Bring in fresh blood. Ditch Bay (he needs to branch out into something different anyway) and get Justin Lin to direct instead.

Fuck all you haters. The movies have been fun.

+1, although I want Lin to at least get the sixth "Fast and Furious" movie done as he really has built something with Fast Five.

Bay should go work on Bad Boys III before it's too late.

I have all three so I have been entertained. However, if you cut out all the useless bullshit from all three movies, leave in the good parts, and add a few scenes to connect it all together, you have one good movie.

Justin Lin is the fresh blood it needs. Let him do Fast Six and then start working TF4 agterwards. But lock him in now.

Justin Lin?! What the hell are you guys smoking?

The good stuff? *raised eyebrow*

I just assumed they'd do a new trilogy with a different director and actors (and hopefully more emphasis on the robots)... I enjoyed the first two for what they were, and I haven't seen the third one yet, but I'd rather Bay and company move on to different things.

Did you not see Fast Five? Justin Lin proved that, although he doesn’t have Michael Bay’s penchant (maybe even a fetish) for pyrotechnics, he knows how to orchestrate coherent mayhem (a skill Bay has yet to master despite some fun sequences) and can properly juggle multiple characters and storylines without letting the story go off the rails.

I know Justin Lin quit Terminator 5 in order to focus on Fast Six/Fast Seven but I hope Paramount and Hasbro go out of their way to lock him down for Transformers 4.

Let's just get this out of the way now:

Trans4mers

"Transamers"? Is that the next rip-off from the Asylum? I thought they called them Transmorphers.

Tr4nsformers makes more sense to me. Like Scre4m.

techincally Trans4mers makes more sense.

Shocking they'd want to do a fourth. Didn't the last one only make over a billion dollars?

Pretty much. I'm surprised there haven't been any news reports that started with the line "in news that will likely surprise no one".

I'm up for a 4th, but wouldn't mind seeing a different director. Maybe someone like Jonathan Mostow. Jason Statham's name is being floated out there as the new human lead.

The rumour of Statham as the lead of the fourth was circulated before the third was even shot. I'm thinking it's just fan speculation. Much like claims (fostered by musing from Tyrese) that Spielberg would direct the fourth.

And with Bay out of the way, they should bring back Megan Fox.

I wish! But he's staying as producer and they still need Spielberg's wallet. It seems the only person Spielberg allows to compare others to Nazis is Tom Cruise. But then, I don't think Tom Cruise ever called on of Spielberg's friends (which is what Michael Bay is) a Nazi.

I always thought that Stephen Sommers should have directed the Transformers movies while Bay should have had a go at the GI Joe franchise.

I have yet to see a Stephen Sommers movie where the CGI didn't look like complete shit. He's not exactly the guy I'd push for a CGI heavy movie like Transformers. He has no idea what good computer animation looks like.

Although I enjoyed the hell outta the first two Mummy movies and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, I can't disagree with this statement. It's a shame since his action sequences are far more coherent than Bay's and would actually suit Transformers better.

But there's no denying Bay has a far better eye for CGI. It's just a shame he's so enamoured with obscuring his visuals in excessively close shots, shaky cam, and quick edits.

No. Just No. T3 was horrid. He's mostly a mediocre director from what I've seen. Nothing "fresh" or imaginative in his work. Really boring and average direction.

Give TF4 to Lin. Convince him w/ bags of money but lock him in quick!

I liked U-571 and Breakdown, which were both from Mostow. T3 was crappy in parts, but I always thought the crane sequence was good. I just want someone who will show us a robot battle that isn't cut every 2 seconds.

If they really wanted to go full action hack, they could pick McG. I thought his action scenes in T4 were pretty solid, particularly the moto-terminator scene.