Quote of the Day

Courtesy of Robert Farly over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money:

Friends don't let friends see Michael Bay movies.

Transformers 2 no longer on pace to beat the Dark Knight's box office gross

In a sign of justice, fairness, and sanity in the world, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, has been tied for 1st place in this weekend's box office with Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs at about $42.5 million each, thus preventing it from being the undisputed number one movie for the 3rd straight week.

What's more interesting, and a giant fucking relief, is the fact that Entertainment Weekly is reporting:

with $293.4 million in the bank, Transformers 2 is easily the highest grossing movie of 2009 -- if no longer on track to match last year's The Dark Knight, which had raked in $334 million at the same point in its run.

This is a sigh of relief. It appears that The Dark Knight, one of the best action/fantasy movies ever, will not have its US or international box office numbers surpassed by Transformers 2, despite all its marketing and hype. In addition, Transformers 2 had a bigger budget of $200 million compared to $185 million for the Dark Knight.

Chris Capel's "Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal"

Great job in this Chris Capel video from not too long ago:

In this video, one sees that in just under two minutes, and with a fraction of Michael Bay's production budget, one can master every single horrific aspect of Michael Bay's directing. The only thing Capel needed was mindblowingly inept dialogue, but perhaps he was being merciful.

Looking back at the biggest plothole of Transformers 2007

Phil Abatecola had it right-on in his July 4, 2007 review of Transformers:

For instance… why does ice and sub zero temperatures immobilize highly advanced, super intelligent robots when they can fly in space? The temperature of deep space is nearly absolute zero!

What about magnetic fields or super strong metal cables and nets? What about a cool foam that solidifies into some kind of metal cement or an unknown, unexplained containment field that the US Military has been developing for years based off the technology that we’ve discovered by studying the ancient Megatron – leader of the evil Transformers, the Decepticons – that was found 80 years ago, disabled in the arctic ice? (This is in the movie by the way. Reverse engineering, blah blah BLAH!)

This plothole sends an already super-shaky movie off into the realm of incoherence, leaving it a ruined, contradictory, pile of crap.

Welcome to Baynal Films - Reviewing Movies Through the Lens of Michael Bay's Crapulence

Welcome to Baynal Films, your non-stop riot against the worst movie director in human history, if not one of the worst human beings.

This site was formed in disgust over Michael Bay's putrefication and desecration of the once proud Transformers franchise that we all grew up and loved as kids and teenagers in the 80s. Both Transformers (2007) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen have both disgraced and defiled everything we enjoyed from the old cartoon. We'll get more into the Transformers later.

Anyways, we have always felt disgust with Michael Bay's movies, with Pearl Harbor as the tipping point away from the semi-respectable "The Rock" and so-so, borderline sucky but still halfway decent "Armageddon".

But when Stephen Spielberg decided to ruin everything and hire Michael Bay as the director for Transformers in 2007, we thought we'd give it a shot. We thought with Spielberg as the executive producer, we'd see something special in 2007. But no. We were wrong. We were so, so wrong.

This site is dedicated to relentless mockery of Michael Bay and everything he stands for: horrific dialogue, bad acting, mindless explosions and blurry as shit action sequences where you can't keep track of what the hell you're looking at, completely overblown cinematography such as melodramatic slow motion, wide panning shots with sappy music in the background...

It is also dedicated to reviewing movies that are both fun as well as tell a good story with good acting and good writing (Dark Knight, Iron Man, JCVD, The Wrestler, etc.).

There will be plenty of fun things to do, lots of Michael Bay jokes, and movies to talk about.