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tappenzee
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"Michael Bay: done with big-budget movies?"


  

          

Does anyone really blame Bay for the bad reviews of his flicks? I always thought the direction was superb, but the scripts are usually godawful.

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http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0839146/

Michael Bay has made his last Transformers movie - the director is set to quit the action franchise because he has "had enough" of making big budget blockbusters.

The filmmaker helmed the original 2007 movie and returned this year with its sequel - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

But Bay, who is known for his explosive action sequences, is sick of receiving negative reviews from critics who dislike his movie-making style and is determined to move away from the genre.

He says, "It's easy to go shoot an art movie in a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers. They (the critics) review me before they've even seen the movie."

And Bay admits that if film bosses give the go ahead for a third Transformers movie, they will have to find a different director.

He adds, "After the three and a half years I've spent making these movies, I feel like I've had enough of the Transformers world.

"I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions."

  

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Michael Bay: done with big-budget movies? [View all] , tappenzee, Thu Jun-18-09 12:16 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
A lot of critics act like Bay is the anti-christ
Jun 18th 2009
1
but why?
Jun 18th 2009
2
      The director does have say in the story
Jun 18th 2009
4
This is sad, sad news
Jun 18th 2009
3
I wish him luck and he's kinda right about the critics.
Jun 18th 2009
5
Well, since he made 80 million on the last Transformers flick...
Jun 18th 2009
6
I thought critics didn't matter
Jun 18th 2009
7
he's the best at what he does
Jun 18th 2009
10
      .
Jun 18th 2009
11
Really? Cause it only took me 90 minutes
Jun 18th 2009
8
the billboards were enough for me.
Jun 18th 2009
41
he's absolutey fucking right...he's one of the chosen whipping boys
Jun 18th 2009
9
^^^ he's a PC... ^^^
Jun 18th 2009
12
I wouldn't have believed this as recently as two weeks ago
Jun 18th 2009
17
Not true, he'll be back
Jun 18th 2009
13
Good. He should just go away and spend his trillions of dollars.
Jun 18th 2009
14
Armageddon fucking sucked. Period.
Jun 18th 2009
15
bullshit
Jun 18th 2009
25
      it's one of the worst movies ever made
Jun 20th 2009
46
           Oh Jesus, it's not that bad.
Jun 20th 2009
47
Jun 18th 2009
16
making good "art movies" is easy technically, which was his point
Jun 18th 2009
18
Not true at all
Jun 18th 2009
24
yeah, it is...
Jun 18th 2009
27
Scarlett wasn't naked in The Island, she wanted to be & Bay objected
Jun 19th 2009
44
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jun 18th 2009
26
I dunno... a lot of his movies needed more lemons.
Jun 18th 2009
28
name ONE of his movies where the premise calls for "art"...just one
Jun 18th 2009
31
      It's not about that
Jun 18th 2009
34
           oh, God forbid someone call an ARTHOUSE film a fucking art film.
Jun 18th 2009
36
                he didn't say any of this:
Jun 18th 2009
40
this shit is sigworthy
Jun 18th 2009
30
Word
Jun 18th 2009
19
hahaha.. i didn't recognize Sommers' name so i looked him up on imdb
Jun 20th 2009
48
He sounds Uwe Bol-ish. Is he forgetting viewers love his movies?
Jun 18th 2009
20
RE: He sounds Uwe...oh, shut the fuck with this auto-snark bullshit
Jun 18th 2009
21
      You just see a keyword and start typing angry huh?
Jun 18th 2009
22
           i have a great imagination. that's better than being "bright"
Jun 18th 2009
23
the fuck is an art movie? it's like saying art painting.
Jun 18th 2009
29
what the fuck is "good" about transformers to a 40-something hack?
Jun 18th 2009
32
      I don't know, you tell me
Jun 18th 2009
33
           nothing...which is why people who have no interest in the subject matter
Jun 18th 2009
35
                for critics, film IS the subject matter
Jun 18th 2009
37
                     did you just say "ideally" with sincerity?
Jun 18th 2009
38
                          did you just run out of material?
Jun 18th 2009
39
                               that's what i was aking you...giving critics the benefit of the doubt.
Jun 18th 2009
42
Bay Not Quitting Transformers
Jun 18th 2009
43
damn
Jun 19th 2009
45
I hate when Basiglia ethers a post
Jun 20th 2009
49
you know what?
Jun 22nd 2009
50

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