You know they asked the guy to direct and his first response was "i ain't doing that stupid toy movie!" you would think they'd look elsewhere at that point!
This probably has to do with the fact that Steven Spielberg, who was exectuive producer for years on the first, believed that Bay was the perfect choice and stuck with him in mind. Bay thought about doing the movie for a while and soon enough went to "Transformers school" at Hasbro to leanr more about the myhtos.
It is true that the first movie wasn't the best movie of all time and could've been better but by the end of the day what other hollywood hotshot director would've accepted the job? I do not know how many other director's were offered prior to Bay but if they had done it would the movie be just a fun a flick as Bay's? Would they have been more pasisonite? Would they have put that much effort with it? Bay actually was up to it and made an extremely fun movie that entetrained a lot of people, myself included.
As for him not having a clue to what he's doing, many people who have worked with him would disagree with that notion. For instance, a firend of mine met Mark Ryan who voiced Bumble Bee for the first movie and Mr. Ryan had nothing but praise for Bay and told him a story of what had happened one time on set-During the filming of the backyard sequence Ryan recalled some of the set guys and actors weren't sure how it was going to go and Bay knew the exact camera moves he wanted, what he wanted to use, lens, the whole lot and he had it all planned in his head. Mark Ryan also said that anyone who thinks Michale Bay doesn't have a clue to what he's making, relaly don't know what they're talking about. Morgan Sheppard, who played Sam's great grandfather Captian Witwicky, said at an event in the UK( as my firend had told me) that Bay "Can do the crews job better than they can." My friend also had the fortune of meeting with Ethan Phillips who was in The Island, Phillips said that Bay gives a 110% when he's working on his movies. So going by what my friend has told me, Bay knows exatcly what movie he's making and knows his audience.
As for every interview being almost a lie, while I do agree some of his interivews are a little "huh?" he did sum up the firts movie well on the HBO making of featurette that it was " a VERY funny movie with excitement and wondemrent to it and it brings out the kid in ya."
By those choice of words and personal perspective I would say he did just that. I thought it was very funny and it had wondemrnet to it, I though tit was ecxiting and the child in me was brought out. But to each their own on the quality of the first.
I for one, like the movie designs. They do look more alien and realistic at best and create a good edge to it. And yes I do hope we get a great majority of the TF's int he sequel the budget itslef is what kept from being 50/50 and with the the bigger budget that could very well be done.
I'm only complaining because its not too late to give the fans what they want on TF2 & TF3. Both movies and dvds
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