The Spectacle of Cinema!

Cinema is the most exciting art form, it combines images, sounds, ideas and dialogue to create awesome spectacles. These are some spectacular images from films of all shapes and sizes,

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Ride Together, Die Together

In the Spring of 2013, Matt Lynch, a semi-coherent video store clerk, persuaded his good friend Kevin Clarke, a comedian / degenerate, to watch and discuss the entirety of the filmatographic oeuvre of one Michael Bay. These conversations were conducted entirely in noisy bars and accompanied by excessive intake of alcohol, and the audio quality is often poor. They are presented here not for posterity but merely as cautionary example.

These are the MICHAEL BAYHEM PODCASTS:

Episode I: The Music Videos and Bad Boys (turn this one way up)

Episode II: The Rock

Episode III: Armageddon

Episode IV: Pearl Harbor

Episode V: The Island

Episode VI: The Transformers Trilogy(with Special Guest / Comedian / excellent person Elicia Sanchez)

Episode VII: Pain & Gain

You’re almost certainly asking yourself, whither Bad Boys II? Fear not. Matt and Kevin recorded a feature-length, scene specific audio commentary for the film itself. Find that here.

And so you have it. Many hours of pain. All at once. All for you. 

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Ride Together, Die Together

In the Spring of 2013, Matt Lynch, a semi-coherent video store clerk, persuaded his good friend Kevin Clarke, a comedian / degenerate, to watch and discuss the entirety of the filmatographic oeuvre of one Michael Bay. These conversations were conducted entirely in noisy bars and accompanied by excessive intake of alcohol, and the audio quality is often poor. They are presented here not for posterity but merely as cautionary example.

These are the MICHAEL BAYHEM PODCASTS:

Episode I: The Music Videos and Bad Boys (turn this one way up)

Episode II: The Rock

Episode III: Armageddon

Episode IV: Pearl Harbor

Episode V: The Island

Episode VI: The Transformers Trilogy(with Special Guest / Comedian / excellent person Elicia Sanchez)

Episode VII: Pain & Gain

You’re almost certainly asking yourself, whither Bad Boys II? Fear not. Matt and Kevin recorded a feature-length, scene specific audio commentary for the film itself. Find that here.

And so you have it. Many hours of pain. All at once. All for you. 

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Cameron’s Titanic v. Bay’s Glass-building

Titanic (1997)

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (2011)

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Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)

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J.J.’s magic hour coming to focus.

Star Trek (2009)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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13 Hours (Michael Bay, 2016)

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Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001)

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Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)

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The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

Transformers: Age Of Extinction (Michael Bay, 2014)

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The World’s End (Edgar Wright, 2013)

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Martin Scorsese: SHUTTER ISLAND (2010)

Notable Festivals: Berlinale

The east coast has a storied history in regards to thesubject of asylums and mental hospitals. The landscape is dotted with imposing Gothic structures like Eastern State Penitentiary— built to house and rehabilitate the mentally ill and criminally insane.  Their foreboding architecture and lurid accounts of torturous experimentation tend to grip our horrified imaginations—they’re haunted houses on a massive scale, and as such they tend to make excellent settings for scary stories.  One such story is Dennis LeHane’s novel “Shutter Island”, a haunting yarn about a federal marshal traveling to Ashecliffe, a mental hospital on the titular island, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a female patient. Boston-bred LeHane’s novel is, like his previous works “Mystic River” and “Gone, Baby, Gone”, is naturally suited towards cinematic adaptation.  In 2010, its potential as a provoking horror film was realized in SHUTTER ISLAND, director Martin Scorsese’s feature follow-up to his Best Picture-winning film THE DEPARTED (2010).   

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Martin Scorsese: THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)

The Great Recession drastically changed the American landscape like a megathrust earthquake.  The epicenter was Wall Street, which, during the freewheeling, deregulated Bush years, enjoyed unprecedented levels of financial revenue and autonomy.  When the bottom fell out, and all those zeroes in our bank accounts turned out to be just that—zeroes that amounted to nothing— the finance industry imploded, and took countless other industries, companies, and jobs with it.  There is perhaps no greater cinematic metaphor for greed and excess than Wall Street (thanks in no small part to Oliver Stone’s seminal 1987 film of the same name), so in the aftermath of such unrivaled financial destruction, stockbrokers and bankers became very easy villains to pin the blame on.  It was around this time that a novel by disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort named “The Wolf Of Wall Street” was published and gained traction as a scathing expose on the immense fraud perpetrated upon the American public as told through the eyes of the perpetrators.

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RIP Leonard.

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New Nightmare (Wes Craven, 1994)

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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure

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Director: Tim Burton

Director of Photography: Victor J. Kemper

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Speed Racer