And here is the ma who started it all. Look at that face. That smug smile. He knows he is pissing all of us of. Deep down he knows it. But my dear friends, I like to approach this hate I have for this man in a very mature way possible. No point in me ranting like a cat on a peacock's dinner. I want to give some clarification on why this hate is justified in this first entry.
You see, Bay does not make films...but he is in the film world. How can that be? I'll tell you how this is so. Two words. Tony Scott. The brethren by blood of Ridley Scott was the first, that i know of, to bring in the commercial style into motion picture movies. His movies are adorned with visual style that rips your eyes from left to right, up and down. Look at Man on Fire for example. The actor's words getting typed out, Denzel being filmed in a cool way with creative editing, it has its style which has been insulted but one cannoy deny its unique quality. With Scott's great success came Bay.
Bay can't do what Scott does. Scott STILL has scenes where people speak. There is STILL dramatic periods in his films. Scott knows when to be stylish and when to sit back and allow the actors to do their thing. Nuh-uh for Bay. He must swing the camera round WHILE PEOPLE ARE SAYING IMPORTANT PIECES OF DIALOGUE. In a commercial, this is great and will get you your freebies and Chicken Chow-Mein. In a film...A F I L M...it takes you out of the scene and make any piece of drama wither away into Californian Ice-cream candy bar.
I shall be posting more aspects of Bay that I hate but that is just one of the billions for you to chew on. He does not make films. He can't do scenes. He does not know how to structure a story together. Bay must be STOPPED.
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