Michael Bay will not be directing TF5

[sideswipes brother]

BEST NEWS FOR TF FANS EVER!!!!

Really hope Ewe Boll takes the reigns.

[GoktimusPrime]

IMO part of the problem is that the stories have been created as a means to show case spectacular visual effects, instead of creating spectacular visual effects as a means to tell a story. The greatest effects are, at the end of the day, just a tool for story-telling, but it doesn't actually tell a story on its own.

I believe that most fans prefer a film with a better story over effects. I've said this before, but the easiest comparison is with the Star Wars films. The Original Trilogy is considered to present more character-driven quality stories compared to the Prequel Trilogy. The Original Trilogy may be more reliant on miniatures and puppetry as opposed to the green-screen and CGI intensive Prequel Trilogy, but story-wise the Originals still trump the Prequels despite their relatively more crude effects.

[Sky Shadow]

I've said this before...

Surely this image is saying it's superior to be concise and make your point. I'm not sure that posting it again and again and again is really delivering an understanding of that message.

[kup]

Surely this image is saying it's superior to be concise and make your point. I'm not sure that posting it again and again and again is really delivering an understanding of that message.

Wouldn't be Gok if he didn't do that

[Mythirax]

Wouldn't be Gok if he didn't do that

Rofl.

[griffin]

C'mon... hands up who really thought Bay wouldn't be involved in future Transformers movies?

From a recent Cinema Convention in America...

Paramounts Vice Chairman Rob Moore, highlighted several upcoming sequels and reboots.... He also promised the theater owners that Michael Bay was hard at work developing a fifth Transformers movie since the first four have made an astounding $3.7 billion worldwide, music to the ears of this crowd which is ALL about box office. But first Bay is directing Thirteen Hours, a war movie set around a daring rescue mission in Benghazi that is already set for release on Martin Luther King weekend next January. Bay’s also producing a sequel to last summer’s successful ($485 million worldwide) reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle franchise, Ninja Turtles II, set for June 3, 2016.

Although, to be fair... it says Michael Bay is working on "developing" the next Transformers Movie (as a Producer), NOT directing it... so it was always going to be likely that his production company would have him involved as a Producer on future Transformers Movies... but not necessarily Directing the next one.
(he still could be Director... if he decides as its Producer that he is the best person for the job, but this isn't an announcement that he is Directing the fifth movie)

[Mythirax]

I'm pretty happy if bay does it. I want him to finish what he started. Would love to see shia again as well.

[Bidoofdude]

IMO part of the problem is that the stories have been created as a means to show case spectacular visual effects, instead of creating spectacular visual effects as a means to tell a story. The greatest effects are, at the end of the day, just a tool for story-telling, but it doesn't actually tell a story on its own.

I believe that most fans prefer a film with a better story over effects. I've said this before, but the easiest comparison is with the Star Wars films. The Original Trilogy is considered to present more character-driven quality stories compared to the Prequel Trilogy. The Original Trilogy may be more reliant on miniatures and puppetry as opposed to the green-screen and CGI intensive Prequel Trilogy, but story-wise the Originals still trump the Prequels despite their relatively more crude effects.

With all the booming advances in movie-making technology, such as CGI and greenscreen, I think that most directors/producers would be really keen to show off what they can do. Ultimately, this usually ends up as a spectacular visual presentation, with little substance. If we could somehow fuse the two, you'd have classics all around.