Michael Bay "drinks the Kool Aid," now supports HD DVD

Ha, so much for standing up to the boss-man. Michael's latest post now says that, "I drank the Kool Aid" blah blah blah "so I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!" Whatever, wuss.

[Andrew @ Aug 22nd 2007 2:58AM]

tool.

[ATT @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:01AM]

.com

[LordFarkward @ Aug 22nd 2007 6:33AM]

that's 1 dot too many, making it tool..com

[matthew @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:52AM]

lol... i clicked on just to say "tool" and low and behold, there it is

[Jagster @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:36PM]

ALL, PLEASE READ THE BLOG.

THE KOOL AID HE IS TALKING ABOUT IS THE BLU-RAY KOOL-AID.

He is now admiting that he was fooled by the 3 blu-ray owners [*cough* execs] when he made his initial posting and has now rescinded that original tantrum.

Reading comprehension FTW.. Shame on Engadget for twisting that.

[tehpwnmstr @ Aug 22nd 2007 2:59AM]

Money talks.

[Andrew @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:00AM]

still.

[theboss @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:55AM]

Yeah, fall back in line like a little bi*** Michael. When the boss talks you listen. He got all fiesty for a second and then the boss smacked him back into reality.

[OnimushaSoki @ Aug 22nd 2007 6:22AM]

Given the kind of money he gets for directing movies(good or bad)... I can't help but say that I'd do the exact same thing. Money keeps this capitalist world spinning afterall. But I would've been a LOT more cordial about my dislike of HD DVD than his blog mentioned(bluray supporter here)... he did come off sounding like a "whiny bi'atch" and it's downright obvious the "koolaid" was nothing more than a pay increase or more rights/privilage in his directorial duties for the films.

[Evan @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:28PM]

hmm... i would have thought the kool aid was more like, stfu or your done with paramount

[Brandon @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:06AM]

Heh, sounds like someone got spanked good...

[shaun @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:11AM]

nanananananananaaa leader.....

[Manny @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:11AM]

Haha! yeah what a Wuss??!

PS: I can't believe you guys created new tags for him: "Wuss".. Now i know where/How to find Michael Bay on Engadget.com

[stuckouteast @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:11AM]

Sadly for Bay, whatever trickle-down cash he eventually receives from the HD-DVD consortium's $150 million payout to Paramount will never transform into a pair of testicles. Megatron wins this round.

[cocoa @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:13AM]

"I drank the kool aid.."Oh, did I really say that? What i meant was "I is got paid moneys yesterday. Is nice ;)"

[Sirnoobius @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:15AM]

he looks like the biggest tool now but why open your mouth in the first place.

[Joey Villarreal @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:18AM]

Yeah I wonder how much that cost Toshiba. What a bastard. I agree with Stuckouteast... you need to ask yourself... what would optimus do? He'd stick with blu-ray.

Hey guys, don't forget to tag Peter Moore with wuss. HAHAHA!

[Christian @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:25AM]

engadget literally made my midnight reading alot better with this article of blog!

Someone probably showed him that HD-DVD can get bigger capacity now with dual layers and such... (of course probably means blu-ray can too)

Wonder how many more wusses are out there like this? Can't believe a Kool Aid can change a person's mind.

[comrade @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:27AM]

What the hell are you people babbling about? Blu-ray is sony. Sony is evil. They treat their customers like criminals and the extra DRM in Blu-ray bites.

What a bunch of tools.

[Andrew @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:37AM]

Hitler and Stalin were evil, Sony is an electronics company.

[Zinn @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:58AM]

HD DVD = Microsoft = GREED/EVIL

[uagent @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:36AM]

Lame! And here I was hoping HD-DVD would win the format war solely to force Michael Bay into retirement...Back to holding out then I suppose...

[Pete @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:53AM]

Bay is such a piece of crap. As if anyone would give up the paycheck associated with Transformers 2 just becuase their movie launched on just *gasp* one next-gen format. STFU!

[Angel @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:56AM]

Wow i guess taking a sip of Kool Aid now-a-days makes you like HD-DVD..... Good thing i never touch the stuff anymore XDD

[bc7 @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:57AM]

Sony is evil? HD DVD = Microsoft. On top of that MS only backs up HD DVD to ensure failure of the next physical format so their download scheme can come to fruition. Sony may not be shining examples of goodness and light, but I'll take them over MS any day. MS wants nothing more than to be your kindly Big Brother.You think Sony puts too much DRM on their media? Wait till MS gets control of the movie download empire they envision. They will wrap your PC in DRM, wallpaper your house in it, and line the folds of your grey matter in it.

[Ravi @ Aug 22nd 2007 1:02PM]

Microsoft supports hddvd for now yea...but i think if blue ray was to win, i'm sure a blu-ray addon would be available the next morning for Xbox360.

[ruri @ Aug 22nd 2007 11:02AM]

this is so true!

[Chippolus @ Aug 22nd 2007 11:15AM]

Sony not a pillar of light? You need to look back on who screwed over and delayed cd format when it came out and who screwed over dvd formats to cause a lack of standard, and who was early to climb onto the DRM wagon by instituting root kits on all their computers and audio cds... dumbass. How much would it cost to put a blueray in your computer, and how much would it cost to do so with HDDVD? Think about it.

[bc7 @ Aug 22nd 2007 3:52PM]

Are you even trying to compare Sony's misdeeds to MS? I stated that Sony was no paragon, but Sony is responsible for the concept of fair use being defined while MS is the inventor of the software license agreement ensuring that fair use would never exist for software users. They violate antitrust law like it is entertainment to them, even this little fiasco is a violation of those laws. Sony is a misbehaved little kid compared to MS. No their hands aren't clean, but if you want to go with the lord of hell compared to the annoying imp, go for it. Hope you like pitchforks up the bum.

As for the PC drives, if you can't find a BR competitively priced to a HD drive, you haven't looked. When you install the HD drive enjoy the wide selection of blank media available for it. BR blanks are readily available, so the drives are more than just players for the PC.

[SneezyPorcupine @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:03AM]

WOW. what a complete and utter douchbag...he completely made an ass of himself in less than 24hours. I mean talk about having no integrity...and if u knew you were gonna be so easily convinced against your opinion then WHY would u even make sucha big deal about it to begin with???

Whats worse is that Fox is now aggresively working on Blu-ray as if its purely out of spite...but w.e i got my HD DVD add-on for the 360 for free and im glad i did cuz its really starting to pay off :P

[Garst @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:27AM]

If you got the HD-DVD thingamagig for free, then it should have started paying off on the first movie you watched.

[SneezyPorcupine @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:33AM]

Oh it did. But you have to understand, that i worked in a video store and it was a pain when you have access to free rentals but all the movies u want to watch in HD are on bluray and the store begins to carry less and less HD DVDs...so you end up having to rent the DVD version...

Just a matter of being bothered by that fact. At least now, the blow has lessened as a result of this new found support :)

[Xayzer @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:38AM]

Flip-Flopper!

[pigfister @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:49AM]

I think these ppl forget that once the studios have a contract they are bound by that contract.

[Geoffrey Sperl @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:23AM]

Any contract can be broken, bought-off, or terminated early. Bay could end his contract with Paramount, Paramount could end its with the HD-DVD forces (if there's even a contract)... a contract means very little in this day and age.

[Nikos @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:56AM]

So what ?!

Ah yeah ! -> Transformer 2 will be a bad movie...

[dyl8n @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:03AM]

lame.

[Bad Beaver @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:25AM]

So that's Endurance -1, Michael...
It's a sad world in the first place if we care about what Bay-quality directors say.

[neoAkira @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:26AM]

What a Wuss. I guess no transformers 2 for me then

[wellsley @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:26AM]

Does anyone actually care about this anymore? I just want people to sort this Blu-ray/HD DVD crap out so we can move on with our lives.

[Dave @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:18AM]

Hehe, yeah, engadget raped the iphone news for all it was worth, now a trillion hddvd/blue-ray posts, oh this is going to be fun (note the sarcrasm)...

[Max @ Aug 22nd 2007 6:50AM]

I dont understand what is the problem!!!!
I downloaded and saw Transformer and will download and see Transformer 2, so there is no need to HDDVD or BD, internet + torrent is the winning format :P
long live torrent.

[AlexP @ Aug 22nd 2007 9:44AM]

Let's all download movies so we can kill the industry and be forced to watch Smosh-quality crap on Jewtube.

Freeloaders gtfo

[Chris @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:24AM]

everyones calling him stupid.. The paramount execs probably called him and said that they wouldnt be selling bluray for like 3 months... and for him to chill the f*** out. They then explained, if you were offered 150 million dollars to hold back transformers for 3 months would u? YES!

fucking paramount better be temporarily not selling bluray... cuz if that shit is forever, FUCK U PARAMOUNT

[timatl @ Aug 22nd 2007 6:42PM]

wishful thinking at best

[Geoffrey Sperl @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:27AM]

timatl: Not really. Chris, while not doing it well, has a point.

Paramount isn't going to worry about 150 million (that's production costs on one movie), but they are going to try to shift the politics in Hollywood. So if they can throw themselves behind something that isn't controlled by another Hollywood force (Sony) in the hopes that it takes off, they might do it.

However, if BR continues to outpace HD-DVD come the holiday season, Paramount will end up running back to BR. Keep in mind that they still have their Spielberg clause - they might have something similar in there for popular movies that they want to put out on both formats.

[Jeff @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:42AM]

It's unfortunate that Michael Bay does not want the majority of high definition viewers to watch his movies.

[spyd4r @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:01AM]

what a pussy, way to back off on an issue that needs to be addressed. How much did they pay you to come around?

[Joe Wilson @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:51AM]

Bay is just showing that he has the potential for being a great politician...

[LegendZ28 @ Aug 22nd 2007 9:05AM]

Why am I not surprised? Wonderful, now he has a chance to completely ruin all hopes I had for a good Transformers franchise.