Michael Bay takes offense to Megan Fox

Megan Fox shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds her, but that’s what’s so great about her, she and her toe thumbs don’t give a f**k. Which is why she said this about Transformers a while ago in an EW interview.

“I mean, I can’t s— on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors for me. But I don’t want to blow smoke up people’s a–. People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting.”

Michael Bay, of course, took offense to that because what he creates is art and no one mocks his art. Bay had this to say:

Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, “Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it.” But I 100% disagree with her. Nick Cage wasn’t a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in “Armageddon.” Shia LaBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did “Transformers”—and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from “Bad Boys.” Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in “Transformers.” I like to think that I’ve had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.

Seriously? First, what does elevating profiles have to do with Megan’s comment of not going to a Michael Bay movie for the acting? Second, has Michael Bay seen his own movies? Bay’s formula for success is one part something resembling a plot, one part massive explosions and one part hot chick(s). He probably talks with the enthusiasm of a six-year-old boy with ADD when he pitches his movies. He’d be going through the “plot” and all of a sudden scream, “Kerpow!” while mimicking explosions with his hands like kids do when playing with toy soldiers. The he’d start talking like, “And then there’s a hot chick. And she’ll be all sexy-like. Maybe writhing on a motorcycle for no reason whatsoever. And another explosion. BOOOOM! And, and, and alien robots. Transforming. And I’ll make them do really stupid stuff like yell their own name when they’re in frame.” All the while spellbound execs are guffawing and clapping their hands like imbeciles and shoving large sums of money in front of him. That’s how I imagine most of his movies get made.