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I was impressed with him when I found out he cut 30 percent of his income to make sure that the film was made in the US with his own crew. I like that loyalty, that he wants to use his own people even if it comes out of his pocket directly.

By heart he means money right?

Great, more humans.

Blozor wrote:Great, more humans.

No, not 'more' humans. He said not to make things bigger. So there won't be more humans, just the same people with the TFs guest starring again

Sounds like we're in for more humans, explosions, T&A, and not enough TFs, and zero character development for the Decepticons. Yippee.

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Robinson wrote:

E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

See? He's not the ego driven monster that everyone has him pegged to be. It's a shame.

And I'm glad he said what he said...I think he finally gets it now.

Well, listening to the movie commentary, hes still ego driven. But I think he did right by us with the first movie and will do even better with the 2nd!

You know, I didn't get that version of the movie, but I was curious....is his commentary pretty much 2 hours of fan bashing? Because that's what I can imagine it to be.

D-340 wrote:Sounds like we're in for more humans, explosions, T&A, and not enough TFs, and zero character development for the Decepticons. Yippee.

Lack of character development was also a problem in the first X-Men movie. The problem is that there are so many characters to develop, logically there isn't enough time to develop them. introduce them and give you a basic idea of their character in the first movie, further develop the storyline and characters in the second, and introduce Unicron and Primus in the third one. ANyone else think a CGI space battle between Primus and Unicron would be awesome?

Boy, some people sure do infer a lot of information from 3 little sentences that really don't say a whole lot.

Cool, nice to see Bay atually getting the feeling of the story and the characters, instead of just how many explosions or camera spazzing he has to have.

First-Aid wrote:

D-340 wrote:Sounds like we're in for more humans, explosions, T&A, and not enough TFs, and zero character development for the Decepticons. Yippee.

Lack of character development was also a problem in the first X-Men movie. The problem is that there are so many characters to develop, logically there isn't enough time to develop them. introduce them and give you a basic idea of their character in the first movie, further develop the storyline and characters in the second, and introduce Unicron and Primus in the third one. ANyone else think a CGI space battle between Primus and Unicron would be awesome?

Ok, yeah you got a point. Maybe I'm just jumping the gun. The disappointment of all the bonus content on the DVD has got me all burnt up about Bay's handling of TFs.

Don't forget the pee and masturbation humor- or the breasts neither! Heck, how about a peeing robot who turns into an aircraft carrier full of breasts! And the 'splosions!

Yeah, yeah- "keep the heart" 'lil bitches.

D-340 wrote:

First-Aid wrote:

D-340 wrote:Sounds like we're in for more humans, explosions, T&A, and not enough TFs, and zero character development for the Decepticons. Yippee.

Lack of character development was also a problem in the first X-Men movie. The problem is that there are so many characters to develop, logically there isn't enough time to develop them. introduce them and give you a basic idea of their character in the first movie, further develop the storyline and characters in the second, and introduce Unicron and Primus in the third one. ANyone else think a CGI space battle between Primus and Unicron would be awesome?

Ok, yeah you got a point. Maybe I'm just jumping the gun. The disappointment of all the bonus content on the DVD has got me all burnt up about Bay's handling of TFs.

I agree...the extra features on the DVD were really lame. We'll just let them make it up to us in the second movie.

BTW I have money on a resurrected Jazz in the sequel, thanks to a slowly regenerating AllSpark..

And the haters cried havok and let loose the dogs of complaining...

General Magnus wrote:And the haters cried havok and let loose the dogs of complaining...

And it's not scheduled for release for about 20 months.

I'll be biting my tongue a lot no doubt.

lodelco wrote:I'm all for keeping the magic and the heart but what is this about 'bigger'?

New Transformers, aircraft carrier and that rumour about Devestator...thats definitely big.

As much as I would love a Devestator, I don't think it's going to be that name seeing the DVD kept Brawl as Devestator and now everyone that isn't into the toys or keeps tabs on what's going on in the interwebs will be like "Why the hell is this guy named Devestator, that was the tank in the first one."

General Magnus wrote:And the haters cried havok and let loose the dogs of complaining...

What, you can't like a movie & still complain about it?

This is the internet....it was built on complaints & porn....get over it.

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

General Magnus wrote:And the haters cried havok and let loose the dogs of complaining...

What, you can't like a movie & still complain about it?

This is the internet....it was built on complaints & porn....get over it.

True...but which of the two made the most impact? My money's on porn...

First-Aid wrote:

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

General Magnus wrote:And the haters cried havok and let loose the dogs of complaining...

What, you can't like a movie & still complain about it?

This is the internet....it was built on complaints & porn....get over it.

True...but which of the two made the most impact? My money's on porn...

Well, there was Cullen getting into the movie....oh & Megatron....lots of things happened with him due to complaining....he got a better head for starters....not to mention even though Frank Welker wasn't Megs in the movie, he's been Megs for pretty much all other movie-related stuff such as the game & the prequel video that came with the movie.

I'm not saying complaining is always good, but in a lot of cases if there's enough of an outcry, people that care will hear it & at least take it into consideration when making a decision to go with one idea or another.

First-Aid wrote: Naaaa...more booms! More booms! more booms! Me want more BOOMS! And Bigger bots! bring on the noise! Make it rain! Give a glimpse of Cybertron! Show me the money! You got the Touch! Fire! Brimstone! Rivers and Seas boiling! 40 years of Darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes! Human Sacrifice! Dogs and Cats living together! Mass hysteria!!

Hell. Yeah.

So he's talked the talk, but can he walk the walk?

Like Robinson said, I wouldn't make too many assumptions on a 5-second interview. This is just the beginning. Who knows what else is gonna come.

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

General Magnus wrote:And the haters cried havok and let loose the dogs of complaining...

What, you can't like a movie & still complain about it?

That's true. Being able to see the positive and negative in both things we like and things we dislike is a good thing.

We do complain an awful lot, though!

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Robinson wrote:

E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

See? He's not the ego driven monster that everyone has him pegged to be. It's a shame.

And I'm glad he said what he said...I think he finally gets it now.

Well, listening to the movie commentary, hes still ego driven. But I think he did right by us with the first movie and will do even better with the 2nd!

You know, I didn't get that version of the movie, but I was curious....is his commentary pretty much 2 hours of fan bashing? Because that's what I can imagine it to be.

No way! He admitted alot that the fans were right on alot of stuff.

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Robinson wrote:

E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

See? He's not the ego driven monster that everyone has him pegged to be. It's a shame.

And I'm glad he said what he said...I think he finally gets it now.

Well, listening to the movie commentary, hes still ego driven. But I think he did right by us with the first movie and will do even better with the 2nd!

You know, I didn't get that version of the movie, but I was curious....is his commentary pretty much 2 hours of fan bashing? Because that's what I can imagine it to be.

No way! He admitted alot that the fans were right on alot of stuff.

Really? wow. That might be worth getting someday then. I ended up getting the version that had the prequel movie, & it only came with the standard version. Does anybody know if the commentary is on the HD-DVD version?

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Robinson wrote:

E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

See? He's not the ego driven monster that everyone has him pegged to be. It's a shame.

And I'm glad he said what he said...I think he finally gets it now.

Well, listening to the movie commentary, hes still ego driven. But I think he did right by us with the first movie and will do even better with the 2nd!

You know, I didn't get that version of the movie, but I was curious....is his commentary pretty much 2 hours of fan bashing? Because that's what I can imagine it to be.

No way! He admitted alot that the fans were right on alot of stuff.

Really? wow. That might be worth getting someday then. I ended up getting the version that had the prequel movie, & it only came with the standard version. Does anybody know if the commentary is on the HD-DVD version?

I bought the walmart version too, but when i opened it and saw the regular edition movie, i returned the movie and kept the prequal box part lol. Then I bought the target special edition one. Yeah, the HD one does have the commentary.

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

Toyotus Superion wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Robinson wrote:

E! Online caught up with Transformers director Michael Bay at Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards and asked about the sequel:

So, where do you go with it? How do you up the stakes?
It's not about upping it. It's about still keeping the heart.

Any new characters coming in?
Oh, yeah…a lot of fun stuff. I keep telling the writers, remember the heart and the magic, remember the heart and the magic. It's not about being bigger.

DreamWorks is targeting a June 26, 2009 release date for the follow-up.

See? He's not the ego driven monster that everyone has him pegged to be. It's a shame.

And I'm glad he said what he said...I think he finally gets it now.

Well, listening to the movie commentary, hes still ego driven. But I think he did right by us with the first movie and will do even better with the 2nd!

You know, I didn't get that version of the movie, but I was curious....is his commentary pretty much 2 hours of fan bashing? Because that's what I can imagine it to be.

No way! He admitted alot that the fans were right on alot of stuff.

Really? wow. That might be worth getting someday then. I ended up getting the version that had the prequel movie, & it only came with the standard version. Does anybody know if the commentary is on the HD-DVD version?

I bought the walmart version too, but when i opened it and saw the regular edition movie, i returned the movie and kept the prequal box part lol. Then I bought the target special edition one. Yeah, the HD one does have the commentary.

Oh good. I was planning on getting that with an HD-dvd upgrade for my 360 for christmas....If I can scrape the funds together to do that....