2 The truth about Bay

    Mention the name Michael Bay to someone and you're likely to hear something along the lines of "he sucks" or "what a terrible director." A few might start screaming at the top of their lungs and ripping their hair out. Obviously, there's not a lot of love for the man. But I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say he's not actually a horrendous filmmaker. He has passable directing skills. The real problem is he's a complete moron when it comes to understanding the most basic foundation of a movie. Yes, I'm talking about the script. Here's a reenactment of Bay's very first day on a movie set:

Bay
A script? Is that some kind of special effect?

Intern
Uh... no it's written dialogue.

Bay
You mean like between explosions?

    In all seriousness though, this is his biggest flaw. It's the reason Transformers 2 was a complete disaster. It's why the movie Pearl Harbor was more horrific than the actual event it depicted.  These movies did not fail because Bay is an incapable director. They failed because the scripts were mind-numbingly bad. And he was too stupid to notice or care. Just look at Michael Bay's only decent film, The Rock. The script was very solid. It had memorable characters with a little depth to them. More importantly, some of the tension was built through these character interactions, rather than just mindless violence.

    In the end, Bay's directing didn't completely ruin the film. Which I think in itself, prove he's capable of producing decent (or at least enjoyable) films. But this will only happen once he realizes the number of explosions in a script doesn't correlate to it's quality. Until then, expect a lot more of Shia running around screaming while random things set on fire in Transformers 3.