How does Michael Bay do it?

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NOTE: I have not seen his latest movie.*

I've seen in full or in part most of Micheal Bays movies. I'll never be called someone with good taste. I enjoy alot of movies that people in real life or on the internet trash.

Michael Bay is the worst "talent" in Hollywood today. How does he make stupid loud movies filled with tits, explosions and graphic violence so BORING? It's like every movie of his is shot with the same filter. With the same shit background music. Plus the always funny stupid bumbling black wiseass.

All that would be forgivable. Except that for a guy known for his action pieces, his action puts me to sleep. I cringe at the thought of him getting his hooks into Transformers. Giant warrior transforming machines should be cool. I just hope it survives his process.


*The rock was actually a decent movie. The only thing giving me hope for TF.
 
The Island is pretty boring. I mean it's not bad by any means, it's just long and not much happens. I think his biggest problem is creating suspense. It's painfully obvious no matter how big the explosion or expansive the threat, the main characters are going to walk away from it.
 
Do you know what's sad? Bad Boys was his first movie and also one of the finest buddy cop movies ever, a seminal example of what an action flick should be like. It was all downhill since then, all his other movies are just a pathetic repetition of Bay's clichés sewed with no talent at all.
 
The Bad Boys flicks were a guilty pleasure. Even the sequel was somewhat redeemed by some damn fine action setpieces... The car carrier chase sequence, the destruction of the boss's mansion, and the shantytown downhill run come to mind.
 
I don't get the picture. His and Brucheimer(?) movies are the best when it comes to action movies:

Con Air
The Rock
Gone in 60 seconds



Uhhhhhhhhhhhh.
 
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=island05.htm

Domestic Total as of Jul. 24, 2005: $12,100,000 (Estimate)
Production Budget: $122 million
Est. Marketing Costs: N/A

DOMESTIC SUMMARY
Opening Weekend: $12,100,000
(3,122 theaters, $3,875 average)
% of Total Gross: 100.0%
Widest Release: 3,122 theaters

Friday:
Daily Gross: $4,270,000
Theaters / Average: 3,122 / $1,368
Gross-to-date: $4,270,000 / 1

Saturday:
Daily Gross: $4,660,000
Theaters / Average: 3,122 / $1,493
Gross-to-date: $8,930,000 / 2

Sunday:
Daily Gross: $3,170,000
Theaters / Average: 3,122 / $1,015
Gross-to-date: $12,100,000 / 3
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This looks to be a bomb of epic proportions.

Try comparing the numbers to all of the other movies this weekend, it is pathetic.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
 
I fell asleep thru the 1st 30 minutes and woke up to a two hour movie. And the action shots were terrible, blurry messes. Was he involved in Too Fast, Too Furious? Blurry action car races that somehow fail to make me believe they are driving faster than 30 MPH. Just because you zoom on the driver's face while doing the jerky cam won't hide the fact that it's a shitty scene. I want the director of Ronin to write a book on car chases. WTF, he needs to spread the knowledge. I don't care that Hollywood is in a slump. It wasn't a bad movie but the $9 prices are gonna lead people to just stay away.
 
skinnyrattler said:
I want the director of Ronin to write a book on car chases. WTF, he needs to spread the knowledge.
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John Frankenheimer died several years back... shame, given how many great movies he's made.
 
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