Comments on: McG Responds To Michael Bay, Plus Some New Rumors

By: Michael Bay Discusses Transformers 2 + The New Imax Poster « Entertainmentmagic’s Weblog

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:02:09 +0000

[...] it is. Michael Bay’s honest and fun attitude came through clearly over the last few months in his public feud with director McG, debating over their respective Robot-focused movie franchises, where Bay basically accused McG of [...]

By: Michael Bay Discusses Transformers 2 + The New Imax Poster - Screen Rant

Michael Bay Discusses Transformers 2 + The New Imax Poster - Screen Rant — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:50:07 +0000

By: SR Picks [Video]: John Connor vs. Terminators & Transformers - Screen Rant

SR Picks [Video]: John Connor vs. Terminators & Transformers - Screen Rant — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:15:38 +0000

[...] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen updates, or both – Then you’ve probably heard of the little robot franchise feud that the directors of the two respective films, McG and Michael Bay that’s been going on for a [...]

By: Terminator: Salvation Review. | The Blog of Weigy.

Terminator: Salvation Review. | The Blog of Weigy. — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:50:07 +0000

[...] With those in mind, these robots look absolutely awesome! Michael Bay’s Transformers may have helped remind recent American mainstream filmmakers to employ giant robots. What’s gladly not shared between the two is a subtle but good attention to construction. These robots look a lot more believable than Michael Bay’s renditions which had parts looking like a collage made up of random parts (though convincingly rendered). I entered the key words: “michael bay transformers a pile of junk” and I found fellow internet strangers who share my opinion on the look. Here’s the picture comparison provided by the site. [...]

By: Jim Boe

Jim Boe — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:54:30 +0000

I don’t think Bay has grounds to say that McG is copying ideas, Bay has a pretender..a robot disgiused as a human…hhmmmm that sounds like a terminator to me.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:26:41 +0000

About the feud between MCG and Michael Bay, i must say Bay is being childish. Bay must not seen Cameron’s first two terminator films that had big robots called Hunter Killers i think that had no legs but were big robots on the ground. and the standing robot in Terminator Salvation really aint that different. Though i enjoyed Bay’s transformers film, he still disappointed me by not doin his research on the transformers names. anyways, bottom line is Bay is whining over nothin. he couldnt possibly be worried about compitition over two franchises that got nothin to do to one another.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:34:04 +0000

I had to wiki what the Electric Company is, lol.

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:43:42 +0000

@ Ken

My reading comprehension skills are getting a lot better since I picked up those two volumes of the Electric Company.. A lot more than ten bucks though

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:39:34 +0000

… Yes, I understand it was a joke, just saying the joke would have actually been funny if it made sense, which it doesn’t, thus this quote from my post:

“so it’s kind of a joke that makes no sense”

I’m pretty sure I just acknowledged that it was a joke. But I’ll take your ten buckaroos anyway.

Or maybe you should spend it to buy yourself reading comprehension skills…

OOooohhhhhhh…ok, sorry, that was corny… *EPIC FAIL*

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:00:18 +0000

Geez Ken..send me your address so I can send you ten bucks to go buy a sense of humor..just a joke man..just a joke..and I disagree, the blessing thing is just a pile of junk…

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:21:33 +0000

I agree – Cameron’s blessing is the only one that actually matters and is an indicator of the quality of the film.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:29:10 +0000

And getting Arnold’s blessing would be nice. He promoted T3 because he was in the movie, so obviously he’s going to promote it. But he’s not in this film, if he says good things about it, it might actually be true. I really do remember something about Arnold saying T3 was not a good movie at some point after the movie had finished its theatrical run. Maybe I’ll look for it when I get home from work.

But definitely if it gets Cameron’s blessing that would mean something.

I think the purpose of all of this “asking for blessings” BS is not in the fear of offending anyone, it’s for publicity. Fans of the original (real) series T1 and T2 that were let down by the atrocity that is T3 would probably be skeptical of T4. He’s trying to “win” them back by going “look, the people behind the originals think this is good, it’s not going to be crap like T3.”

I don’t see how a blessing from Snow White would accomplish this, so it’s kind of a joke that makes no sense, but whatever…

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:40:06 +0000

I thought I remember after the movie was done in theaters and there was no real need to promote it anymore that Arnold actually admitted that he thought the movie wasn’t good… (T3 I mean)

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:19:12 +0000

WHy does McG need Arnold’s blessing for this new Terminator movie..the last one sucked monkey dandriff and that had Arnold’s blessing too…Geez why are they afraid to say they can make a decent Terminator movie without the blessings of Cameron, Arnold, Hamilton, etc ,etc

WHy not get the blessings of Edward Furlong (the most annoying aspect of the T2), Robert Patrick, Joe Morton, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes, Earl Boen(the only member other than Arnold to appear in all three films), Ronald McDOnald, the Burger King, TDK, Snow White and whoever else they think they need to make this film so no one previously attached to the franchise gets offended because they weren’t asked for a blessing..

Just make a good movie and you’ll have nothing to worry about blessings from anyone except the people who buy tickets to see it…

By: WAR-MACHINE

WAR-MACHINE — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:59:17 +0000

only 1 way to solve this ROBOT-SHOWDOWN !

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:19:31 +0000

Yah Adam, Bay isn’t afraid to speak his mind, unfortunately he’s also not afraid to make a bunch of crappy movies for us to suffer through…

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:08:47 +0000

Pop quiz folks. What movie starring giant transforming robots used the Terminator theme during a freeway fight scene?

Transformers

By: Ironghost

Ironghost — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:11:14 +0000

I was going to say it should be easy to find previous art.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:34:49 +0000

@PhotoShopLifter Dan

Maybe he could talk to Fox? I’m sure they can invent a past copyright to have been infringed upon.

By: PhotoShopLifter Dan

PhotoShopLifter Dan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:07:18 +0000

I wonder…if big robots are ripoffs of Transformers (as Michael “Cries-like-a-BAY-bee” Bay would have us believe), then he should sue the makers of The Iron Giant, all the Power Rangers series, etc. for copyright infringement!