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posters5
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View profile »[Post edited by wolvinator on Jun 23, 2009 - CDT 6:53 AM]
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Seriously though, Michael Bay gives good "eye candy" for sure and he is obviously entertaining enough or else his movies would not gross the crazy money that they do. Story wise he's not the greatest but hey, nobody is perfect.
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View profile »Bay needs to shut up half the time.. i think hes pretty good at what he does, and i think sometimes things get reviewed not based on the type of movie it is.
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And I'm much more inclined to watch the next Dr. Uwe Boll film then the next Michael Bay just because at least Dr. Boll is awful in a fascinating, circus freak show kind of way rather than just generically bland and dull.
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Look, I like explosions and CGI and more pointless thing blowing up as much as the next guy, but when your films come across as a pandering, spoon feeding machine, the veil becomes too thin for the mind to acquire an acceptable taste for. Therefore, Bay is really nothing more than a cow churning hack. However, if he truly is going to quit with the "show-boating" CGI films, then it will be interesting to see. I'll give him enough rope.
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Oy vey, do people ever get tired of spouting this same lame argument in defense of every single goddamn blockbuster film that's ever released? Is it supposed to be a convincing argument? Hey, you can't say "Deuce Bigelow, Male Gigolo" is bad because it's supposed to be lame and stupid and predictable.
There's a difference between a good blockbuster and a bad blockbuster. One major difference is that Michael Bay doesn't direct the good ones. Spielberg made some great blockbusters early in his career. Iron Man was a standout last year. Peter Jackson did a bang up job on the LOTR films. Bay, not so much. I do think Bay gets singled out too often. He's not the only bad blockbuster "auteur" - Tony Scott has proven that he's every bit as weak. Likewise Stephen Sommers who apparently couldn't even pull off G.I. Joe.
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View profile »you've been a longtime member with valuable contributions in many discussions, so i'm puzzled by your sudden switch to "strawman" attacks. just because a person doesn't like michael bay's movies doesn't mean that he's automatically artsy-fartsy. chris likes a wide variety of movies, some of which are generally considered "trash cinema" (i.e. john waters).
like tim wrote, some of us simply think that bay's movies are boring. explosions can be cool and exciting, but an orange fireball is an orange fireball at the end of the day. some of us want more than eye candy, you know?