Did Michael Bay finally make a good movie?

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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/island/

Not a bad start.

Easily Michael Bay's most meaningful, well-formed and provocative work.
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"The Island is two movies in one: An intelligent sci-fi about human cloning is contained in a typically noisy Michael Bay flick, with lots of crashes and explosions. "
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"a fun, futuristic ride with just enough intrigue to keep you brain cells intact during the dog days of summer."
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What MST3K movie will michael bay remake next!


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Michael Bay already made 2 good movies and 1/2 of a good one.

Bad Boys and The Rock are modern action movie classics and the battle sequence in Pearl Harbor was excellent.

Bay gets far more shit then he deserves. Few other directors out there shoot as good as he does.
 
The movie was pretty good. I enjoyed it even more because I had such low expectations for it. I'd rate it up there with The Rock, which I also enjoyed. Can't say the same for the rest of his movies, though.

http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=54709

I agree with Scott Weinberg's review over at DVDTalk:

Hardcore sci-fi fans will undoubtedly call The Island a mixture between Logan's Run, Gattaca, Minority Report, Blade Runner, and about a half-dozen others, and while I don't think it's better than any of those movies, I do think it's a damn good time. Lots of eye candy and just enough brain food to keep you from getting annoyed.

I'd say it's absolutely Michael Bay's best film yet, but that's not exactly high praise.

Just for the sake of clarity, I'd give:

Bad Boys - 2.5 stars out of 5
The Rock - 4 out of 5
Armageddon - 3 out of 5 (but it's a BIG "guilty pleasure" of mine)
Pearl Harbor - 1.5 out of 5
Bad Boys 2 - 0.5 out of 5 (seriously)
The Island - 4 (or even 4.5) out of 5

It's as if someone told the guy: "Hey, look. You know how to do the visuals. Now go find a challenging and smart screenplay, and make THAT movie."

And he did!
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Too bad that Bad Boys 2 was so poor. They could have trimmed so much out of it and made it quite a bit tighter. The man's weakness is his lack of storyline editing and a certain lack of taste. Bad Boys 2 had some of the most vile sequences I can remember in a movie. I do have to say that he had balls to use that R rating and make Bad Boys 2 so ugly especially for such a hugely expensive summer tentpole film.
 
Warm Machine said:
Too bad that Bad Boys 2 was so poor. They could have trimmed so much out of it and made it quite a bit tighter. The man's weakness is his lack of storyline editing and a certain lack of taste. Bad Boys 2 had some of the most vile sequences I can remember in a movie. I do have to say that he had balls to use that R rating and make Bad Boys 2 so ugly especially for such a hugely expensive summer tentpole film.
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Yeah, Bad Boys 2 does drag a bit. But I like the opening. The scene in the electronics store is funny, and the Cuba action definitely was enough for a summer popcorn action movie. And Gabrielle Union >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Téa Leoni.
 
ManaByte said:
And of course you know that the studio (in this case it's Warner Brothers) generally decides what a movie's target rating will be and they make the director deliver a movie that meets that rating, right?
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A. That doesn't make it right in fact that makes it even more wrong
B. He could have put a digital bra on her and remove it for the unrated edition on dvd
C. Apparently Michael Bay has no clout he should just quit while he's behind
 
Of course, they've played practically the whole movie over the course of the billions of commercials that they've been airing for MONTHS (like, since March).
 
maynerd said:
A. That doesn't make it right in fact that makes it even more wrong
B. He could have put a digital bra on her and remove it for the unrated edition on dvd
C. Apparently Michael Bay has no clout he should just quit while he's behind
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A. Warner wants to make money. And a PG-13 movie will make more than an R.
B. Again, this is Warner. I believe the ONLY "special unrated" DVD they've ever done is the upcoming Alexander Director's Cut where they cut out the gay.
 
mac said:
He re-makes a better version of Logan's Run and we start praising him?
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wait wasn't logans run about people that live a life of leisure and have to die at age 30 in an arena? Isn't the island just about clones that get killed now and then for god knows why?
 
catfish said:
wait wasn't logans run about people that live a life of leisure and have to die at age 30 in an arena? Isn't the island just about clones that get killed now and then for god knows why?
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Yes, it sounds like he's never really seen Logan's Run. Logan's Run was where no one lives over 30. This is about clones who are harvested for spare parts. It's a remake of a MST3K movie, not Logan's Run.

Bryan Singer is remaking Logan's Run possibly after Superman Returns.
 
Are you guys familiar with the notion that if you gave a monkey a typewriter and a limitless supply of paper and time, eventually he would produce Shakespeare? Well, this is kind of like that.
 
a pulpy scifi flick that is special only in that it doesn't make you want to puke is hardly shakespeare, dude
 
fart said:
a pulpy scifi flick that is special only in that it doesn't make you want to puke is hardly shakespeare, dude
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Right, and half the screenplays being produced in Hollywood today were failed attempts by the Shakespeare monkey.
 
fart said:
a pulpy scifi flick that is special only in that it doesn't make you want to puke is hardly shakespeare, dude
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Look, Michael Bay producing a movie that doesn't make you want to puke is every bit as special as a monkey typing Shakespeare. Hell, maybe even MORE SO.
 
I'll agree with these reviews. Basically how I felt when I saw it.

And again, if you're a Scarlett Johansson fan..you must see this movie :)
 
in that case i refuse to believe that bay directed it. hell, the guy has so much money he can probably afford to clone kubrick, age him in a vat, then foist all his directorial jobs on the kubrick clone while he's off on a junket in the dominican republic snorting coke and boffing hookers.

not that he's doing that, but he probably is.
 
ToxicAdam said:
Ok, now I have read it all. I'm cancelling my internet.
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Wait--don't cancel it before you read the essay that comes with the Criterion Collection edition of Armageddon. It's written by one of his undergrad professors at Wesleyan University--no joke:

In history/theory, he listened intently, but said little, speaking mostly to ask keen questions or to deal with what he felt was nonsense from his peers. But in film production classes, he was the Road Runner, taking off on his own, needing little guidance. His senior film, Benjamin’s Birthday, won Wesleyan’s Frank Capra Prize for Best Film, and it was definitely what we now know as a “Michael Bay Film.”
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FoneBone said:
I swear to God, we really have a good film department, and Basinger was just temporarily insane when she wrote that... Honest...
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Hold on--is this one of your professors?

I think you should drop in during her office hours and say, "Hey, I heard you think that Michael Bay is a master of movement, light, color and shape." Or: "I heartily agree with your bold assertion that Armageddon is not for the faint-hearted, the slow-witted, or the dim-eyed."
 
Prospero said:
Hold on--is this one of your professors?

I think you should drop in during her office hours and say, "Hey, I heard you think that Michael Bay is a master of movement, light, color and shape." Or: "I heartily agree with your bold assertion that Armageddon is not for the faint-hearted, the slow-witted, or the dim-eyed."
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No, not one of my professors, as I'm not a film major. She does speak at a lot of the various film screenings on campus, and seems to know what she's talking about... most of the time...
 
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