Director: Michael Bay Cast: Shia LaBeouf, John Malkovich, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, Patrick Dempsey. There is a clip in South Park Imaginationland that I am sure fans are no stranger to. Basically, the kids end up in Imaginationland and Butters becomes a hostage following a terrorist attack. The American Defence Forces, unable to figure out how to form a strategy in an unknown envoirnment, enlist the help of Hollywood to come up with ideas. One of the directors who pitches them a plan is Michael Bay. After describing a detailed line of attack involving lots of explosions and slow motion action, the General comments “those aren’t ideas, those are special FX” to which Bay replies “I don’t understand the difference.” In order to get through any Transformers movie, you must keep this quote to the forefront of your memory. Michael Bay does not get plot, or structure, or indeed acting but he … There’s more →