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MikeH said:
Pain and Gain is a weird one but I remember enjoying it when it came out. Ambulance is also wild. Most gratuitous use of drone footage I’ve ever seen in a movie.

The characters quote other Michael Bay movies at least twice in Ambulance haha
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I had a blast with Ambulance.. It was pretty fun watching Jake G go fully feral. I think with all of Bay's films you have to just kind of turn logic off for the most part and let the madness take over which some people don't seem to get and worry too much about "plot holes" or "inaccuracies" which he obviously gives zero eff's about haha

The ecstacy scene in Bad Boys II might still be my favorite single scene in any of his movies though..
 
MikeH said:
Pain and Gain is a weird one but I remember enjoying it when it came out. Ambulance is also wild. Most gratuitous use of drone footage I’ve ever seen in a movie.

The characters quote other Michael Bay movies at least twice in Ambulance haha
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Funny you mention Pain and Gain. This is a clip from a film podcast I watch and is still one of the funniest film reviews I’ve heard.

 
MikeH said:
This guy thinks Crash is a near perfect movie so…😬

I think if you go into a Michael Bay movie expecting for it to be witty, you’ve already lost haha
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He’s one of the few critics/journalists I like because he knows his stuff and he really cares even if I’d often not agree.

It’s not about an absence of wit or plot or dialogue or even the reductive nature. There is a nasty undercurrent to all his film making. Yes they’re big, yes they’re bad, yes they’re reductive, plenty of action is and remains fun, but they’re also mean spirited. That’s what I’ve always hated about Michael Bay’s films.
 
Joe Mac said:
He’s one of the few critics/journalists I like because he knows his stuff and he really cares even if I’d often not agree.

It’s not about an absence of wit or plot or dialogue or even the reductive nature. There is a nasty undercurrent to all his film making. Yes they’re big, yes they’re bad, yes they’re reductive, plenty of action is and remains fun, but they’re also mean spirited. That’s what I’ve always hated about Michael Bay’s films.
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I agree about that on some of his films. I don’t really think The Rock, Bad Boys or Armageddon have a nasty undercurrent to them and those are his “best” films. I mostly joke about Michael Bay. He’s made a lot of crap. But those three are enjoyable in their own ways.
 
MikeH said:
I agree about that on some of his films. I don’t really think The Rock, Bad Boys or Armageddon have a nasty undercurrent to them and those are his “best” films. I mostly joke about Michael Bay. He’s made a lot of crap. But those three are enjoyable in their own ways.
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I quite clearly have very different memories of all those films that you do lol. The last of them in particular! The less said about that Aerosmith song the better too.
 
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Joe Mac said:
He’s one of the few critics/journalists I like because he knows his stuff and he really cares even if I’d often not agree.

It’s not about an absence of wit or plot or dialogue or even the reductive nature. There is a nasty undercurrent to all his film making. Yes they’re big, yes they’re bad, yes they’re reductive, plenty of action is and remains fun, but they’re also mean spirited. That’s what I’ve always hated about Michael Bay’s films.
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I have to admit to never having heard of Michael Bay (films not so much my thing as music) but I've loved Mark Kermode for a long time. Have you heard any of his musical stuff? He had a skiffle band that was the house band on Danny Baker's chat show which was pretty great. Can only find this of them (not sure what Americans will make of Timmy Mallett)



And this from his more recent band at a wonderful venue

 
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