Tag: Pearl Harbor
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Why Michael Bay’s Immediate Response To Transformers Was A Big Fat No
Michael Bay was a decade into his film directing career when Steven Spielberg and “Transformers” beckoned. He’d established himself as a maestro of mayhem — or, as we call it now, “Bayhem.” He made the $19 million budgeted “Bad Boys” look like a $75 million action extravaganza, and the $75 million budgeted “The Rock” look…
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Matt Damon Says Ben Affleck’s WWII Vet Grandfather Helped Him Prepare for ‘Oppenheimer’
Matt Damon turned to Ben Affleck’s family to prepare for “Oppenheimer.”During the latest episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?,” Damon revealed that he talked to Affleck’s Marine veteran grandfather about the reaction to Hiroshima and the dropping of the atomic bomb. Damon portrays Manhattan Project military leader General Lesley Groves in the Christopher Nolan…
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Michael Bay Says It’s “Bullsh*t” That ‘Spectre’ Holds Guinness Record For Largest Movie Explosion Over ‘Pearl Harbor’
Michael Bay prides himself on the stunts and explosions in his neverending string of action films throughout his directing career. He’s likely best known for intense highway chases and an avalanche of destruction in his movies, and there are a lot of wheels in motion to keep a safe set with all that going on.…
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Michael Bay Says ‘Pearl Harbor’ Explosion Made History: ‘Bullsh*t’ That ‘Spectre’ Has Guinness Record
It’s hard to believe that action director Michael Bay doesn’t hold the title for largest explosion onscreen.Bay, the arguable auteur behind “Armageddon” and the “Transformers” films, told Empire Magazine that it’s “bullshit” that “Spectre” holds the Guinness World Record for largest movie explosion.“James Bond tried to take the ‘largest explosion in the world,’” Bay said.…
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The Eight Hundred: how China’s blockbusters became a new political battleground
It was pulled from a film festival, censored by the state and now it’s the year’s second biggest film. Is The Eight Hundred an exhilarating war movie – or slick propaganda?‘No one knows how this history will be written,” a soldier muses portentously in the new Chinese blockbuster The Eight Hundred. If he could see…
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Karen Golden, ‘Transformers’ Script Supervisor, Dies at 78
Veteran script supervisor Karen Golden, best known for her work on “Transformers,” died Tuesday after a seven year battle with Alzheimer’s. She was 78.Golden spent her career working alongside a long list of major film directors, including Michael Bay, John Huston and Ron Shelton. She collaborated with Bay on scripts for “Armageddon,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Bad…