Pearl Harbor Is the Greatest Guilty Pleasure Movie of All Time
Armageddon,
Transformers films.”
Yeah, I’m a sucker for all things Michael Bay. The man makes entertaining movies flawlessly designed for the theater-going experience. I freely admit I saw
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen four times when it was released in 2009, and even uncharacteristically defended it against Roger Ebert’s vicious, though on point, attacks.
From a critical perspective, everything Bay does is wrong. His characters, pacing, directing, editing… none of it makes a lick of sense. In
Bad Boys II, a pair of undercover Miami narcotics officers I think? engage in a violent gunfight in a densely populated area that leads to a wild car chase filled with massive explosions, vehicular carnage, and endless rounds of ammunition. When the chase ends, the duo dust themselves off and head back to work where their mildly annoyed Captain chews them out for allowing things to get out of hand before ex