Please do not compare a shallow director like Bay to Tony Scott or even Cameron (at least to his pre Titanic work). Although his older works were fantastic, like The Rock as HenderShot suggested below, his later films are all just horrible VFX mess and he is a guy who never listens to what community wants. We are all witnessing it with his new Ninja Turtles movie...

pre-tranformers i would have agreed with you. but ever since that cg mess, he has not tried to make a movie with a decent plot. his older films had humor, action, and a good plot. since he did transformers though, he realized all you need is pretty things on the screen to have a box office hit. transformers and avatar have proven that true.

Lack of style and shaky camera from frantic former music video makers isnt a style imo . Even if he was one of the precursors .

I even used to like him and expect some midly good stuff from him even . Back in the days of Rock .

the reason The Rock was good was not due to michael bay but rather Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. they were the ones paying for the whole movie and they like making movies they will enjoy watching in the cinema. something with humour, action and adventure.

google Jerry Bruckheimer and see the movies he's involved in, there will be few on the list which you would not like.

Totally agree. I know what to expect when going into a Bay film and that's really all I want out of it. I enjoy a deep story as much as the next person, but sometimes it's just fun to see shit blow up.