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Transformers 2 IMAX Cut Slightly Longer!

June 8, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen director Michael Bay has posted the following on his official message board about finishing the film, the scale of the movie, and what to expect from the IMAX version:

Hey everyone,

In Japan today. After a month and half seven days a week most days going till midnight me and my crew have just about finished Transformers. I have never seen such a level of dedication from every crew member in a movie before.

Even today after the press in Japan and right before the premiere tonight, I have to sneak out to a digital house to approve the last few effect shots.

It has been a long hard road, but really fun one to travel. What you will notice that is strikingly different than Transformers 1, is the level of animation detail. The robot characters (42 in all), you really can feel empathy for them. What is also very different is the sheer scale of the movie. We have been very tight holding back much of the best imagery in commercials and trailers.

The way to see this movie is on IMAX. Never before has there been 4k rendered character animation shot on full IMAX 70 mm film. This is a first and the results are stunning. You will see Optimus Prime in a few shots where he is actually perfectly to scale on the IMAX 50 foot tall screens.

For IMAX, I created a slightly longer cut with more robot fighting. Four scenes were shot on IMAX cameras so the screen will fill the full IMAX screen for these scenes.

Haters beware.

Michael

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COMMENTS (42)

Posted by:

Deadpool

June 8, 2009

Wow. Yet ANOTHER reason to watch this in IMAX. Boo yah!

Posted by:

dylansdad

June 8, 2009

Well, that settles it. IMAX it is.

Posted by:

jonni

June 8, 2009

Harry Potter 6 opens july 15th!!!

Posted by:

GK1

June 8, 2009

this movie will be full of stupid mindless action!

and it will be AWESOME.

/sarcasm

Posted by:

heretic

June 8, 2009

ahhh hell ... its 4 hours to the nearest IMAX for me and now i have to phucin drive down to one.

sigh

Posted by:

Brian

June 8, 2009

hahah 'haters beware', even Bay is aware of his haters...and I love it!

Posted by:

Hurray

June 8, 2009

I can't wait for poorly shot action scenes, vomit inducing comedy, Bays trademark racism, Shia Ledouche and Megan Fox trying to act, ugly peeing and farting robots all set to Link'n Park soundtrack

AWESOME A DUMB MOVIE WITH MEANINGLESS SOULLESS RANDOM ACTION SCENES I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by:

Masked_Awesome

June 8, 2009

Ugh. Kay, I'm WAY psyched for Transformers 2. I did indeed love the first one. But on my GOODNESS, Bay is so lame. Directors need to learn that they're here to tell a story, and to just STICK with the story they choose to tell. No extended cuts, alternate endings, deleted scenes... it's SO bogus and money-oriented.
Chris Nolan is the man. He essentially DOESN'T do deleted scenes or any of that garbage. And his movie in IMAX was... you know... THE SAME as the one in conventional theaters (minus the film size).

Posted by:

PTO

June 8, 2009

Haha, Bay rules.

Will probably still just see this on regular instead of IMAX. Sometimes too big of a screen doesn't help, I like to see the whole screen in front of me.

Posted by:

^_^

June 8, 2009

Masked_Awesome,

Congratulations on contradicting yourself in that post.

While you're at it, go suck some more of Nolan's wang while you're at it. ;)