F*ck Michael Bay

[00000000000]

I made a mistake, I confess.

I didn't heed the warning signs from Bad Boys and Armeggedon. I didn't take a hint from Pearl Harbour.
I love the Transformers toys and original tv shows and yet I sat through 3 films where Mr M Bay took a massive dump on my childhood. And it's gonna happen again with Bay prob directing again!
Yes yes yes I know I shouldn't have seen the next 2 after the first one. I know the Transformers shows were a commercial ploy to sell toys to kids, I know. But they were part of my childhood and I love 'em.

Michael Bay is a nasty, misogynist, leery creep who kisses the military's flexing, sweaty ass every time he makes a Transformers film. He takes a kids toy to make a franchise where the effect of watching them is the same as standing on a busy contruction sight watching a 17 year old in hot pants salute the flag while a stereotypical ethnic minority shouts some quippy one-liners into your bleeding ears.

[Princess Luna]

I am not a fan of transformers (though I thought the 80's movie was good) but Michael bays movies are so divorsed from the original show, I don't see what the draw for fans of theoriginal are.

[piet11111]

Watched them for the explosions and destruction.

Low expectations going in and as such did not get too badly disappointed.

[thriller]

Yeah I loved the original 80's show as well. After I saw the first Transformers movie I knew it'd be all down hill from there. The only other movie I saw I his (I think) was Armeggadon, which was horrendous.

[manic expression]

I saw the third transformers because my friends were going...probably the worst movie I've seen recently. I literally laughed out loud at a couple points but the rest of it can only be described as puerile.

[Pirate Utopian]

Bad Boys I and II are okay. It's entertaining enough. I didnt see any of his other films, cause I didnt grow up on Transformers.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Yeah, I like Bad Boys. I think one can appreciate some of his work as long as you know what you're going to watch.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Liked Transformers for the action and thought is was well done;never say the original show and don't have much desire to see it.

[Susurrus]

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Michael Bay is a nasty, misogynist, leery creep who kisses the military's flexing, sweaty ass every time he makes a Transformers film.

On the other hand, the amount of help the military gives him in filming his movies has got to cost them a pretty penny. Better to send troops into Hollywood than Afghanistan.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

I thought they where not bad(then again, I wasn't born in the 70's[then again I did see the movie[[which I adored[[[and still do :p]]]]]] Armageddon was great movie, you all crazy.
Kinda stupid but good.


Watched them to hear the main character scream "bumblebee"!!!!!!

Trololol

[kurr]

Most American directors are shit. Michael Bay is one of the shittiest of the shit tho. To my knowledge, he has never made anything worth a damn.

[El Chuncho]

Michael is one of the worst filmmakers I have ever had the misfortune to experience. I am against vanity executions during revolutions, but I'd certainly have him lined up against the wall and shot for making such shite as 'Transformers', 'Armageddon' and 'Pearl Harbor'.

[GPDP]

Michael Bay is a hack, and is good for nothing more than explosion porn. He is to movies what Twilight is to books, namely wank material for their respective fanbases.

[piet11111]

Oh come on guys why so much hating on Michael Bay while Uwe Boll is so much more deserving.

[#FF0000]

Oh come on guys why so much hating on Michael Bay while Uwe Boll is so much more deserving.

Uwe Boll is a clown and an easy target, though. Michael Bay makes cake.

[Tim Finnegan]

Does this thread actually have a purpose beyond allowing an opportunity for our collective self-congratulation that we are superior to Michael Bay?

A lot of people are saying that RevLeft is going down the drain after the whole purge-all-the-malcontents episode, that the medicine offered by the BA turned out to be on a par with that offered by 18th century quack doctors who thought that draining a patient of their "bad blood" was sound medical practice. You don't need to play the role of the leech.

[00000000000]

Does this thread actually have a purpose beyond allowing an opportunity for our collective self-congratulation that we are superior to Michael Bay?

A lot of people are saying that RevLeft is going down the drain after the whole purge-all-the-malcontents episode, that the medicine offered by the BA turned out to be on a par with that offered by 18th century quack doctors who thought that draining a patient of their "bad blood" was sound medical practice. You don't need to play the role of the leech.

Sorry, thought this was Literature and Film, what an asshole am I. So, what would you like to talk about? (seeing as you obviously can't just start your own discussion and not be a trolly twat)

[GiantMonkeyMan]

I wasn't even around before the Revleft 'purge' so I have nothing to compare it to. Revleft seems like a pretty cool place to me, maybe you should contribute instead of harkening back to the 'good old days'.

Where to start with Michael Bay? I guess Bad Boys being the film that propelled him into the light; the film that essentially takes two black men and pits them against some random accented criminal because anyone who speaks weirdly is a psychopath. If the racialised representations or gratuitous explosions aren't enough for you, there's always the objectification of women who need our sexualised Will Smith character to save them at every other turn. At least the second film has them fighting the KKK right? That surely shows this dynamic detective duo off as the paradigms of black culture that they are, right? :rolleyes:

The less said about The Rock the better; why Nicholas Cage gets offered roles is beyond me. Then there's Armageddon, the film that takes a bunch of 'every day' working class heroes (with Michael Clarke Duncan's character called 'Bear', for fuck's sake) and pits them against that greatest of enemies to capitalism: a big fucking rock. Fuck the Goo Goo Dolls for making such a good song to go along with the film and fuck the way women are shafted and forced to stay at home where they'll only be useful for close-ups showing their grief.

And thanks, Michael Bay, for taking an important moment in history and turning it into a shitty love triangle story with little-to-no actual history involved in Pearl Harbor. I think Michael Bay's laziness and the stupidity of Hollywood audiences can be summed up with this clip:
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Need I go on with Transformers? The objectification of women to the point where there literally isn't a scene without Megan Fox pouting or bending over at some point, the glorification of the military and the masterbation over all the wonders of the US capitalist industry (including a fucking X-Box at one point). And did I mention he's made a fourth Transformers movie? Jesus, how much wanking over explosions and cars can the modern audience deal with? So yeah, we're justified in our disgust at Michael Bay. Fuck him and the industry which perpetuates the crap he regurgitates.

[00000000000]

Sorry, thought this was Literature and Film, what an asshole am I. So, what would you like to talk about? (seeing as you obviously can't just start your own discussion and not be a trolly twat)

Sorry, that was unneccessary, though Finnegan's comment did irritate me there was no need to resort to petty insults, having a rotten day at work and taking it out on strangers like some YouTube prat.

But yeah, Bay is an awful film maker and is as right-wing as they come, so thread has some point I think

[Princess Luna]

Oh come on guys why so much hating on Michael Bay while Uwe Boll is so much more deserving.
Because Uwe Boll has made at least one good movie (Postal) the same can't be said of Michael Bay.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Where to start with Michael Bay? I guess Bad Boys being the film that propelled him into the light; the film that essentially takes two black men and pits them against some random accented criminal because anyone who speaks weirdly is a psychopath.

Dude creepy Eurotrash villains are a proud Hollywood tradition, remember Alan Rickman in "Die Hard"?

Also, I'm going to just come out and say it: some of Uwe Boll's films aren't that bad, notably "Rampage". Yeah, I said it. Yes, he's created some of the worst godawful dreck ever unleashed on the movie going public, but a lot of his reputation as the "worst director of all time" comes from gamer nerds being butthurt over his cash-in adaptations of their games, lol. For example:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220307/

I guarantee that 1,000+ people haven't seen "Amoklauf", yet it has over 1,000 ratings on IMDb. I've seen it, and it's terrible, including a 5+ minute shot of a dude sitting on a toilet that's included for no reason whatsover, but there's a lot of people who vote Boll's shit down for no reason other than he's Uwe Boll.

[Pirate Utopian]

I've only seen House of the Dead by Uwe Boll. It was bad but not as bad as all those "parody" movies from Seltzer and Friedberg. Now those might be the worst directors.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Uwe Boll is kind of like this generation's exploitation director, actually, or at least one of them. Ultra-low budget schlock mass produced for god know's what audience...seriously, look at Boll's filmography, he re-uses the same performers and even some of the same sets and costumes for multiple films. It must be why he was invited to collaborate on this, featuring kind of a supergroup of modern horror/exploitation filmmakers:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2066123/

It probably won't be good, though, too many cooks in the kitchen.

[GPDP]

I've only seen House of the Dead by Uwe Boll. It was bad but not as bad as all those "parody" movies from Seltzer and Friedberg. Now those might be the worst directors.

I agree. Michael Bay movies suck, but at LEAST they have explosions and eye candy going for them. The parody movies, though? Good god. Those have NOTHING going for them. Paltry budget, terrible acting, disgusting and childish humor... these movies truly only appeal to the lowest common denominator, and are produced as such. Even the Scary Movies were nowhere near this bad.