Collider managed to grab Michael Bay at the Friday 13th premier and have a chat with him about TF2. What’s on the cards? — A darker, more epic, more emotional Transformers 2 with improved technical abilities and IMAX scenes with maybe a third come ~2012.
In summary:
He says they have done 3 scenes in IMAX
He talks about Transformers 2 and what he likes about it – says the robots have a lot more personality and he was able to get emote much more than the first movie
Also says it’s going to be darker and epic in scale – says the human characters go on a ride with the robots
I ask about the running time – says right now it’s 2 hours 20 minutes but he still editing
I ask if he will do a third Transformers movie or does he see himself doing another franchise – says he could see himself doing a third but he wants to take a year off no matter what
Comments 3 Responses to “Michael Bay talks Transformers 2 at Friday 13th premier”
What made Transformers a good movie?
1.Incoherent plot? Dumb Allspark Mcguffin, scenes in the movie lead nowhere or had no real purpose, comedy filler, waste time, no story logic. The movie’s script made it hard to suspend belief and enjoy the movie. B movie but with a bigger budget…
2.Laughably bad CRINGE INDUCING dialogue? “My bad” Shia “NoNoNoNoNo” Whats up lil B ****es” Touch my bush I’ll kick your @$$!” Happy Time” ect. ect. VOMIT
3. The army can kill the Decepticons, Transformers disappear with no explanation? Why even have the autobots.
4.Transformers look like metal scraps glued together and have no personalities.
5.Dramatic scenes that fly straight out of left field? (“I’m so glad I got in the car with you.”) B movie
6.Formerly respectable star sinks to a new low? John Turturro Jon Voight,Golden Shower Bumblebee pees now and farts? comedy gold.…
7.Incredible overacting that is obviously encouraged by the director?
8.Bumblebee who cannot speak for no apparent reason? Damaged in battle .…please, prequel comic or motion comic just try to cover up bad story telling .Makes no sense other than that is what the director or script calls for in the movie. (no story logic.^)
Wouldn’t need to waste so much time If BumbleBee could repair himself. Like Barricade repaired himself after the first fight and tell Shia that he needs the glasses!
9.Rampant racial stereotyping?” Hey Mammy “
“Speak English dude ”
10.Characters with a lot of face time who end up playing no important role in the “story?“
Hackers and soldiers.
11.The action in some shots is hopelessly muddled? Shaky Cam, close ups, and quick cut editing.
12. Jazz’s hilarious death scene is matched only by his hilarious eulogy? B movie
13. Transformers had little scene time due to over elaborated designs which made them too expensive? Prime shows up 70 mins into the movie.
14. Blatant over the top product placement? Takes away from the movie experience. Not just minor product placement the movie stops just for the product placement. Bumblebee updates to a newer car. The pilots getting into the F 22.
15. Transformers are secondary characters with little to no dialogue?
16. Hard to tell the Transformers apart. As long as the camera stands still long enough and the transformer is not silver. If it is an action scene forget about it..
17. For an action blockbuster there is not much action: 5 min of action in the beginning 10 min of action in the middle and 15 min of action at the end. In a 2 hr and 30 min movie. All of which jumps around from robots to humans every 2 seconds, due to the quick cut editing. Shaky Cam and close ups ruin most of the action.
18. Shia LaBarf can’t act? NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo BS comedy shtick, Even Stevens with robots…
19. Meagan Fox can’t act? .….…LMAO please
20. Michael Bay can’t direct? ” I make movies for 13 year old boys.” Can’t remember the Transformers names. Brawl is the tank Bay.. not DEVASTATOR!
Intense slow motion shots of characters
Has the camera moving during most scenes. Very rarely uses static shots.
Actors/characters in his films are almost uniformly shot in tight, emphatic close ups, framed under the hairline and above the chin.
Often has over-the-top visuals (i.e. key events taking place at sunset or dramatic events taking place behind actors doing routine activities).
Utilizes monotonic but intense musical cues during action-filled car chase scenes. Bad Boys II (2003), The Island (2005)
Uses shots of aircraft against a setting sun, especially helicopters (Armageddon (1998/I), Pearl Harbor (2001), Transformers (2007)).
Often features a slow-motion shot of an object crashing into, or tumbling towards the camera.
Uses a shot where the camera spins in a circle around characters. (Bad Boys II, Transformers)
Frequently incorporates scenes that involve characters running or moving towards the camera (almost always shot in slow-motion)
[Michael Bay on “Transformers look”]
Well, it’s just, you know, listen, it’s like…I didn’t want to make the boxy characters, you know? Think about it, 30 feet in the air in the real world, just boxes, you know and it’d just look more fake, you know? And by adding more doo-dads, you know, stuff on the…stuff. Stuff on the robots, more car parts, and…you know you can just make it look more real.
Will Transformers 2 be as good as the first one?
I hope this movie is 2 hours and 30 mins long with a lot of soldiers, hackers and only 15 minutes of incoherent action!!! HELL YEAH THAT WILL BE AWESOME!!!!!!!
Will it have abhorrent, horrendous, obnoxious, repulsive, ugly, swirling metal chucks, gorilla arm, unicycle retard looking Transformers in it.
Great job Bay keep lying to everybody about how your extremely expensive, hyper realistic Transformers is the only look that works and is not silly.. No middle ground between the original look and these bionicles metal junk piles.…Even Stevens with robots as props.
It needs to have Shia Ledouche doing his crazy retard shtick, talking to himself and saying NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo. Megan Fox trying to act and looking like a 30 year old raged out street walker whore.
More shameful masturbating close ups of her stomach… More random characters who have no purpose in the film.
What will make it funny is to have more scenes of Transformers stumbling around like morons hiding in the backyard, golden shower scenes, bumblebee farting on Sam’s dad. COMEDY GOLD! Horrible Stereotypes and blatant racism. So much respect to source material.…
Sure to get the Oscar this time,(Golden Compass LMAO) as long as we still have Michael Bay’s AWESOME character development, 20 camera using, seizure inducing can’t tell whats going on shaky cam, fast cut editing, emphatic tight close ups, helicopter in the sunset, extremely nauseating, repulsive, over the top product placement, and slow motion over dramatic explosions.
I sure hope so this movie will be AWESOME AND RAD TO THE MAX EXTREME with my A.D.H.D and short attention span.
Be sure not to take your riddilan when watching this great action packed popcorn blockbuster, leave your brain at the door snore fest…
alphatrion u freakin numbnut,go spam somewhere else,pathetic retard.
While I don’t like bestmovieEVA’s language, I do agree with him. Alpha Trion is definitely being a killjoy.
As for me, I just intend to wait and see. I just hope they don’t come out with Premium versions of the Transformers AFTER they come out with the original line of toys like they did with the first movie. Good thing I waited so long to buy the whole line of Transformers seen in the flick itself.