The Franchise That Destroyed Michael Bay

Bad Boys, The Rock, and Armageddon established Michael Bay's signature style of massive explosions, kinetic camera work, military spectacle, and larger than life filmmaking. Then, in 2007, Bay found the perfect franchise for all of those instincts to come together.

But after Transformers became a massive hit, things got...lets say interesting. And the movies Bay would go on to make post-Transformers would just expand on those high adrenaline instincts from the early days of his career.

Now the question is, did Transformers simply give audiences more of the Michael Bay they already knew? Or did the franchise fundamentally reshape the kind of filmmaker he wanted to be?

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