'Jaynestown'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Says who? Where is the central registry of artists? Do they have a secret guild? More secret than the DGA, I mean, of which Bay is presumably a member?
If you define artists only as people who make Earthshattering Works O' Genius, And Suffer Therefrom, then of course you're going to find a correlation of genius with mental suffering. You have literally defined your criteria for artistry to include those attributes!
Next hot topic: is there such a thing as bad art?
That is, if it's bad, does it count as art?
If so, doesn't that render the label "art" as practically useless?
sits back and makes popcorn
I suppose you could say Bay is an Artist in that what he does is artistic in nature...that is, it is not steel-working, it is making magical pictures float in the air on a giant screen.
On the other hand, you could call him a 'hack'...in that what he does makes me want to hack him apart with a machete for the betterment of all mankind.
Well, there is the Museum of Bad Art, which is in the basement of the Dedham Community Theatre, and appears to define bad art as paintings that have clowns in them. So at least one organization believes that art can be bad and still be art.
You think I am joking about the clown thing, but you are wrong. I have been there!
I support Michael Bay in all his explosive endeavors.
I support Michael Bay in all his explosive endeavors.
Sounds like you're sympathizing with him for having intense diarrhea.
Which may be an adequate description of his films. "Explosive diarrhea".
...that is, it is not steel-working,
I can't believe you're saying steel-working isn't an art!
You think I am joking about the clown thing, but you are wrong. I have been there!
I know you're not, as I read an article about it in the Phoenix a few years back, or something very similar to it - did it used to be in Cambridge or something?
Which may be an adequate description of his films. "Explosive diarrhea".
I really liked THE ROCK when it came out, but haven't seen it in years, and I suspect it would be retroactively tainted by SMARMAGEDDON among other items in Bay's "oeuvre".
...that is, it is not steel-working,
I can't believe you're saying steel-working isn't an art!
Well, of course, what I meant was LOOK! A BABY WOLF!!
t scampers off rapidly