The Official Choose A Director Thread

[Cousin Itt]

Ah, to think we could have had a giant robotic Brainiac peeing on Lex Luthor. Maybe even some *********ion jokes with Jonathan, Martha talking to young Clark.

And maybe Metallo can rap.

Best. Movie. Ever.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I didn't hate Transformers as it was atleast a fun bad movie but I don't want a Superman movie like that. Period.

 

[Saint]

Saint, where is that avatar from? Looks like Bermejo's work.

It is. It's from the new Joker GN.

 

[KaptainKrypton]

Michael Bay is the best director of ninety-minute movie previews I have ever seen.

 

[KaptainKrypton]

I also have to admit, that while I think Joss Whedon is perfect for The Flash, I really want to know what he would do with Superman. Joss has a desire to do a comic book film, but he will want full creative control, like Meyer. That is how guys like them are. I really believe that the reason Meyer has not had a bigger career is that he can be stubborn with studio's, and he has a reputation for wanting complete control or nothing at all. Whedon is the same way, it's his vision or he will not do it.

I do think Whedon could make Superman "cool" again, just because of his writing style and attention to character depth. Whedon would totally do post-crisis Superman, and we would get Tom Lenk as Jimmy Olsen.

When Joss has a good idea, it can be REALLY good. His script for Alien:Resurrection was the only reason that film got made. But because Rothman is such a cheap scumbag, they lopped the original ending and nixed the cool factor by a factor of three. Whedon has the talent if he is allowed to do what he can do. I'm a huge Firefly and Serenity fan and most people have no idea that it only took Whedon $40 million to make Serenity. Plus, Whedon has been a solid troubleshooter for scripts before and I also like Toy Story.

I just think they'd have to saddle him with someone like Geoff Johns or some other comic geek who knows Superman and his character, history, motivations and little ticks from back to front and a solid product would be the result.

 

[Marvin]

directors to me are like the pencilers inkers and painters with a little more power...

now when you look at the books ever now and then you get wide screen hitch or powerful imagery Lee or what not

then sometimes you get the lame ass boring artists lol

nuff said

personally I like bay on transformers, cause and the audience can just have fun and that's better for everyone
or course there are those "ppl" that think even that movie should be cider house rules...

superman tho it would look feel like an american mythos movie, really shouldn't be done by bay...

i understand that now...the W brothers should do it

but i'm pretty sure the director millar is talking about is McG
he wants it back and he knows who millar is.

McG loves the ultimates

 

[kalelkilla]

Peter Jackson would be UNREAL...I get goosebumps just thinking about it...him doing Mark Millar's 8 hour epic might be one hell of a show...think of the possibilities... the ending sounds depressing but could be beautiful at the same time...I would rather have Superman die saving the world...but there is something very interesting about the last being on the planet Earth, not being human...kind of like A.I. where a the robot was the only evidence that the Human race even existed...it could be cool...kind of like a captain staying on his sinking ship...maybe he would rather die on Earth than move to another planet...i don't know give it a chance!

 

[Anita18]

here's the thing, Bay on his own scares me. Moreover, SR looked really good, equally as good as a bay movie, but ironically, like many of bay's movies, it lacked a worthwhile story to carry the action and imagery. We'd end up with the same thing, unless he had another 'hollywood super power' pulling the narrative string behind the scenes, as he did with Transformers

Not really. Bay is slam bang in-your-face blow 'em up. SR was more epic and had a more restrained touch in terms of cinematography. It didn't need to be loud because the images themselves were beautiful. Bay's movies don't have beautiful images - he shoots them with the express purpose of looking cool.

I do enjoy Bay for what he does - brainless action movies. I was watching The Rock recently and I was wondering why they were having a random car chase so early in the movie, and then I realized it was a good excuse to have a car chase in the middle of downtown San Francisco. By the end of that car chase, I had accepted the ridiculousness and was like, "WHEEE" when a cable car exploded and flew 10 feet up in the air. Why? For the heck of it. That's what Bay does.

Michael Bay would of delivered one of the most enjoyable Superhero movies ever if he made a Superman movie.

Woh, name change?!

 

[JokerLedger]

I love Michael Bay...
I'd have no problem with a Michael Bay directed Superman flick.
I'm being serious.

 

[wellsy]

I love Michael Bay...
I'd have no problem with a Michael Bay directed Superman flick.
I'm being serious.

Which begs the question - Why so serious?!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

But I think I'll pass on a Bay-directed Superman. Oh, sure, it'll be a fun watch. But it won't be epic. Epics need (good) characters.

 

[Double Down]

No thanks, Bay.

 

[MAN O STEEL]

Yeah screw a Bay directed Superman movie, we don't want a fun, exciting, uplifting Superman movie experience, we want a sequel to an.......ahhhh.....epic-ish....ahhh...well whatever SR was, we want that again. Seriously, whats with the hatred for Bay?. I have seen all his movies & I love em, they have story ( maybe not on the scale of the great overrated Lord Of The Ring's ), superb action, fun bits of comedy & they are exciting films to watch. And how can anyone say that his movies have no story & are brainless?, has no one seen Armaggeddon?. The story between Bruce's character & Liv's was told well & was very sad at the end. It was fleshed out well from the very beggining till the end. Bay's movies have more story & emotion than ppl give him credit for. I say give him a break.






Steve

 

[[A]]

Watching the Transformers blu-ray HUD feature and it said that At one point Michael Bay considered directing Superman Returns. This happened when the John Tuturro character stripped down to his singlet with a logo in front like the Superman insignia.

Woah. Bad dream, bad dream.. good thing that never happened.

 

[Superfreak]

There's no way SR matched the visceral intensity and large scale action in Bay's best work. Replace the robots in the Transformers trailer with Brainiac's minions and imagine Superman duking it out with them and you get an idea of what a Bay Superman movie might look like. He just knows how to use the camera for action.

Superman should be the grandest, most cinematic of super heroes. It's the golden age for such movies and frankly I can't believe we're all sitting here not knowing where it's going or when it's going to happen.

I wasn't disagreeing, but just stating that in order for such grand action, the story has to be powerful enough to carry the 'super violence' that ensues. Bay can certainly pull off the imagery without any problem. But like I said before, he needs someone in his corner pulling the strings that he is not good at pulling: the narrative, the story, the emotion. The performance of Transformers I reward to the Bay and Spielberg team, not Bay alone

 

[DavidTyler]

OK... maybe I should have worded that differently... you've all made your point.

it 'borrowed' the rescue sequence of the plane from MOS

It could very well have been an homage - it did not, however, come from the mind of Singer. In fact, someone mentioned that it was a holdover from an earlier script pre-singer.

 

[darthlaney]

The Plane Rescue is great - but it had none of the emotion of the helicopter rescue. The only point it gives me a tingle down my spine is when he lifts the shuttle of the plane.

In the helicopter rescue I get a tingle when I see the shirt ripped open, when he comes out of the revolving door and then again when he catches Lois. I even get a little ripple at the "that's a bad outfit...woo" line.

The plane sequence didn't have this emotion attached.

And for the record, the helicopter sequence would translate into a modern Superman movie even today.

 

[bgshw44]

The Plane Rescue is great - but it had none of the emotion of the helicopter rescue. The only point it gives me a tingle down my spine is when he lifts the shuttle of the plane.

In the helicopter rescue I get a tingle when I see the shirt ripped open, when he comes out of the revolving door and then again when he catches Lois. I even get a little ripple at the "that's a bad outfit...woo" line.

The plane sequence didn't have this emotion attached.

And for the record, the helicopter sequence would translate into a modern Superman movie even today.

I cant believe the first time we see the \S/ since 1987 was in a terrible terrible shirt rip/musical cue sequence

 

[MaceB]

Bay is a talentless ass clown of a director. The ONLY film of his that has ANY merit is Transformers - a film that by most standards wasn't very good except for the action sequences. The story was totally ludicrous, the acting was mediocre, and it followed every damn formulaic, contrived filmic trope in the book. And in all truth - it's not hard to see Spielberg's style spread throughout.
I'm sorry, but I don't want Superman to have action sequences just for the sake of them. There's a lot of depth to Superman, and Bay would never be able to do him justice. Tell me one damn movie where Bay gave us complex, rich characters. The man has given us no evidence that he is capable of a shred of originality. Anyone who knows standard screenplay formulas can see Bay coming from a mile away.
He makes movies like I make dinner - first we need this ingredient, and then that ingredient, put it in the oven for a while and.... presto, you've got something that may look and taste good, but nothing special, interesting, or lasting. A few hours later, all it is is crap. It's a sad fact that the majority of movie watching audiences these days settle for such laziness. If you were to convert his films into books, they'd be the worst pieces of garbage ever. It takes more than a bunch of CG, explosions, and pointless Folly work to make a good movie.

 

[Dark Jaguar]

On one hand: Bay does GREAT action sequences.
On the other hand: He can't give us depth.

So let Bay do the action and fight scenes.
Give the character development to someone more capable, hell.. even back to Singer... I'd take him over Bay on this matter.

Shoot one movie in two different lights. Just keep Routh as the one in tights.

HAH!

 

[sdc10]

Does anyone else besides me think that Transformers was highly overrated?

 

[kalelkilla]

Does anyone else besides me think that Transformers was highly overrated?

Yeah it wasn't a good movie. Just a great exercise in special effects...but those effects were fantastic...but everything else about it was pretty bad. Shia is great though...

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Transformers is ****in' awesome, imo. I wouldn't mind at all if Bay did Superman. It doesn't really matter, though, because it's not gonna happen.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Bay is a talentless ass clown of a director. The ONLY film of his that has ANY merit is Transformers - a film that by most standards wasn't very good except for the action sequences. The story was totally ludicrous, the acting was mediocre, and it followed every damn formulaic, contrived filmic trope in the book. And in all truth - it's not hard to see Spielberg's style spread throughout.
I'm sorry, but I don't want Superman to have action sequences just for the sake of them. There's a lot of depth to Superman, and Bay would never be able to do him justice. Tell me one damn movie where Bay gave us complex, rich characters. The man has given us no evidence that he is capable of a shred of originality. Anyone who knows standard screenplay formulas can see Bay coming from a mile away.
He makes movies like I make dinner - first we need this ingredient, and then that ingredient, put it in the oven for a while and.... presto, you've got something that may look and taste good, but nothing special, interesting, or lasting. A few hours later, all it is is crap. It's a sad fact that the majority of movie watching audiences these days settle for such laziness. If you were to convert his films into books, they'd be the worst pieces of garbage ever. It takes more than a bunch of CG, explosions, and pointless Folly work to make a good movie.

I doubt you could do better. It's not laziness. The majority of audiences just see movies as entertainment and nothing more. We don't go to the movies to think. We go to be entertained. Movie buffs/geeks are the only ones who actually give a crap. If you, or anyone else, don't like those 'brainless action movies', than don't see them. It's that ****in' simple.

 

[jmc]

well if bay was the director you can bet your ass that every 200 milions would be in hte movie. it would be big.

Yeah, but it would be hollow with one dimensional characters. No way, no Bay, this guy is a blight on movies.

 

[dark_b]

maybe yes maybe not.

but superman at the end of the day in a movie needs to be visual.