Michael Bay Update: 102 Days Left

first post yay

Can I shake this mans hand?

mattyc1007 wrote:first post yay

This isn't gametrailers. Post something relevant next time or I'll ninja kick your ass.

oh yeah we dont really need to know how long till it comes out because weve got our on clock right here on seibs

TheMuffin wrote:This isn't gametrailers.

I found this far funnier than I probably should have.

More action than he's ever put into a movie? Aren't Bay's films all action?

Anyway, at least we don't have any cry babies here.

I remember when that timer had over 500 or 600 days on it. Man that was a long ass time ago already. I can't believe that we've known about this movie for almost 4 years now. Hell, I can't believe that Seibertron.com will be 7 years old this summer already. We'll have to send the site off to 2nd Grade!

TheMuffin wrote:Can I shake this mans hand?

mattyc1007 wrote:first post yay

This isn't gametrailers. Post something relevant next time or I'll ninja kick your ass.

Bwaahahahaha

Hey if anything, Bay is brutally honest. I don't care what he thinks of the fans... it doesn't bug me for some reason. I don't think I'll ever meet the guy so it would be silly of me to hold a grudge against him.

TheMuffin wrote:Can I shake this mans hand?

mattyc1007 wrote:first post yay

This isn't gametrailers. Post something relevant next time or I'll ninja kick your ass.

bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as for the movie i'll pass judgement on july 4th =)

Hotrod wrote: We are still writing the robot voices. They talk about just 20 minutes of action at the end - yeah right. This is by far the most action I have ever put into a movie - I have 12 huge set pieces.

Awww yeah. The dialogue and characterization of the Transformers is so important that they haven't even written it yet! Take that all you haters who've been saying the robots are just going to be generic monsters whose personalities are irrelevant to the plot!

fuck YOU, BAY

Nemesis_Apoc wrote:fuck YOU, BAY

Yeah....Uncalled for. Would you like to take another swing at it?

Leonardo wrote:

TheMuffin wrote:This isn't gametrailers.

I found this far funnier than I probably should have.

More action than he's ever put into a movie? Aren't Bay's films all action?

Anyway, at least we don't have any cry babies here.

no cry babies. Ive seen like a million cry babies posts on here about the film. still good that the ROBOTS HAVE CHARACTER AND ARE NOT JUST A BUNCH OF MOVIE MONSTERS. HOW CAN YOU MAKE A TRANSFORMERS MOVIE WITH OUT ROBOTS WITH PERSONALLITYS WHAT DO YOU THINK HE IS FREAKING RETARTED. The only retards are the criers. This movie will be a masterpiece no matter how pathetic things get when it comes to fandom. really what is this critic central, for christ sake think possitive.

Well I wouldn't go as far as saying masterpiece. But it'll be a fun 2 hour ride.

bumblezzz wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

TheMuffin wrote:This isn't gametrailers.

I found this far funnier than I probably should have.

More action than he's ever put into a movie? Aren't Bay's films all action?

Anyway, at least we don't have any cry babies here.

no cry babies. Ive seen like a million cry babies posts on here about the film. still good that the ROBOTS HAVE CHARACTER AND ARE NOT JUST A BUNCH OF MOVIE MONSTERS. HOW CAN YOU MAKE A TRANSFORMERS MOVIE WITH OUT ROBOTS WITH PERSONALLITYS WHAT DO YOU THINK HE IS FREAKING RETARTED. The only retards are the criers. This movie will be a masterpiece no matter how pathetic things get when it comes to fandom. really what is this critic central, for christ sake think possitive.

Critic central? I think you're thinking of Tformers.com.

Well Bay you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Does every big shot in Hollywood have to think they're Master, Commander and overall dictator of what we should like and hate?
If he doesn't like people getting into an uproar about what he's doing then:
A) He shouldn't have picked Transformers.
B) He should have done by the book.
C) He shouldn't have tried to alienate us as another genre of nerds and discount whatever we had to say.
Seriously he's been in the movie business for how many years? I think he needs to get more of a grip.

At least Don tried somewhat to put up with our crap.

Sorry needed to vent just get a little tired of Bay's shenanigans. I know, I know, beating a dead horse...

What is the saying?

Cartman has a theme park, Micheal bay keeps getting to make movies, there is no god.

Is he taking lessons from george bush now?

"They talk about just 20 minutes of action at the end - yeah right."

What the hell does this mean? Is he saying that they talk through out the movie? Is he saying that the last twenty minutes they don't talk? I am confused.

"Sometimes up to 38 hours per frame."
Typical, we get to replace something good with something high tech. Why do I need to know that it took 38 hours for a frame? What does this say about the movie?

ive pretty much stayed away from bays site but have to admit the guy comes off as a total tool. way too defensive with a real " your either with me or my enemy" complex. i mean FFS grow up.

as to the film i too cant believe how quickly times gone by. literally less than 4 months to go (we wont get it july 4th in ireland ) so i'll probably get it first on pirate. but i am starting to get a good vibe about it. it wont look fecking anything like transformers but at least it'll have a mature approach to it and peter will bring a tear to my eye when he first starts talking. thats when i'll know if it works for me.

but have to say, my mates you loved TF as kids are fecking lost. showed them some pics on my phone of the line up and he was like "who!?!"

Acecool wrote:"Sometimes up to 38 hours per frame."
Typical, we get to replace something good with something high tech. Why do I need to know that it took 38 hours for a frame? What does this say about the movie?

That they're rolling out the best possible CGI to make the TF's as realistic and belieavable as possible.

Acecool wrote:What is the saying?

"They talk about just 20 minutes of action at the end - yeah right."

What the hell does this mean? Is he saying that they talk through out the movie? Is he saying that the last twenty minutes they don't talk? I am confused.

"[The critics] talk about [the previous script having] just about 20 minutes of action at the end — yeah right."

He's saying there will be a lot more action than the scripts we've seen, not that there will be a lot of action and no dialog.

You gotta give it too him, he's got guts not kissing ass to the naggers against the film.

bumblezzz wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

TheMuffin wrote:This isn't gametrailers.

I found this far funnier than I probably should have.

More action than he's ever put into a movie? Aren't Bay's films all action?

Anyway, at least we don't have any cry babies here.

no cry babies. Ive seen like a million cry babies posts on here about the film. still good that the ROBOTS HAVE CHARACTER AND ARE NOT JUST A BUNCH OF MOVIE MONSTERS. HOW CAN YOU MAKE A TRANSFORMERS MOVIE WITH OUT ROBOTS WITH PERSONALLITYS WHAT DO YOU THINK HE IS FREAKING RETARTED. The only retards are the criers. This movie will be a masterpiece no matter how pathetic things get when it comes to fandom. really what is this critic central, for christ sake think possitive.

Psssst, I think that was sarcasm. What people in... "Iacon" don't get sarcasm anymore? A shame, it's a hot commodity at the moment.

I found his quote quite humorous myself, and he's got some good points.

100 days is still to long. I can't wait, I want this out now.

... and has it really been 4 years already? Holy crap!

AbsumZer0 wrote:

Hotrod wrote: We are still writing the robot voices. They talk about just 20 minutes of action at the end - yeah right. This is by far the most action I have ever put into a movie - I have 12 huge set pieces.

Awww yeah. The dialogue and characterization of the Transformers is so important that they haven't even written it yet! Take that all you haters who've been saying the robots are just going to be generic monsters whose personalities are irrelevant to the plot!

I'm sure part of the dialogue is dependent on who they get to do the voices. If there's a big star amongst the cast, then I guarantee you that character will have more dialogue than if someone who isn't a household name gets the part. The voice acting isn't completed until the last few months of a movie. This doesn't surprise me at all.

The "rewrites" worry me. And they are really cutting it close to the deadline for the voice actors.

WE NEED FRANK !!!!!

102 days and we still don't know who the voice actors are...

...(panic!)....

There, that's out of my system now.

Black Bumblebee wrote:102 days and we still don't know who the voice actors are...

...(panic!)....

There, that's out of my system now.

They could pull that off in a couple of months. Voice overs don't take nearly as much time as animation of filming.

Or perhaps they've already done the voices and want to leave us in suspense until the movie comes out. If that's the case, then I'll bet you anything that Frank will be there, speaking his freaky-deaky alien language.

iam a bay fan (yes plz hate me all you want) and yes i "KIND" of agree with you TF fans (iam a movie-goer and this is the movie iam most anxious to see "BIG TIME"!!) he did change the characters by alot. but some of you got to understand that he tried to make it as realistic as possible instead of a having blocky characters.(maybe they could of re-designed the G1 characters makin them look even real)................iam new and i seem interesting in TF. seems pretty cool. i bought the TF-20an movie. liked it. and ive just ordered a chinese TF with all 98 episodes.

It seems like directors nowadays need to have a big ego to make a name for themselves in Hollywood. In 100 days, Bay will be done with Transformers and he'll turn his attention to another project.

BAD BOYS 3!!! *drools*

If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.

Seibertron wrote:

AbsumZer0 wrote:

Hotrod wrote: We are still writing the robot voices. They talk about just 20 minutes of action at the end - yeah right. This is by far the most action I have ever put into a movie - I have 12 huge set pieces.

Awww yeah. The dialogue and characterization of the Transformers is so important that they haven't even written it yet! Take that all you haters who've been saying the robots are just going to be generic monsters whose personalities are irrelevant to the plot!

I'm sure part of the dialogue is dependent on who they get to do the voices. If there's a big star amongst the cast, then I guarantee you that character will have more dialogue than if someone who isn't a household name gets the part. The voice acting isn't completed until the last few months of a movie. This doesn't surprise me at all.

Even when an animated film character's dialogue is dependent upon the celebrity voice-actor they don't write a script, animate the film, and then afterwards decide who they're going to cast to do the voices and write the dialogue. The script is written with the voice actor in mind and then it's animated.

I know the voiceovers are usually done late in post-production but it's not the recording that has me skeptical, it's that the dialogue is still being written. This is the first time I've ever heard of that being done. I know that this isn't going to be a character-driven film as most animated films are but filming a movie and then writing the lines for the star characters just doesn't boost my confidence in the film's quality.

I'm sure most lines are written, but they are doing character specific rewrites.

zoso504 wrote:If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.

Well someone's a friendly and happy little camper today.

Anyway, i'm suprised no one's brought up the fact that Bay says they're still re-writing dialogue days after the two writers said they're done.

Funny that. Maybe it was Shia in disguise ...

zoso504 wrote:If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.

Saying things like these to the Mods isn't a very good idea if you really enjoy being on this site.

Just a heads-up.

Shadowman wrote:

zoso504 wrote:If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.

Saying things like these to the Mods isn't a very good idea if you really enjoy being on this site.

Just a heads-up.

Wouldn't it be more advisable for him to keep his head down?

I personally enjoyed Bay's perspective. I respect his honesty. Gangsta.

I think he is a giant flaming wad of everything that is wrong with cinema and if he came up to my face I would tell him. He would say something to the effect of me not working in the industry for 25 years and being a pathetic loser.

I guess we would have to agree to disagree.

Burn wrote:

Shadowman wrote:

zoso504 wrote:If you ninja kick him I'll make sure your balls will be in the socket that once housed your eyes.

Saying things like these to the Mods isn't a very good idea if you really enjoy being on this site.

Just a heads-up.

Wouldn't it be more advisable for him to keep his head down?

Ya, I once saw Muffin connect with a missle dropkick off the top of a school bus. The poor guys head landed in a near by kiddie pool. Man was it hilarious.

I guess I forgot to put the ":P" at the end of my statement. In regards to Bay, he should act more professional to the people who have made this movie possible, that is, to the fans who have kept the brand going on this long for the movie to even happen this late in the franchise's history. Sure, we're probably dickwads but he doesn't have to say it. And, uh, go Team Venture!

Actually the insults were aimed at only certain members of the fandom, members who have done nothing but bitch and whine about what they've seen of the movie, members who have gone so far as to insult the guy, members who have even said they wanted him to die.

But it was most certaintly NOT directed at the entire fan base, just a small selection of them.

unfortunatly, the aditude, the movie's direction and eveyrthing else is a bi-product of hollywood; it's one of thouse "Don't hate the player, hate the game" moments where we as fans need to sometimes step back and look at the big picture: if it was anyone else doing this movie or anything else put in or out, it would still generate the same kind of heat.

Hollywood in general see's this movie as a movie that everyone will go see, not just the fan, the fan's are seen sadly last, unless your a huge rabbid fanbace (not saying Transformers has, but i'm sure we'll be outgeeked by fans of Harry Potter or LOTR's.) so we are just seen (sadly, and forgive me but...) we are just seen as the Lowest common denominator, not fit to be made a movie for, why? because in hollywood's mind: the franchise hassnt been established enough. The fans may like it, but to the general public, it wont. And yes, i'm refering to the Uggs Boots wearing, Gotee wearing, those retarted looking star tatoo having, Acrodomie and Finch/AMerican Eagle/Aroposle wearing, Hunvey/big ass truck riders and users, MTV/American Idol/Myspace zombies. Thats who they want to make the movie to, unfortunatly, if the fans have any imput, it will be nulled because we dont represent the public and they are going to throw everything at the wall for SOMETHING to work so the general public may garner intrest.

Now there is a positive to all this: sequels, especialy to franchies like this, usualy end up caving in and lissening to it's fans heirafter. It's weird how it comes about, maybe hollywood finaly see's the success of the movie and now the general public has a knollege of whats going on, and now even they have a bigger voice and eventualy giving imput as well.

Has anyone else in Australia noticed that we have an opening day of Friday June 29th for the movie according to Greater Union Cinemas?

Exodus27 wrote:Has anyone else in Australia noticed that we have an opening day of Friday June 29th for the movie according to Greater Union Cinemas?

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Yeah mate. Azura posted that as news a couple of weeks ago

Yeah mate. Azura posted that as news a couple of weeks ago

Oh, never mind then. I did look. Just not hard enough apparently. Thanks[/quote]

tile_mcgillus wrote:I personally enjoyed Bay's perspective. I respect his honesty. Gangsta.

I think he is a giant flaming wad of everything that is wrong with cinema and if he came up to my face I would tell him. He would say something to the effect of me not working in the industry for 25 years and being a pathetic loser.

I guess we would have to agree to disagree.

QFT

Bay is rewriting after the O.G writers quit...a little odd? Did I read that right, should or is it odd?