MSRP $49.95

Disc One: The Film

Anamorphic 2.35:1 Widescreen
DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1

+Commentary by Michael Bay specially recorded on 3 different occasions and edited together for a spectacular listening experience

Disc Two: The Extras Pt. 1

+Playing Two Parts, 90 minute documentary covering the tireless effort of playing a clone.

+Lunch with the Genius, 181 minute interview of Jerry Buckheimer's infamous lunch meeting with the great Michael Bay

Disc Three: The Extras Pt. 2

+The Producer isn't Here! 45 minute documentary on Michael Bay's feelings on not working with Jerry Bruckheimer

+Facing the Critics: 7 second documentary of Michael Bay using hand gestures to convey his true emotions of how he feels about criticism towards his art.

+What Script? 110 minute documentary including rare interviews with the cast about Michael Bay's "don't worry we'll edit it later" approach to filmmaking.

+Inspiration: 192 minute documentary of the various car commercials that guided Michael Bay to create his masterpiece

Silly person. Go play in the hay

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Damn, I am getting sick of them leaving trailers off these discs.

Funnily enough, I was thinking "The Island" for some reason when I clicked on the link. No choice Criterion could ever make again could be as bad as adding Armageddon to their catalogue.

Thank the Lord. I know Bay signed a 3 movie deal with Crit when he did Armegedon and The Rock, kept the last one open for future releases. This is great news. I love Michael Bay!!!

How can Disk 3 have that long of material on it?

This does make me wonder, though: does a filmmaker's "tie" to Criterion override the studio's normal attitude towards licensing their films? Like, if Michael Bay did want to do a Criterion edition of The Island, could he overrule Warner Bros and DreamWorks?

But as for this, shouldn't you include the 150-minute documentary of Michael Bay and his charming on-set tantrums, including not-so-rare footage of him yelling at his actors and telling them to "look cooler"?

An interview... of a lunch meeting...? Ooookay!

Michael Bay
.......and then he started eating his salad.......without........a fork

Interviewer
It must have been terrible.

all I can say is that the cover's cool.

I respectfully disagree. Criterion's covers are ART, not a Photoshop filter on some production stills.

sorry forgot to add a sarcastic smiley.

No. Although people have this fantasy about directors having an agreement with Criterion, it's in the studios' hands, not theirs.

DJ

so is the theory why Columbia/TriStar are being hard asses and not letting Criterion getting the DVD rights to releasing:

- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- The Fisher King
- Adventures of Baron Munchausen

what about Wes Anderson? All his films except Bottle Rocket have been released by Criterion even though Buena Vista controls the rights. I think there is some kind of agreement between directors and Criterion.

i was always told it was directors themselves, but with some time of kickback or something for the studios

Come on, give us the info we all really want to know - Spine #?

But Buena Vista has a relationship with Criterion, while Sony does not (outside of licensing the Monty Python and the Holy Grail commentary from Criterion).

Oh well, boo hoo, no Island Criterion for real. What a horrible shame.

Michael Bay is such a hack. I felt like someone sledgehammered my nuts when I first heard he'd be doing the live-action Transformers movie. Someone needs to banish him, Antoine Fuqua, and Rob Cohen to some far away distant moon where they can't do any more damage.

Yes...and Disney had a business arrangement with Criterion for many years now. This began in the laserdisc era, and has led to a number of Disney/Criterion releases, including the Anderson films, on laserdisc and DVD.

You can believe whatever you like. If you think that directors actually own these studio-owned films, enjoy your fantasy world.

DJ

add McG to that list as well.

That's because people invent things, say it on message boards, and other people repeat it. After a while, it gets repeated as fact rather than someone's personal invented theory.

A "kickback" for the studios? They own the films. Come on. They're not getting a "kickback" - they're getting a licensing fee. They make the licensing decisions, not the directors. A director's interest in or relationship with an outside company could influence a studio's decisions, but that's about it. The studios certainly aren't reduced to the level of receiving a "kickback or something" on the licensing of a $100 million film that they own.

DJ

Yes, we'll definitely have a V.I.P. seat reserved for him too.