"The real fault with (Transformers 2) is that it
ran into a mystical world," he explains. "When I look back at it,
that was crap. The writers' strike was coming hard and fast. It was just terrible
to do a movie where you've got to have a story in three weeks." He adds,
"I was prepping a movie for months where I only had 14 pages of some idea
of what the movie was. It's a BS way to make a movie, do you know what I'm
saying?" This isn't the first time Bay has blamed the writers' strike for
the blockbuster's faults.
In July 2010, he told USA Today, "I'll take some
of the criticism. It was very hard to put (the sequel) together that quickly
after the writers' strike." Actor Shia LaBeouf had similar complaints
earlier that year at the Cannes Film Festival. "When I saw the second
movie, I wasn't impressed with what we did," he said. "There were
some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone."
However, both Bay
and LaBeouf promised that the franchise's third installment,
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon," due in July, would rejuvenate the
series. "Transformers 2" grossed about $836 million worldwide, having
cost about $200 million to produce.
