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I'll only say this one:

MICHAEL BAY IS THE WORST FILMMAKER IN HOLLYWOOD.

Not as bad as Uwe boll but...ok maybe very close.

He's like a bad magician that uses tons of explosions and lot of smoke to stun the audience because he can't make good magic tricks.

His editing is terrible. Don't give me that "nobody gets it" crap. ANYONE with any good taste for FILMS couldn't LOVE that shit.

He doesn't give a damn about characters except for how much he can explit them.

He gives corny patriotic messages to give a fake depth.

The only people that like Michael bay's movies are teenagers with their hormones too high or retarded people. Sorry but that's the true.

GOD PEOPLE! what's wrong with you?" there are lots of better filmmakers in the whole wide world, why you support him?!



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@jalsonmi
of course i meant cameron circa aliens and the terminator movies. after that its all downhill. but i believe he has the vision still.
its really sad there arent that many good sci-fi directors around. most are 40 something man-childs who feel technology can compensate for a shit plot
spielberg even took classic material(war of the worlds) and mauled it
look at kubrick, made one sci-fi movie and hit the bulls-eye with it
im not looking to defend star wars, i cant
i know as movies they have numerous shortcomings,i just found them entertaining
and i personally feel the same applies for indiana jones movies too
enormously entertaining ,but a masterpiece, no friggin way
i might get a bit of hatin for it, but does anyone else here feel that blade runner is waaaay overrated?just something i feel



"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murders will foam up about their waist and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"...

 ....and I'll look down and whisper  "no."  

                                                                   - Rorschach

jalsonmi said:
ssj12 said:
jalsonmi said:
Soriku said:

I don't know why people are saying "HELL NO" and such. Is it me, or do all the movies I like people hate?


Don't worry--it comes with the territory of being a teenager. A lot of the movies I liked when I was 13-16 I look back on and shudder. (Hook! The Last Action Hero! Star Wars! Oh crap, what'd I say, I'm about to get lynched....)

People's tastes expand as they grow older. And a lot of the movies you list are indeed good--Spider-Man, X-Men, some Disney movies. Good stuff. Pre-Pocahontas Disney films are usually fine films, and Pixar has yet to make a bad film.

@Raichu: Yes, Bay did Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Island, The Rock and both Bad Boys movies. Of those, only The Rock is even OK. The rest is a stain on the medium in which I want to make my living.


How do you hate the Star Wars movies.... how?

And the bolded ones by bay were good imo.


Ok, I don't really hate Star Wars. But I was obsessed with the films as a teenager and now can't help but see them as deeply flawed movies whose enjoyability is owed almost entirely to the charisma and talent of Harrison Ford. Take Han Solo out of the first three films and you get the second three films. Take Ford away from the wooden acting and maudlin pathos of the Star Wars films and put him in the hands of a director with talent and you get Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is a fantastic film that actually does have in it everthing people think the Star Wars movies do.

But don't listen to me. As I've said before, I'm in film school, doing stuff towards becoming a director as my career, and as such can't help but be critical when it comes to film.


 Cool beans on the film school. Can't wait til you rock the world and show George Lucas how it's done. I'll probably be the king of Egypt around the same time.



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BringBackChrono said:
@jalsonmi
of course i meant cameron circa aliens and the terminator movies. after that its all downhill. but i believe he has the vision still.
its really sad there arent that many good sci-fi directors around. most are 40 something man-childs who feel technology can compensate for a shit plot
spielberg even took classic material(war of the worlds) and mauled it
look at kubrick, made one sci-fi movie and hit the bulls-eye with it
im not looking to defend star wars, i cant
i know as movies they have numerous shortcomings,i just found them entertaining
and i personally feel the same applies for indiana jones movies too
enormously entertaining ,but a masterpiece, no friggin way
i might get a bit of hatin for it, but does anyone else here feel that blade runner is waaaay overrated?just something i feel


Yeah it's fairly overrated. Alien, on the other hand, is not. Great, great film.

No, Raiders isn't a masterpiece, just a fantastic piece of filmmaking (I might say Jaws is a masterpiece though. Best film he ever made. But I'm not a huge Spielberg fan either, actually).

And I know you meant circa the good stuff with Cameron, I'd just hope he still has it in him is all. I guess we'll see what Avatar is like.

There are some good sci-fi directors out there, but yeah it's few and far between. I think Serenity is a damn fine movie and Joss Whedon a pretty good director, but I don't know if he'd be right for Metroid. In actuality, despite what I just said, Spielberg might be a good choice to direct it. I think he could do that tone.



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Soriku said:
jalsonmi said:
Soriku said:

I don't know why people are saying "HELL NO" and such. Is it me, or do all the movies I like people hate?


Don't worry--it comes with the territory of being a teenager. A lot of the movies I liked when I was 13-16 I look back on and shudder. (Hook! The Last Action Hero! Star Wars! Oh crap, what'd I say, I'm about to get lynched....)

People's tastes expand as they grow older. And a lot of the movies you list are indeed good--Spider-Man, X-Men, some Disney movies. Good stuff. Pre-Pocahontas Disney films are usually fine films, and Pixar has yet to make a bad film.

@Raichu: Yes, Bay did Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Island, The Rock and both Bad Boys movies. Of those, only The Rock is even OK. The rest is a stain on the medium in which I want to make my living.


I thought Ratatouille was a pretty bad film X_X

@loaded

Uh...that picture was just a random one picked out by the site. Of course it's just cosplay. The rumor itself may not be false.


 

I loved Ratatouille.  I think it was a really well made film.

EDIT: Yea it got a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.  Definitely not considered a bad film by any means.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ratatouille/



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naznatips said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Just learn to follow what is happening. I can follow his movies.

My whole family can.

Just get faster eyes and shut up.


Sorry, I am just sick of people blaming Michael Bay because they can't follow his editing. And that does seem to be the most common complaint. Yet if the editing were truly bad, why aren't more people turned off by that? It seems they don't mind. This is not about quality. Being able to follow camera work should be an ability, not taste.

So that means People who like his movies don't have bad taste. They can just follow those movies better.

It's not that people don't understand "his editing," it's that it's a battle of endurance to get through the broken plot, blurry and poor camera angles, and shitty dialogue just so you can see some decent special effects.

I shouldn't be working to tolerate the majority of the movie just for the one good part (the effects), and if he fucks up the plot of Metroid as much as he's fucked up the plot of everything else he's ever worked on, I am going to run him down.


I wrote "can't follow", not "don't understand". There is a difference.

EDIT: As for the "get faster eyes", that was rude, but the fact is that a lot of people can follow his films.

And you thinking only the effects are worthwhile is just your opinion. It does not mean he fucks up the plots. It just mean you think so.

This is another thing I can't stand about bashing him. You people seem to forget your opinions are just opinions when it comes to his work, even when you admit other things are just your opinions. 



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

im always up for a new video game movie, who cares, if reviews are good ill go watch it, if not i wont. no big deal

although i disagree that 2000-2009 was the time of SuperHero movies, it was the time of Superhero and VideoGame movies

These are all VideoGame Movies that were made into Movies, that all came out from 2000+

Alone in The Dark
BloodRayne
DOA: Dead or Alive
Doom
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Hitman
House of The Dead
In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Pokemon
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Extinction
Silent Hill
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

These are VideoGame Movies that will be coming out this year, next year, and 2010:

Warcraft
The Suffering
The Sims
Tekken
Street Fight: The Legend of Chun-Li
Spy HUnter
SPlinter Cell
Spyro The Dragon
Soulcalibur
Silent Hill 2
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Rainbow Six
Prince of Persia
Postal
Onimusha
Mortal Kombat: Devastation
Metal Gear Solid
Max Payne
Kane & Lynch
Halo
Gears of War
Far Cry
EverQuest
Driver
Devil May Cry
City of Heroes
Castevania
Bloodrayne 3
Alice
Alone in The Dark II
Area 51
BioShock

Superhero Movies:
Road To Perdition
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Catwoman
Constantine
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
A History of Violence
V For Vendetta
The Fountain
Superman Returns
Stardust
The Spirit
Watchmen
X-Men
X2: X-Men United
X-Men: The Last Stand
Blade II
Blade: Trinity
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Daredevil
Hulk
The Punisher
Elektra
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer
Ghost Rider
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Punisher (2008)
X-Men Origins: Wolverin (2009)
Luke Cage (2009)
Magneto (2009)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2010)
Spider-Man 4 (2010)
Ant-Man (2010)
Nick Fury (2010)
Wonder Women (2009)
The Man of Steel (2010)
Green Latern (2010)
The Flash (2010~)
Justice League (2010~)

So as you can see, they are pretty evenly split

VideoGame movies from 2000-2010 = 49

SuperHero movies from 2000-2010 = 45

 

but wow anyway... I think we will see twice as much in the next 13 years... I'm not complaining, some if not most of these movies were pretty good



@jalsonmi
spielberg?
i really doubt it that he can pull it off,if his past few efforts are any indication
i still stick to james cameron, or maybe ridley scott, though he doesnt do sci-fi any more
or maybe martin scorsese. "You talkin to me ,Ridley? im the only one here."
michael bay, and john woo, for that matter ,are the people who definitely should not get the reins(top is uwe, as expected)
metroid really deserves good treatment,as the basic plot can spawn pretty good scripts,if the right people are on it



"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murders will foam up about their waist and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"...

 ....and I'll look down and whisper  "no."  

                                                                   - Rorschach

on the surface it sounds great.. and i think it could work for some games.. but i think a movie usually needs multiple characters.. and the whole idea of her being alone being the theme of most of the games would be hard to reproduce.. I think if they made a movie, it needs to be about how she becomes a bounty hunter.. and start right from the start, when she was born and ridley killing her parents.. then the movie has a purpose - revenge



tabsina said:
on the surface it sounds great.. and i think it could work for some games.. but i think a movie usually needs multiple characters.. and the whole idea of her being alone being the theme of most of the games would be hard to reproduce.. I think if they made a movie, it needs to be about how she becomes a bounty hunter.. and start right from the start, when she was born and ridley killing her parents.. then the movie has a purpose - revenge

Well Cast Away worked with just one person for most of the film. And there are a few older films focusing on just one character alone someplace. 



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs