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Friday, February 15, 2008

Film Michael Bay Is an Awesome Verizon Salesman.

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Fri, Feb 15 at 1:29 PM

In a recent study asking who the Worst Person Who Ever Lived was (I swear, I read it somewhere), film snobs rated Michael Bay second only to Joseph Goebbels. I’ve never been able to summon much Bay-tred myself, mostly because I’ll readily admit to enjoying Bad Boys and The Rock and Transformers, and also because it just seems ridiculous to hate on the dude when he’s clearly just making fun, disposable blockbusters. Fuck, I’ll loudly bitch with the rest of them about action flicks that are genuinely offensive, but how the fuck anyone can get mad at a dude whose movie stars this thing is beyond me.

ANYWAY. Bay’s starring in a new Verizon ad, and even film snobs think it’s pretty great, and as FilmDrunk notes, “If only his movies had more of this sense of self awareness they’d be much more, well, awesome.” Agreed. Now if you’ll excuse me, I believe Bay is making some ridiculous statements about Transformers 2.

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My own hatred of Michael Bay is based mostly off of Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, both of which qualify as offensive on multiple levels.

Posted by matt | February 15, 2008 3:45 PM

Armageddon sucket on so many levels. There was the SFX, whose result was risible; there was the unbelievable space scenes, which were so far from what might actually have happened in reality that it wasn't just a toll call, it was in a parallel universe (and I bought not only Star Trek but also Space:1999, so I'm not all that demanding), and characters who were cartoon character versions of cartoon characters. I hated almost every single lame one of them. By the time Willis's character died in the end I didn't give a damn about him.

Oh, by the way, spoiler alert there.

No, I don't hate Michael Bay movies. Just that one. I never saw Pearl Harbor because based on what I heard from others, that movie adds to the evidence that Jesus died in vain.

The rest of his movies? Actually I agree; they are enjoyable throwaway blockbuster fluff. But any hate dumped on Armageddon is completely justified.

Posted by Samuel John Klein | February 15, 2008 5:02 PM

What?

Armageddon is like the sun smiling on a baby kitten in a meadow sniffing a dandelion. A dandelion sprinkled with sugar.

Posted by Kiala | February 15, 2008 7:14 PM

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