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Transformers 2 Will Be the Best Michael Bay Movie. Ever.

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (27)



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For fans and non-fans alike of the original Transformers, wondering whether the sequel could possibly live up to the original (I’ve gotten more entertainment value out of watching toddlers crashing Tonka trucks), then worry no more. Michael Bay thinks that Transformers 2 may be his best movie ever, and he even had his opinion validated by Steven Spielberg. According to Michael Bay:

“Steven Spielberg sat next to me in a big 100 person theater at Sony today.There were 98 empty seats. The lights came up after we just watched my cut of Revenge of the Fallen. He turned to me and said ‘It’s awesome’ He felt this movie was better then the first - and probably my best, who knows - at this point in a movie you start to lose your objectivity. I just hope the fans like it.”

And there you go. Steven Spielberg, alone in an empty theater with Michael Bay — who probably has a remote button capable of triggering two tons of C4 buried under the theater — told Bay that he thought it was “awesome.” You know, when my kid scribbles what he calls an elephant on our kitchen door with Crayola, I never have the heart to tell him that he’s just colored a big aimless blob of nothing. But when I get in bed at night, I turn to my wife and say, “What the hell is wrong with our 21-month-old kid? It didn’t look like an elephant at all. Maybe our child has lost his objectivity.”

Which is to say, Transformers 2 could be the best Bay film of all time (which is tantamount to dropping the biggest deuce of your life) or he’s just directed a $150 million scribbled, Crayola elephant.

We’ll find out in 60 days.









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Comments

For fans and non-fans alike of the original Transformers,

Ironically, I'm both. As long as they take one McGuffin to a major populated area and spend at least a half an hour blowing it up, it'll be worth paying for the air-conditioned theatre.

Posted by: twig at April 15, 2009 10:35 AM

getting out of the 95 degree sun and sitting in a big comfy chair watching big robots tear shit up.
lap full of candy.
cool refrigerated air in my face.

sounds perfect.
i'm not expecting this to be 'macbeth' or even hitchcock.
i'm expecting big and loud and shiny.

pushing 40, i owe it to my inner child.

Posted by: gp at April 15, 2009 10:39 AM

I watched the original with my brother and about an hour into it he leans over to me and says "This is the most boring giant robot explosion movie I'll probably ever see."

I replied "Until the sequel, anyway"

We went home after the gay robot died.

Posted by: annoyingmouse at April 15, 2009 10:42 AM

When has Spielberg ever been wrong?

Posted by: admin at April 15, 2009 10:43 AM

I like to eat popcorn and watch robots fight, so I'll be seeing this. It will be heinously bad, but the sad fact is that will make me even more likely to buy it when it's released on DVD. I am such a sucker for terrible action movies. I own Doom on DVD, for fuck's sake.

Posted by: Sarina at April 15, 2009 10:46 AM

I’m sorry, Steven. Due to the steaming piles of poo that were A.I. and The Terminal and also due to the fact that you produced The Haunting remake, I can no longer trust your opinion on film.

Posted by: Samanthrax at April 15, 2009 10:49 AM

A.I. was a great movie up until the last twenty minutes.

It should have ended at the bottom of the sea.

Posted by: twig at April 15, 2009 10:50 AM

Spielberg thought it was awesome? Really? The director of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Clusterfuck?? I value his opinion sooooo much. I also take this to mean that one of the Transformers either hides in a fridge or turns into a fridge to avoid being destroyed at some point.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at April 15, 2009 10:59 AM

The director of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Clusterfuck??

Dude, Sins of the Lucas.

Posted by: twig at April 15, 2009 11:05 AM

You mean Refrigetron?

Posted by: branded at April 15, 2009 11:05 AM

has michael bay ever possessed objectivity? i mean sure he can figure out what the reasonable american man wants (ie everyone not a pajiban) which seems to be just explosions, robots without depth, humans without depth and a soundtrack that matches his movies resemblances to his music videos but he makes the mistake of thinking hes the reasonable man rather than just a douche.

Come to think of it didnt he mean subjectivity so he meant to say he lost sight of what is good and bad in his own mind rather than the public's mind?

Oh well no doubt ill watch the film on dvd and find it empty and meaningless and everything that is wrong with blockbusters but I will probably watch it twice cus there will be megan fox. Who doesnt add meaning in any way but she does stir that other empty part of me.

Posted by: jim of the lower case at April 15, 2009 11:12 AM

Man, this really makes me miss the days of Alex the Odd. She would have a thing or two to say about this. Wouldn't she, Vermillion?

Posted by: boo at April 15, 2009 11:21 AM

Dude, Sins of the Lucas.

I blame them both. A pox on both their ball sacks!

You mean Refrigetron?

Yes. When he transforms, Refrigetron is full of Mountain Dew.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at April 15, 2009 11:35 AM

Via The Onion: Michael Bay gets $50M to fuck up ThunderCats.

A pox on both their ball sacks!

Was that in Macbeth or King Lear? Either way, yes. Although Lucas appears to be sporting some wicked curse already with whatever the hell has happened to his neck.

Posted by: twig at April 15, 2009 11:38 AM

...whatever the hell has happened to his neck.

That's where he stores his talent.

Posted by: admin at April 15, 2009 11:43 AM

It does look as though Lucas got stuck in a teleporter machine with a bullfrog, combining their DNA and forever altering his chin/neck.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at April 15, 2009 11:46 AM

^^^^^^^^^^^^ AgelessMate. COM ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A 35+ year old female who is on the "hunt" for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. The cougar can frequently be seen in a padded bra, cleavage exposed, propped up against a swanky bar in San Francisco (or other cities)waiting, watching, calculating; gearing up to sink her claws into an innocent young and strapping buck who happens to cross her path. "Man is cougar's number one prey"

Posted by: milfs at April 15, 2009 12:53 PM

I would pay to see it, twice, if they added a scene at the end where a couple of Decepticons break in half and neatly fold Shia Le Doosh's character.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 15, 2009 1:37 PM

Hmm. The spambot is using complex grammatical structures. The skynet apocalypse must be getting closer.

I love a good action movie, but Transformers was fatally boring. I fell asleep. No joke.

Posted by: marya at April 15, 2009 1:52 PM

60 days? I'm SO starting a countdown!

Wheee!

When has Spielberg ever been wrong?

A.I.

Posted by: figgy at April 15, 2009 2:30 PM

Transformers is dung.

As you say, the "best" Michael Bay movie is a meaningless qualifier.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 15, 2009 3:54 PM

Regarding Crystal Skull, Spielberg and Lucas are equally at fault. We spent so many years hearing how they would make a new Indy film if and only if all three of them - Harrison, Steven, and George - signed off and agreed the script was worthy. That piece of crap was most immediately at fault on a screenplay level, and they both signed off on it. Hence, they are both to blame. (And what made what ended up on screen so much more obviously worthy than the famously rejected Darabont version is completely beyond me. The Darabont version is marginally better, but they share so much common stupidity that I don't understand where they thought the improvement was.)

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 15, 2009 3:57 PM

A.I. could have been so effing cool if Kubrick had done it himself and never handed the project over to Spielberg. I lost interest at some point in Rouge City and spent the rest of the movie hoping mecha-boy would malfunction. I agree with twig--it should have ended under the ocean but for a TOTALLY different reason. I didn't want that robo-kid and his freaky fucking bear to make it any further.

I just wish Spielberg had ditched the fuzzy touchy feely creepy ending and left in all of the Gigilo Joe sex scenes that Kubrick had intended to use.

But I suppose since Kubrick handpicked Spielberg to take over the movie, he must have had an inkling as to what would become of it. Who am I to judge?

Posted by: superEdna at April 15, 2009 4:02 PM

Regarding A.I., it worked for me. *shrug* I think it combines some of the best elements of Spielberg and Kubrick. Anyway, I understand it's not for everyone, and there's no debating that Spielberg is hit-or-miss. But he still has some moments of absolute greatness. Not only did I enjoy A.I., but I thought Catch Me If You Can and Munich were both great. And the first two-thirds of War Of The Worlds (but only the first two-thirds) were pretty damn good.

Then he goes and confuses me with Crystal Skull, Lost World, etc. I suspect he still has some movies in him that will be more universally praised.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 15, 2009 4:09 PM

Ah shit, twig! I hope this is just an unfounded rumour but with the level of innovation and ingenuity in Hollywood decreasing every year...

Geeze. Thundercats? Guess it's only a matter of time before Galaxy Rangers and Brave Star get tagged for live action ruin.

Childhood cartoons should stay where they are beloved. In our childhood memories.

Posted by: Four Eyes at April 15, 2009 4:47 PM

what was that? renny harlin is helming a silverhawks flick?


c'mon c'mon interweb...pick up my rumor and run with it.

Posted by: gp at April 15, 2009 7:02 PM

Silverhawks=Awesome. I had a crush on Melodia.

I can't believe Bay will be able to top the high comedy of a robot "pissing" on John Turturro.

Posted by: stryker1121 at April 16, 2009 9:29 PM


















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