'Transformers 4: Age of Extinction' News: Michael Bay Unfazed By Negative Criticism, 'Let Them Hate,' He Says [VIDEO]
While Transformers 4: Age of Extinction nailed it at the box office drawing in a whopping $100 million, but many critics totally slammed the movie and ripped it to shreds, Michael Bay got back at the critics.
But Bay is completely unfazed by all the hating and even feels it's good to face a little bit of heat. In an interview with TheWrap, the director trivialised the critics.
"They love to hate, and I don't care; let them hate," Bay said. "They're still going to see the movie! I think it's good to get a little tension. Very good."
Some of the critics had some pretty damning words for the movie.
Variety actually suggested that the plot bore "resemblance" to X-Men: Days of Future Past:
"The plot, as scripted by Ehren Kruger (who penned the last two "Transformers" movies) bears more than a passing resemblance to that of the recent "X-Men: Days of Future Past." Just as the X-Men are hunted by Sentinels engineered by a paranoid government using mutant DNA, so the Autobots, after siding with humans in an apocalyptic clash against the evil Decepticons, are being targeted for elimination by a second generation of human-designed Transformers."
The publication also believes that Bay works a dangerous combination of an "aggressive sensory assault" with the "breakneck editing of William Goldenberg," which doesn't do the movie any favors.
The Hollywood Reporter took the most dramatic swipe at the movie:
"The age of the Transformers is over," announces counterintelligence agent Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer) in the fourth entry of the Paramount/Hasbro-backed fighting-robots film series. But don't you believe it: He's the villain of the piece, and, given Paramount's recent announcement that a fifth installment will ship in 2016, it's clear the mutating androids' reign, onscreen and at the box office, is far from finished."
This followed by the fatal blow, suggesting that this movie rings in the end of the Transformers franchise.
"Some viewers, though, will probably side with Attinger as they leave theaters after Transformers: Age of Extinction finallydraws to a close," the reviewer wrote.
Transformers: Age of Extinction will hit theaters on June 27, 2014.
Watch a trailer for the film here:
