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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
and today i watched BAD BOYS. it's my first michael bay movie and it's hilariously over the top. it's impressive how he can squeeze the last drop of spectacle from every single fucking shot and cut, but at the same time the movie is fucking terrible. terrible! it makes zero sense. and yet i can't stop watching for academic reasons--yeah i wanna study how he does shit. the absolute auditory and visual excess. like, a guy doest just get shot--he gets shot and falls backwards onto an electric panel and all sorts of sparks ensue. because the eye must not rest. hilarious.
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If I haven't seen a Michael Bay film in a while I seem to convince myself that I quite enjoy them. Then I'll watch one again and get a reality check. I've nothing in principle against the kinds of films he makes I just can't stand the way he does them. And there really isn't much to study in terms of his style. A lot of it's just Tony Scott on steroids.
Saying all that, if there's one Michael Bay film I do enjoy it's The Rock, but that's more because of Nicholas Cage than Michael Bay.