did anyone else see this? rant

i caught the end of an interview with michael bay on a&e i belive it was. if someone has a clip please post it so i dont look foolish. anywho he went as far as to say that the g1 was stupid. you got the general feeling at least i did that he doesent like us hardcore fans very much. ninjaturtle and dog robot faces aside i have always been on his bandwagon until now. i mean what are you saying mr bay that for enough money you will trick youself out for anything including things you dont belive in? i was a huge bay fan so dont kill me bay fans i just dont see the sense in calling what we love stupid. oh yeah he also said we remember our childhood better than it was. even if thats so which i dont belive so whats so wrong with that. what a schmuck!

After the shit storm he had to endure before the first movie came out, I don't blame him.

Is this really news though?

How Bay felt about G1 is hardly a secret. If you didn't know that you have missed a good deal of discussion on the subject. However, he is correct that a lot of us fans see G1 through rose colored glasses.

Actually, I never knew that at all. Does anyone have a link to the video? Was it said before or after the movie came out?

It all makes much more sense now. Why the first movie was as bad as it was. I can't believe Hasbro would let any person that thought the franchise was stupid to make a movie for it. No wonder he is such a douche. And the worst part about it is how TF fans love Bay and think he can do no wrong...

G1 is stupid.IMO. *RUNS LIKE HELL*

Let's face it, G1 (this coming from a lover of that segment of the franchise) is pretty terrible. Sure, it started the whole thing, made us love it, but the animation was shoddy and often cheap, the plot ran itself over more than a few times, and was so riddled with its own errors that, nowadays, it looks more than laughable. It's downright terrible. I mean, how many times did you see a show like Thundercats, or GIJoe reset its own origins?

Love it for what it was, but don't make G1 out to be something it isn't. And syaing that TF fans think Bay can do no wrong is one of the funnier things I've read in a long time. Have you paid no attention to anything over the past few years?

EDIT: Hasbro also realizes that there's more to Transformers than G1. It's had numerous versions come out over the past 20+ years. One more in a new contemporary, and more than anything else, realistic styling, is no large leap for them.

I couldnt see past G1 about 2 years ago, nowadays I've come to my senses, I love the new stuff and still hold the original cartoon series dear to my heart but those toys are total bricks, holding them now I'm surprised I made them last as long as I did when I was a kid.

EDIT: Yeah, what Sol Fury said.

Originally Posted by Valkysas NO ONE CAN EVER, EVER say that hasbro doesnt care again. This fucking seals it. that's a LOT of product to release for a "dead" line.

I actually think it is better to have someone who doesn't worship the original cartoon as the be all and end all as a writer. Michael Bay's job is to direct a movie that takes the original source material and makes it more accessible to the masses. Something that takes the core concepts and expands them for a wider audience. He's got writers who know what they're doing, and he's also not so stuck with the whole rose tinted glasses that he wants to remake the original. Said it before and will say it again, G1 was great for the time, but it is neither the be all and end all, nor the greatest thing of all time.

G1 was made for children of the 1980s, and it was a block above many other kids TV shows of the time. The Movie(s) are being made for today's cinema going audiences, a totally different kind of audience. The style needs to adapt. Better to have someone who recognises this and casts off the original than someone who sticks by the original and alienates most of his audience.

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Originally Posted by Lance Halberd Sol Fury can be likened to a German clock. A very exact, complex, and tightly-wound precision instrument that occasionally goes cuckoo.

F##k him is right sorry but I mean come ON you can't say that about a franchise you are working into a film series!I honustly think he was watching energon for inspiration for the first one(or those leaves in the bags if yah know what I mean).