What your thoughts on Micheal Bay?

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s4manturbo

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This is a mere question about micheal bay, do you like the way his films look? Not his direction...just the look...
Bad Boys 2 if you watch it- the colors of the ocean are a shade of turquois that simply doesnt exist...

Im curious, what do you guys think of his "look"

I used to enjoy it greatly, just to test out the colors on my HD television, but as of late I cant particularily stand it. It just comes across so fake, kinda breaking the fourth wall for me.

Just wondering what others think.........

Either way, Ill see transformers.....Im not expecting much, but I will watch it regardless.
 
The 'look' in front of the camera, is invariably wonderful - props to the production designers, the dps, and their respective crews.

The way it's generally cut together, which is Bay all over, is increasingly a simulation of what ADD must feel like, from the sufferer's point of view.
 
I liked the look of 'The Island.' I agree that the artificial CC sometimes breaks the fourth wall, but everytime I stumble across 'The Island' on HBO I get sucked into watching it. The art direction, cinematography and editing in the movie are really engaging, and that keeps my attention while the 3rd act of the film veers into the realm of a roadrunner cartoon. It ain't supposed to be Shakespeare, and he's not trying to be Scorsese. I think he can make Transformers a really fun popcorn-chomping ride.

Sometimes when I am editing my own programs I'll try a couple of wacked out CC schemes in Magic Bullet and no matter how cool they are I will almost always pull it back to the realm of what I feel the average viewer will deem acceptable. It takes balls to commit to a severely stylized palette when you aren't doing a music video - I give the guy props for that.
 
Helicopters and explosions and fast cars oh, my.

He definitely embodies the hollywood action movie. I do not like his style of action movie but he definitely knows what people want and delivers it to them. As to his look, I agree that the art department, the DP and many others do a kick ass job and the people working in post must also put in tons of work to get that look.

As to Transformers, it will be more of the same just with robots instead of people. And you can bet there will be twice as many helicopters, four times as many explosions and a bazzillion more fast cars than his previous movies. I am not looking forward to this movie.
 
Yeah, CC must be off the charts in post for these guys.

I gotta admit though, His movies are some of the best looking films that my plasma has ever displayed. Real colors or fake....it still makes me sit in awe for a second or two.
 
s4manturbo said:
Yeah, CC must be off the charts in post for these guys.

I gotta admit though, His movies are some of the best looking films that my plasma has ever displayed. Real colors or fake....it still makes me sit in awe for a second or two.
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I don't particularly like Micheal Bay, But Mauro Fiore is a good DP. I Enjoy his work, I don't really mind everything they do in their D.I.'s, I like thoe overall fakeness really. Sometimes though, like in the Island Scarlett Johansons lighting wasn't particularly flattering, and I could see where the went a little crazy with their DI to fix artifacts on her face even.
 
Bad Boys 1 and 2 rule..... well, mainly the badass car chases and shootouts and frozen corpses falling from the meat wagon at high speeds (that scene alone is enuff for me to give the man his due)

I hate everything else by him, tacky tacky tacky (everything besides BB 1, 2)

I am stoked to see the transformers though
 
Brandon Rice said:
The Island is one of my favorite films ever... otherwise I don't like Michael Bay's film... nough said.
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Ever see the original film he ripped off, "Parts: The CLONUS Horror?"
 
Blaine said:
You might as well ask me my thoughts on Uwe Boll...:zombie_smiley:
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I'm right there with ya, Blaine. :thumbsup:
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Blaine said:
Among others...THX 1128, Logan's Run, The Matrix...
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I think it's mostly a mono-ripoff - "Parts" and "Island" are basically beat-for-beat. We're not talking about minor bits and vague inspirations; we're talking try-reading-the-scripts-side-by-side...

...my first meeting with an Art Director on the show, he started telling me the story...and I gave him the middle and end, the basic concept and characters. He thought I'd already read the script. I hadn't...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=227916

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/movies/2002394690_islandripoff.html
 
Blaine said:
Among others...THX 1128, Logan's Run, The Matrix...
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Yeah, and Transformers is a ripoff of..um...Transformers?

When is it a homage and not a ripoff? (Discuss amongst yaselves)

I don't suppose you are saying that Logan's Run is a great film? I mean, despite the mindblowing special effects (remember how the laser guns shot those cool sparks?) and a tour de force performance by Farrah Fawcett Majors, Logan's Run remains a pretty bad movie. (It was panned by critics in 1976.) And while admittedly being a groundbreaking film, THX 1138 is so slow and minimalist it is just plain tough to sit through. The Island, though, however shallow you may find it, improves on both of them visually and is more fun. Perhaps it's more of an homage to those films than a ripoff? I noticed you have a banner for a film called Hollywood Gothic - is that movie 100% original? Or perhaps it contains a smigeon of influences from a previous film or two..not a 'ripoff' mind you..a homage perhaps?

Oh and Pearl Harbor sucked.
 
Overuse of graduated filters or just lots of CC.

You can tell that he came from an advertising background, but surely films are more than a glitzy ad campaign with sound. What about story, dialogue, and characters? I guess explosions, cars, guns, and popping colors are more important.

My personal favorite is in Armageddon, where the whole world celebrates in simultaneous daylight. OK, let's just throw any laws of physics out of the window, because it looks so damn good that way, like a wine commercial or something.
 
pmgmedia said:
I noticed you have a banner for a film called Hollywood Gothic - is that movie 100% original? Or perhaps it contains a smigeon of influences from a previous film or two..not a 'ripoff' mind you..a homage perhaps?
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Perhaps you can tell me...
 
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