the more time on the big screen the better! can't wait until full Imax glory!

I was actually hoping it would be a little shorter. I enjoyed the first one, but by the end of it I swear my ear drums were pretty sore.

So nearly two and a half hours of explosions and overly dramatic music, awesome, I'm down.

and then im like "Michael Bay, youre a d-bag."

The first one ran 144 so this is pretty much what I expected.

The first one ran 144min so this is pretty much what I expected.

But do we actually get to see the Transformers fully in these 147 minutes or are they just scene for quick, shaky cam shots?

And all 147 minutes of Megan Fox still fully clothed.

When will Hollywood ever learn?

"And yes, I know this is the third story of the day that involves Michael Bay, but trust me I didn’t plan it that way." It's OK, we all know you guys are fan of sh**ty movies

Well, that's good. Even though I'm am not particularly fond of Bay, saying this stuff gives me some respect for him.

This just in!!!!!!!!
MTV poster boy Michael ( 80s Mullet brown leather jacket ) eBay runs his coked up mouth off about four extra minutes of black people incoheren screaming and pissing robots!

Que the rabid ADHD Bayhem 13 year old slacked jawed backwoods retards clamoring for Megan Fox and Extreme S'plosions !!!!!


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I see you stopped that stupid meowing...

I'm more curious as to how much action/robots they'll actually be in the film. people talk about Transformers as if it was action scene after action scene, but in all honesty was there really anything other than the opening scene and the final 15 minutes that had a proper robot action scene? The rest was humans running around.

So with another 2hr15min film are we actually getting anymore action?

147 minutes of pure awesome! *BOOM*

147 minutes too long...

"If you enjoy the movie, do you care?” I agree Michael Bay...

I agree too! I care though if my butt starts to get a little sore from the dumb chair. Even if I enjoy the movie, the pain still reaches my brain if the movie is reeally long.

exactly. for all the haters out there this is a reason to like Mike Bay. he doesn't listen to executives!

I think this title is a little misleading... its going to be more like 50 min of a unimportant love story, 40 min of robots trying to be 'funny', 40 min of explosions and 10 minutes of just solid transformer awesomeness

147 minutes of 2 JarJar Binks characters talking in black voices about how they can't read, giant dangling robot genitalia, and humans running around saying, "what's the plot?" i have lost faith in the intelligence of the world.

I'm inclined to agree after reading your post. Apparently people can't have fun at the movies any more.

Oh yeah, can't forget about the spitting robots, stupid cliched college roommates, and robots surviving under water. Michael Bay keeps making movies that directly insult your intelligence, and you all have no issues with this? I'm offended with every movie this guy makes. This is our chance people, we can tell him what we want to see. This must be the last movie he is allowed to make / screw up before he is forced to grow up and mature past "awesome explosions."

grow the hell up

don't stop there, genius. go on. grow up how? why? what did i write that indicated that i was a child? are you offended that i called you out on your lack of intelligence? please, keep going.

You're dumb

I'm with you, musicsoup. But, seriously, if it isn't Bay and Transformers, it'll be something else. So take a moment and be glad that you know your enemy.
My beef with Transformers is that it's a giant commercial. And I mean, literally. I remember two years ago, many reviews and comments directed criticism at the amount of much product-placement in the film. So, I'm guessing this sequel has relatively less? "Bankrupt-GM cars ROLL OUT!"
Bay says some rather bold - and occasionally refreshing things - about the film industry. And the opinions he expresses often times, for better or worse, seem to be his own. Beyond some agreeable comments, Bay does nothing to redeem himself - or the industry - artistically.

Is this site schizophrenic? So many of you are sheep!
Are you aware that, three articles or so down from this one, SlashFilm posts an Onion article lampooning Bay for his ability to mess up iconic 80's cartoons with pretention and soullessness. So you laugh at that, then turn around and trash someone who makes the same point?
Honestly, are most of the posters here plants from the studio? Virtually every time the writers of this site write or post an article bashing some half-assed new Hollywood practice, the general consensus is to agree with them, then if the same comment is made in another article, say, a DAY later, the consensus turns to how stupid someone is for having agreed with it.

"But Michael, no one enjoys your movies, so we actually do need that run time...."

Wonder if it will be as awful as the first one. How could it be?

i know alot of people have gripes with Bay, but quotes like this really make me hate him.

“I don’t ever talk (to executives) about run times,” he grinned. “Studios always ask, ‘What’s the run time?’ And I’m like ‘If you enjoy the movie, do you care?”

he seems to think of himself as some sort of Hollywood vigilantly when basically his whole catalog is PG-13, big studio pictures where its hard to find a shot that doesn't feature an add or corporate logo. he really does think of himself as some sort of bad ass fighting the good fight against the "evil" studios.

beautifully said.

Great. The first one wasn't long enough. Oh, no, wait -- yes, it was. Much too long, in fact.

cheer up, charlie.

Michael Bay Rules! F everybody who is bashing him, I enjoy his movies. He's my favorite film director. I'm always entertained when I watch his films. People already hating on the story....ITS GIANT ROBOTS FIGHTING! What do you want, a story about prime finding his long lost father or something.

Look at James Cameron's work. You have grand scale movies, lots of action AND a good script, great direction and great performances. The problem is Michael Bay dumbed down the genre so much that some people are now expecting these movies to only be brainless popcorn fun. You can do so much better than that.

So we get 3 more minutes of Robot fighting action? That's cool, I've always wanted to pay just a little bit more money for just a little bit more of Transforming robots fighting each other.

2 hours and 27 minutes is not bad. Can't wait.

You know I agree with Bay, what difference does running time make if you are having fun? Good comeback Bay!

Look, i think most of us agree with him on that point. It's just too bad that all of Bay's films suck. So, yeah, run time is an issue. Another 4 hours of Dark Knight? Sign me on. A 16 hour Avatar feature? Hells yes. But I promise you, there is none of those movies in Transformers 2. So, when it comes to run time, I don't care if it's 20 hours long as long as it's good. But Bay has never made a good movie and thus shouldn't have been allowed to progress past the 2:45 music video format.

Peter- he is right about annoying, incompetent people asking about running times. I don't think it is a smart ass remark. IT IS AN INTELLIGENT REMARk.

ANYONE WHO CRIES ABOUT RUNNING TIME IS ONLY IN IT FOR THE $, NOT THE CREATIVE, ENJOYABLE RIDE.

Get it together...

I AGREE HOLLYWOOD is destroying the film industry. SO SAD...

dude, hollywood is the film industry. if we want to destroy ourselves, we will. but we're not going. we're never going to. but i can tell you, it's not hollywood destroying the film industry, it's hacks like michael bay who keep making movies that feel like 1997.

ha, 1997 wasn;t too bad, at least the films and ideas were original. It wasn't sequel mania.
Transformers I was a great movie.
The film industry is not ALL hollywood. There are independent projects, production companies. I mean, not all Hollywood is bad, but taken together the avergae is a an F+.

totally agree with you elric. anyone who says that michael bay is their favorite film director is a moron. first off, bay is a glorified music video director with a good handle on car stunts. second, bay has sacrificed everything that makes a movie good for the sake of awesome explosions. you make a great point bringing up james cameron for being someone who makes bay look amateur. he has really dumbed everyone down so much that they have no issues with stupid movies and don't even realize the ways the film insults their intelligence while coddling their wallets.

WELL - THE FACTS ARE THAT WE HAVE ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAT BAY AND MANY MORE WHO LIKE BAY. HE'S NOT EVEN WORTH FIGHTING OVER. REGARDLESS, HE WIL BE AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. LONG TIME. NEXT!

musicsoup:

You sir love to hear yourself talk, if you have a genuine issue with M-Bay, be it jealousy, grief, anger, or he stole your wife then take it up with him. This is about the fact that your precious all knowing all seeing 'Divine Hollywood' puts limits on everything. (flashback to Babylon A.D.) So why don't you get off your computer, stop whining to us and making like 3 posts in a row and do something that might change whats going on. Write to a studio with a petitions and signatures, that works. Otherwise stop dragging down the site with your baseless opinions, or at least participate in the discussion instead of talking down to us all.

2 hrs 30 min is like the ideal runtime for any epic (in my opinion). Some movies are too short, and anything under 2 hrs. in the theatre I feel jipped (except for Pixar films).

Enough Michael Bay. Transformers 2 actually looks pretty good but enough already!

speak for yourself.

he should make it 10 hours long. seriously. the world would be a better place with Michael Bay-lovers off the streets for 10 hours...