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kookaburra wrote:

Prime Riblet wrote:So it is wrong for Bay to do things that actually sell tickets? I don't think Bay has ever lied about that!

So you're saying that men are actively repulsed by quality female characters, and stay away from movies that include them? You don't have a high opinion of men, do you?

Also: It's very interesting that the people who have been griping the loudest about Fox's acting skills are totally mum about her being replaced with someone who is not an actress.

You read a lot more into my statement than was actually there. However, since you brought it up, the statement has nothing to do with opinions of men, women, boys, girls, cat, dogs, etc. It is a fact that if you have a pretty human as opposed to an ugly human in a Hollywood film, the likelihood of the movie with the pretty human making money is statistically greater. If you don't believe that, then you are very mistaken. For the record, I could care less. Bay could have asked Kathy Bates to be a love interest of Sam W and it wouldn't make a difference to me. This is a TF movie, not The English Patient.

I think it's funny that people purporting to be geniuses are failing to realise that no matter how smart a person may or may not be, it has little to do with what type of entertainment they enjoy. It's like assuming that two people with a similar IQ are going to like the same food, or have similar taste in music.

Now, since we're on the subject of smarts, it's pretty obvious Bay and Fox have fallen out whilst discussing the merits of matrix string theory vs perturbative string theory. Shia's safe, because he stayed out of it, laughing at them because he's a kaluza-klein type of guy.



(and yeah, I just skim-read a wiki page)

Maybe when Bay leaves, Fox will be back for T4. Maybe Sam will be a two-women kind of man. Hmm...love triangle. LOL

maybe the new girl is a robot, like a pretender or hologram. maybe shes arcee

I'm one of the few people who will actually miss Megan Fox. She's not a great actress, but she did all right for a blockbuster action movie. And this new girl seems pretty tacky, smoking a cigarette on the set. I don't get why so many people hate Megan, she's certainly not as obnoxious as Lindsey Lohan.

AutobotTrainer wrote:

Di Bonaventura added that he thinks "Transformers 3" will likely be the last Bay-helmed installment of the series, which put a lot of bums in seats but never made the critics happy. Paramount and the toy company Hasbro might continue with a new series of movies with another director.

"It may not be the end of the line of "Transformers" for Hasbro and Paramount," he said. " (For) Michael, I'm sure it is. He's spent a lot of years working on one thing."

This has made my weekend! Greatest thing I've heard all day, nay, all week!

Here's to hope for the future!

Yeah, just another example of how the important stuff doesn't make the headlines. I couldn't care less about Megan Fox or whether there's even a female character in the movie at all, but a new director and a new direction for the movie franchise would be great. I sure hope whoever takes over understands that simplicity is a key component of good art and design.

Prime Riblet wrote:

kookaburra wrote:Team Megan!

She's well rid of that asshole.

Also: replacing her with a VS model? Way to not even PRETEND your female characters aren't just there for eye-candy, Bay.

So it is wrong for Bay to do things that actually sell tickets? I don't think Bay has ever lied about that!

Exactly. If the movie hadn't done as well as the had finacialy, then we wouldn't have a third, or second movie for that matter.

I don't know whay people are complaining about the new chick's acting ability anyways. Aren't peoples biggest complaints about there being to much human envolvment anyways? Also, less known actors get paid less than big name ones. Whitch means more money to CGI department for more robot time, action scenes etc.