Holy Crap!! Bay is Pissed!!!!

Check out his newest post on his website.

Paramount Pisses me off

Here's his post:

"I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks! They were progressive by having two formats. No Transformers 2 for me!

Bay"

OMGWTFBBQ!!! No Transformers 2 from him!!

BAD link....Dagnelli

Just tried it and it still works for me.

Micheal do a Bay attack!

There are other directors out there too---granted he did a good job with the movie.feryl06

[QUOTE="feryl06"]There are other directors out there too---granted he did a good job with the movie.rogerjak

Yea I don't know if these were Bay's ideas or the writers but there were a lot of quirks that true Transformers fans would recognize.

Also, Bay is that pissed then he shouldn't have been lazy and he should have done what Spielberg did and get a clause in that agreement that say movies directed by him go on both.The_Rick_14

yeah he should have done something along these lines... but i guess its toolate now.

It'll be interesting to see if paramount go back on this decision or if they stand by it. Whatever happens this sure is a sledgehammer blow for Blu-ray....

Also, Bay is that pissed then he shouldn't have been lazy and he should have done what Spielberg did and get a clause in that agreement that say movies directed by him go on both.The_Rick_14

From the way he worded his post, it almost sounds like he didn't know about it until we did. If that were the case, how COULD he sign some kind of exclusion?

I think it's pretty obvious Paramount got money to do this HD-DVD exclusive thing. Seriously who in their right minds would change to a losing format by a 2-1 ratio? It just doesn't make any sense possible. Money was probably involved and everyone knows *cough* M$ *cough* does this all the time put 2 and 2 together you get 4 and this reasoning....it just makes sense.G-Legend

MS paid for nothing...

I think it's pretty obvious Paramount got money to do this HD-DVD exclusive thing. Seriously who in their right minds would change to a losing format by a 2-1 ratio? It just doesn't make any sense possible. Money was probably involved and everyone knows *cough* M$ *cough* does this all the time put 2 and 2 together you get 4 and this reasoning....it just makes sense.G-Legend

well it has been proven the were payed $150 mill to go exclusive, most industry analysts in hollywood are eqully as mystified

as for Bay as far as sequels go, most often than not, if a different director takes over for the second film, most of the time its a big disappointment compared to the first

I really do hope with him and speilberg who produced the film still favor blu ray over HD dvd (Bay being more vocal about it) that they find a way to negotiate paramount to put it on blu ray.

[QUOTE="G-Legend"]I think it's pretty obvious Paramount got money to do this HD-DVD exclusive thing. Seriously who in their right minds would change to a losing format by a 2-1 ratio? It just doesn't make any sense possible. Money was probably involved and everyone knows *cough* M$ *cough* does this all the time put 2 and 2 together you get 4 and this reasoning....it just makes sense.c0mplex

MS paid for nothing...

you keep thinking that...:roll:

[QUOTE="c0mplex"]

[QUOTE="G-Legend"]I think it's pretty obvious Paramount got money to do this HD-DVD exclusive thing. Seriously who in their right minds would change to a losing format by a 2-1 ratio? It just doesn't make any sense possible. Money was probably involved and everyone knows *cough* M$ *cough* does this all the time put 2 and 2 together you get 4 and this reasoning....it just makes sense.G-Legend

MS paid for nothing...

you keep thinking that...:roll:

the HD DVD Promotional Group does not have MS as any chair/primary position company, nor is it a managing member.

but hey... i'm sure your fanboy brain can concoct some proof that MS did pay for that exclusivity deal... even though MS's position in the HD DVD Promotional Group is no higher than Paramounts. :)

Throwing all my Paramount DVDs away because they $#$#$#$ disgust me .$#$#$# Paramount! unimpendium115

burn them and take a picture of it.

[QUOTE="unimpendium115"]Throwing all my Paramount DVDs away because they $#$#$#$ disgust me .$#$#$# Paramount! c0mplex

burn them and take a picture of it.

[QUOTE="G-Legend"][QUOTE="c0mplex"]

[QUOTE="G-Legend"]I think it's pretty obvious Paramount got money to do this HD-DVD exclusive thing. Seriously who in their right minds would change to a losing format by a 2-1 ratio? It just doesn't make any sense possible. Money was probably involved and everyone knows *cough* M$ *cough* does this all the time put 2 and 2 together you get 4 and this reasoning....it just makes sense.c0mplex

MS paid for nothing...

you keep thinking that...:roll:

the HD DVD Promotional Group does not have MS as any chair/primary position company, nor is it a managing member.

but hey... i'm sure your fanboy brain can concoct some proof that MS did pay for that exclusivity deal... even though MS's position in the HD DVD Promotional Group is no higher than Paramounts. :)

Duh, is very obvious that they do it for $$$. Which company is so stupid to jump ship when blu-ray is already outselling HD-DVD?

[QUOTE="G-Legend"][QUOTE="c0mplex"]

[QUOTE="G-Legend"]I think it's pretty obvious Paramount got money to do this HD-DVD exclusive thing. Seriously who in their right minds would change to a losing format by a 2-1 ratio? It just doesn't make any sense possible. Money was probably involved and everyone knows *cough* M$ *cough* does this all the time put 2 and 2 together you get 4 and this reasoning....it just makes sense.c0mplex

MS paid for nothing...

you keep thinking that...:roll:

the HD DVD Promotional Group does not have MS as any chair/primary position company, nor is it a managing member.

but hey... i'm sure your fanboy brain can concoct some proof that MS did pay for that exclusivity deal... even though MS's position in the HD DVD Promotional Group is no higher than Paramounts. :)

[QUOTE="The_Rick_14"]Also, Bay is that pissed then he shouldn't have been lazy and he should have done what Spielberg did and get a clause in that agreement that say movies directed by him go on both.muppet1010

yeah he should have done something along these lines... but i guess its toolate now.

It'll be interesting to see if paramount go back on this decision or if they stand by it. Whatever happens this sure is a sledgehammer blow for Blu-ray....

the HD DVD Promotional Group does not have MS as any chair/primary position company, nor is it a managing member.

but hey... i'm sure your fanboy brain can concoct some proof that MS did pay for that exclusivity deal... even though MS's position in the HD DVD Promotional Group is no higher than Paramounts. :)

c0mplex

Well said. MS does not in any way, shape, or form own the HD/DVD format. So they get nothing out of this.

oh no! No Transformers 2 for him!?? COME ON! I loved the 1st one:cry:rogerjak

[QUOTE="rogerjak"]oh no! No Transformers 2 for him!?? COME ON! I loved the 1st one:cry:cooldust

oh c',mon, a money making juggernaught like Transformers?

a second is gauranteed

although there is no proof MS paid for anything, they do have vested interest in seeing the format succeed, this coupled with the drop in the price of the add-on, and slight drop in price of the 360, and only a blind person would say MS didnt have a hand in or have knowledge of this. MS gets money from hd dvd cus they are contracted for the system it uses, kind of like an OS, for the interactive features and whatnot while blu ray went with java.
Stall0wn3d

i agree that MS has an incentive for HD DVD to succeed. but its lowly position in the HD DVD Promotional Group, low interest in the movie industry, and the no required tie in between HD DVD and the 360 gives MS no reason to pay $150 million for Paramount's exclusivity.

not to mention that Peter Moore (back when he worked at MS) said that there is no reason for them to create a Blu Ray add-on if HD DVD fails.

although there is no proof MS paid for anything, they do have vested interest in seeing the format succeed, this coupled with the drop in the price of the add-on, and slight drop in price of the 360, and only a blind person would say MS didnt have a hand in or have knowledge of this. MS gets money from hd dvd cus they are contracted for the system it uses, kind of like an OS, for the interactive features and whatnot while blu ray went with java.
Stall0wn3d

actually, MS had absoulutely nothing to do with the deal

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/technology/21disney.html?ei=5088&en=d4e1f285e2f41437&ex=1345348800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1187698143-B5wO3L/F+4r1NyAsum87vQ

""We provided no financial incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever," said Amir Majidimehr, the head of Microsoft's consumer media technology group."

Good for us. Maybe we'll all get lucky and he'll stop making movies, period. Creeping_Wolf

No thats horrible if he stops making movies. That'll suck for us. Unless thats sarcasm. Then... :roll:

You have to put this all in context.

Bay is probably pissed off because he realizes not having Blu-Ray means 70% less sales which means less roaylties for him. I'll bet his contract stipulates he gets a % of the revenue from the sales of Transformers on DVD and highdef formats. I'd be pissed too if someone just took a chunk of my money because MS..errrr the HD camp paid Paramount off.

[QUOTE="Creeping_Wolf"]Good for us. Maybe we'll all get lucky and he'll stop making movies, period. blackldragon

No thats horrible if he stops making movies. That'll suck for us. Unless thats sarcasm. Then... :roll:

How will that suck? It means we get spared movies like, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys 2 and box office blunders like The Island. Bay did nothing to make Transformers cool, he actually detracted from it. Give the reigns to someone else as well as a competent writer and you could have a way better sequel. Stop giving Michael Bay credit that he doesn't deserve. People didn't go see Transformers because it was a Michael Bay movie, they saw it because it was a Transformers movie.

You have to put this all in context.

Bay is probably pissed off because he realizes not having Blu-Ray means 70% less sales which means less roaylties for him. I'll bet his contract stipulates he gets a % of the revenue from the sales of Transformers on DVD and highdef formats. I'd be pissed too if someone just took a chunk of my money because MS..errrr the HD camp paid Paramount off.

darthogre

any idea of why that happened exactly ?

dropping a different format like that