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Review: Potentially Dumb & Fun 'Pain & Gain' Overstays Its Welcome With Unrelentingly Dumb & Unfun Tale
Big, dumb, ridiculously over-the-top fun. When all else fails, filmmaker Michael Bay, perhaps one of the most unfairly maligned directors of the last two decades, can make it rain and bring the entertaining thunder like no one else. If not the inventor of the modern day supernova-esque blockbuster, ...
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Review Roundup: Michael Bay's 'Pain & Gain' Is a Soulless Macho Farce
I had the misfortune of seeing Michael Bay's "Pain & Gain" at CinemaCon, which Paramount mystifyingly screened to the nation's exhibitors, who tend to be a conservative family-oriented bunch who are always begging the studios to release less R-rated fare. Don't get me wrong.
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Michael Bay Retracts 'Armageddon' Apology, Says He's Proud Of The Film
It seems Michael Bay and the media aren't having the best relationship at the moment. Yesterday, he squashed the supposed beef he had with Guillermo Del Toro, blaming the media for taking his quotes out of context and spinning a narrative around them. And d'oh! It's happened again!
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The Best Commercials & Music Videos Of Michael Bay
Michael Bay is an auteur. He's a director with a unique visual style all his own and a grasp of cinematic language (by the balls) unlike anyone else in the business. In fact, he may be the cinematic auteur who most accurately represents our day and age in the film industry. Notice the use of the wor...
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Michael Bay Squashes Beef With Guillermo Del Toro & Apologizes For 'Armageddon,' Says Studio Took It Away From Him
So, remember last week when it looked like an epic beef was developing between Micheal Bay and Guillermo Del Toro, when the former offhandedly commented on movies that were riping off "Transformers" (but didn't name "Pacific Rim" specifically) and the latter dissed the Hasbro movies for being slick ...
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Watch: Mark Wahlberg Slam Dunks Over Some Kids In Clip From Michael Bay's 'Pain & Gain'
This week, Michael Bay is going indie -- kinda -- with "Pain & Gain," his first non-"Transformers" movie in quite some time. And it seems theater owners aren't too happy about it. At last week's CinemaCon, Deadline revealed that after seeing the completed movie, some theater folks complained it was ...
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Geek Beef: Guillermo Del Toro Disses 'Transformers' And Its "Super Cool, Car Commercial-Looking Environments"
As you may know, this week is CinemaCon, where studios dangle shiny things in front of theater owners to soothe them, and confirm that everyone will make piles of money with the blockbusters they have on the way. Directors and stars come out with great enthusiasm, show off footage, and everyone oohs...
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Michael Bay Decides To Let A Reality Show Choose His Chinese Actors For 'Transformers 4'
Oh, Michael Bay, sometimes he makes it too easy. Whether's it's Megan Fox as April O'Neil in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" reboot he's producing, or whatever the heck this trailer is for "Black Sails" which also bears his name, sometimes he really embraces some truly puzzling decisions all in t...
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Watch: Trailer For The Michael Bay-Produced Pirate TV Show 'Black Sails'
With "Pain & Gain" dropping next week, and work starting on "Transformers 4" very soon, you might think that Micheal Bay's plate is plenty full. You would be wrong. The director has also found some time to put on his executive producing hat (reminder: his Platinum Dunes shingle is also behind the up...
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Watch: A First-Look Trailer for Starz's Pirate Series 'Black Sails' Features Sea Battles and Ladies Smooching
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for Starz. The premium cable channel had a strong launch of historical fantasy "Da Vinci's Demons," created by "Man of Steel" writer David S. Goyer, last week, and today has unveiled the first trailer for 2014 series "Black Sails," an eight-episode swashbuckler that tak...
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