{"id":10406,"date":"2011-03-06T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=10406"},"modified":"2011-03-06T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T21:51:35","slug":"michael-bay-did-not-exactly-say-transformers-2-was-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/03\/06\/michael-bay-did-not-exactly-say-transformers-2-was-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bay Did Not Exactly Say &#8220;Transformers&#8221; 2 Was &#8220;Crap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a much-publicized interview with <strong><em>Empire<\/em><\/strong>, director Michael Bay definitely refrained from celebrating his accomplishments on &#8220;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,&#8221; but contrary to various reports, he did not exactly call the film &#8220;crap.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple respected outlets are going with that headline, but the reality is that Bay only used that word to describe a specific film making decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made some mistakes,\u201d says Bay in the interview. \u201cThe real fault with [&#8220;Revenge of the Fallen&#8221;] is that it ran into a mystical world. When I look back at it, that was crap.  The writers\u2019 strike was coming hard and fast. It was just terrible to do a movie where you\u2019ve got to have a story in three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bay&#8217;s regret primarily deals with how they rushed to put the film together with a limited writing calendar.  \u201cI was prepping a movie for months where I only had 14 pages of some idea of whatthe movie was&#8230;It\u2019s a BS way to make a movie, do you know what I\u2019m saying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far as the critics are concerned, Bay acknowledges the terrible reviews for the sequel but also claims that the fan-favorite original film, which ended up receiving tremendous word-of-mouth for its mix of comedy and action, was &#8220;slammed&#8221; as well.<\/p>\n<p>Though &#8220;slammed&#8221; might be a stretch, the first &#8220;Transformers&#8221; did only garner a 57% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes rating.  &#8220;Revenge of the Fallen&#8221; sits at a much-worse 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Bay Did Not Exactly Say &quot;Transformers&quot; 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