Michael Bay Doesn’t Apologize For Any Of The Transformers Movies
There are a lot of genre film fans that hate Michael Bay movies. While some would call his brand of action dumb or assaultive, there is a very vocal fanbase out there that absolutely loves his work, including the Transformers film series. Around the time of Age of Extinction, Michael Bay addressed the film’s post-production progress and his critics.
On his official website, Michael Bay updated his fans on Age of Extinction‘s progress and when we could expect to see footage from the film. Bay’s team was cutting Age of Extinction together and, at the time, was targeting Super Bowl XLVIII as the first time audiences would get a look at the Transformers movie. Bay wrote:
We are working hard cutting the movie right now. I think the first piece comes out for the Super Bowl and a teaser right after that.
And yes, I’m very excited about this new movie.
Michael Bay also addresses his comments about Transformers: Age of Extinction being “less goofy” than the previous installments in the film series. That, of course, implied the first three Transformers movies were goofy in the first place, and Michael Bay felt a need to address comments that he might have apologized for making those films.
Michael Bay said about the movies, “No I did not ‘apologize’ for any Transformers movies. I did not say I shot the last three movies ‘less cool’ then [sic] the new fourth installment. I was talking specifically about camera style and tone, of the first movie compared to how I shot the new installment with a very big scale, cinematic style.
Michael Bay then went on to say, “I was very specific in saying the first Transformers was shot in a ‘generic suburbia’ area, not trying to be cool with any cinematic flashes. I wanted it to feel like this could happen in any backyard in the United States.”
I don’t think Michael Bay should apologize for the Transformers film series (okay, maybe Revenge of the Fallen). I never thought he was implying that the first three movies are lesser than Age of Extinction. Honestly, it seemed like Michael Bay was trying to say that the next movie would be a fresh start to a new film series.
Here’s Michael Bay’s original statement on Age of Extinction:
I wanted the first Transformers to be very suburban and less cool, this is a much more cinematic one. I focused on keeping this one slick. There won’t be any goofiness in this one. We went a bit too goofy [on the last one]. It feels like a new chapter, this movie, but it’s not a reboot. This movie lives in the history of the Transformers movies, and this one starts three years after the last. It feels fresh.
Age of Extinction follows an inventor named Cade, his teenage daughter Tessa, and her boyfriend Shane as they “discover a buried Transformer which sets the stage for the return of the rest of the Transformers.”
The film stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Sophia Myles, T.J. Miller, Victoria Summer, Li Bingbing, Titus Welliver, and Kelsey Grammer.
