It's All About The Timing

Michael Bay feels that he has done as much with Giant, Exploding Robots!!! as one man can do with Giant, Exploding Robots!!! It's the end of an era.

Michael Bay has made his last Transformers movie - the director is set to quit the action franchise because he has "had enough" of making big budget blockbusters.

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Bay, who is known for his explosive action sequences, is sick of receiving negative reviews from critics who dislike his movie-making style and is determined to move away from the genre.

One film too late, Michael...one film too late.

But the most interesting part is the last line, a quote from Bay: "I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions."

When has Michael Bay ever done anything that didn't involve an explosion? Bay has directed eight movies between 1995 and 2009, all of which were explosion-laden. Even The Island gets its explosion freak on. The thing is, I hope he is serious. I hope he goes in a totally different direction, because I really think Bay could do some fun, non-explosion stuff.

Two of the funniest commercials I have seen involved Bay in some fashion. The obvious one was his Verizon ad where he calls everything "awesome" and pokes fun at himself while blowing crap up. The other one he directed; the "got milk?" ad where the history nut wants to call in and answer the trivia question with "Aaron Burr" but can't because he ate a cookie and has no milk. That is some funny stuff and Bay is responsible for it.

So here's a director, a talented director (and he is) who wants to get away from the mega-explosions and do something different. A Michael Bay comedy, perhaps? I have only one word to say to that.

Awesome.