Many of us have had the misfortune of wasting a few hours of our lives watching Michael Bay make movies out of little more than explosions and special effects. Apparently he doesn't have a lot to say about his work, craft, or the new Samsung HD TV's without a prompter adding him;
that was far from a meltdown, he just walked off and said sorry. Simply inexperienced at public speaking is all. He probably knew the answers just didn't have the background to improvise under the circumstances, not many people can unless they practice public speaking.
Everybody seems to say that they hate Michael Bay, but everyone still seems to line up for the pleasure of plunking down $20 to see his latest piece of crap.
I feel pretty bad for him. Clearly he's paid to get up there and read a prompter... it's not his fault he didn't research a product he doesn't care for. Honestly, the guy asks him to just say how a curved screen is going to change things. I probably couldn't answer that question without laughing in a room of 1 person, let alone an auditorium.
The Rock and Bad Boys (1) are great entertainment, I even liked Armagedeon and The Island.
Transformers was too intense, first one was survivable but then it all went off the rails.
This sums up Michael Bay's entire career in a nutshell. If he wasn't such a clown, he might have actually been one of the great directors of our time. His lack of understanding of pacing, tone, and human emotion in general completely undermine whatever cool visual sequence he tries to create.
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Mom and Dad love you, Rowan - February 15, 2024
I think Bay gets piled on too much. The Rock and Bad Boys are amoung the top popcorn movies ever. The first Transformers is good especially since people had been waiting for it for 25 years. The 2nd was a disaster but the third was fun. I think the best thing you could do with a Michael Bay Movie is take 100 million out of his budget. If you give him budget he will put it in an action sequence.
I think Bay gets piled on too much. The Rock and Bad Boys are amoung the top popcorn movies ever. The first Transformers is good especially since people had been waiting for it for 25 years. The 2nd was a disaster but the third was fun. I think the best thing you could do with a Michael Bay Movie is take 100 million out of his budget. If you give him budget he will put it in an action sequence.
His good work does get devalued by his crap, and the overall thoughtless, empty qualities of his films. The Rock is great. Bad Boys is great. Hell, Transformers One is pretty damn good. It's about a kid who buys an alien robot and has an adventure. He gets the girl in the end and saves the day. Beautiful.
Since then, his films have been over the top obnoxious in every way, because once he realized he could slap Transformers on the title, get Peter Cullen to say 'one shall stand, one shall fall' and print a billion dollars, he was no longer sidled with limitations. Limitations make things cooler. His personality is now oozing out of every shiny frame. And Michael Bay's personality is gross.
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Mom and Dad love you, Rowan - February 15, 2024
The script of bad boys was tedious and dumb........I would like someone to explain to me the rationale (other than making mo money) behind transformers 2......terrible movie they just blow crap up. And they get the kids interested in transformers, and then in number two they introduce us to the f-bombs.......
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