to a movie that made over 3 hundy. you guys are frikkin morons. don't change a d3mn thing...the formula was perfect. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 12 2007 01:01 PM Here are two points for everyone's consideration. 1. The film you see does not reflect the talent of the screenwriter. You all know this. When there's a writer you like attached to a movie you hate, it seems easy to remember to scream about interfering studio morons. But at all other times, you go to imdb to look up a writer, recall the movie you saw, and decide the writer is to blame. I'm not saying these guys are good writers. I don't know. But be consistent in your critical methods. 2. We all felt cheated that Prime didn't show up till the midpoint, and Megatron not until the last few minutes. However, you may THINK you want two hours of robot screen time, but you don't. Do we really want to see Starscream pouting in his bedroom, or Ironhide eating breakfast? All the transformers can't spend all two hours doing big epic things. And for non-action, dramatic scenes? For god's sake, they don't even have moving lips, or facial expressions that the human species are hardwired to respond to on an empathetic level. Someone has brains enough to understand that we need a human presence. Too many human characters in the first one, yes. Yes, we need more robots, but we need more quality, instead of a five minute scene hiding-in-the-front-yard scene and robot pee pee gags. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 12 2007 01:07 PM Sorry, after the first turd of a movie, it doesn't matter what they do. There's nothing that will get me to drop even a penny on anything Transformers related. I'm still pretty dumbfounded that this movie has been so popular. Are audiences really that idiotic? Sad. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 12 2007 01:40 PM "Those aren't ideas, Michael Bay. Those are Special Effects!" (Reply to this) |
on Nov 12 2007 03:01 PM Is there Any Chance:) Michael Bay, doesn't know he is one of the many fake directors that the studio has placed in order to conceal the actual director in the sequel. which would be great considering the first movie didn't have one;) and please folks stop the shia hating... and yes megan fox should be naked in the whole movie then it could almost make up for her non existent acting talent... almost;) (Reply to this) |
on Nov 12 2007 03:18 PM He can use the time and effort into an actual plot and character development in the second movie. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 12 2007 10:59 PM Here's a simple idea for the next transformers movie. MAKE IT ABOUT THE DAMN TRANSFORMERS!!! Oh, and how about you go 1 minute without a slow motion hero shot you idiot. Please don't throw in lines from the 1986 movie unless you are going to give them there due I would rather you didn't use the, "one shall stand one shall fall" line while the Disney kid is on the screen saving Prime's ***. It doesn't matter because Micheal Bay is an idiot. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 13 2007 10:16 AM In reply to this comment (#1266513) you are insane. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 15 2007 04:37 PM SOUNDWAVE HAS TO BE IN IT AS WELL WITH RAMPAGE AND LAZERBEAK OR I WILL GET P ISSED..YET I DO KNOW THAT HE MIGHT BE A JET. PPPPPISSSSSSSSEEEESSSSSS ME OFFFF!!! WELL LETS SEE WAT HAPPENS.....CHECK UTUBE TO FIND SOME INFO...DON BELIEVE THE FANMADE TRAILERS OR PHOTOS! UNLESS THEY ACTUALLY GOT THAT INFO FROM A SITE OR READING (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 16 2007 03:32 AM In reply to this comment (#1267030) thank you for breaking into my mind (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 16 2007 03:37 AM btw Id rather stare at a picture of michael bay's chiseled chin for 130 minutes than watch this movie. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 19 2007 08:47 AM It takes a non-story like this to show us how much smarter Bay is than we are. Damn, and I had been trying so hard to outsmart him, too. (Reply to this) |
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on Feb 11 2008 05:45 PM they should have the team bullet train and armada chartures (Reply to this) |
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