8. Plagiarizing Himself
When Woody Allen plagiarizes himself, it can be forgiven for two reasons he is subtle about it and the work plagiarized is so darn good that you don't really mind seeing it again in a different form. The same qualifications don't hold even remotely true for Michael Bay and his films. Not only are his 'new' films a repetition of everything he has already done before, he forgets that these things that he has done were so bloody awful the world should not be subjected to them all over again. Every Bay-watch is like watching a previous Bay-watch with different people in a different place. The explosions, the sound effects, the general chaos in the scheme of things, yada, yada, yada it's all just the same. Case in point? Here's a comparison between a scene from Bay's 2005 film The Island and another from the more recent Transformers 3, where the man has actually gone to the extent of using the exact same footage in both the films...