Comments on: Michael Bay Announces Disinformation Campaign

By: Scourge

Scourge — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:40:45 +0000

A disinformation campaign is bound to backfire on Bay?

Because the massive amounts of disinformation that George Lucas spreads about every Star Wars and Indiana Jones movie has done so much to harm his career?

By: calviin

calviin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:23:45 +0000

Problem is, he’s going to get a lot of people hopes up with certain things that will end up not being true, and it may backfire on him.

By: HisDivineShadow

HisDivineShadow — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:01:29 +0000

Shane, Copy That Bro!

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:49:18 +0000

Yeah, I know directors like to think they can surprise everyone when their film hits the theater, but everyone is different. The vast, vast majority of people don’t hunt out spoilers. Those who do will still be able to sort the truth from the lies easily enough. All this tactic will do is serve to piss off the people who like to know as much as possible as early as possible.

And in the process, the disinformation will give either false impressions about the movie being worse than it is (if the false information is to make people enjoy the final movie more… it may in fact scare them away all together) or it will disappoint people who do go to see it based on fake information (imagine the disappointment that a bunch of stuff you were eagerly awaiting ends up not being in the film)

Not a good idea. He should just focus on making the movie kick ass. Who cares if some people want to find out info early?

By: leeloo

leeloo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:02:58 +0000

lol @ bay trying to make people think.

By: cib3k

cib3k — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:57:01 +0000

OMG! Everything we know is false? So it’s not gonna be about giant robots punching each other? Starring the same guy from the first movie? And based on the toys everybody knows? Probably also with the same over the top direction and a thin-as-paper script? Gee, I just can’t wait.

By: Roguepirate

Roguepirate — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:58:55 +0000

This could theoretically backfire again Michael Bay in that some how the fake leaks could make the film sound better than it really is which will only lead to a huge fan backlash when people see what the final product is. On the other side, it could make film look horrible which would then could severely affect interest in the film as well.

If this strategy works, I’d expect more directors of big budget films to do the same.

By: DarkKinger

DarkKinger — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:11:09 +0000

So, if Michael Bay says that Lazerbeak isn’t in the sequel, he’s lying?

By: Robert(wolf)

Robert(wolf) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:01:05 +0000

Bay is giving false information like he said…or maybe that’s just t confuse us? What going on? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

By: Chark

Chark — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:00:29 +0000

Doug! You just made me laugh out loud. My respect for you just went up a hundred fold.