Citations:Bayhem

English citations of Bayhem

Noun: "(film, fandom slang, often derogatory) frenetic and fast-paced action characteristic of the films of Michael Bay"

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• 2009, review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Metro (Edmonton, AB), 20 October 2009, page 17:

  Michael Bay’s second Transformers saga delivers full-bore “Bayhem” like a brick to the forehead, with some tender love on the side, making this either the biggest blockbuster of summer ’09 or history’s loudest romance.

• 2012, Adam Smith, The Rough Guide to 21st Century Cinema: The Essential Companion to 101 Modern Movies, unnumbered page:

  Michael Bay, Dark Lord of the Octane and purveyor of finest “Bayhem” since Bad Boys (1995), The Rock (1996) and Armageddon (1998), had cemented his reputation as whipping boy for the movie press with Pearl Harbor (2001), a dumb movie that made the fatal error of taking itself way too seriously.

• 2014, Pete Turner, review of Transformers: Age of Extinction, Starburst Magazine, August 2014, page 77:

  After ignoring the critics' panning of the third film and making a mint on Transformers: Dark of the Moon (seventh biggest film of all time!), he decided not to leave the franchise and instead to have a fourth go at transforming our childhood memories into bloated blockbuster Bayhem.

• 2016, Steen Ledet Christiansen, Drone Age Cinema: Action Film and Sensory Assault, unnumbered page:

  The success of these films is most likely found in the franchise's innovative approach to keeping the narrative structure clear and familiar, thus allowing for maximum excess and pyrotechnic “Bayhem” throughout the films.

• 2018, Lutz Koepnick, Michael Bay, unnumbered page:

  By contrast, according to the typical Bay fan, the director's accelerated pyrotechnics emancipate cinema from the weights of interpretation, showcase contemporary cinema's ability to conjure improbable events and excessive action at its best, and in doing so invalidate the very expectations of critical critics: critics feel out of synch in the face of Bayhem, because they don't get what it is meant to do.

• 2019, Kevin L. Ferguson, Pop Goes the Decade: The Nineties, page 46:

  Typical of Michael Bay's manic “Bayhem” style (discussed earlier), Armageddon focuses more on the masculine heroics of the crew sent to blow up the asteroid.

• 2022, David C. Hayes, Hard to Watch: The Films of Steven Seagal, unnumbered page:

  Fury unfolds as the Kmart amalgamation of Broken Arrow mixed with The Rock, minus the Bayhem and the John Woo cool.

• 2022, Keith Phipps, Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, unnumbered pages:

  Con Air is Bayhem without the vision—something that was already becoming the prevailing Hollywood action film aesthetic.