3. He Gave The World The Rock
By which I don't mean Dwayne Johnson. I mean 1996's The Rock. A career-defining role for Sean Connery, an interesting career move for Nicolas Cage after his Oscar-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas and from Ed Harris, a bad guy who wasn't fighting to take over the world or anything else - he was fighting for the honour of his fallen men. With uncredited screenwriting from Quentin Tarantino, Jonathan Hensleigh who wrote the shooting script, and the West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, it's probably my favourite film of Bay's, at least the best action film of the 90's and the most quotable film from in Bay's portfolio, it's an action spectacular and a classic in it's own right. Pop trivia - at the request of Sean Connery, Porridge and Auf Wiedershen, Pet writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais provided an uncredited re-write of Sean Connery's dialogue.