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*** Which is incredibly unfair, as there are plenty of moviegoers who like both.

** He's also said that he doesn't make movies the critics want to see. He openly admits that his movies are meant to be popcorn fun. This, of course, is a [[Berserk Button]] for three groups of people: professional critics, amateur critics, and people who extremely value the views of critics. The very idea that a director would '''intentionally''' make a movie solely for "entertainment" instead of "art" is seen as pissing right in their Wheaties.

* [[Growing the Beard]]: While ''[[The Island]]'' wasn't the hit people expected, it was praised for having a much more involving storyline than what usually appears in his films. And yet the film failed to make money.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|"You mess with Michael Bay and you mess with America!"]]

** One review of ''[[Alone in the Dark (2005 film)|Alone in The Dark]]'' described a confusing shot, and the reviewer actually wrote, "Michael Bay has a lot to answer for." Blaming Bay for a ''[[Uwe Boll]]'' movie's problems.

** Believe it or not, but there are certain fans that blame Michael Bay for the different robot designs used in the Transformers movies as if he personally drew them up himself. [[Fan Dumb|Nevermind the fact that EVERY different Transformers series features a new style]].

** The Hatedom is so strong for some people that they're willing to write off any movie that Bay is involved in producing as being horrible before it even comes out. Never mind that it's his production company that's been producing the recent horror movie reboots (''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre|Chainsaw]], [[A Nightmare On Elm Street 2010|Elm Street]]'', ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]''), but he's not the sole producer.

** This goes to such ridiculous extents that people will pin any summer action movie or toyline-adaptation property on him. Examples include ''GI Joe'', ''Battleship'', and if someone's feeling down on it, ''[[Independence Day]]''.

* [[Love It or Hate It|Tolerate Him Or Despise Him]]

* [[True Art Is Not Popular]]: ''[[The Island]]'' was held by critics as [[Growing the Beard|probably his best movie]], but bombed at the domestic box office. Strangely it is his only non [[Bad Boys]] film not to be nominated for an Oscar

 

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