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> i've seen 20 second tik-toks with more emotion and character introduction than a lot of newer movies.

Sure but this assumes movies are about characters and emotion. Michael Bay gets a lot of shit, but sometimes you just want to see things explode. Sometimes you just want to see robots fighting for two hours. Sometimes you want to see California swallowed by a tidal wave and the emotional character plot lines get in the way.

I would pay to see a movie called “Two Hours Of Giant Rocks Hitting The Earth: No Characters Edition”, and the fact Michael Bay is rich means a lot of people agree.

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>Michael Bay gets a lot of shit, but sometimes you just want to see things explode.

That's the truth right here. I once ran across kung-fu movie called Chocolate (iirc). The premise was an autistic girl who was good at fighting. The entire movie was her walking into a room, kicking major but, then walking into a different room to kick more but.

It was great.

I appreciate action too but i mean, character or world building is not that hard and doesn't really require that much when a 30 second commercial can give you enough backstory to (unwillingly) empathise with someone.

Theres a difference from both Avatar 1 and quite a few of Michael Bay's older movies - they still have have a story arch.

Just a few minutes of character building and a few intermezzos and these movies would be much, much better in my opinion.

But i also hate too much CGI. I don't know what happened to "well dosed", it makes what's dosed so much more valuable.

Watching the Bayhem piece by Every Frame A Painting gave a ton of great context for Michael Bay’s work. Super interesting, ten minutes long, worth a watch. That channel is full of grade A content.

> a movie called “Two Hours Of Giant Rocks Hitting The Earth: No Characters Edition”

But would you go to see Giant Rocks 2?

> the fact Michael Bay is rich means a lot of people agree

This is the argument often made for Avatar against the "no cultural impact" observation. It still doesn't have any quotable lines or memorable characters.

> But would you go to see Giant Rocks 2?

If the graphics were better and the explosions were bigger, yes!

I'm almost disgusted by this post!

Jokes aside, it's funny how that sounds the most boring stuff to me and you'd have to pay me to sit in a chair for 2 hours watching that.

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