Aiddon said:
That is the thing; Michael Bay's name is worthless. He's not a Stephen Spielberg or a Christopher Nolan as he can't sell on his name like they can. You need only see his passion project Pain and Gain's gross to tell that as well as The Island, the last film he made before the Transformers name. His movies sell because studios hype them due to them being PAINFULLY easy to market and make trailers for.
What you talking about? Pain and Gain made back more than three times it's budget.
Putting aside the apparent misconception (the part about how Michael Bay produced the movie, he didn't direct or write it) The Island may have just barely made back more than its budget, but I think it's also the most 'dramatic' and un-Bay like film he's been responsible for, and all the other movies that Bay has directed have made back significantly more than they cost to make. The guy knows how to take a movie and turn a profit off of it.
If it's simply because he makes movies that are "painfully easy to market and make trailers for", so be it - because at the end of the day, all that really matters is that Michael Bay makes movies that make money.
Though it might be worth considering that if Michael Bay's name was worthless, why did they attach his name to it in spite of him being the producer instead of the director or writer?
Dr. Pepper Unlimited said:
So is Michael Bay the new M. Night Shyamalan in the sense that everything he touches is awful and shouldn't see the light of day?
No, because unlike M. Night Shyamalan, people actually still pay to go see Michael Bay's movies. So clearly Michael Bay is still doing something right.
Not to mention that, again, while Michael Bay's name may be attached to the movie, he didn't direct it - he simply produced it.
Baresark said:
Also, I was disappointed to hear Bob's review of the movie. I wasn't expecting a great movie, and he tore it up. But many of the things he attacked were so minor it was ridiculous. He even seemed to have gotten things just plain wrong about what was happening in the film. That said, definitely not a great film, and my opinion may be colored by the fact that I only spent $3 per ticket because my girlfriend did a shit ton of surveys on her time off of school.
Well, that kind of thing is the reason I stopped watching Bob's reviews a while back. I think it was about the time he said that people who claimed to like Transformers were "wrong".
I'm not recalling that wrong, am I? I'm pretty sure he made some kind of assessment like that back when the first of the now four Transformers movies came out.
It's kind of the same way with how I stopped paying attention to most critics reviews a while back - because it became pretty dang clear to me that most the time, what I want out of a movie and what movie critics want out of the movie are two different things. If critics happen to like the same kind of movies I do, great, but I don't see a need to not go see a movie just because critics feel the need to tear it a new one.
