8 Subtle Ways Michael Bay's Movies Are Even Worse Than You Thought

7. Titillation Above All Else (Even When It Really Shouldn't Be There)

Did you know Michael Bay's movies are just a little bit sexist? Sitting right alongside the military fetishism that enables Bayhem are endless images of scantily clad women, ready to ensure the movie really does give everything teenage boys crave. Even movies he produces can't escape it; as if that motorbike shot from Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen wasn't enough, Megan Fox is introduced to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles jumping up and down on a tiny trampoline. But that's not even the half of it. A moment of bro-baiting titillation is par for the course in this sort of movie (sadly), but the objectifying of women runs through everything, turning up at the most inopportune, and at points distasteful, moments. Nobody needs reminding of Transformers: Age Of Extinction's Romeo And Juliet clause gumbo - Bay first fawns over a girl, before revealing she's underage, then justifying it in the most cynical way possible - although even that isn't the nadir of it. One scene in 13 Hours has one of the pro-US soldiers chat with a Libyan about Gaddafi's rule of only hiring female soldiers for his personal guards, concluding that he did have some good ideas after all. That's a penis-driven assessment of the entire Libyan conflict in a movie people are claiming deals sensitively (by Bay standards) with a controversial topic.