The A To Z Of Michael Bay Prepare for Bayhem as we examine the director's career to date...
As Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is unleashed upon an unsuspecting world, it's time to once again consider the force of nature that is Michael Bay. He's one of the most successful directors in Hollywood and, love him or hate him, one of the most instantly recognisable in terms of style and content. WORDS HELEN O'HARA, ALI PLUMB
Michael Bay may not have a Best Picture Oscar just yet, but there's one field in which he has won just about every award going, and that's advertising. We'll cover a couple of his campaigns in more detail later, but it's worth giving him props for his success in the field: he's landed a Golden Lion and a Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival (and you thought you'd never read about Bay and Cannes in the same sentence!), a Grand Prix Clio, a Museum of Modern Art award and a Director's Guild of America commercials prize. It's the advertising director's equivalent of an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), which Tracy Jordan briefly pursued on 30 Rock. Still, our favourite Bay ad remains this Verizon effort, in which he stars, for the surprising levels of self-awareness and humour that he demonstrates.
L: JensonJet
I don't know why people have a problem with Bay's films. You know what you're getting, so surely you just avoid them if they're not for you. They're generally excellent popcorn, action flicks.
There are some I didn't care for, some I though were rubbish and some I thought were really good.
Transformers isn't aimed at my age group, so I watched the first (missed the first twenty minutes, and still have never seen it) and found it watchable enough. I was too old to have grown up with the toys but I didn't find the movie half as offensive as many action films.
I actually think Bay have a very good eye for framing shots, angles, etc, and I'm happy to watch a film that's fast-edited. I think he's more than capable of making a calmer, less action orientated movie, but he enjoys making the films he makes, they're successful and millions seem to enjoy his work, so long may it continue.
re generally a dumb, throwaway form of entertainment. Bay undeRead More
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RE: Thats one uplifting Gift
Posted on Saturday July 2, 2011, 23:00 by Scruffybobby
L: Spaldron
Really disappointed Empire. M should have stood for Misogynistic and R should have been Racist Robots. S could have been Shitty Director and L should have been Leery.
nd F really should have been - ahem - "Fruitcaking" the frame
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RE: Thats one uplifting Gift
Posted on Saturday July 2, 2011, 04:32 by Spaldron
Really disappointed Empire. M should have stood for Misogynistic and R should have been Racist Robots. S could have been Shitty Director and L should have been Leery. Read More
