He's a good director, he just chooses bad scripts.
I'm sick of people confusing the screenwriter and the director.
shareTrue. People saddle the entire production on the director, but that shit belongs on the producer's shoulders. The director's job is to execute the studio's vision with the tools they're given. Best directed movie in the world can still be sabotaged by a shit editor, if the director gets no say in the post production. In most films, the director is just a cog in the wheel like everybody else. As for Bay, i'll say he never lets the script get in the way of a shot he wants. Haha.
shareya and his vision is trash. watching his films should have epilepsy warnings. the action is almost Incoherent, have no idea where anyone is and who is shooting at who and what is happening.
he cuts more than an emo kid. doing this ugly shots around the actors, then throws in sense flares.
I for one, have never had any problem following the action in Bay's films at all. I can see everything as clear as day.
Sure, it may not be as well shot or choreographed as say, Mad Max: Fury Road or The Dark Knight but it's hardly any worse than in most other large scale summer blockbusters released these days.
I know the "incoherent action" is a common complaint amongst Bay detractors, but that doesn't automatically constitute it as fact and I can almost guarantee that most of those who complain about Bay's vision don't genuinely have a problem with it - as it's mainly only said by those who hate on Bay because they want to be part of the growing online trend (I say online because that's where most of the Bay hatred exists) and therefore feel they need to get super nit-picky over every aspect of his films, yet they'll still give movies like Pacific Rim a free pass even if it has (among other things) an arguably worse approach to action scenes.
Bay may have the tendency to cut more frequently than del Toro, but del Toro zooms in closer more frequently than necessary and films almost every action sequence in a dark, blurry, stormy setting, which get's so overdone to the point where you can only make out what's going on through the giant robot's (Jaegers) headlights beaming in every direction.
"a and his vision is trash. watching his films should have epilepsy warnings. the action is almost Incoherent, have no idea where anyone is and who is shooting at who and what is happening."
Ive heard people says this especially when the 1st Transformers came out, Ive never had a problem following his action. Maybe you have slow-twitch muscles in your eyeballs?