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I will never understand Michael Bay's appeal. This is not Transformers as I know, but a crappy hollowed imitation, so it can't be TFRM fans.
Does anybody else get what I mean here? I can't wait till Paramount finally hires a director that can carry over some of what made Transformers smart, and stop limiting it to what I would consider so very very stupid. Like Gareth Edwards fixing Roland Emmerich's "Godzilla," or Christopher Nolan saving Joel Schumacher's "Batman," or Matthew Vaughn and Bryan Singer saving the "X-Men" franchise from the likes of Brett Ratner or Gavin Hood, or Martin Campbell coming back to save James Bond after the 20th film had lost its way. To me, Michael Bay is just a no-talent hired gun, no better than Roland Emmerich, Joel Schumacher, Brett Ratner, Gavin Hood, or even as poor a storyteller as Skip Woods (you all know what I'm talking about).
Here's looking to you, Michael Bay. Maybe someone should go back to shooting excessively budgeted Victoria's Secret commercials. It's all you were ever good for. Someone needs to hold you accountable for quality. It's supposed to be the fanboys' jobs, but they must've been sleeping for the past 7 years. They killed "Green Lantern," "Battleship," "Dark Shadows," so many other scenarios where quality mattered. Why does Michael Bay continue to get away with producing major crap and still end up with a potential $103M+ OW? Is there really no justice in the world?
Here's hoping it only grosses about ~$225M so Paramount knows they need to change something, instead of just repeating their formula. If this ends up with another ~$280M+, they'll be lazy and try to justify their past decisions on the franchise, which would ruin it in 4-5 years.
Something needs to change so I can start looking forward to this series again. After the second film (2009), I was done. I knew I'd never get a satisfying Transformers film from Michael Bay. I haven't. Still waiting. You hear me, Paramount? Don't let him back into any story/producing meetings. Keep him creatively out of the loop for the next installment; that's what reboots are for, right????
V: ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Has Year’s Biggest Opening Day, Set for $104 Million Weekend Jun 28, 08:36
41.6 estimate box office mojo Jun 28, 09:04
maybe but that was less of a sequel {nm} Jun 28, 09:37
what was less of a sequel? {nm} Jun 28, 09:44
no, that is the 2nd film in the Captain America franchise {nm} Jun 28, 09:53
lol totally never heard of the first, thought that was the first one. {nm} Jun 28, 09:57
so that tells me two things about you.... 1st, you're new to the game and 2nd you're not from the US {nm} Jun 28, 09:59
Played in 2000 2001 and hardly have any movie investments {nm} Jun 28, 10:02
+2. "Like the Avengers or something?" {nm} Jun 28, 10:02
I live in US actually Jun 28, 10:17
odd that you play this game and live in the US and never heard of the first Captain America film. $176M BO domestic Jun 28, 10:23
Just worked out that way, some years I see dozens of movies in theatres and some I hardly see any. {nm} Jun 28, 11:20
I did see all 3 ironman ones.....just never got around to pulling out this dvd of Avengers I bought last year. {nm} Jun 28, 09:46
You probably better comparing T4 to a sequel. {nm} Jun 28, 09:49
Spiderman was a sequel, Captain America was a sequel, Godzilla was a reboot {nm} Jun 28, 09:52
I will never understand Michael Bay's appeal. This is not Transformers as I know, but a crappy hollowed imitation, so it can't be TFRM fans. Jun 28, 09:21
Why don't you tell us how you really feel. lol Was it really that bad? {nm} Jun 28, 09:24
I think paramount is pretty happy with bay and transformers. It's more a question if he wants to come back. {nm} Jun 28, 10:03
thats true. Just look at Spiderman. But this one aint there yet. Studios know that franchises go up and down. Jun 28, 10:27
I'll quote Billy Bob from Bad Santa: "well, they all can't be winners, can they?" Jun 28, 10:35
get used to it, this film will kill it overseas. they have many more sequels to churn out with the same "winning" formula. Jun 28, 09:40
but they see nothing wrong when A- cinema scores and $100M OWs happen. to them the critics need not apply Jun 28, 10:07
LMFAO!!! man, you're VERY upset. it's tough because the quality of story can really be improved, but they release Jun 28, 10:32
Michael Bay is a genius... givin 'em what they want (see inside) Jun 28, 10:36
if this graph ain't telling, I don't know what is! {nm} Jun 28, 10:37
it's a fun graph. That's about it {nm} Jun 28, 11:07
Those are awesome, thanks! {nm} Jun 28, 16:00
Transformers 3 made over 1b worldwide on a 200m budget. If I were paramount I'd love bay to death. Jun 28, 10:22
for me, screenwriter Ehren Kruger's quote from the other day sums it up... Jun 28, 11:05
BO notes TFRM4's Flixster audience score FYI... Jun 28, 15:45
