Comments on: What Michael Bay’s ‘Small Movie’ Is All About

By: How To Go Bigger With Transformers 3: Unicron - Screen Rant

How To Go Bigger With Transformers 3: Unicron - Screen Rant — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:03:07 +0000

[...] what was originally the plan with Bay seemingly set to work on his personal passion project “Pain & Gain” but then he met with Steven Spielberg to discuss the project in September and shortly thereafter, [...]

By: Bay Holds Cybertronian Meeting to Discuss Transformers 3 - Screen Rant

Bay Holds Cybertronian Meeting to Discuss Transformers 3 - Screen Rant — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:53:00 +0000

[...] Pain & Gain is Michael Bay’s personal project he has been intending to make for a while. The plan as we knew it before, was the he’d step away from giant robots and explosions for at least a little while to work on this smaller feature. It is based on a series of lengthy articles written by Pete Collins, published between December 23, 1999 and January, 2000 in the Miami New Times tiled Pain & Gain. [...]

By: Will Megan Fox Feud With Michael Bay Mean No Transformers 3? - Screen Rant

Will Megan Fox Feud With Michael Bay Mean No Transformers 3? - Screen Rant — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:50:45 +0000

[...] we do know is that Bay is taking a break from the franchise to work on a little more serious and a much smaller project. He’s spent the last three years working strictly on bringing the Cybertronian robots to the big [...]

By: Transformers 2: Cool New Images & A Dumb Rumor - Screen Rant

Transformers 2: Cool New Images & A Dumb Rumor - Screen Rant — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:38:14 +0000

[...] this with no justification. We’ve known for months that Bay wanted time off after this to make a small movie, which we wrote about a while ago, then he’d likely get back to the robot franchise afterwards. [...]

By: Matt K

Matt K — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:30:04 +0000

i dont know about this, i still dont think Bay is capable of making a small movie especially after seeing the new footage from ROTF, but im willing to give the guy a chance

By: Andy S

Andy S — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:52:15 +0000

Sounds like it’s going to have action and hot nekkid women in it. Sounds like a winner!

By: charles darwin

charles darwin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:26:09 +0000

What type of control does Bay have over most people? Why can’t ANYONE come right out and SAY that Bay CAN’T do character development? No, instead you hear, “he isn’t very good at it,” or “he could use some improvement.” I guess people can’t admit that all he can do is SFX, because then if they unconditionally love his movies, they have to go into a rant of lies about what makes them so “completely great.” Bay is a SFX hack. There, I said it, so let’s move on to topics that concern REAL directors.

(BOOM) happy now?

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:38:16 +0000

I think the funniest part of this film is going to be that Bay made it. It’s probably going to be so bad that you will laugh. Lets face it his high budget action films are bad, but at least there are some really cool action scenes. It’s gonna be everything he is bad at and not one big of the one thing he can actually do.

By: Joshua Saval

Joshua Saval — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:56:41 +0000

True about Bay not being the best with character development.
I say he should make the movie and see what happens.

Will it be good or bad? We will find out and he will learn a lesson about his film making.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:31:50 +0000

Sounds like a character driven movie, or maybe he’ll just focus on the torture and the other crimes to keep the shock value high throughout the film. Because making character driven movies are not exactly his forte…