A lot of hate exists for Michael Bay. Some of that is well placed but on the flip side he has also given us some pure jacked up adrenaline rides that i have to say do impress. For all haters of Mr. Bay i have just two words for you... The Rock. Yes he gave us the shit-tastic Armageddon and The Island but he also gave us The Rock. Let's go through the list.
1. Sean Connery owns in this film.
2. This is the movie that made Nick Cage a action star.( If you are not a fan of nick cage you are definitely reading the wrong post.)
3. Michael Biehn and Tony Todd.
4. One of the best car chases i ever have seen through the streets of San Fransisco.
5. Tarantino was a uncredited screenwriter on the film.
The Rock has so much going for it and yes it was Bay at the beginning of his career but he also gave us Bad Boys 1&2 which are dumb fun. Yes he has stumbled a little with the Transformers films and Pearl Harbor was a joke but i feel as though he has at least one more film like The Rock in him and i hope we get it sooner rather than later.
Whoa whoa whoa, let's not get carried away here. Armageddon wasn't COMPLETELY shit-tastic, it did have some great Aerosmith in it...that's right, I went there. As for The Island, I actually kinda enjoyed it. Convoluted? Yes. Contrived? Yes. Enjoyable? You bet.
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget that The Rock also featured Vanessa Marcil as a "blazing-hot-for-one-movie" love interest for Cage. Shame that her greatest career accomplishments are a 19-year run on General Hospital. It also featured one of the best exchanges of all time with the "Prom Queen" scene, and had an absolutely magnificent score.
Perhaps another Bay/Tarantino movie is what he would need to reboot his career...who knows?
Vanessa Marcil also had a heck of a run on las vegas for like eight seasons too. Completely didnt connect her to the rock until just now. But apparently the new transformers is supposed to be better than the last two
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