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maximus primus wrote:

There will never be an extended edition.

that's funny i seem to recall george lucas saying the same thing about the origanal dvd releases of the star wars trilogy and he released it, i wouldn't be suprised if he releases the extended edition, maybe when tf2 get ready to come out if a few years but i wouldn't give up just yet. this is just my opinion and i don't know if it will actually happen so don't put all your stoke if my words.

Lucas bankrolled his films, all but SW. But I believe he owns the rights to that too. Bottom line, 20th Century distributes, Lucas owns and calls the shots. Bay's just the director and has no say, Hasbro and Paramount do. However, I just don't see the last market for multiple releases of Transformers so if they're going to release this material, it better be sooner than later.

I'm not going to worry about this too much until I know what exaclty this 2 or 5 minutes of footage is. Maybe they found 5 minutes of footage where they didn't shake the camera like crazy.

He is going Lucas on us

Expect him to put it on DVD in about a year or so

Darth Bombshell wrote:Well, looks like I have another thing I won't be able to defend Michael Bay against when it comes to fanboyism against the movie...

Truth be told, this is not Bay's decision, nor would he have any say in the matter.

Dreamworks are doing the right thing to make more $$$, release the "Special Edition" version alongside the plain-old version now, let everyone snap it up for Christmas.

Then release an upgraded edition in the next few years, sometime near the release of TF2. Transformers 1.5 or something.

i_amtrunks wrote:Truth be told, this is not Bay's decision, nor would he have any say in the matter.

Maybe so, but that's not how it looks.

...........how dissapointing...

Right....Then he'll be glad tell us that there'll be a 10-minute extended footage when the 2-disc collector's extended blu-ray version comes 2 years after we'd all bought the Oct-16 version and a few trips to IMAX.

This is about as craptastic as the botcon seekers release. Sure it's a great incintive for people that are fortunate enough to have an IMAX nearby or have the capabilities to go to one, but sucks for everybody that just buys their TF movie at the local store.

whoever is in charge of whether or not there'll b an xtended ver is frkn nuts if they decide not 2 do it, it's like they'd b throwin $$$ in teh trash

Haha, Bay is so full of it. For sure there will be an extended version.

If there are going to be deleted scenes on the DVD, they might be the same as the bonus IMAX footage.

Though I really do want to see the IMAX version just for the ginormous screen.

RGM-79 GM wrote:I agree, Bay isn't at fault for eveything.

Him referring to the DVD as the definitive copy of Transformers after having just said the IMAX scenes won't be included in it is hardly about to dissuade people from that belief. Talk about a complete contradiction.

I like his movies generally, but what with his recent bluray/hddvd comments, maybe he should just quit with updating his website and just direct.

Stop putting your foot in it Mike, and just stick with what you're good at.

The DVD may very well be the "definitive" copy because it was the general release version. Most extended versions dont get better with the new scenes in place.

Also Bay may not be the final say on the DVD but he may be passing on info straight from Dreamworks/ Paramount.

I have a hard time trusting Michale Bay's decisions, especially when it comes to marketting. His blatant product placement and the nonsense about blu-ray v. HD has seriously tainted my already bleak image of him. I'd say that MY definitive version of the movie would have a feature that would stop the camera from shaking. Another cool feature would be having Frank Welker dubbed over Hugo Weaving and Cullen over Ironhide. While we're at it I think it would be cool to completely redub the 'bots and 'cons and even add dialogue into some of the fight scenes. There are plenty of oppurtunities considering you can't see what's going on anyways so you wouldn't notice a character's 'mouth' not moving. I'm going to completely ignore Bay's nonsense about there never being any extended version. It's just a ploy to sell as many copies of each version as possible. It's not his fault, unfortunately. That's just the type of society we live in. The fact that people will buy into it is what feeds the monster.

Pauk