Season Three: Michael Bay

The culmination of the last decade was poor by Bay’s high standards. Transformers: The Last Knight resulted in over $100 million estimated loss for Paramount and Hasbro, proving to be his last directing role in the franchise. He is quoted to have agreed with Spielberg to stop at three but the studio begged him for […]

Just over a week after the damp squib that was The Island, Michael Bay was approached by Steven Spielberg to direct Transformers. For Spielberg, the project was a passion of his. He was a fan of the original comics and wanted to make a film about “a boy and his car”. Bay initially turned it

It’s safe to say that Bruckheimer and Simpson’s gamble had paid off when hiring Bay. Once Bad Boys took off, he hit the ground running with The Rock (Sean Connery, not Dwayne Johnson) and followed it up with major successes Armageddon and Pearl Harbor before the Bad Boys sequel in 2003. At this stage, Bruckheimer

It was the early nineties. Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson were the most successful producers of the eighties but their latest picture, Days of Thunder, did not hit the heady heights they were hoping for. Switching from neo-noir to comedic action films worked out, but it now needed to be fresher and bigger. With $500

There was a stage in my life where the top 250 list on IMDb was gospel and I wasn’t interested in watching any film deemed lower than 7.8/10. That was two weeks ago, but I am now changing my ways and trying out movies that I looked down upon previously, beginning with Michael Bay’s collection.