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He really, really knows how to make giant fireballs explode in time with a rocking soundtrack though.

I had forgotten about The Rock, but recently rewatched it - and halfway through I had to check, and sure enough. Michael Bay.

Also, for a more recent cheesy movie (with Nicholas Cage), Drive Angry is surprisingly good. In a bad way.

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Even before the exploding cars for no reason or other of the fireballs you mention, you'll probably have seen the classic Michael Bay camera moves. The easy one to recognize is the one that starts out low pointing up at the hero then raises up as the camera circles around. It's in pretty much everything he does. I've never seen his Victoria Secret stuff, but I would not be surprised to see it there too

I was definitely getting suspicious early on. Lots of folks have copied it since then though, so I wasn’t super sure.

For one of the recent Bad Boys movies (one he didn't direct) they had Michael Bay make a cameo appearance where they shot him with one of his signature telephoto orbit techniques (orbit the subject with a long lens for a very dramatic effect). I had a good lol at that, and my SO was very confused as to what was so amusing. He also has a tendency to use low, wide shots with lots of movement and action, part of a technique affectionately known as "Bayhem"

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