EDIT: I just wanted to be clear that I think Michael Bay just spoke too soon in his message board post, and that I can understand his frustrations in that Transformers won’t be released on Blu-ray considering PlayStation 3 owners would be the primary purchasers of any high-definition release of the film considering that is the Transformers audience. However, as I posted in a comment below, I wish he would have called out the actual format war on a whole and ridiculed how stupid it all is and how it only hurts the consumers. That would have sounded less self-serving and would have made more sense.
Would someone please tell me the classic film that Michael Bay directed that you just can’t help from putting in your DVD player time and time again? I consider myself a Bay apologist since I actually like Bad Boys, Armageddon and even Bad Boys II, but Transformers was a mess, I don’t really like The Rock and I will say that at least the first half of The Island was pretty good, but it falls all kinds of apart.
So, tell me where Bay gets off threatening that he won’t be doing Transformers 2 now that Paramount will only offer the film on HD DVD and not Blu-ray? Or at least that is what a deleted post on his message boards once said.
ComingSoon and LatinoReview both quote the now deleted post to read:
I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks! They were progressive by having two formats. No Transformers 2 for me!
News flash for Michael Bay… Transformers was not a good movie. Transformers was a movie with a couple of cool scenes and great special effects, that is about it. Hence the 57% at RottenTomatoes, and don’t tell me it is because critics don’t like these kinds of movies because Spider-Man 2 managed over 90%, Batman Begins earned 84% and X2 scored an 87%. They are all in that same genre, everyone likes these movies if they are done well with a good story. The good story part is where Transformers fell short, that and the adolescent hijinks.
Even larger than that though, does Bay really think that just because Transformers won’t be offered on Blu-ray is reason enough not to do a sequel to a movie that just made over $300 million in the States alone? Or is it that he is feeling slighted since Steven Spielberg‘s films will be the only Paramount/DreamWorks titles to be released on both HD DVD and Blu-ray? Guess what Mr. Bay you are not Spielberg.
Spielberg has won an Oscar for Best Director twice, Bay has never been nominated. Spielberg’s major franchise stars Harrison Ford in a role called Indiana Jones; Bay’s franchise stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence featuring the classic line, “Shit just got real.” Spielberg’s most famed historical flick is Schindler’s List while Bay lays claim to Pearl Harbor. Do I really need to go any further?
All in all, I don’t mind Michael Bay I just am surprised he would even consider such a whiny little post on his forums, but it seems better judgment came of him (or his staffers more likely) and his impulsive response was deleted.
As much as I disliked Transformers I still want to see what a second one will be like and I fully expect Bay to be behind it all, especially since I haven’t heard any Bad Boys III rumblings and the only other film on Bay’s horizon is 2012: The War for Souls, which we haven’t heard much from since its original announcement.
