Michael Bay either gets one point for blunt honesty, or loses one for being jealous: You decide.
On his official forums, Mr. Bay came out and spoke as if he and his upcoming film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are already the King of this year’s summer movies, and they’re just sitting and waiting for all the other films to get their promotional material out so they can then shatter it all with theirs.
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The following is the post he made:
“Okay it’s time to turn up the heat on Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen. We’ve waited low in the weeds letting all the summer movies get their stuff out. We’ve seen the great year end movies, and watched the upcoming clips of the upcoming summer fare. We’ve seen certain movies coming out even try to duplicate Transformer size robots in their ads. Please, come on.
Well, I promise you we will rock your world with Transformers 2. The fans wanted ROBOTS KICKING ASS – well we got it. Today we are releasing the teaser poster and soon the onslaught will continue with a steady drum beat until June 26th.
I’ll keep you informed.
Bay”
I can’t say he’s wrong when it comes to calling out what he’s obviously referencing as Terminator: Salvation in trying to copy giant robots and other cybertronian-looking vehicles in their film and trailer. It is a good point and it’s been commonly thought of and commented on in several previous Terminator stories here on Screen Rant: In the article about the teaser trailer, in a story on two new images from Terminator: Salvation, and on a story on the concept art for the film.
From the motorcycle Decepticons, to the Hydrobot that looks like Skorpinok’s tail, to the giant Harvester, a giant bipedal killing machine that has two red eyes (which I think is stupid and you can read about why here), Terminator: Salvation is really changing the units of the future from what we saw in scenes from the first two Terminator movies. It is also reported that the movie will feature 10 brand new Terminator units.
That being said, the original Terminator films did include giant mechanical Terminator units with tank trends instead of legs so it is not the size of the units featured in Terminator: Salvation, it’s more of the look of several of them that we’ve seen in the marketing blitz.
Do you think McG is trying to cash in on using the style of Transformers, or is Bay just trying to promote his own project?
Terminator Salvation hits theaters May 22, 2009 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen debuts June 26, 2009.
Source: The Official Forum of Michael Bay
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66 Comments
I frankly hated “Transformers.” To me, Bay took what started as a kids franchise and turned it into something I wasn’t comfortable taking my kids to see.
The biggest challenge facing both the Transformers and Terminator sequels isn’t in the effects. Frankly, I suspect both will be just fine, and all the fuss over this T4 copying Transformers nonsense is nothing but publicity stunt. Frankly, I’d like to see both of these films work off of a decent script for a change. At least T1 and T2 had a script with some depth to it. Transformers definitely lacked that, and T3 was pretty rough, too (but still better than Transformers).
good point Bill,
There was no need for Transformers to have the retarded and non-funny sexual references – that ruins it for young ones who should be able to see it otherwise as its just machines smashing each other.
As for T3, I found no enjoyment in that – Transformers at least gave me some cool eye candy and epic music behind it. But you’re spot on in that we need massive improvement in both franchises this time around.
@Bill Blume
I’m with you. That reference in the film was totally uncalled for in a movie that parents would be bringing under 10 year olds to. I mean seriously, give me a freaking break. I *hated* that scene (among many other things in the film).
Vic
Quit hating on the humor from Transformers.
It was rated PG-13 for a reason. Not exactly Spider-Man or Fantastic Four.
Instead, a pretty kick @$$ movie and I’m sure the sequel will follow. Give them Hell Michael Bay.
@Adam
Sorry, I will continue to hate the humor. I get the PG-13 thing, but honestly, that whole masturbation bit felt like a “joke grenade” tossed into the movie – it just didn’t fit.
Vic
Oh THAT’s what you guys are talking about? My mind was a total blank on that, but yes, that scene was just awkward for the sake of being awkward. I mean, maybe if I was watching a sex comedy like… oh I don’t know, American Pie, it’d be hilarious because of the context. But in Transformers it was just way out of place. I have no kids so I wasn’t embarrassed when it came up (even when it came to viewing this movie with my parents), but it really wasn’t needed.
A lot of things that were not needed were in the movie and a lot of things that were needed wasn’t…
Adam, I personally enjoyed a lot of the humour except the following which were horrid, not funny, awkward and helped ruin the film:
-Masturbation scene
-Sharing Seatbelt scene in Bumblebee
-Shia showing his muscles in car
-Stupid cop on drugs
I don’t know who’s responsible for writing those scenes, but they aren’t funny, they don’t fit and they take away the movie from the 10 years and younger audience who should otherwise be able to watch this.
Bad writing/decision making/planning
You know, I don’t even remember any of those. I only saw the movie once and I guess I must not have been very entertained because I have already forgotten most of everything about the movie except for a few cool scenes like the scene with the A-10 Hogs…
The new terminator salvation trailer actually does look better than the transformers one. Bay should stop making sequels they always fail except 4 of course terminator 2. Don’t get me wrong Terminator 3 was really a disappointment to me manly because james camron didn’t direct it. Terminator 4 will be what I wanted terminator 3 to been like. James camron was involved with t4. I hope bay should consider making a Metal Gear Solid movie because t4 and transformers copied Kojima’s idea!
@Nasim Samad
Actually James Cameron wasn’t even slightly involved with T4, he’s come out as say he hasn’t read the script and doesn’t know much about the movie beyond what we do and what Sam Worthington’s told him and he believes it could go either way, but he hasn’t been involved in it at all.
And how exactly did they copy Kojima’s idea?
I don’t know, the trailer for T4 was pretty incredible. I mean, I’ve seen movies that had great trailers that totally sucked, but something tells me that this trailer is more entertaining than Transformers 2 (the entire movie) will be…
Why does every giant robot have to be considered a transformer!?! Hell, the one in Terminator doesn’t even transform!! or talk I think. And Terminator has been out much longer than Transformers. This argument is as stupid as the whole ‘Batman’ suing Batman. I also want to know how that went.
Mike, most likely they settled, it’s cheaper than actually going to court over something so stupid.
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