McG: 'Terminator more real than Transformers'

Terminator Salvation director McG has said that his forthcoming action movie is more realistic than blockbuster rival Transformers.

Speaking to Empire, McG dismissed Michael Bay's robot movies, claiming that they rely on "breakdancing", "backspins" and implausible action scenes.

"I think Transformers is a terrific picture, but that's a picture whose genesis is in a toy. They're sort of more colourful and optimistic and the pictures are sort of breakdancing and flips and backspins," he said.

"But ours is a very different, real world. Ours is a world of, 'This is where we can be ten years from now'. The whole idea for doing this movie was to honour the first three movies... But begin again!"

Bay started a war of words with McG earlier this year when he accused the Charlie's Angels helmer of copying him by introducing giant robots into his Terminator film.

Terminator Salvation and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen will go head-to-head at the box office this summer, with both movies scheduled to arrive in the UK in June.