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Michael Bay took a direct shot at Terminator: Salvation director McG on his blog last week:

“We’ve seen the great year end movies, and watched the upcoming clips of the upcoming summer fare. We’ve seen certain movies coming out even try to duplicate Transformer size robots in their ads. Please, come on.”

Everyone who has seen the new Terminator: Salvation trailer thought the same exact thing, I mean the sounds the enourmous Terminator was making even sounded like Blackout in the opening scene of Transformers.

Any who… McG responded to Bay's comments in a discusion with Comcast:

“It bothers me to tell you the truth. Ultimately, our large robots have nothing to do with the Transformers robots,” McG said. “I say with respect, giant robots have been the theme of film for a real long time. So we want to do everything we can to create separation. Our film’s about T-800s and the Marcus character and the Connor character, and this, that, and the other. So, to have people have a problem with that wouldn’t be working for us so we want to make sure there’s separation."