Its trendy to bash on the Transformers movie, but I for one really liked them. Yeah they are littered with faults, but overall I find them to be insanely entertaining and I am looking forward to the next.
It’s no secret that the money trucks are not done backing up to the Bay mansion, and they are just going to keep going until they do. And in a hidden clip on the BluRay of Transformers 2, Bay talks about his vision for a third film.
But judging from this candid DVD extra, even Bay thinks Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen veered on excessive, and he’s promising to scale back when he tackles #3. As we speak, Bay is combing through the Transformers lore that Hasbro has sent him and pondering who or what will be smashing crap up in another installment. Just the way he says “Transformers lore” makes me want a story centered on Bay exploring ancient catacombs to uncover the missing Transformers arcana with Megan Fox as his sidekick. (She’ll be packing a Ph.D in Hasbro lore because she’s not afraid to be smart and sexy.)
As Bay ponders how to go sideways from Revenge (his words, not mine), he does have a few ideas in mind. He wants more Bumblebee, and to explore the powerful relationship he has with Sam. He wants more characters, and more emotion. He wants it to be “more undercover” and “less exposed” which might be difficult for our transforming pals when they destroyed the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Check out Bay chatting up his ideas for TF3 as an unlockable content on the BluRay:
Despite all its faults, one thing you can count on with Michael Bay is that he is listening to the fans. After the first one they said, less humans more bots. And we got it. The fans cried out for Devastator, and we got it. The fans wanted more action and we got it.
We also got “The Twins” and Leo. Well nothing’s perfect. I still liked the movie for the most part and I have faith that Bay has the best intentions even if they don’t pan out.
I like the idea of Bay reeling it in. It will be hard to keep the Robots in Disguise angle as the Decepticons are not shy about showing up in full force and now we have two films of Bots making a mess of planet earth with their conflict.
Tone it down, let us learn their names before chopping them in half. And THEN have a big fight.
I just hope they don’t do Unicron, as that would be the opposite of reeling it in and I can’t see it working. And no dinobots unless they are cars or some vehicles that turn into dinos.
