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by **MAYTAG** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:52 am

I can't remember where I read this but Steven as Bay was being interviewed was reigned in or told by Spielberg to hold off on the number of Transformers to be used in the movie. Possibly due to his knowledge of the amount of TF's ?? I dont know but sounds like the trilogy syndrome was in full effect since SS was already a Jp two timer?

by **Buttz** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:58 pm

Maybe Spielberg was hoping that by giving Bay less effects he would rely less on them to prop up the movie and instead focus more on pacing and character development. No such luck unfortunately.

News Credits: 11 · by **Robinson** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:02 pm

Buttz wrote:Maybe Spielberg was hoping that by giving Bay less effects he would rely less on them to prop up the movie and instead focus more on pacing and character development. No such luck unfortunately.

Or perhaps they wanted to start with the core characters for an introductory story and then focus on the others in other movies. Not everything about this movie has to be a bash at Bay

by **KingEmperor** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:36 pm

I remembered something like that, too, but I think it was when Spielberg told Bay to hold back on showing too much of the robots and their transformations in the trailers. He wanted to keep the movie highly anticipated.

by **MAYTAG** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:46 pm

my post was not a start to bash Bay!!!!! I was simply recalling a circumstance where I thought I read that the scope of the Transformers was such that the desire to think one shot at this so lets open the floodgates on all bots. ILM would have been overwhelmed remember no one has attemped a live action TF film so cmon!!! Anyway Steven was and is a Director in an elite class of storytellers who does believe Like myself its what you don't see but what you have to imagine, that is so effective in the sci fi suspense genre. Grats to Bay though good film overall Long live Starcream and bring on Shockwave and Grimlock!!!!!

by **Ballistic90** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:50 pm

In order to make a movie about this type of out-there concept, you need 2 things:

1. Careful pacing.

and

2. The movie needs to be grounded in some reality.

You can't expose everything immediately. It needs the chance to build into it. This was still too slow, without enough on the Transformers themselves, but the people were pretty well fleshed out.

And yes, there were a lot of people in it. This is because it's on Earth. You need to have it based on people as WELL as the Transformers or it would have lost a lot of it's appeal.