14 DAY TRIAL // Michael Bay’s fourth “Transformers” installment is out in theaters now, and if most reviewers are right about it, it’s the most Michael Bay movie he’s ever made. That is to say, don’t expect it to make too much sense or, for that matter, any at all.
Right now, “Transformers: Age of Extinction” has a 17 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes from the top critics, being the lowest rated installment from the entire franchise. However, it’s also made $300 million (€219.64 million) in its opening weekend at the US and international box office, so, at the end of the day, Michael Bay is probably right in not caring what “haters” have to say.
He’s said it before and he’s saying it again: everyone is entitled to their opinion, and if it’s negative, they can keep it. As long as they see the movie.
“They love to hate, and I don’t care; let them hate,” Bay tells MTV’s Josh Horowitz in the video below. “They’re still going to see the movie! I think it’s good to get a little tension. Very good.”
Who cares about “a little tension” when they’re laughing all the way to the bank, because that’s what Bay is practically doing. The more people mock him for his movies, the more exposure he actually gets for them, and implicitly, the more money he stands to make off these projects.
“I used to get bothered by it, but I think it’s good to get the dialogue going. It makes me think, and it keeps me on my toes, so it’s good,” Bay continues.
In the same interview, he also speaks about how challenging doing a movie like “Transformers” is, how he needs a proper vacation now that it’s done, and he also hints he might not be back to direct the fifth one. Then again, he’s been saying that since the second installment came out, and somehow, he still found his way back to the franchise.
He will do it once more when the time comes to start shooting for the fifth installment.
And speaking of the “Transformers” films, of which Bay talks like they’re nothing less than art, the 3 guys from RedLetterMedia proved that they’re basically replicas of just one film by doing a very nausea-inducing experiment in which they watched all 3 films simultaneously.
At the end, they discovered that all 3 installments are strangely similar, to the point where exactly the same thing happens in all of them, at the same time – several times.
That video, of the experiment, is included right after the Michael Bay interview, just in case the above made you curious for more.
