{"id":17039,"date":"2011-06-15T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=17039"},"modified":"2017-04-18T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:40:01","slug":"michael-bay-transformers-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/michael-bay-transformers-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bay Receives Greatest Honor of His Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Hasbro toy company decided to celebrate its decision to pay Michael Bay to make those awful &#8216;Transformers&#8217; movies by inducting Bay into a sham awards show called the Transformers Hall of Fame. What a coincidence that this comes just in time to promote Hasbro and Bay&#8217;s upcoming third movie, &#8216;Transformers: Turn Off the Dark&#8217; (or something like that). Somewhere, an Autobot sheds a tear.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hers&#8217;s a shamelessly promotional EPK video created for the occasion:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5e9TnfnkRFs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s review some of the most ridiculous highlights of this, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>A Habro VP says: <em>&#8220;Transformers are about story.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shia LaBeouf says: <em>&#8220;Mike is the greatest action director alive. That&#8217;s what I personally believe. There&#8217;s not one movie he&#8217;s ever made that&#8217;s unenjoyable.&#8221;<\/em> Wait a second, is this the same Shia LaBeouf who just last year was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/shia-labeouf-speaks-out\/\">surprisingly forthright about the failings of the second &#8216;Transformers&#8217; movie<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Gibson says: <em>&#8220;He really has a real sense of what is going on at all times, and it&#8217;s really impressive.&#8221;<\/em> If Bay has a good sense of what&#8217;s going on at all times, why are the action scenes in his movies so visually incoherent?<\/p>\n<p>Steven Spielberg says: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to give him credit personally for his storytelling skills and his sense of humor about the human comedy.&#8221;<\/em> Oh dear lord\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Other Hasbro execs say: <em>&#8220;His ability to get the heart of a character like an Optimus or a Bumblebee isn&#8217;t something that&#8217;s easy, and he&#8217;s really done it well.&#8221;<\/em> And: <em>&#8220;I have a lot of respect for his creative vision and what he&#8217;s been able to do with this franchise.&#8221;<\/em> And applaud: <em>&#8220;The way he drives himself to be better every time, and then to make the next project even better, having learned some things from the prior project.&#8221;<\/em> Did these people not see &#8216;Revenge of the Fallen&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Josh Duhamel praises Bay for, <em>&#8220;Really respecting what fans of the Transformers loved about it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LaBeouf comes back with: <em>&#8220;Transformers would be a nothing movie without Mike\u2026 He&#8217;s the brain behind everything.&#8221;<\/em> That explains so much, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most hilariously of all is the part where a Hasbro rep says of Bay that, <em>&#8220;He is immensely earnest guy.&#8221;<\/em> Yup, Michael Bay earnest. That&#8217;s exactly what he&#8217;s known for \u2013 his earnestness. <\/p>\n<p><em>[via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2011\/06\/the_transformers_hall_of_fame_inducts_michael_bay.php\">Topless Robot<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Hasbro toy company decided to celebrate its decision to pay Michael Bay to make those awful &#8216;Transformers&#8217; movies by inducting Bay into a sham awards show called the Transformers Hall of Fame. 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