Earlier today I talked about the STUPID statement made by Michael Bay, saying that because Paramount and Dreamworks have decided to go exclusively with HD DVD as a high def format, that he was going to back out of doing Transformers 2. What an ass thing to say.
Thing is, was all say ass stupid things sometimes. I thought once he calmed down he’s recant his statement… and sure enough he did. He took his post off his blog, and now has this statement out there instead:
Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three blu-ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted – nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you – I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.
As a director, I’m all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision. So today I saw 300 on HD, it rocks! So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!
Oh… now Michael LIKES the idea of being all HD DVD? Well, whatever. The important thing is that he realized it was a stupid thing to say in the first place and retracted it.
Should Michael Bay direct Transformers 2? I’d like to see him back personally…. but honestly I don’t care. I’m all for another director taking a shot at it.
Alfie…
While you did say that you understand the feeling of Blu-Ray backers for “wanting to stay loyal”, it is – with all due respect – hypocritical to defend a company for making a decision thats apparently in their best interest and then turn around and call the Blu-Ray camp “a bunch of whining babies” and “a bunch of fucking cry baby pussies” for wanting a decision thats in their best interest.
With the exception of Universal, we all seem to want this “war” to end. Whichever way it may go. Its just frustrating to think youre almost at the end and then you wake up one morning to see youre almost back to the middle.
This might be a bad analogy, but think of it as a very long tug of war contest – were all tired, we all wanna go home, and then the blue team finally gets an advantage and it looks like theyre going to win… the flag is almost completely on the blue side, the red side is almost in the mud, but then out of nowhere some dude jumps on the red sides end of the rope and starts pulling the other way. If the guy would have just sat back and watched, the game would have been over. If the guy jumped on the blue side, the game would have been over quicker. Instead, he chose the one option that would prolong everyones suffering.
So while I may be on the blue team, and while I may have a personal interest in the blue team winning, I consider myself neither a “whining baby” nor a “fucking cry baby pussy” for being frustrated at a decision that seems to go against all logic.
Um max…of course this is about money….what else would it be about? This is hte film industry.
The thing that gets me is I don’t see anyone crying and moaning about mgm and fox being blu ray only.I would love a hi def robocop but i have an HDDVD player so I am shit out of luck….but I am not crying about mgm being sell outs and assholes claiming that they only care about money as if that is an entirely new concept..
stop the presses everybody!!! A movie studio just made a decision based solely on their bottom line!!!!! this is gonna shock the world!!!!
I only see paramount being taken to task over this which leads me to conclude that the owners of blu ray players are a bunch of fucking cry baby pussies.
@Jarek
I’ve been trying to talk some sense into these guys, but they just keep at it. Oh well.
I can’t believe any of you actually BELIEVED Bay was seriously dropping the movie.
From a marketing standpoint…
To average Joe consumers, I think HD-DVD will sound like it would be to DVD what PS2 was to PS1… a logical upgrade. Might make it easier to swallow a format upgrade, especially if the HD players still play standard DVDs.
Blu-ray just sounds too different…
@Alfie:
If he means that they’re cheaper to manufacture, that means that they’re also making a bigger profit off HD DVD disks than Blu-ray disks (and off hardware). This just shows that they don’t care about the consumer whatsoever and are just out to make money- no matter how many people they piss off and how many supporters they lose.
I think he means that HDDVD is cheaper to make….not that the instore prices are cheaper but the machines and discs are cheaper to make for the manufacturers…..
@Slybri:
300 Blu-ray $24
http://amazon.com/300-Blu-ray-Gerard-Butler/dp/B000Q6GX5Y/ref=pd_ts_c_th_1/103-3608475-8919803?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_r=0GHX111C98BFCEYC362K&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=292425001&pf_rd_i=193640011
300 HD DVD $28
http://amazon.com/300-Combo-HD-DVD-Standard/dp/B000Q6GXW2/ref=pd_ts_c_th_2/103-3608475-8919803?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_r=10BP29GF6B73HYARN5FK&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278487301&pf_rd_i=193642011
Planet Earth Blu-ray $67
http://amazon.com/Planet-Earth-Complete-BBC-Blu-ray/dp/B000MRAAJM/ref=pd_ts_c_th_2/103-3608475-8919803?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_r=0GHX111C98BFCEYC362K&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=292425001&pf_rd_i=193640011
Planet Earth HD DVD $67
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MRAAJW/ref=br_fq_5/103-3608475-8919803
Shooter Blu-ray $28
http://www.amazon.com/Shooter-Blu-ray-Ned-Beatty/dp/B000QUEQBS/ref=pd_ts_d_9/103-3608475-8919803?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
Shooter HD DVD $28
http://www.amazon.com/Shooter-HD-DVD-Ned-Beatty/dp/B000QUEQBI/ref=sr_1_12/103-3608475-8919803?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1187803378&sr=1-12
TMNT Blu-ray $24
http://www.amazon.com/TMNT-Blu-ray-Laurence-Fishburne/dp/B000R34V50/ref=pd_ts_d_14/103-3608475-8919803?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
TMNT HD DVD $28
http://www.amazon.com/TMNT-Combo-HD-DVD-Standard/dp/B000RC2EH8/ref=sr_1_10/103-3608475-8919803?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1187803378&sr=1-10
Blade Runner Ultimate Edition Blu-ray $70
http://www.amazon.com/Runner-Five-Disc-Ultimate-Collectors-Blu-ray/dp/B000R6PKP2/ref=pd_ts_d_19/103-3608475-8919803?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
Blade Runner Ultimate Edition HD DVD $70
http://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Five-Disc-Ultimate-Collectors/dp/B000R5N1MC/ref=sr_1_9/103-3608475-8919803?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1187803378&sr=1-9
I’m sorry, but where is HD DVD cheaper? On movies that were popular 15 years ago that are being released on the format? That may be true, but it’s not true for new movies.
OK John, I’ll take back that you have a venomous hatred for Sony, although if you go back and read your previous posts you can see a definite bias against them.
By all rights Paramount has every right to choose which side they want to release their movies on. But let me pose it to you personally this way, you are a home entertainment company and are going to make movies for either Format A and Format B. Format A is outselling Format B by a 2:1 margin. From a purely business standpoint which format do you choose? Format A right? It may drive Format B out but in the end the consumer really only wanted one format to begin with so everyone can be happy.
The idea that you are going to get both sides in this format war to sit down and come up with an entirely new third option is ideal but it just won’t happen. You can lay blame on anyone you want but its not going to happen so the only other alternative is that either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD wins the battle. Someone will have to surrender or else we will have a format war for the extensive future, but really maybe that is what all the companies really want. I’ve actually come to the mindset (over the last day or so) that there may not be a clear victor in this war except for companies like LG and Samsung who have designed multi-format players.
Slybri raises a great point:
This whole “Blu Ray is outselling HD DVD 2:1” thing is, at this point anyway, totally irrelevant. The VAST VAST VAST majority of consumers still haven’t picked a side or a format. This HD battle is still in its infancy (And I still contend that if there was 1 unified format instead of 2, a lot more people would have moved to HD by now. not the majority mind you… but a lot more. I’m one of them.)
I can see people paying 200 bucks to upgrade to an HD-DVD player if there are a decent amount of movies for it. Even though Blu-ray is outselling HD-DVD 2 to 1 at the moment, these are early adopters and technophiles. Most people still have DVD players and won’t touch the HD stuff until it’s around the same price as DVD.
Sure Blu-ray is the better format, with more room on the disk. But HD-DVD is the CHEAPER format. It delivers the movie in HD for close to the price of DVD. That’s what people are waiting for.
I can’t wait to see Transformers in HD, so I can pause the movie and figure out which robot is which..hehe.
@John:
I think that had the companies gotten together and decided to make one format from the very beginning, then it would have been the best option for the consumer because he wouldn’t worry about choosing. Now that there are two competing formats, with backing for both formats, I think the best thing to do would be to give the consumers a choice.
If HD DVD wins in the long run, Blu-ray supporters would be left out in the cold and vice versa if Blu-ray wins. Either way, one group will have to give up their format of choice if the other format wins. Now that the companies are in this little format fiasco, the only smart thing IMO would be to let the consumers choose what they want, and produce disks of both types. I’m all for Fox and MGM producing Blu-ray and HD-DVD disks as long as Paramount, Universal, and other companies who are exclusive to either format are doing it too.
There doesn’t HAVE to be one format that wins it in the end. For example, with game consoles, the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii are all competing for fans, but that doesn’t mean that two of the 3 have to die out and make one the champ in the end. Some people like the Xbox 360, some the PS3 and some like the Wii. A lot of games are made for all 3 systems (Madden for example) and a lot of games are made on both the PS3 and 360 (GTA, Devil May Cry, etc.). This gives consumers the option of selecting. What if the Xbox 360 died out and no more games would be made for it. Is that fair to all the Xbox 360 owners that now would be FORCED to buy a PS3 or a Wii to enjoy gaming? Not at all.
Same thing applies to the format war. Now that there are in fact 2 formats and not 1, getting rid of one would just abandon all the consumers who supported it, spent (or wasted) money on it, and would now be FORCED to buy the winning format’s products.
Chris,
Making a comment about how badly their technology has done in recent years does not equal “Venomous hatred” Justify that all you want.
I’m not suggesting Sony should give up Blu Ray to end the battle. The point is, that it’s silly to just say “one side should give up”.
The answer is not Blu Ray or HD DVD laying down without a fight. The answer is for both sides to come together and work out a universally embraced single technology. Wither a third better choice, or one of the two existing technologies.
“Look, one side is winning” is not a valid reason why no company should embrace a different tech.
John if you don’t want me (or others) to exaggerate your position on Sony than you should maybe reign yourself in a little in your phrasings.
“Personally, I want HD DVD to win, because everything sony touches is pure poison in the last 10 years or so.”
Saying everything they touch is poison and “their technology has been bad the last few years” are two entirely different statements and time periods. Has everything Sony touched in the last decade sucked? That’s a matter of opinion, not fact yet you state it as such.
That said why is it that Sony has to drop Blu-Ray for this to be over. It seems Disney, FOX, MGM all support it as well with Warner Bros (and supposedly the Wienstein’s soon as well) sitting on the fence milking in all the dual format money. Why can’t Paramount and Universal drop HD-DVD?
And Chris,
you said:
“and that you have a venomous hatred for Sony”
WTF?!?! I said their technology has been bad the last few years and that I would prefer if HD DVD won. Please don’t put words in my mouth of super exaggerate my position on Sony.
Hey Chris
This war would be over is Sony gave up Blu-Ray. Paramount made a business decision.
I’ve said it 100 times now… the way for this thing to end is for all sides to AGREE and movie forward. Unless that happens, this thing is going to continue to drag and drag and drag.
John,
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that this format war isn’t hurting consumers but it is people like the Universal guy who are keeping this war going. One of these two formats has to win, complete digital distribution is still a ways off, so why would you throw your support in for a company (Paramount) who has basically said ‘we have no real vested interest either way (unlike Sony) but we want this war to continue so we are throwing our support behind the camp that is currently not winning. Furthermore we are going to make things even more murky by making it known that the movies of our flagship director, Stephen Spielberg, are not HD-DVD exclusive but may appear on one or both formats.’
I understand that you don’t like the idea of the format war (and that you have a venomous hatred for Sony) but why would you support Paramount’s decision to support HD-DVD when by all accounts this war could very well have been over by Christmas if they had just stayed put. Instead we will have at least another 16 months of back and forth battling with the consumer still caught in the middle. My anger at Paramount isn’t because I won’t get to watch Transformers on HD, I wouldn’t doubt that it will be available for download on XBOX Live Marketplace or Comcast on Demand in HD, my anger at them is because they have actively prolonged this war.
Hey Max,
Choice is only a good thing when you’re not FORCED into it. As long as Sony insists on being exclusive to one format, other studios will feel the pinch to do the same. And if EVERYONE is going to support 2 formats… then why have 2?
These sides have to get together an agree upon 1 standard universally accepted format. THAT is what will be good for the customers.
Interesting you brought up Betamax, John.
Another dandy Sony format that lasted for decades.
Same with MiniDisc, UMD, DAT. And boy oh boy, the PS3 (which accounts for most of Blu-ray’s user base, I’d imagine) is totally killing the competition.
Um, right?
I think if I were in charge and picking a side, I wouldn’t bet on the horse with the poorest track record. So I actually agree with Paramount’s decision here.
But that’s just me. Ain’t my coin.
@John,
It’s better for the consumer to have the choice of which disk to buy (HD DVD or Blu-ray). If Paramount went Blu-ray exclusively, then I wouldn’t mind Bay sticking up for HD DVD the same way because people that bought HD DVD players wouldn’t be able to watch Transformers. Now, people who own Blu-ray players can’t watch Transformers. I wouldn’t care if neither format won the war, as long as both can co-exist and give consumers the opportunity to choose what they want.
What if Coke put Pepsi out of business. Pepsi lovers wouldn’t be too happy. (maybe a bad example but it’s the first thing that I thought of) Choice is a good thing.
Chris,
By looking at what every single other industry expert is saying. This is VHS vs Beta all over again. This is NOT good for the consumers at all.
The ONLY way this could be less bad… is if EVERY STUDIO agreed to put out all their movies in both formats. But Sony won’t do that, and so other studios with draw lines and take sides too. And even if all studios commited to both formats… WHAT’S THE POINT? All it means is that now studios have to spend development costs for 2 different formats instead of 1. The cost will be passed on the the consumer.
The reason DVD was embraced so much faster than HD, is because of the Universality of it. There was ONE format, agreed upon, supported and utilized by all the studios.
So HDDVD owners can’t get Sony or Disney films… Blu Ray owners can’t watch Bourne Ultimatum or Transformers.
That’s great that the Universal guy says that… but his is a very lonely voice.
“This is NOT GOOD for the consumer.” Tell that to the president of Universal Home Entertainment. As he seems to be of the mind that having two formats, despite his company loosing money by siding with HD-DVD, is better for the consumer in the long run as it lowers the price of players and movies quicker than it would if there was one format.
OK John, I guess I mistook your above comment, “Personally, I want HD DVD to win, because everything sony touches is pure poison in the last 10 years or so.” that statement is opinion and fan-ism. Not everything Sony has touched in the last 10 years has been pure poison. I think the jury is still out on the PS3 (I happen to own all three), if at the end of this holiday season it flops then you can add that to your list and the PSP is far from a flop (at least recently) as it has taken a huge upswing in terms of sales. Outside of that Blu-Ray is not a Sony only item, remember both formats were created by a group of companies. I personally am siding with Blu-Ray being as George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg and James Cameron have all come out in support of it, if these three tell me to jump I will jump because of my love for their movies. That in itself may be foolish.
And seriously John you go around complaining about the format war and then when a company does something which could conceiveably prolong this war for even longer (and if you look at the numbers the war could have been over by this holdiay season if Paramount had stayed put). Someone needs to give in at some point, why is it silly to say so. That is a matter of fact.
Alfie,
I’m not sure exactly how the sales figures come about but 300, the biggest HD release thus far, has roughly a 2:1 ratio of Blu Ray to HD-DVD sales, which seems to fall in line with the ratio tossed about. So maybe PS3 titles factor in but is seems that movie releases are following the same ratio.
http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/html/breaking_article.cfm?sec_id=2&&article_ID=11010
Hey Max,
You said:
“So much for Michael Bay sticking up for the consumer.”
How on earth does having two separate rival formats good for the consumer???? The very reason I’m not adopting HD yet is because of two rival formats. This is NOT GOOD for the consumer. Putting the movies out on both formats increases the cost, and just prolongs this feud.
The answer does not lie in one side giving up, but rather in the two sides being willing to finally sit down and say “Let’s agree on one, universal format that is good for consumers”. THAT’S what is good for consumers.
So much for Michael Bay sticking up for the consumer. I wonder how much of that $150 million Paramount/Dreamworks gave him to like the idea of the film being only on HD DVD (and DVD).
Hey Chris,
I’m sorry dude, but that is the silliest thing I’ve heard in this thread. I would like Sony to lose (but I don’t really care all that much since I’m not an HD fan either way) because their technology track record is horrible recently. That’s not “opinion”, or fan-ism. That’s just fact (see Alfie’s list).
It’s also a pretty silly thing to say “well if one side just gave up, then the war would be over”… well… that’s true… but in this case it’s the exact same thing for Sony/Disney. If Sony/Disney just gave up Blu-Ray this fight would be over wouldn’t it?
John, You sound just like the fanboys that you are yelling at for being angry at Paramount. You basically stated you have a huge bias against Sony and think they suck. Did you ever stop to think that a lot of people want this war to be over and if Paramount had stayed put this silly little format war would be over? Or is it that you hate Sony that much that you can’t bear the thought of Blu-Ray actually winning this war?
Concerning “Mikey B”… good god, he writes like a 14 year old. No wonder Transformers was one of the DUMBEST movies I’ve ever seen.
Oh Lord have mercy, we’re STILL on this? As I said early on in the initial post about this, I never believed that he was serious about not directing Transformers 2: Cybertron Boogaloo. He was being sarcastic about it. Michael Bay might be a shitty director, but he’s not so stupid to walk away from a guaranteed money-making franchise. You guys put your boots in his ass for nothing.
Personally, I think PS1 and PS2 had their issues as well. Both are well known for the disc read errors they would get. The PS1 had to be turned on it’s side to make it work, and eventually that wasn’t enough. The PS2 also started to have disc read errors, but even turning it on it’s side didn’t work.
The only reason I hesitate to mention this is because the opposing argument is that the Xbox360 is also having hardware issues, and while I agree that it too has shoddy production values, Microsoft does not make HD-DVD. It’s only backed by MS, which is not the same as Sony and Bluray.
-Calviin
I ‘will not mind’ him doing Transformers 2.
And SONY SUCKS! Don’t forget the Sony E-Book reader.. $300 for an e-book reader that’s very inconvenient to use.
michael bays just put this up on his website
“hey guys.
its mikey b here.
Just wanted to fill you in on what happened last night.
See I got drunk last night, I am talking fucking shitfaced, with some buddies who own PS3s and they all whined about how they couldn’t get transformers in HD now and how much better blu ray was than HD I mean they really got in my ear about it. I didn’t pay too much attention but when we started doing, like a ton of, blow off this hookers ass they were still harping on about it so i eventually started to see their point and I said to myself ‘fuck this shit who the fuck do paramount think they fucking are..i’ll fucking show them im fucking walking”. LOL
I thought it was just coke talk you know? I never thought I would actually go home and announce it online in the dead of night in a coke fuelled frenzy while being pleasured behind my gigantic hardwood desk in the office at my palatial hollywoood mansion!
There was “kool aid” being drunk alright..Under My Desk!!! LOL
But, apparently, in the middle of the night I logged on and announced to the world I was walking.
I say “apparently” because I thought I had dreamt it!!LOL Candy was the one who told me it was all real….
I just wanted to say ‘sorry guys’ but hey thats coke for ya? LMFAO
Believe me I will be doing transformers 2…..
See you all soon
Mikey B.
Michael Bay will be doing Transformers 2, this is what he posted on his blog:
“Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three Blu-Ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-Ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted – nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you – I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.
As a director, I’m all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.
So today I saw 300 on HD-DVD, it rocks!
So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!
Michael Bay”
john (even though I don’t think you are talking to me) i just read your other post and we are on the same page (one of those rare moments:))
thats what I have been saying all day…where is all the anger at the studios who have picked blu ray only like mgm and fox…and sony (although since it is their format it makes sense) but still????
i have HDDVD but I am not pissing and moaning about the studios who have picked blu ray…. it really seems to me that the blu ray gang are a bunch of whining babies.
I have a feeling alot of them are more in a weird defending the PS3 then anything else. gamers are weird ….. some guys really feel you have to pick a side on everything and take it very personally. and I think the disastrous start to the ps3 has them worried. but i get it…you have your favourites and you stay loyal….I know the feeling.
and the people complaining that “oh hddvd paid paramount to do this. its all about money”
what else would it be about??? of course its about the money…..every single part of this business is about money…99% of the films we talk about here are about making money…..this is a business whos sole purpose is to make money so to say that this decision is based around money like that is a bad thing is ridiculous. of course it is about money.
sorry to go on but all day I have been reading about what assholes paramount are and people calling for boycotts etc etc and it seems to be all directed at HDDVD so that leads me to believe it is all the blu ray fans who thought they had this silly war in the bag and are now all pissed off that this throws a spanner in the works. I remember beta vs video ..only that there were two formats and then all of a sudden there was one. I remember there being two saides to the video store and one got smaller and smaller but i was like 5 so I didn’t know what was happening so to see a full scale format war i actually find fascinating.
esepcially since dvd is still relatively new so joey average movie guy really couldn’t give a fuck at all
one more thing…as you know I am not bays biggest fan but even you guys who like him have to admit he looks like a bit of a dick here doesn’t he?
throws a (probably) drunken internet tantrum and then the next takes it back the next day…making some kind of wild “im walking off the sequel” bullshit only to 24 hours later take it back
i don’t know if it is my dislike of him but to me i find it kind of embarrassing..he threatened to take his bat and ball and go home…I don;t know….he just seems incredibly childish…
but I am predisposed to dislike the guy at all costs so I am sure one of his fans could spin it for me in a way that makes him look like he did the right thing…
hey john..you are totally correct
sony developed and backed Betamax, MiniDisc, PSP movie discs, DAT, memory sticks and none of those took over and became the standard in their fields…in fact they all pretty much turkeyed.
if you are to go by history i would not be going on the side of blu ray.
and I am sorry playstation fans of which I am one but the PS3 has been a bit of a disaster for sony but mainly due to the fact that wii stole too much of everyones thunder. ps3 was not the world dominanting gaming system they expected due to a botched launch and so far just not having that many great games…..i would love to get one don’t get me wrong but that is the other factor holding it back…the cost. plus whenever these stats about blu ray discs outselling hd dvd did you know that includes the games? that is not just movies…PS# games are blu ray formatted apparently. please correct me if I am wrong but that is what I read..so when these hd vs blu ray figures are announced bear in mind that the blu ray number includes ps 3 games.
all that aside sony have a long history of failed attempts to introduce a new format to many things over the years and apart from playstation they have hardly knocked them out of the park so history tells me that sony have a higher chance of losing this so called war.
Hey John,
You might want to brush up on your wording…
You said “Personally, I want HD DVD to win, because EVERYTHING Sony touches is pure poison in the LAST 10 YEARS OR SO.”
I just gave you four examples that show that not “EVERYTHING” Sony has done in the “LAST 10 YEARS OR SO” (which I think 15 years falls close enough to in your “or so” allowance)has failed.
While I agree with your sentiment that Sony have been on a bad spell the last few years in their technology dept., I will also contend that you need to focus your statements more concisely and be sure to not paint your overly broad points into corners that they can’t hope to get out from.
Cheers!
James
Hey James,
You might want to brush up on your math… Playstation came out almost 15 years ago. I’ll totally give you Playstation 2 100%
Playstation 3
PSP – Disaster
DRM fiasco
Massivley falling behind on the D-Camera market
basically everything to do with Tech has blown in the past number of years. And their DRM stuff absolutely frightens me far more than Microsoft ever has.
I want Fuqua to direct the next Transformers movie.
\”Personally, I want HD DVD to win, because everything Sony touches has been pure poison in the last 10 years or so.\” – John Campea
Yeah John, the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Spider-Man films have all been a great financial tragedy for Sony.
Haha, he drank and dialed! Well in his case, drank and posted but pretty funny. Most people call up chicks when they’re drunk, he gets on the internet and makes stupid claims. I bet he doesn’t even remember doing it haha.
So why are people mad at Paramount and not mad at Sony? They were the first company to go exclusive to one format. Paramount picked a different side. The playing field is leveled out now.
Personally, I want HD DVD to win, because everything sony touches is pure poison in the last 10 years or so.
From a monetary standpoint it was stupid. If one format is outselling another format by a 2:1 ratio wouldn’t you side with the one where the profit has been steadily increasing over the course of the year rather than a format that has been getting its ass kicked despite having the cheaper players?
If the rumor that Toshiba paid Paramount $150 million for a years worth of exclusivity is true then I would bet Bay was told by Paramount, don’t worry about it because your film will be out on Blu-Ray by 2009 at the latest.
John if you want to be angry at anyone over the format war, you should be angry at Universal. The president of Universal recently did an interview where he basically said he wants the format war to continue, which was why Universal wouldn’t be releasing their films on Blu-Ray because if they were to jump ship and release on Blu-Ray then HD-DVD would be dead as all the studios would be releasing on Blu-Ray.
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?p=244229
Pray tell will… why was siding with HD “stupid”?
i think nothing wrong was done here at all, but it just brought some more attention to the stupidness of the studio siding with HD.
whatever though, and im sure bay will be back for TF 2, i hope they get it started soon.
Hey, at least he was man enough to step up and say he did say them and not hide behind a “misquoted” line of B.S.
Anyone can change their opinion (especially if said opinion is formed in the wee-hours under any number of influences…) and I think this is just fine.
Bay should do just fine with Transformers 2… and I’d like to see him back if nothing more than continuity of vision.