Bay, do it right for your fucking swan song. You've had plenty of time to filter out the bad and keep the good!
So...Michael Bay will to (the consternation of some) be directing Transformers 5.
Michael Bay Confirms He’ll Direct ‘Transformers 5’, But Then He’s Done With the Franchise, For Real This Time
Posted on Monday, January 4th, 2016 by Angie Han
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After directing Transformers numbers one through four, Michael Bay has confirmed he will return yet again to direct Transformers 5. The news doesn’t come as a surprise, as Bay entered talks to direct last fall after months of speculation (and let’s be real, totally reasonable assumptions). There’s a catch this time, though: It’s going to be the last Transformers movie Bay will ever direct. Or so he says. For now. Read the Michael Bay Transformers 5 comments after the jump.
Bay spilled the beans in an interview with Rolling Stone: “I’m doing Transformers … 5, is it?” He later continued: “Transformers, I still have a great time. It’s fun to do a movie that 100 million people will see. But this is the last one. I have to pass the reins to someone else.” If Bay’s quote triggers some déjà vu, it’s not just you. Bay expressed similar sentiments after Transformers: Dark of the Moon (the third film) and Transformers: Age of Extinction (the fourth and most recent film). “I know,” admitted Bay. “J.J. [Abrams] told me, ‘You’re the only guy that could do this.’ But it’s time to move on. One more.”
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This is my personal take and you can take it to the bank or credit union: as shitty as they are as deep-dish cinematic thoughtpieces, the movies are basically entertaining. They were the ultimate popcorn flicks I could totally devour on a lazy Sunday or even now from jump. I wasn't a total TS stan, but I was a part of that era of growing up with that shit. I'm appreciative of it coming alive on the big screen for the past whatever years since Iron Man re-jump started the superhero-comic book movie genre. And even with massive shit from the original source that I would do differently that they should've done, (Arcee units, hello?) can we finally see a Quintessons appearance in this one? Fuck, Optimus was all 'bout bringing the noise back to the homeworld to settle up things in the last one!
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He might've lost his way during the process, but don't front like you weren't flipping out on that first one way back when during that July of 2007. That shit was fucking gold and y'all know it.
Now, I respect him somewhat in the sense that he isn't a stupid person. He's a basic, banal director, but he isn't stupid. He made sure the templates of those flicks could sell worldwide and boost his property gain for each subsequent sequel. I think he put more of his honest heart into this Benghazi movie out now (that I have zero interest in paying to see) than in anything else, but the Transformers films are his boys with toys shit coming out to the fore.
