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MacZiMiZer wrote:

so he has nothing to do with the few good parts of his films?

One might suspect that.

elpato84 wrote:

I think he can really handle straight-up action movies (ie, the last 1/3 of this film), but Transformers was a little too dialogue heavy for his style.

I hope he still makes the next one, to a degree. Co-direction?

You might be in luck. There's an update:

Updated 8/21/2007:
Thanks to Dane for letting us know that Michael Bay has cooled off a bit following his earlier statement. Bay made the following post this evening on his official site:

Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three blu-ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted - nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you - I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.

As a director, I'm all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.

So today I saw 300 on HD, it rocks!

So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!

Michael Bay

What a smurfing drama queen.

Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:

jeff-o wrote:

How about a movie adaptation of Deus Ex?

That would be super-sweet!

Pick-your-own-ending?

Well, they'd choose one of the endings for the theatrical release, and maybe include the others on the DVD release.

MacZiMiZer wrote:

the question is how will I afford that $10,000 60" 3840x2160 TV and the luxury apartment around it

Fixed.

MacZiMiZer wrote:

har de har har, just because I can't afford things doesn't mean I cannot critique

Yes, but a lack of firsthand experience will tend to limit one's ability to critique effectively.

dvpierce wrote:

MacZiMiZer wrote:

har de har har, just because I can't afford things doesn't mean I cannot critique

Yes, but a lack of firsthand experience will tend to limit one's ability to critique effectively.

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proven with the Mac and the Wii.

It does help to have a more than nodding familiarity with the subject matter per se to offer a meaningful critique; everyone's got an opinion, informed or not.

Meanwhile Hollywood continues its dearth of new ideas...

Biz.GameDaily is reporting that Midway's classic arcade game Joust is being prepped to be adapted into a feature film. The game's movie rights have been bought by the new production company CP Productions which has a first look deal with Paramount Pictures. ...a snip:

Hollywood Producers Christine Peters (Area 51, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) and Michael Cerenzie (Blackout, Black Water Transit) created CP Productions to focus on the under-25 filmgoer. The first of many projects coming from the new production studio is a new imagining of Midway Games' classic Joust arcade game. "Joust is an arcade game that's as old as Pac-Man and has global awareness," said Cerenzie. "We took one element of the game and the brand itself and built a whole new world around it for the film." Cerenzie calls the new script by Marc Gottlieb "Gladiator meets Mad Max." The film is set 25 years in the future and includes a Las Vegas suspended in mid-air.

Tastes like chicken, smells like suck. Not that I'd know.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=17132

So now there's a sequel to Tron coming....

Honestly must everything even half decent (though Tron was friggin amazing) from my childhood be repackaged, squeezed for profit and tarnished?  Alvin and the Chipmunks even.  Is it that hard to hit up a library or blockbuster and rent the original for your kids or people who haven't seen it?  Am I really a minority in that just because a movie was great and seeing a continuation of it would be cool, I'm not satisfied with seeing some bland spaghetti bowl with ragu sauce made to resemble the alfredo pasta and chicken I enjoyed earlier?

Someone needs to slap these people in the face, or at least cold water.  There was NO story behind any of these old games.  While Mario Bros. wasn't a horrible movie, it was based off of some plot, from a game with almost no plot.  Honestly, italian plumbers fighting dinosaurs and, whatever the f$%& goombas were.  Pac-Man, no story, Defender, no story, Asteroids, no story, Joust, no story, Marble Madness, no story, even Zelda, no story.  Either it's some form of interactive puzzle, or it's a watered down version of the old interactive stories with more interaction and less story.  Yet the game companies get to push out sequel after sequel pretending there was a back story.  In some cases it goes well, as it has with Zelda, sometimes it goes bad.  But trying to make movies through this method.....

I think that one Futurama "what if" episode took care of turning old video games into film.

"unique blend of high fantasy and dark atmosphere"

uh, how is that unique?

They gave him the budget of Wing Commander...sigh...How Boll gets 40 mil now, and they wouldn't even give Roberts more than that for a game movie that could have been spectacular.

Well least if Boll keeps screwing up maybe some good kind hearted mafia crime boss will hire a hitman to make the madness stop. Who else would give that iddiot 40 mil...really .