Michael Bay should be banned from making new movies

I agree with Pro that a lot of the CGI in Michael Bay movies is nothing short of ridiculous. I also agree that Michael Bay is the butt of many jokes and memes as a result of this and his many other shortcomings as a director. The amount of memes and jokes pale in comparison to the ticket sales though. The numbers speak for themselves. Love him or hate him, Michael Bay knows how to get butts on seats. Pro mentions the original cartoon series and it's now become more clear what their issue is. As a fan of the original series, they feel let down by Bay's film franchise. I can sympathize. Not with Transformers because I saw Bay's movie and didn't care for it but I have never seen the original cartoon and don't intend to so I had nothing to lose (except for a few hours of my life). I was a huge fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon though and it would have been nice to see a decent live action movie of that for nostalgic reasons but predictably, I was underwhelmed by the movie. But my reaction was not to claim that the reputation of the series had been ruined. It was to simply shrug it off, boycott the sequel and pretend that the first movie didn't exist. I fail to see how it's even possible for a live action movie of an old series to ruin its reputation. A movie of the series is an addition, not a replacement. The old series still exists in all its glory for the fans to enjoy. If the issue is that the mention of the title makes the current generation picture the subpar movie instead of the old series, I don't see how that could be a problem either. If a member of the current generation immediately pictures Bay's movies when they hear the word "Transformers", it's because they haven't seen the cartoon. And if they haven't seen the cartoon, Bay's movies aren't harming the reputation of the cartoon because those people never had an opinion on the cartoon in the first place. Plus, Pro (quite correctly) states that fans of the cartoon were not fans of the movie. Logic dictates then that it would be the same the other way around. People that liked the movie would not have been fans of the cartoon. So they're two separate target audiences with little to no overlap. And this was always the intention as Bay has stated in interviews[10]. Bay was no more making a movie for Transformers fans than Zack Snyder was making the movie 300 for historians. In other words, he stole the concept of Transformers to make a huge movie of his own doing that the masses would flock to rather than pandered to Transformers fans in order to bring a faithful version of the cartoon to the big screen. The movie was neither aimed at, nor intended for, the fans. But now to whether or not it should have been. Pro claims that a faithful version of the show would be a billion dollar idea. Is this the case? No. Transformers is too much of a niche market to make a faithful movie on this scale. The cartoon made 4.3 million dollars worldwide[11]. The movie cost over 30 times that to make[7]. That does not make good business sense and as I've said, production companies are a business first. They have no reason to invest in a movie like that and every reason not to. And on the flip side of that, they have every reason to invest in the movies that Bay DOES make and no reason not to, because they make a lot of money. And lastly I'll repeat what I've also already stated, that Michael Bay has the means to continue making movies even if production companies boycotted him and there's nothing a business hates more than watching projects that they had a chance to be a part of rake in truckloads of cash again and again and again. So Michael Bay movies should not be boycotted by production companies and the results that are desired would not be attainable even if they did. [10] [11] https://pro.imdb.com...