This montage is so sweet, and was shown before Michael Bay won an award for film making excellence. He deserves it! Makes me want to go back and watch Transformers and Bad Boys II again.

The only good movie shown in that montage was The Rock.

"The only good movie shown in that montage was The Rock. "

Fuck anyone who hates on Michael Bay. He's been my favorite director since I saw The Rock. All of his movies, even Pearl Harbor, are awesome movies! I haven't had any other director entertain me in such a consistent manner.

"MB said:

"The only good movie shown in that montage was The Rock. "

You cannot be serious, you have the worst taste in movies if that is all you liked!"

You cannot be serious, you have the worst taste in movies if you actually like Michael Bay!I guess I should elaborate. I hate seeing Michael Bay hypersexualizing children's series with 99% CG scenes and annoying ass slow motion scenes where the sun is ALWAYS conveniently placed behind the character."

"BabyFart_McGeezaks said:

"MB said:

"The only good movie shown in that montage was The Rock. "

You cannot be serious, you have the worst taste in movies if that is all you liked!"

You cannot be serious, you have the worst taste in movies if you actually like Michael Bay!I guess I should elaborate. I hate seeing Michael Bay hypersexualizing children's series with 99% CG scenes and annoying ass slow motion scenes where the sun is ALWAYS conveniently placed behind the character."

Who would want to watch a crappy pansy version of Transformers?

If you're so smart mister, why couldn't you tell from the trailer that's how the movie was gonna be. Don't go see the next Transformers movie then you grouch.

"Snipzor said:

"BabyFart_McGeezaks said:

"MB said:

"The only good movie shown in that montage was The Rock. "

You cannot be serious, you have the worst taste in movies if that is all you liked!"

You cannot be serious, you have the worst taste in movies if you actually like Michael Bay!"

You cannot be serious, it takes a team to create the entire movie not just Michael Bay!"

Pearl Harbor was possibly the worst WWII movie I've ever seen...and the only thing worse than Afleck's acting was the writing. I think the Tomatometer is a good representation of the quality of this flick.

"LiquidPrince said:

Who would want to watch a crappy pansy version of Transformers?

Something tells me you're too young to have grown up watching the Transformers cartoon...because I've yet to meet anyone my age who was both a fan of the cartoon as a kid and liked the movie."

Well you just met one because I've seen everything from G1 through to Beast Wars...

"Pearl Harbor was possibly the worst WWII movie I've ever seen...and the only thing worse than Afleck's acting was the writing. I think the Tomatometer is a good representation of the quality of this flick.

"

The community Tomatometer for Pearl Harbor is 43%.  Face it, that movie sucks.

"LiquidPrince said:

Well you just met one because I've seen everything from G1 through to Beast Wars...

I don't even know what G1 or Beast Wars is...but my question is, did you grow up as a young kid watching the original Transformers cartoon? How old are you? I can understand how someone who is between 12 and 20 or so may have enjoyed the Transformers movie."

MB said:

"The community Tomatometer for Pearl Harbor is 43%.  Face it, that movie sucks."

And you call yourself a fan? You don't even know the different generations associated with the series's long history... Don't try to say that if I'm a certain age that suddenly makes my tastes in movies invalid. Age is irrelevant. "

I vomited all my dinner after watching that montage.  I can't believe there's people out there giving any award that isn't a razzie to Michael Bay.

"LiquidPrince said:

And you call yourself a fan? You don't even know the different generations associated with the series's long history... Don't try to say that if I'm a certain age that suddenly makes my tastes in movies invalid. Age is irrelevant. "

I'm a fan of the original Transformers cartoon, and my opinions of the movie are largely based on my experiences watching the cartoon as a kid. I think age is definitely relevant here, because my working theory is that how much people like the Transformers movie is directly proportional to how old they were when the cartoon was airing in the mid-1980's.So, how old are you? I'm going to guess that your refusal to answer puts you smack dab in the middle of that 12-20 range. Am I wrong? I'm 30 now, I was six or seven when I was watching Transformers on TV."

Is there anyone over 25 that liked the Transformers movie who was also a fan of the original TV series? Maybe this deserves it's own thread.

"Is there anyone over 25 that liked the Transformers movie who was also a fan of the original TV series? Maybe this deserves it's own thread."

I don't think people who weren't even born yet when the show was on the air in the mid-80's can be fans in the same way that older people can. My working theory is how living in that time and watching the show as it was airing in the 80's can influence one's opinion of a modern-day movie based on that franchise, hence, age does matter.

It's fine that you like Michael Bay. Personally, I think he sucks ass and is a total hack.

"I don't think people who weren't even born yet when the show was on the air in the mid-80's can be fans in the same way that older people can. My working theory is how living in that time and watching the show as it was airing in the 80's can influence one's opinion of a modern-day movie based on that franchise, hence, age does matter.It's fine that you like Michael Bay. I personally think he sucks ass."

Michael Bay didn't even edit Pearl Harbor or Transformers...

"Michael Bay didn't even edit Pearl Harbor or Transformers..."

Michael Bay got the award for Excellence in Filmmaking, not excellence in Editing. There is quite a difference, that is why there are separate categories at the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Editor.

You really confused me. I was going by what you said, which was incorrect, I didn't get it until I went to the ShoWest website myself and figured out what you meant.

LiquidPrince said:

"This montage is so sweet, and was shown before Michael Bay won an award for editing excellence.

That's fine. I'm not here to change your mind. But you have to admit he deserves that award for editing excellence."

"Michael Bay got the award for Excellence in Filmmaking...not excellence in Editing. Good one, LiquidPrince."

"Michael Bay got the award for Excellence in Filmmaking, not excellence in Editing. There is quite a difference, that is why there are separate categories at the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Editor. "

Read my post again, I edited it while you were replying. Are you even going to admit you made a mistake?

"Read my post again, I edited it while you were replying. Are you even going to admit you made a mistake?"

MB said:

"You really confused me. I was going by what you said, which was incorrect, I didn't get it until I went to the ShoWest website myself and figured out what you meant.

"The only good movie shown in that montage was The Rock. "

Pearl harbour is one of the worst films of all time

You guys are all talking about Pearl Harbor, but when I think of Michael Bay, I think of Armageddon, which is perhaps my least  favorite movie of all time. That movie was so bad, I really don't think I can express it with words. I mean, everything about it was just so stupid and overly dramatic. The Island was pretty awful as well.

Transformers was a good movie. Otherwise, Michael Bay eats the big one.

I feel deeply saddened by the number of people on this board who consider Michael Bay movies good. Ugh. No wonder games like Halo sell so much.

All the action scenes in Bay's movies are GREAT. His name has almost become a brand now. A Micheal Bay film is basically a tagline for "this movie is going to have kickass action" have fun.  Now the parts without action just plain suck ballllls.

Does anyone else think they focused on the human characters WAY too much in Transformers?(I like the main character and the hot chick ,but everyone else was wasting screen time for what could have been some awesome Transformer action)

Good action scenes are absolutely worthless if they're not part of a compelling narrative. The great action movies (T2, Aliens, die hard, matrix, léon, heat...) are great because of characters, story and pacing - first and foremost.

The only good thing about Transformers is John Turturro. Damn, was that movie bad. Good effects, tho. : /

Micheal Bay mostly makes big fun explosions for sexually repressed kids who've lost their Ritalin

The man has some tremendous scenes under his belt, but good movies aren't his forte.
Armageddon and Pearl Harbor almost cancels out the awesomeness of The Rock by themselves.

MB is totally right. Transformers wasn't an offensively bad movie in any way, but anybody over 25 who were excited about them making a Transformers flick should feel more than slightly insulted that Megan Fox's hot ass, that stupid dog, Shia Leboeuf's stupid ass and cookie cutter grunt marines got more screentime than the fucking Transformers! Plus for such a "fantastic editor", he did the most egregious cut in the whole flick by not focusing on Prime when he said "One shall stand, one shall fall"
That's not some goddamned throwaway line!

Worse than the Transformer movie, though, are Transformers fanboys who feel that the movie is bad because it didn't do the franchise justice. That's even worse.

Franchise justice is one thing. It's a movie about robots who turn into cars for Cthulhu's sake.
You can't expect him to wring wrought melodrama and serious messages out of that.
But is it really that much to ask that a Transformers movie be about the Transformers?

Montage of Epicness? A montage of movies made by someone such as Michael Bay is more correctly named "Montage of shit".

The Rock and the Bad Boys movies are great, everything else he's done has been terrible though. That being said, I always have hope and I do wish him well as Michael Bay actually seems like a pretty decent guy.

still think they should of killed optimus prime again in the film.

"The only good movie shown in that montage was The Rock. "

Hey! No one can talk mess when Jazz says "Sup, bitches!"

You can't expect him to wring wrought melodrama and serious messages out of that.

Micheal Bay is awesome because of how stupid some of the shit he puts out is.

Michael Bay is only good at action scenes. Everything else he sort of struggles at.