lol Bombers can't kick straight.
Lies. He made one half decent film.
The Rock was a great 90's action movie. It required a LOT of input from 4-5 rewrites and basically without Sean Connery it never would have worked out, with the studio and Bay at fault. Thankfully the old dog had enough sway to force rewrites to the film and then tell the studio to fuck off once it was in shooting.
Bad Boys was great too. Cribbed enough from solid action movies of the past as well as allowing the 2 charismatic leads run the show. If that combination wasn't leading the movie it could have been fucking awful. Smith had dat swagger. You got drawn into that power fantasy.
Bad Boys 2 is fucking awful but it is so fucking awful is is fucking great. It is a view into the fucked up brain of Michael Bay. Who is a 14 year old douchebag who loves titties and racism and misogyny and being a cunt to people. It takes everything to the nth degree and revels in it. It is has its soul as a power fantasy though, with the good guys at the center allowing all the unacceptable behaviour to be pushed off almost into satire territory.
Ever since then though he tried to take that satire approach into EVERY project he has had but didn't bother to ground it in well written characters.
The worst thing of all is that he directs everything like a fucking music video.
Vine is fucking perfect for him. That is the timespan of each scene he wants. It is exhausting watching a Bay film. Just a mess.
