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| Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay 2009 |
His minimalist filmmaking style is an inspiration to anyone who believes in the power of story over the power of the big budget movie. With his ruthless attention to economy, he was able to make his most recent movie for the unbelievable sum of 200 million dollars. The movie was Transformers 2, possibly the greatest film created to this day.
There are people who are so mainstream that they vehemently declare their distaste for Bay's work, but those plebeians are not worthy to kiss the golden toilet seat graced by Bay's sacred buttocks. They do not understand that Transformers 2 was a subtle critique of an administration that was dismantling pet projects from the leviathan military of the US. In the film he clearly demonstrates that those projects are necessary to flail helplessly against the evil automatons that will inevitably invade earth. I am terrified of what is happening, are you?
When I first watched Armageddon, I was so moved that I was forced to turn it off before my tears soaked dvd box. And that box! Oh, it was a work of art more beautiful than all the life in the Gulf of Mexico surfacing through oil slick film with the glaze of death in its eyes. But alas, those days are over.
Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now -- they're all crap compared to the genius that is Michael Bay. With only the GNP of 2,250,000 Burundians he has created films that have changed the world forever. Modest budgets. Epic masterpieces. Thank you Michael.
