Your Favorite Directors

[Swordfish941]

I used to like Michael Bay until I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I then realize the bastard ignores plot, character driven scenes, and character development. He just focuses on explosions and and action sequences with slow motion. Why the hell is he still working? The only good film of his is Bad Boys.

[AdAstra2009]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

The only good film of his is Bad Boys.

You didn't like The Rock?

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

I used to like Michael Bay until I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I then realize the bastard ignores plot, character driven scenes, and character development. He just focuses on explosions and and action sequences with slow motion. Why the hell is he still working? The only good film of his is Bad Boys.

It took you until "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" to figure this out? I figured it out by the time I saw "Armageddon", and that was 12 years ago now. Of course, I know you would have been too young to watch Bay movies 12 years ago, but your post implies that you watched plenty of his movies before "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by MT2008

It took you until "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" to figure this out? I figured it out by the time I saw "Armageddon", and that was 12 years ago now. Of course, I know you would have been too young to watch Bay movies 12 years ago, but your post implies that you watched plenty of his movies before "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".

I have only seen Bad Boys and Bad Boys II (the sequel was decent). When The Island was released, I wanted to see it because I was hyped on Ewan McGregor when I was 10. Me and my Dad saw Transformers when I was 12, and I enjoyed it (my dad said he liked the special effects, but he thought the plot was stupid). My little brother got the second one on DVD, I watched and thought "This was a waste of my goddamn time".

[funkychinaman]

It all went downhill after Pearl Harbor. It was the most disappointing movie I ever saw in a theater, and I saw Rocky V in the theater. Pearl Harbor was so bad, they wrote a song about it.

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

It all went downhill after Pearl Harbor. It was the most disappointing movie I ever saw in a theater, and I saw Rocky V in the theater. Pearl Harbor was so bad, they wrote a song about it.

Bay just bastardized one of the most tragic events in American history and tried to add a Titanic-esque love story to it.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

I have only seen Bad Boys and Bad Boys II (the sequel was decent). When The Island was released, I wanted to see it because I was hyped on Ewan McGregor when I was 10. Me and my Dad saw Transformers when I was 12, and I enjoyed it (my dad said he liked the special effects, but he thought the plot was stupid). My little brother got the second one on DVD, I watched and thought "This was a waste of my goddamn time".

"Bad Boys" was enjoyable if dumb, while the sequel was extremely dumb and not very enjoyable.

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

I also like David Fincher. He's taken possibly the stupidest subject to make a movie about (the founding of Facebook) and made something that's getting Oscar buzz. Plus he's launched the careers of Brad Pitt and Kristen Stewart.

Not sure you can say he "launched" Brad Pitt's career when the first movie they made together was "Seven". Pitt's career had long since taken off by that time (he had starred in "A River Runs Through It", "Interview with the Vampire", and "Legends of the Fall", all of which preceded "Seven").

[MT2008]

Also, surprised nobody's mentioned Paul Verhoeven yet. Even though he's made some really bad movies ("Showgirls"), he also made "RoboCop" and "Starship Troopers".

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by MT2008

Also, surprised nobody's mentioned Paul Verhoeven yet. Even though he's made some really bad movies ("Showgirls"), he also made "RoboCop" and "Starship Troopers".

Showgirls is just mainstream pornography.

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by MT2008

Also, surprised nobody's mentioned Paul Verhoeven yet. Even though he's made some really bad movies ("Showgirls"), he also made "RoboCop" and "Starship Troopers".

Paul Verhoeven is an objectively bad director. His only "good" movies were RoboCop, Total Recall (both mindless enjoyable action films), and Basic Instinct, which was completely average and only notable for showing Sharon Stone's hoo ha. Starship Troopers was laughably retarded (he didn't even read the original book), Showgirls and Hollow Man (didn't see either of them) were savaged by the critics and are both pop culture punchlines. Everything else he's done is not notable and/or Dutch.