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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!!
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Michael Bay is the Thomas Kinkade of the mindless adrenaline set. I have no opinion on whether this makes him an artist or not.
I really liked THE ROCK when it came out, but haven't seen it in years
I still love The Rock. I also liked Bad Boys. I think I thought Armageddon was fine. And The Island was better than I had heard, though flawed. And Transformers was pretty awesome.
Rachael Taylor, who was in Transformers, spoke very well of him at WonderCon. And I recall gaining an appreciation for him after reading an article about him in Entertainment Weekly.
Ah, I think it was this one: "Is Michael Bay the Devil?"
It appears he wouldn't really be offended if you said he wasn't an artist, though.