Who is Mike Bay?
So much has been made of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN and its director Michael Bay. Some view him as the genius behind BAD BOYS and others view him as the king of porking playmates. My cousin's best friend sees him as the fake-tanned dude who ruined THE ISLAND, but my sister's piano teacher's butcher sees him as the man who gave Megan Fox a career. How do the faithful users of IMDB see him? Check it out below.
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Extra Tidbit: Who would you rather be: Michael Bay or Hitler?









































































































10:20PM on 07/02/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
I can look it up as well, but my point was that the amount of money it made was good. Ie a lot people went to see it. I know it wasnt PROFITABLE, but that wasnt really my point. People went and hated it, as some did with TF2...w...
I can look it up as well, but my point was that the amount of money it made was good. Ie a lot people went to see it. I know it wasnt PROFITABLE, but that wasnt really my point. People went and hated it, as some did with TF2...what i meant was that making money isnt the only criteria for a successful movie.
Films are remembered for everything they encompass, good story, effects, characters etc. Bay’s movies, although for the most part are profitable, they are not anything but fluff. Good fluff is still fluff (even if I don’t think its good).
We remember characters and names because they mean something. John Connor, Sarah Connor, even Kyle Reese…heck how about Hudson and hicks from aliens. I haven’t watched aliens in years and years (even though I own it) but I remember all the names from that film…they were characters. I own transformer toys and the original cartoons and I still don’t remember any of the robots from bay's transformers! They even used devastator in part one and everyone seems to have forgotten that.
What was Sean Connerys name in the rock? What made us remember that film. It was a good action movie, passable, but nothing to die over. It aint no Road Warrior.
transformers part one had a mountain dew machine that was a transformer. how can anyone think that was great?
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Bad Boys - Mike calling Marcus a bitch when they are driving was ad libbed by Smith, same with Tea Leoni's character asking if Marcus was gay, Bay told her to ad mib the line.
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Bad Boys - Mike calling Marcus a bitch when they are driving was ad libbed by Smith, same with Tea Leoni's character asking if Marcus was gay, Bay told her to ad mib the line.
The Rock - the hair stylist cutting Sean Connery's hair & when he steals that guys hummer, not too much humor & more serious i think Bay's biggest character driven movie. You saw his potential as a director
Armageddon - Pretty much Steve Buscemi's character is the comic relief.
Bad Boys 2 - the scene in the electronics store, the scene where marcus accidently ingests the X, marcus getting sick at the funeral home, etc etc
The Island - again the Steve Buscemi character, not much humor
Transformers - Bumblebee "peeing" on Simmons, Anthony Andersons character, the ding dong scene & Frenzy saying oh shit & sam's mother .
Transformers 2 - Sams roommate, Simmons mentioning devestators scrotum, sam's mom high from the brownies, the twins & bumblebee crying & spewing on the fembot.
Ya I purposefully left out Pearl Harbor cuz I dont remember that movie too much, but people seriously need to lighten up on Bay. There are far worse films than TF2
6:47PM on 07/02/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Brett Ratner in disguise?
Uwe Boll's older brother?
The reincarnation of Ed Wood?
Supposedly he's a director(?) that, incredibly, seems to be getting worse and worse with each film he squirts into the cinema.
Tranformers 2 is the worst film for a long while; cancerous celluloid.
Brett Ratner in disguise?
Uwe Boll's older brother?
The reincarnation of Ed Wood?
Supposedly he's a director(?) that, incredibly, seems to be getting worse and worse with each film he squirts into the cinema.
Tranformers 2 is the worst film for a long while; cancerous celluloid.
5:40PM on 07/02/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
IMO he just went a little apeshit on his last flick
IMO he just went a little apeshit on his last flick
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Total US Gross $107,325,195
International Gross $130,992,619
Worldwide Gross $238,317,814
Total US Gross $107,325,195
International Gross $130,992,619
Worldwide Gross $238,317,814
Total US Gross $107,325,195
International Gross $...
Total US Gross $107,325,195
International Gross $130,992,619
Worldwide Gross $238,317,814
Total US Gross $107,325,195
International Gross $130,992,619
Worldwide Gross $238,317,814
Total US Gross $107,325,195
International Gross $130,992,619
Worldwide Gross $238,317,814
Domestic: $107,395,000
International Gross $130,992,619
Worldwide Gross $238,317,814
Sure it made its money back with the worlwide gross, but as anyone knows, if a film does not make its money back domestically then it is considered a failure.
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He's also one of the biggest trailblazers in the realm of using pyrotechnics and cgi in film (and I can honestly say the "Transformer" movies have prob...
He's also one of the biggest trailblazers in the realm of using pyrotechnics and cgi in film (and I can honestly say the "Transformer" movies have probably the best cgi I've ever seen used with live action).
He's not your average action director. Maybe he used to be, cuz his first movies were really character based, but now they're there to serve the action.
"The Rock" is still one of my favorite action movies of the 1990s, mostly because of the great chemistry between the actors. Nic Cage needs to go back to playing awkward action stars.
I think his career shift really occurred around the time of Bad Boys 2, where the action was so overkill that the story kinda suffered.
Bay is, above all, an acquired taste. And he doesn't make masterpieces. But if he can be controlled, he can turn in something really good. The first half of "The Island" was awesome. In fact, so was the second half, but it felt like it came from another movie.
And that tidbit is one of the most insane comparisons I've ever seen posed. I'd rather be a hunky director who turns out less-than-stellar work than an insecure German who couldn't make it as an artist, and couldn't see when his number was up. Although the rise to power must've been one helluva rush for that guy.
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Why don't you go out there and make a name for yourself? Make a mov...
Why don't you go out there and make a name for yourself? Make a movie that will sell better than Transformers 2, then you can come onto JoBlo and BS about him being a douche or some crap-ola like that. Until then, stop being pretentious DBags and if you really hate him that much, don't watch his movies. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
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As I've told my friends I would've thoroughly enjoyed every one of his films (Well maybe except for PEARL HARBOR and THE ISLAND) if they'd been directed by someone with a sense of coherence and doesn't edit his films to i...
As I've told my friends I would've thoroughly enjoyed every one of his films (Well maybe except for PEARL HARBOR and THE ISLAND) if they'd been directed by someone with a sense of coherence and doesn't edit his films to induce seizures.
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I don't like Pearl Harbor, mostly because for me, you couldn't pair up two more boring actors than Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck. Als...
I don't like Pearl Harbor, mostly because for me, you couldn't pair up two more boring actors than Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck. Also, they seemed more interested in fucking each rather than fucking Kate Beckinsale. But I don't know if you could pull off the Pearl Harbor attack better than he did in the film.
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America! Fuck Yeah!
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everything else he's done i could do without. unless i'm suddenly in the mood for 2 hours of random exploding things.
everything else he's done i could do without. unless i'm suddenly in the mood for 2 hours of random exploding things.
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you`re acting like every fucking one must hate and have same fucked up dumb opinion about Michael Bay and his movies like yo...
you`re acting like every fucking one must hate and have same fucked up dumb opinion about Michael Bay and his movies like you fuckers do...stop this shitty fucking posts about it, you`re just proving how stupid you really are.
MICHAEL BAY rullzzz! :D
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