I'm pretty sure he has my worst director average on Criticker:
Michael Bay
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Total Films at Criticker: 7 - You've Seen 4
Your Average Rating: 22.75
Films you've ranked... As Director (4)
Bad Boys (1995) - 33
Armageddon (1998) - 28
The Rock (1996) - 24
Probably the most overrated film ever made. If you can get past the terrible acting, script and plot, you'll be staring at the back of your TV.
Pearl Harbor (2001) - 6
/100
Well, I'll give you
Pearl Harbor, although you can't deny that the effects in that film were absolutely amazing.
I enjoyed both
Bad Boys films,
Bad Boys 2 even more because it was just so gratuitously violent, and it had the kind of stuff I always dreamed of seeing in an action flick.
I enjoyed
Armageddon because it was entertaining, although it shouldn't have taken itself so seriously with the whole love story. It was, overall, exactly what one should expect from a summer popcorn flick and then some.
But Bay's best films were the ones he made with Dreamworks, such as
The Island and
Transformers, both of which were well above-average. Curiously, however, those two films had a bit more of a Spielberg tone to them, seeing how he was the executive producer for them.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were both highly overrated, but for some reason, I loved
Dead Man's Chest, it must have been because of all the stunning technical innovations and imaginative creature designs.
As far as the innovative water simulations in
At World's End, I would have to say that the best digital water simulations of that year were included in
Evan Almighty.
Let's see, what else?
The movie
Crash is ridiculously overrated. I couldn't even sit through it.
I Am Legend is another overrated film that took itself way too seriously. It should have been a comedy (whereas
I, Robot should have been more serious).
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In terms of video games:
The
Halo and
Gears of War franchise are both highly overrated. Haven't played
Mass Effect or
Assassin's Creed but I'm sure they're equally overrated.
And despite being a big fan of the series as a whole,
Grand Theft Auto IV was extremely overrated. I enjoyed the game, but it's hardly the 10/10 perfect score that Gamespot gave it. I gave it an 8.5/10, and stated how I thought
Saints Row was a far more inventive game.
Multiplayer gameplay is also very overrated, and personally, I find it boring.