1,000,000 Teenage Boys Can Definitely Be Wrong
By I see this time the inevitable “contrarian” Michael Bay revisionism has been left to Bill Simmons Web Enterprises Inc.* rather than Slate, although it’s been written before and you knew what it was going to say. (Does he mention popcorn and fail to understand that Bay is nothing if not a classic “auteur”? Oh, yes.)
Anyway, the right question about Bay is not why critics universally hate a director who sells a lot of tickets but rather why a director who makes such unmitigatedly atrocious (and boring and covertly pretentious) movies is treated with such relative kindness by critics.
*Which, at least in its sports articles, has actually not been without merit — see Pierce and Kahn/French on The National.