Today on Boy Movies we have an excellent guest issue by Lyvie Scott about Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain, which stars Mark Wahlberg and The Rock and turns ten this year. Lyvie and I met on Twitter — a horrid place where I have nonetheless fostered a number of beautiful friendships — and her writing on film is always a treat to read. This is somehow the first issue of Boy Movies entirely dedicated to a Michael Bay joint, despite his status as the most boy director of all time. Everyone say thank you to Lyvie for correcting that!!! I absolutely loved this piece and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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If you’re anything like me — a girl whose formative tastes were built by the boy movies of the early 2010s — there’s a chance you remember Pain & Gain, directed by Michael Bay.
A Michael Bay Film is one often characterized by its stupidity, and Bay’s tenth effor…
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