I admire Michael Bay as a director, I really do. He is a filmmaker without guile, his images transparent in their vapid grandiloquence. The qualities and values of maximalism, crassness and jingoism that have consistently garnered mockery and acrimonious distain by many are not ones audiences are cleverly exposing, but most often are simply accurate characterizations of the attitudes such films as the two Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor, and his solely-helmed Transformers franchise directly espouse. It may be hard to imagine a film more gaudily self-evident in its values and the force of its aesthetics as the sprawling effects goliath and techno-anti-humanist Transformers: Age of Extinction, but in fact Bay’s most tidily budgeted and CGI free films of recent years, 2013’s true crime Pain & Gain and this year’s true war 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi are his most honest and perceptive, and, because of this, his best.
>>67006190
to anyone who openly declares liking michael bay as a director should be prohibited to ever watch a movie again
He has a very specific and unique aesthetic, I'll give him that. Whether its successful is another matter
>>67006282
Why?
well stated
i always thought that armageddon was a bit more self-aware than people gave it credit for, and the best part of the rock is the characterization of the ed harris character and whether he's really even a villain.
it's too bad that the island fell apart as badly as it did in the second half, even though it was a bit shallower than it was trying to appear to be, there was still a decent amount of potential there too.
A shame that he's Jewish.
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>>67006337
wow, didn't know /tv/ was literally filled with people pretending to know about cinema
entering here was a mistake in the first place i guess
>>67006341
That's irrelevant when we're talking about his craft.
>>67006190
>>67006341
D R O P P E D
>>67007005
>publicly unknown
What the fuck? In this day and age?
Pain and Gain is one of the most fun movies of the 2010s
>>67006282
I like Micheal Bay as a director.
>>67006190
Oh hey it's my favorite book, "How To Sound Pretentious and Wordy". Let's take a look at page 1. "Overdose on adjectives like candy at Halloween". Hm, alrighty then.
>>67006190
>why did he have to recycle the Pearl Harbor falling missile shot AGAIN though?
I laughed out loud when I saw it.
You're an idiot OP, Bay's best will always be The Rock.
>>67007005
that means his parents were jews, not Bay himself
and he doesn't look jewish
>>67007122
This
Also Bay isn't a bad director at all dude's a fucking magician he turns horrible scripts into amazing works of watchable shit and he has a few decent flicks that proves he competent it's only a meme to hate the based Bay
>>67006282
>>67007165
>and he doesn't look jewish
c'mon burger, you are all jewish one way or anotherthe other way is niggers
>>67007165
wow you're retarded
>>67007059
That's saying he's never made a comment on what, if any, faith he practices as an adult.
>>67007369
But what about his ethnicity? Goddammit where's Joe McCarthy when you need him?!
Why do people hate Bay? It's like saying you hate being a man.
>Women treated as objects
>Jingoism and military porn
>Explosions
>Racism
http://michaelbay.com/2016/01/26/regarding-yesterdays-deadline-article/
Bay BTFO deadline
>>67007433
Don't forget the statutory rape jokes.
Anything he did with Jerry Bruckheimer is decent action flick material.
Everything else is either laughable or cringy.
I really fucking admire Bay's contempt for society as a whole. He can do compelling movies like Pain & Gain, and The Rock. His best and most laughable work are when he gives zero fucks at all.
>"I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime." - Michael Bay
>>67007748
Yeah, Transformers 2-4 where pretty much Bay telling critics and audiences "You thought Transformers was bad? I'll fucking show you what bad is. I will fucking bury you with bad movies."
>>67006190
Go to bed Armond
>>67007811
>for teenage boys
>Have a betafag as a main character
>He has a 10/10 gf
That's not relateable at all.
>>67007911
It's not relatable fiction, it's escapist fiction.
>>67006190
Michael Bay is real Captain Amerika.
>Friends telling me that Transformers are not funny
>Laugh like crazy when Bumblebee pisses on an agent
>Laugh at the balls in ROTF and Sam's mom being high
>Laugh at the republican joke in Dark Side of The Moon
What is wrong with people? These are mad funny jokes.
>>67006282
>>67008413
That doesn't make sense.
Bay's humor is low brow. People who don't like that are unfunny cunts.
>>67006190
B A S E D
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>>67007122
>STOP USING WORDS THEY'RE MEAN AND I DISLIKE THEM DESPITE USING THEM MYSELF
>>67006282
literally plebbit: the post
>>67006190
Those words can't hide the fact that you said nothing more than ”i like him”. And michael bay sucks. I am not judging, having bad taste in movies is your right.
>>67006190
Pain and gain was funny but it was still mediocre and nothing more than a jewish comedy with an "original" conservative point of view.
He's incredibly vulgar and is only good at throwing money on the screen. Where is the emotion?
>>67010505
>Where is the emotion?
In people's reaction.
>>67010669
Alienated reaction based on your social group isn't an emotion.
Beauty is universal. This hack thinks you just have to drop some fart jokes and sport cars to make niggers laugh and impress whiteys. It's vulgar and stupidly manipulative. It isn't real Cinema.
>>67006190
He is a genius. He shines when he only cares about one thing with his movies: to be entertaining as fuck (bad boys, ninja turtles, etc). That's why normies hate him, they don't understand the flashyness and madness. They're like, where's the consistency? The character development? And the truth is there isn't any. Michael Bay doesn't give a fuck about any of that. The only thing Michael Bay cares about is making every scene as entertaining as it possibly can be, both visually and dialogue wise. Even if the dialogue is stupid, you can't deny it is entertaining. He only cares about holding your attention, doing the one thing movies were meant to be in the first place: entertainment. People don't complain about rollercoaster rides having no point, but they sure do love to complain about Michael Bay's movies having no deeper edge or meaning other than to be fun.
In years to come he will be heralded as a misunderstood genius. Also, >>67007433
>>67010848
What are you babbling about? The Rock (movie not actor) is full of emotion.
>>67010848
>This hack thinks you just have to drop some fart jokes and sport cars to make niggers laugh and impress whiteys. It's vulgar and stupidly manipulative.
You need to go deeper.
