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Transfomer's Michael Bay goes for fewer bangs for his bucks

Michael Bay From The Times By Kevin Maher

Published 18 June 2009

As his new Transformers epic is unleashed, the much-reviled monarch of the mega blockbuster is thinking of calming down. Pity Michael Bay. He stands before you, one of the most commercially successful and yet critically reviled directors of the modern movie era. His films, such as The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and Transformers, have taken nearly $3 billion (£1.8 billion) at the international box office. They are, it is said, movies that celebrate militarism, machismo…