http://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertainment/high-definition/news/michael-bay-tells-microsofts-dirty-secret?articleid=1716382442

Interesting comment he makes about Microsoft.

Michael Bay should just lay low. I mean, did you see Transformers?

Even though I'm very anti-Microsoft, I hate Michael Bay almost as much.

If true, I dont care, Im not going to buy special things to watch a blu-ray movie, its jsut to expensive, Ill go with your average dvd, with possibly Hd compatibility

I don't see the problem... and seriously realtime downloading of movies isn't far off, certainly no more than a year or 2.

I don't see the problem... and seriously realtime downloading of movies isn't far off, certainly no more than a year or 2.

Depends on broadband and speed though. I wouldn't wanna wait hours/over night to download a movie. Or lagging issues if you watch it 'real time'

pretty much what i think of michael bay, in this short little clip.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=byKrCUk4JaA&feature=related

It's all true. Microsoft is hell-bent on destroying the earth. But they have to make their Windows OS work first.

and 360.

Michael Bay should just lay low. I mean, did you see Transformers?

What is wrong with Transformers?

I never watched it as a kid so I don't know if there was some terrible misdeed done to it, but I liked the film.

I don't mind what he does in movies, they are not going to be thought provoking films.

Depends on broadband and speed though. I wouldn't wanna wait hours/over night to download a movie. Or lagging issues if you watch it 'real time'

Well, duh, if people insist on still using dial up they obviously won't be able to download movies realtime, but with +20mbits broadband so easily obtainable and pretty cheap too, it's not far away.

What is wrong with Transformers?

I never watched it as a kid so I don't know if there was some terrible misdeed done to it, but I liked the film.

I don't mind what he does in movies, they are not going to be thought provoking films.

While I agree that Transformers wasn't a total cluster**** (and if I'm being honest had some pretty cool stuff in it), Michael Bay is total "Scheisse Meister". Someone should put a restraining order on the guy so that he's never allowed within 500 meters of a movie set. IMO Bay's Bad Boys II is amongst the worst pieces of tripe that's ever been committed to celluloid.

IMO Bay's Bad Boys II is amongst the worst pieces of tripe that's ever been committed to celluloid.
uh, no! that is easily his best movie.

uh, no! that is easily his best movie.

:ha: If you're into watching Will Smith and Martin Lawrence pose and preen like a pair of frickin *****es, then yeah it's super duper. The dialogue consists of nothing but inane banter, the camera work is awful, the editing is so hackneyed and cliched it's almost laughable. And as an added it bonus, it's painfully looooong (the only thing worse than a bad movie is a long bad movie).

While I was watching this flick I felt like Alex from Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange"; with his eyes fixed open and being forced to watch brutal, nasty, mindless imagery projected on the screen in front of me. Unlike poor Alex I had the option to grab my remote control and hit stop.

Sorry if that's harsh, but damn, if we keep eating this **** they'll keep feeding it to us.

uh, no! that is easily his best movie.

Pearl harbor?

While I agree that Transformers wasn't a total cluster**** (and if I'm being honest had some pretty cool stuff in it), Michael Bay is total "Scheisse Meister". Someone should put a restraining order on the guy so that he's never allowed within 500 meters of a movie set. IMO Bay's Bad Boys II is amongst the worst pieces of tripe that's ever been committed to celluloid.


I'll take that goolash over his "horror/thriller" movies that are not thrilling in the least. Why anyone would want to take a classic scary movie and make it mundane is beyond me but I think that is his goal in life. To ruin beautiful piece of cinematic culture and piss all over it. I hear his most recent project is Hitch****s Birds. Well done Bay you PUTZ.

Some of Bay's ideas are OK it's just the way he puts them together that makes me hate his product.

I don't mind something implausible happening if it's well done.Die Hard 4 comes to mind.

Bay always manages to insult the audiences intelligence with some of the crap he pulls.Armageddon had incredibly far fetched plot & was also full of long shots of the cast walking in slow mo which really bugged. Don't mention the crappy love scene Aerosmith tie in either.Oh snap.

I'll take that goolash over his "horror/thriller" movies that are not thrilling in the least. Why anyone would want to take a classic scary movie and make it mundane is beyond me but I think that is his goal in life. To ruin beautiful piece of cinematic culture and piss all over it. I hear his most recent project is Hitch****s Birds. Well done Bay you PUTZ.

Wow! That's an out of the blue shot at goulash. Now Hungarians everywhere are annoyed with you.

The only thing more superfluous than a remake of The Birds would be a remake of Psycho... :suspect: . I checked IMDb and Bay is producing The Birds while Casino Royale director Martin Campbell is at the helm. I actually like Campbell (he started out directing a few episodes of the TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street"), but a remake of the Birds? Why? Yet another entry on the always growing list of movies that I'll never see.

I actually kind of like Bay's "The Rock", but as Childress79 said, Bay's just so cheezy and heavy handed that I find myself laughing during the heroic and climactic sequences in the film.

When Transformers came out Bay was plugging it on one of the local radio morning shows. The host ask why bumble bee is not a VW Bug. The guy exploded. They play the clip at least once evey other week. It is great.

Peral Harbor was TERRRIBLE!

When Transformers came out Bay was plugging it on one of the local radio morning shows. The host ask why bumble bee is not a VW Bug. The guy exploded. They play the clip at least once evey other week. It is great.

Peral Harbor was TERRRIBLE!


In comparison to his other movies? IT WAS EPIC.

In comparison to his other movies? IT WAS EPIC.

I figured I would throw you a bone :))

Other then the blatant inaccuracies in it and saucy love story ... I guess you are correct.

Well I am a female. I live for saucy sappy luv stories... add to the fact that i believe i was in high school when it came out. That being said i bought the dvd and i don't think i have even opened it. hahaha. What would be the point when i have the boondock boys and 300 1/2 naked men to keep me company :)

now that's a crowded elevator ....

Ugh...must...weigh...in!

For the most part, I can't stand Michael Bay. I detest and loath 2/3 of the Simpson/Bruckheimer/Bay tree and all the rotten fruit that falls off of it. Having said that, Transformers is as close to redemption as Bay can possibly come. I watched the cartoon religiously. The movie is impressive, and as a film, doesn't have to be great to be a great experience.

They make such hokey movies. They almost try to make films like comic books, but just not as well done.

Next to Transformers, The Rock is Bay's best, most enjoyable movie. Maybe part of it is that I can like Nicholas Cage about 90% in that movie (I reside at approximately 60% enjoyment of his talents most of the time), and that is probably because he knows his role next to Sean Connery, and therefore must bow down.

Most of those guys' movies (Bruckheimer, et al) are solid 3 out of 5 flicks that try to trick stupid people into thinking they're good because they're so over the top from a production standpoint. I can readily admit that there is something I like about almost all of these movies, Bay's included, but invariably, they do something to eff it up. It is always a good thing when movie makers can tap in to that special movie groove, but to me, these guys almost always miss it. They instead try to bend you to what they think it should be or where they think it is. I know that's a vague attack, but it goes back to tricking you into thinking they're total quality and genius.

I especially don't enjoy seeing directors rise to ridiculous levels of Hollywood power off a string of 2.5-3 out of 5-star movies.

Michael Bay = Hokey Schlock.

Hokey I can take, sometimes, but never schlock.


And please don't let me get started on Pearl Harbor.

During one of the Japanese’s surveillance shots you can actually see the Arizona memorial .... ummmm

It's all true. Microsoft is hell-bent on destroying the earth. But they have to make their Windows OS work first.
:ha:

---As well as Transformers, Bay is also famed for his direction of Pearl Harbor and Armageddon.---
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Armageddon ... WORST MOVIE EVER .... seriously not that bad but when you have taken physics and you see a machine gun work in space ... come on!

Firing pin strikes bullet ... EGNITES GUN Powder ... w/ no oxygen ... are you serious? And why would you need a machine gun on a lunar rover anyways? :rolleyes:

Or the two shuttles launching side by side ... or the fire in a vacuum
... :suspect:

Armageddon ... WORST MOVIE EVER .... seriously not that bad but when you have taken physics and you see a machine gun work in space ... come on!

Firing pin strikes bullet ... EGNITES GUN Powder ... w/ no oxygen ... are you serious? And why would you need a machine gun on a lunar rover anyways? :rolleyes:

Or the two shuttles launching side by side ... or the fire in a vacuum
... :suspect:

there was so much wrong with that movie I'm not even sure where to start
but I think I can sum it up in 2 words
Ben Affleck

if it weren't for Steve Buscemi that thing would have been completely unentertaining ... at least I got a kick out of him ridin' the rocket

Some of you really take things to seriously.

It's a movie made for entertainment purposes.

Gunny, you want to know the first thing they taught me at college... my very first directing class the exact works of the doc were:


"YOU CAN GIFT WRAP **** BUT THAT DOESNT MAKE IT A GOOD PRESENT."



As far as Bay goes, and Armageddon...

He is good at 1 thing and that is selling his movies to the right audience. I went gaga over that movie when it came out. Why??? because i was a young teenybopper... All my friends wanted to go see Ben Affleck get the girl. Personally I wanted to see Steve Buscemi (I've had an obsession with him ever since i watched Pulp Fiction) ride a nuke. But as a teenage girl I was willing to overlook any imposibilities. I was too overloaded by the cast/dialog/and camera work to care what laws of physics they were breaking.


Pearl Harbor works along the same lines. With the proper marketing EVERY girl that could take her boyfriend to the movies that weekend did so. Not only did you get Affleck but now add (gag me) Josh Hartnett in there and none of the girls cared it was a "war" movie. He overloaded your stimulation again and the teenagers leaving the theatres wished they had lived through Pearl Harbor so they could find the love of thier life.


Now both are considered huge hits. People can complain about him and those films all they want.... won't change the fact that he made it work for a LARGE number of people.

Gunny, you want to know the first thing they taught me at college... my very first directing class the exact works of the doc were:


"YOU CAN GIFT WRAP **** BUT THAT DOESNT MAKE IT A GOOD PRESENT."



First thing I learned in college was to make sure to keep your beer cup upside down when walking on the street. This helps to avoid harasment by cops for MIP or an open container.

I am sure Nabisco enjoyed the movie as well. :))

First thing I learned in college was to make sure to keep your beer cup upside down when walking on the street. This helps to avoid harasment by cops for MIP or an open container.

I am sure Nabisco enjoyed the movie as well. :))


you mean the cops at your college cared if you were drinking? too bad, that could have made the parties more interesting.

you mean the cops at your college cared if you were drinking? too bad, that could have made the parties more interesting.

I went to UC Santa Barbara ... the cops did not care if you were drinking unless you were on a bike. They just did not want you walking with a cup of beer from house party to house party.

Basically if you live on Sabido or Del Plyia(sp?) [everyone just called it DP] Thursday night through Sunday night you put a keg in your front yard and who ever walked up got beer. If you live in the corner houses you had a band or a DJ.

Imagine ~ 10,000 college students boozing it up in a 1/2 mile strip. I am not sure the parties could have gotten more interesting to be honest.

Some of you really take things to seriously.

It's a movie made for entertainment purposes.

that's not very entertaining .. now what ?

that's not very entertaining .. now what ?

Your opinion, which you are entitled too. Others differ.

are you saying you like Armegeddon ?

I didn't mind it and I took it for what it was worth.

I went to UC Santa Barbara ... the cops did not care if you were drinking unless you were on a bike. They just did not want you walking with a cup of beer from house party to house party.

Basically if you live on Sabido or Del Plyia(sp?) [everyone just called it DP] Thursday night through Sunday night you put a keg in your front yard and who ever walked up got beer. If you live in the corner houses you had a band or a DJ.

Imagine ~ 10,000 college students boozing it up in a 1/2 mile strip. I am not sure the parties could have gotten more interesting to be honest.


Lets see...


Pudding wrestling, fuzzy armidillos, and dirty patties. We weren't listed by playboy as the number 1 party school all those years for nothing :)

Lets see...


Pudding wrestling, fuzzy armidillos, and dirty patties. We weren't listed by playboy as the number 1 party school all those years for nothing :)

Ball State? :suspect:

Check the listing UCSB is always in the top 3. Only reason they are not always #1 is the students are too hung over to vote :))

Ball State? :suspect:

Check the listing UCSB is always in the top 3. Only reason they are not always #1 is the students are too hung over to vote :))


Yes Ball state, home of the girls gone wild (i don't joke). Check the list you will see that they were number 1 for soo many years they took them out of the running. hahahaha. It is the only thing we had to brag about. (David Letterman doesn't count.)