Bay should work with Jerry Bruckheimer again.
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That is something a lot of people are hoping for :)

The days of The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and Bad Boys 2 were awesome. You saw trailers that simply said "From Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer" and audiences knew exactly what they gonna get. Those were some very exciting days.

I don't think we will see another Armageddon-sized reunion of Michael and Jerry but hey……at least we have their previous movies to enjoy. I'm grateful for that :)

P.S. Armageddon NEEDS to be re-released in IMAX 3D. It's the perfect movie for this format.

Bay walks the lines between being self-serious and comical, but his films aren't well=written enough to serve the former, or witty enough to serve the latter, and the end-result is droll and annoying.
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You sure you're not a "writer" for one of those ridiculous geek sites like Collider, Screen Rant or Slash Film? Because you sound a lot like one of those "beloved" writers.

Anyway……Yes, Bay's movies always walk that line but whether that works or not is……..Yes! a matter of opinion. For me, Pain and Gain is one of the best modern satires while for you it is – I'm guessing – "droll and annoying".

It's funny tho……people always complain how Hollywood plays it safe and how movies don't take chances……….but when a movie with tonal shifts that challenge the viewer and offer something bold shows up, people bitch and complain.

Some of you folks are indeed very hard to please.

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The first POTC earns it. The Bad Boys 2 doesn't. Infinity War earns it. TF 1/2/3/4/5 doesn't.
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Okay, now that statement is the best joke of the year! Thank you for the good laugh! Really! Oh, and I've definitely argued with you before, my friend. You are clearly one of those ten Bay haters from the IMDb forums who claim to hate everything the man does, yet they have seen EVERYTHING he had done. Why is that, I wonder?

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Fitting, as Synder and Bay are cut from a very similar cloth. Difference is, unless we're talking Man of Steel, I'd sooner rely on Snyder for consistently good action sequences
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Well, I would trust Spielberg on this. Because it was Spielberg who said, and I quote: "Michael (Bay) is one of the greatest action directors. He has the best eye in Hollywood." Spielberg works with a lot of directors. But he never said anything like that about any other director. So clearly he means what he says about Bay. And….you know……unlike most people, Speilberg actually knows a thing or two about filmmaking.

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300 didn't try to start a franchise. It was a one-off adaptation of a graphic novel in the same vein as Sin City, and was successful. They tried to make a cash-grab sequel almost a decade later, without Snyder, and it failed. That's hardly the first film's fault.
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It is a clear proof that people weren't that excited to visit this world again. And mind you, that happened with the first sequel! Talk about a one-time thing, huh?

At the same time, Bay made FOUR Transformers movies – with different casts – before there were any signs of audience fatigue.

That speaks for itself.

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Pacific Rim suffered from lackluster marketing, and yet still managed to turn a profit and attract a strong following.
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Excuses, excuses, excuses…..So you can display all the excuses in the world for Pac Rim but when it comes to Transformers, you don't accept anything.

Double standard much?

P.S. That "strong following" is on the internet. The same following that was supposed to make Scott Pillgrim a huge hit. Everyone knows that internet hype is not real-world hype. I know very well the type of people who act as if Pac Rim is the best thing since sliced bread. Total geeks who are angry that Transformers is much more popular and much more successful than Del Toro's "let's shoot all the robot fights in pitch black so audiences can't see shit" movie.

Also, let's not pretend that Pac Rim is a universally beloved film. You know very well that there are A LOT of detractors as well. That's what you get when people can't tell what's going on during the movie because you shot it all at night. Just like that Godzilla movie.

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Versus something like Transformers, which has piggybacked on an established IP, relentless marketing campaigns and tie-ins, and a fairly consistent release schedule. And even then, recycling the same bullshit eventually took its toll.
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Wrong.

Do you read Forbes? You should. Because it's a place where objective people write. It ain't a stupid militant film geek site like Ain't it Cool News or Screen Rant.

Forbes published multiple articles explaining in great detail why the Transformers movies were successful EXACTLY because they were directed by Bay. Whether you like it or not, my friend, Bay is a brand. He is an auteur. There were multiple polls before the first two Transformers movies and Bay being the director was one of the main reasons for people to watch the movies.

But I guess you missed all of that, huh?

How convenient.

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Friendly reminder that AoE also relied on China (more pathetically then even Pacific Rim did) to compensate for diminishing domestic returns. To say nothing of TLK outright bombing.
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First: according to ACTUAL real data, the only TF movie that was saved by China is…….Bumblebee! Yeah, you better believe it. Go to Deadline and Forbes and read it for yourself.

Second: TLK bombed domestically, yes.
But not internationally. No one with actual knowledge of the situation refers to that movie as an international "bomb". Besides, there were 4 super successful TF movies before TLK. So Bay got nothing to prove. He already created one of the biggfest film franchises in history.

How many directors can say that?

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I know you like debunking Bay naysayers with "facts and logic," but it helps to not be grossly disingenuous while doing it
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Goes both ways, my friend. But unlike most naysayers, I don't treat my own personal opinions as facts. And if I'm being "disingenuous" then I don't even know what to say about some Bay haters who refuse to accept even the most obvious facts and truths.

Lorne said bad boys for life soundtrack score will come out on 17th of January from his twitter

In my opinion, i like lorne balfe's film music since terminator genisys, 13 Hours and far as i know, he's really good on film score works and is was a good apprentice of Hans zimmer. Also, i begin to hear the 6 underground score and its really cool and awsome action soundtrack for this netflix film.

Thanks for the info, Hybrid.

Honestly, I never got the impression that there is a problem between Michael and Steve. It's just really exhausting working on huge Bay movies and I don't blame Steve for taking a break. I will always remember what he said: "Scoring a Bay movie is like scoring two "normal" movies."

And thankfully, Bay and Lorne work really well together. The way things are going tho, I wouldn't be surprised if Bay's next movie – the huge 'Robopocalypse' – ends up with those credits: "Music by Steve Jablonsky and Lorne Balfe". lol That would be awesome! (I know they worked together on TF1 and TF2 but this could be their first "official" collaboration).