Ode to Bay!

Last Updated on July 26, 2021

Working the net for as long as I have, you notice trends; one of them has
been the general disdain for certain directors. Namely: Uwe Boll, Paul
Anderson, Stephen Sommers and Michael Bay. I have my useless opinion on all of them
of course,
but I’m here for Bay right now – you heard me – MICHAEL F*CKING BAY.

I personally never understood the often expressed hatred for the man being that
he’s one of the, if not THE top Hollywood action stylists on the block.
Nope, my utter disdain for

TRANSFORMERS 2 hasn’t tarnished my respect for Bay and what he pulls off when it comes to staging astounding
and often goose bump inducing action scenes. Nobody in Hollywood today does
grand scale mayhem like The Bay Man (or shoot hot chicks in a manner that
makes them look like goddesses) and I figured it was time for AITH to give
him some props.

Bay yaps Leatherface with director Marcus Nispel…

As a director my top Bay films would have to be: THE ROCK (his best one
according to this jerk – the scene showcased below always sends shivers up my spine),
ARMAGEDDON,
THE ISLAND and

TRANSFORMERS. All entertaining flicks with
engaging storylines, razor photography, booming scores and of course eye
popping action/destruction sequences. As a producer (via his company
Platinum Dunes), dig on remakes or
not, nobody can deny that

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and the

FRIDAY THE
13TH remakes TOWER in terms of quality over non Bay retellings like

ONE
MISSED CALL or

THE OMEN. So he’s doing something right there too.

All that to stab, its called credit where credit is due and The Bay Man
doesn’t gets enough of it online. So even though his latest flick let me
down hardcore like two dogs humping in the dark, I’m still rooting for the
lad and am anticipating the next Bay Celluloid Demolition Derby hardcore. In closing, here are some of my
FAV BAY DIRECTED ACTION
BITS! ENJOY!

THE ROCK (1996)

TRANSFORMERS (2007)

THE ISLAND (2005)

ARMAGEDDON (1998)

BAD BOYS II (2003)

KEEP EM COMING LOUD AND
PROUD BAY!