Michael Bay

[tambourine-man]

Let's see...

Loud, outspoken black male to provide the humour
Matriarchal black woman, moving her head side to side and waving her finger, to provide the humour
Stupid low angle face shots to denote heroism
Stupid sweeping camera shots with slow motion to denote crescendo
Macho bullshit
Eyebrow acting is encouraged
Weird approach to portraying women
Excessive slow-motion at every turn
Re-use of the same set-pieces
Crappy dialogue
Irritating child characters
Hokey one-liners to drive story
Vomit-inducing levels of patriotism
Perverse, stereotypical and jingoistic portrayal of any other nation other than the USA
Wafer-thin characters
Obligatory footage of partially-silhouetted pilots running to their jets
The repeated use of the same few bars of Hans Zimmer's score for EVERY FUCKING FILM HE EVER FUCKING MAKES!!!! dun-dun-dun-de'der, dun-dun-dun-de'der
Fanboy obsession with the armed services
Overt and shameless product placement
Constant cut-away shots and failure to keep an uninterrupted scene for more than three seconds.
Things blow up with no apparent source of ignition


All of which amounts to films that rate somewhere between gravity and the Earth's orbit in terms of predictability.

 

[aanallein]

if i saw a movie i hated that much, there's no way i'd give a sequel 'a shot'. seriously, did you think it was going to be any different?



alasdair

Sometimes you get surprised. Ex. Badboys 2 I liked more than Badboys 1. I also told my friend I would give it a shot - he liked it. Apparently he liked 3 enough to see it twice.. no idea how..