This is not really a surprise or a deviation from Michael Bay's career. Pretty much every war movie made in the US receives funding and script censorship from the USDoD. Armageddon (1998) directed by Michael Bay, received funding from the US Military. 4 out of the 5 Transformers movies are confirmed to have been funded by the US Military. I'm not sure about Pearl Harbor (2001), it says that many military personal were used as extras in the film. I'm also not sure about "13 hours: Benghazi" 2016, but it seems like it would have been.

Who do you think pays for the explosions in Michael Bay movies?

what happened to the skibidi toilet movie he was making?

it's definitely an all-hands-on-deck situation for the imperial propaganda machine.

the US-Iran conflict, as defined by the events if this spring, has been a unique event in my lifetime... where state messaging and popular interpretation are world's apart, have been since the start, and threaten to grow further apart each day.

not only is the war unpopular, not only is it javing immediate material consequences at home, each day, that people experience as directly connected... most damaging: the invreasing perception is that the US is not winning and cannot win.

i think the dem establishment was happy to let MAGA eat the shit sandwich so long as it held space for the dems to eventually take over the conflict and conduct it "correctly". but now that is under threat, the ironclad bipartisan consensus of zionism, saber rattling against iran, and control over the gulf state monarchies all seem to be on shaky ground.

they have got to find a way to reframe the entire story and fast. a pro-military michael bay circle jerk is the lowest hanging fruit probably.

The shitty ChatGPT generated script was probably done before the news even hit the front pages

It better have a "This film is dedicated to the gallant people of Iran" in the end credits

Kinda impressive how he finds new lows to sink to

Bay, after making crappy movies for decades, decides to destroy his career and make society a better place.

Michael eBay with another instant classic in the genre shit slop. Gotta get all my boys together for a session of hard drugs and puking while this destroys the few brain cells we still have. Not sure about the rules, whether to drink for every explosion or every American flag? Probably both lethal.

This will somehow be worse than Behind Enemy Lines