Megan Fox slaps down Michael Bay

[barnaclelapse]

There are quite a great amount of very good actors who have taken on crappy movies.. Jeremy Irons in Dungeons & Dragons, Ben Kingsley in Uwe Boll movies! etc..

I liked the D&D movie.

And Bay vs Fox - well, of course she's right, but despite everything else, Bay is extremely successful, and imo Fox should be a little more careful with what she says until she's had even half of his success.
It's not like she's a critically acclaimed theatre actress or anything either...

eta: I just looked at Michael Bay's wikipedia page and at the moment it looks like this:
the photo that assumingly shows "Michael Bay in 2008" is titled "vaginal bulb syringe.jpg"

God bless Wikipedia.

 

[Teelie]

It's also known as a douche. So you can get what they were inferring there rather easily.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Since when is Michael Bay good at action? The action sequences in his movies looked like they were filmed by an epileptic. There were never clear shots of the action and it was difficult to tell who was who. He has absolutely no idea how to properly frame a shot.

 

[Saul]

Yes if you want to see a true action Director check out Jimmy Cameron. Leave Bay to car commercials instead.

 

[Bishbot]

Since when is Michael Bay good at action? The action sequences in his movies looked like they were filmed by an epileptic. There were never clear shots of the action and it was difficult to tell who was who. He has absolutely no idea how to properly frame a shot.

That is very much a matter of opinion. I think he goes too far at times, which is probably a symptom of seeing the same footage over and over again in editing, but mostly his action sequences are very crisp and kinetic. Yes, you do have to pay attention, but people enjoy paying attention in films, right?

 

[Broccoli]

Nobody wants to be called on his shit and Bay is not different.

Uh...Bay has a pretty good sense of humor about the nature of his films.

He apparently has a lso a big ego citing to have "made" people like Will Smith and Nicolas Cage when in reality they were already known actors. About the only thing he really can claim is to have given them career boosts (something Fox doesn't deny).

He never once said in that interview that he "made" those actors. In fact, the last sentence in the article says that he has luck building actor's careers.

I don't know the full timeline of events, but Bay does have a point. When he cast many of those actors, they were not big A-list stars. Nick Cage won an oscar, yes. Note that Bay says "when cast", not "when the movie came out. The Rock was well into production when Leaving Las Vegas was released and, subsequently, when Cage recieved his award. I would also argue that Bay is mostly dead on with his comments on the other actors when he cast them. They might have been popular, but they were not nearly as big as they would become.

That being said, I don't think that Bay's movies that these actors were the only things that propelled them into stardom, but it certaintly helped.

But something tells me she'll be down to making sleaze films with T/A to make ends meet within a few years.

I'd give it a few months.

On a related note, how was she in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Since when is Michael Bay good at action? The action sequences in his movies looked like they were filmed by an epileptic. There were never clear shots of the action and it was difficult to tell who was who. He has absolutely no idea how to properly frame a shot.

That's how everyone does action now. I blame Spielberg, he did that in the D-Day scene of Saving Private Ryan to illustrate the madness and confusion of the landing. (Around the same time in Gladiator, Ridley Scott similarly did that for some of the arena scenes for the same reason.) However, it seems others saw the breathliness of the audience and concluded that is how you can make any action scene exciting.

 

[sidious618]

Seems to me that they're both being dicks.

 

[davejames]

I never got the impression from Megan Fox's original interview that she was dissing Bay in any huge way.

She was just being honest and upfront that this was a popcorn movie with lots of explosions and special effects, where not much real acting is required.

Frankly I find that kind of honesty and candor refreshing. If it pisses off Bay, so be it.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

i dont even think she's all that skinny, unlike other actresses out there. whats this issue about her needing to eat? she looks fine, scratch that DAMN FINE, the way she is.

 

[Aragorn]

Bay is the more successfull Uwe Boll.. period.

That is a completely false statement. Michael Bay may suck when it comes to character moments and plot (hell, when he was in discussions to direct Phone Booth, the first thing he wanted to do was take the action outside of the phone booth!), but he does have a unique style and he knows how to make stuff look cool on camera, if nothing else.

Brett Ratner may be the most vanilla director around and Paul WS Anderson may suck at telling a story, but at least they are technically capable at putting together a movie.

Uwe Boll is just an idiot who knows nothing about filmmaking, just points the camera and shoots, and is completely delusional about his talents.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Since when is Michael Bay good at action? The action sequences in his movies looked like they were filmed by an epileptic. There were never clear shots of the action and it was difficult to tell who was who. He has absolutely no idea how to properly frame a shot.

That's how everyone does action now. I blame Spielberg, he did that in the D-Day scene of Saving Private Ryan to illustrate the madness and confusion of the landing. (Around the same time in Gladiator, Ridley Scott similarly did that for some of the arena scenes for the same reason.) However, it seems others saw the breathliness of the audience and concluded that is how you can make any action scene exciting.

But Bay's The Rock and Armageddon - both of which I like a lot, albeit that the latter is in the 'guilty pleasures' file - predate either of those movies. The car chase in San Franciso in The Rock is ruined by the hyper fast editing, while it was also difficult to see what was going on during the climax of Armageddon.

As for the end of Transformers, I had absolutely no idea who was a goodie or baddie,the editing was so ADHD fast. Having said that, as I said before, I like The Rock and Armageddon a lot and I think that the action sequences in Pearl Harbour are seriously under-rated. And all of his films look fantastic - though again, to a certain extent, he's just following the template laid down in most Bruckheimer movies - slow-mo, golden skies, helicopters swooping in at dramatic angles etc.

 

[IndyJones]

So Nicholas Cage wasn't a big actor before doing The Rock? Hmm, obviously, having just come off his Ocar win for Leaving Las Vegas, he was totally desperate for work ... And it's not like he'd worked with directors like the Coen Bros, Francis Ford Coppola or Mike Figgis, before going to the godlike auteur that is Mr Blow-things-up.

I'm not arguing with your main point here, I just want to say that it's not too surprising a guy named Nic Coppola would be hired by a guy named Francis Ford Coppola...

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Hehehe, fair point. What is impressive is how young Nic managed to piss off Uncie Frank so much during the making of Peggy Sue Got Married that he swore he'd never employ Sister Talia's little boy again and has stuck to it.

 

[Ryan]

So Nicholas Cage wasn't a big actor before doing The Rock? Hmm, obviously, having just come off his Ocar win for Leaving Las Vegas, he was totally desperate for work ...

Well, he wasn't an action star. And in that respect Bay's list is pretty accurate (as much as I hate to admit it).

I'm just going to chalk this one up to Megan Fox attention whoring to the media for the gazillionth time. It's downright pathetic. The sooner she goes away the better.

 

[Shurik]

On a related note, how was she in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People?

HOT.

 

[Cicero]

i dont even think she's all that skinny, unlike other actresses out there. whats this issue about her needing to eat? she looks fine, scratch that DAMN FINE, the way she is.

I think that was a reference to her needing to put food on the table (i.e. to pay the bills), not to her physique.

 

[Teelie]

That was what my comment was about. She needs to pay the bills and put food on the table somehow. She is IMO a touch on the skinny side, but just a touch. She's fine otherwise and obviously she can afford to eat as well as she likes now. Maybe she'll get an actual acting role soon and we'll see if she can do that.

 

[RoJoHen]

On a related note, how was she in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People?

HOT.

Does she have other traits? Does it matter?

 

[Yoda]

Megan Fox should be worshiping the ground Michael Bay walks on.

She's definitely hot. I don't know about her acting skills, I would guess they're probably not all that great, but regardless, she's famous, and filthy rich because of Michael Bay's stupid movies. What is there to complain about in the face of that?