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 other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Planet of the Apes (2001); Mercy (invoked as comparison). Count them as director (14 films), 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.

Planet of the Apes (1968): 2 lines

  1. contrast (inversion) · through Planet of the Apes (2001), which they were tied to as turned down directing Apes: Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read). The remake opens on a loud, leafy backlot set while the original opens in an empty desert with no apes for a long stretch.
    “They totally invert the original movie where the original movie starts in the middle of nowhere.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:53:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Planet of the Apes (2001), which they were tied to as turned down directing Apes: Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read). Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original.
    “Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

Dogville shorts (1930s-40s live-action dog shorts): 1 line

  1. industry (studio instinct) · through Planet of the Apes (2001), which they were tied to as turned down directing Apes: Dogville shorts (1930s-40s live-action dog shorts) ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read). Fox just wanted apes doing human things, like the old Dogville shorts with dogs at restaurant tables.
    “And it feels like Fox just wanted to make that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 1:12:43 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Bear City (SNL digital short): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parody) · through Planet of the Apes (2001), which they were tied to as turned down directing Apes: Planet of the Apes ⇒ Bear City (SNL digital short) (the host's read). An SNL short riffs on Apes with bears who just wear human clothes and mimic humans, like the apes keeping the Lincoln Memorial.
    “they were riff on Plan of the Apes, where the bears got smart and they decided to kill all the humans.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 1:24:42 · unknown (0.40 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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