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While epic in scope, Michael Bay's last three Transformers movies have been criticized in the past for their few hokey moments. (Giant robot testicles come to mind...) However, that might not be the case for Transformers 4, which Bay recently stated is going for a more serious tone.

"I wanted the first [three] Transformers to be very suburban and less cool," the director told Yahoo! Movies while talking about next year's fourth Transformers installment. "This is a much more cinematic one. I focused on keeping this one slick. There won't be any goofiness in this one. We went a bit too goofy [on the last one]."


Of course, it won't all be grim 'n' gritty. Mark Wahlberg's character, for instance, plays a "wacky inventor" who is turned off by his daughter's new race car-driving boyfriend -- not exactly the most grounded premise, on paper. Perhaps Bay is more referring to the Transformers themselves and their storyline.

On what brought him back to direct Transformers 4, Bay said, "It was the Transformers ride [at Universal Studios]. It was seeing this two-and-a-half hour line, with all these kids lined up." Indeed, a literal thrill ride is the way to any action-fimmaker's heart.

Transformers: Age of Extinction hits theaters on June 27, 2014.

I wanted the first [three] Transformers to be very suburban and less cool," the director told Yahoo! Movies while talking about next year's fourth Transformers installment. "This is a much more cinematic one. I focused on keeping this one slick. There won't be any goofiness in this one. We went a bit too goofy [on the last one].

cruizerdave wrote:The "goofiness" will be gone. However, the assaultive level of ignorance will remain.

Convoy wrote:My dream movie is an adaptation of the first three episodes of G1 "More than Meets the Eye." (and having nothing to do with Mike Bay, Alex or Roberto.) My dream trilogy would then probably include adaptations of The Ultimate Doom and Megatron's Master Plan. I'd have the next trilogy start with an adaptation of The Transformers: The Movie. Y'know, introduce Unicron, kill off Optimus, (at least don't bring him back from the dead in the same damn movie!) hand the reigns off to Magnus to have Hot Rod become the new Prime... you know the story. This all takes place in the 80's by the way.

Blozor wrote:Seriously? He has movies with Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, The Fallen, Sentinel Prime, Shockwave, and he waits to introduce the Dinobots -- basically giant robot morons to promise no goofiness? Has he SEEN Transformers: The Movie from 1986?

RhA wrote:'No more goofyness'.

I distinctly remember a giant robot riding a giant robot dinosaur.

Sabrblade wrote:I'm not one to regularly defend the movies, but the following posts caught my eye:

Blozor wrote:Seriously? He has movies with Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, The Fallen, Sentinel Prime, Shockwave, and he waits to introduce the Dinobots -- basically giant robot morons to promise no goofiness? Has he SEEN Transformers: The Movie from 1986?

You do realize that, in like 75% of G1 fiction, the Dinobots are intelligent, right? Grimlock was even the LEADER of the Autobots (twice!) after Optimus died (twice!). The big dumb oaf from the cartoon is far from Grimlock's only persona.

Blozor wrote:Seriously? He has movies with Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, The Fallen, Sentinel Prime, Shockwave, and he waits to introduce the Dinobots -- basically giant robot morons to promise no goofiness? Has he SEEN Transformers: The Movie from 1986?

Ah well, serious Dinobot barbarians are cool, too, which is basically what the Dinobots are. The main reason, I think, Shockwave is depicted as Grimlock's main nemesis, because if there was ever a Decepticon you could call a wizard, Shockwave would be it.

If Michael Bay could actually write situational humor that wasn't embarrassing to everybody watching it, I wouldn't mind a little goofiness. He should take cues from the likes of Joss Whedon or James Roberts or A Lee Matinez or Simon Pegg if he wants to add some humor to his scripts, not whatever junior high school he's apparently going to.

EunuchRon wrote:Any time you see text in brackets, it's not a direct quote but implied and interpreted by the author. The [on the last one] was added by IGN; Those are not words from Bay himself.