10. Credit Where Credit's Due
It wasn't always bad for Michael Bay. Since the age of 26, Bay won every major commercial directing award, including the Gold and Silver Lions at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. He also won the Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for his "Got Milk/Aaron Burr" commercial, which also won him the Museum of Modern Art Award for Best Campaign of the Year. The home media releases of two of his more popular movies, The Rock and Armageddon, were released through The Criterion Collection, a video-distribution company that sells important classic and contemporary films, and featured the accompanying From the Criterion Edition of Armageddon:
Despite what you may have heard, Armageddon is a work of art by a cutting-edge artist who is a master of movement, light, color, and shapeand also of chaos, razzle-dazzle, and explosion.
From an essay by Roger Ebert regarding The Rock, as part of the Criterion release:
Director Michael Bay orchestrates an efficient and exciting movie, with big laughs, sensational f/x sequences, and sustained suspense.