In an interview with LA Times, Michael Bay finally admitted that "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" was terrible and claims to have learned from his mistakes.
"It was kind of a mess. It failed in some key ways. I learned from it," said Bay. "And now with this third movie we're going back to basics and I absolutely believe this is going to be a much better film than the second one. I'm trying to make up for ['Transformers 2']. I think we have something to prove with this third one."
He went on to explain what exactly went wrong. "The big thing was the writers strike. We had three weeks to get our story and we were going into the movie without a script. It's tough to do that. It was too big of a movie," the director explained. "There were too many endings or too many things that felt like endings. There was so much animation too, and we ran out of time. It felt like we were writing the script in the edit room, trying to put together a story."
Bay is happy that "Transformers 2" ended up being the third highest-earning film of the year and is shocked that the franchise is doing so well. "The term I used at the time was 'stupid idea'," he said about when Steven Spielberg approached him to direct the first film back in 2005. But after learning of the characters and the mythology, Bay began to warm up to the idea.
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