Michael Bay

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q59259: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Ambulance, which The 2022 Movie Draft credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Bad Boys (1995); Armageddon (1998); Pearl Harbor (2001); The Island (2005); Hot Fuzz (2007); Transformers (2007); Pain & Gain (2013); Six Underground (2019); Ambulance (2022); 13 Hours; Bad Boys II; Transformers (Michael Bay films); Transformers (series); Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Count them as producer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Heat (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through Ambulance (2022), which they directed: Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read). Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie.
    “The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

The Thin Red Line (1998): 1 line

  1. craft (music borrowed) · through Pearl Harbor (2001), which they directed: The Thin Red Line ⇒ Pearl Harbor (the host's read). Disney used the Thin Red Line score in the Pearl Harbor trailer without permission, and Malick later cashed that in.
    “Disney uses the score for the thin red line, um, when they, uh, when they do the Pearl Harbor trailer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:40:07 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Bumblebee: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Transformers (2007), which they directed: Transformers ⇒ Bumblebee (the host's read). The Bumblebee trailer is the first act of the first Transformers movie extended.
    “the big move is the 1st movie, that's the 1st 30 minutes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:21:23 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Edgar Wright: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · them, directly: Michael Bay ⇒ Edgar Wright (the host's read). Hot Fuzz parrots Michael Bay shots, parallax and slow-mo shootouts.
    “you're kind of parroting, you know, uh, you know, Michael Bay shots”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:39:30 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)

The Lego Batman Movie (2017): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · them, directly: Michael Bay ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). The camera work deliberately copies real rigs, down to a constant circling Michael Bay shot.
    “This sort of constant circling Michael Bay shot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:09:11 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (16) everyone in directing

Other (2) everyone in other

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Transformers → Michael Bay. Sean's trip to a Transformers premiere hooked him on covering movies; he later profiled Bay.
    “I did eventually profile Michael Bay like 3 or 4 years later”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:11:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): James Badge Dale → Michael Bay. After this film Dale worked with big directors (Bay, Zemeckis, Verbinski) on movies that missed.
    “But it's like Michael Bay, Zamekis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:45:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Michael Bay → Bad Boys. The shortest Michael Bay film is Bad Boys at 2:03; he has never made a movie under two hours.
    “Yeah, his shortest movie is Bad Boys at 2 hours and 3 minutes long.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:22:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (4)

  1. craft (craft): Edgar Wright → Michael Bay. Hot Fuzz parrots Michael Bay shots, parallax and slow-mo shootouts.
    “you're kind of parroting, you know, uh, you know, Michael Bay shots”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:39:30 · Glen Powell (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Michael Bay → Transformers (Michael Bay films). Bay is incredible at sounding images and Transformers is an excuse to do that at scale.
    “The guy's incredible at putting like sounding images together.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:30:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Mercy → Michael Bay. A truck chase in Mercy would be a standout if it were shot by Michael Bay, but is undercut by the screens.
    “if it were Michael Bay, it would be the coolest sequence of the year for action filmmaking.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): The Lego Batman Movie → Michael Bay. The camera work deliberately copies real rigs, down to a constant circling Michael Bay shot.
    “This sort of constant circling Michael Bay shot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:09:11 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Michael Bay → We Are Storror. The group saw the Michael Bay Parkour documentary at South by Southwest.
    “we saw we are Storer, the Michael Bay Parkour documentary.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:16:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (director's best): Six Underground → Michael Bay. The Italian car chase shows Bay is good at his job, even when the movie around it is bad.
    “I love this movie, which is quite bad.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:37:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Michael Bay → Spike Lee. Bay lost his March Madness matchup to Spike Lee two days before.
    “He had just gotten turfed by Spike Lee.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:16:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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