Quote Originally Posted by bowspearer View Post
The problem again, comes back to Bay's sensibilities as a director. If say, Terminator 2 were remade and Bay directed, you'd wind up with something very similar to TF1. It doesn't matter how good a concept you might have for a movie; if the director is a poor fit, then you're going to wind up with something missing the mark.
If Bay hadn't had the balls to take on the project, the trilogy might've ended up in the hands of someone truly dreadful like M. Night Shyamalan who I still haven't forgiven for what he did to "The Last Airbender". It could've ended up like Dragon Ball Evolution or Tekken, but it didn't. Just because we can think of stacks of better directors, it doesn't mean that any of them would've wanted to put 5 years into a trilogy about transforming robot kids toys or have even been capable of bringing them to life in such a believable fashion.