SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our RE-EVALUATING MICHAEL BAY series! , January 14, 2022

LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021

*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate. We’ll have staff to help guide/park you.

730pm BAD BOYS 2 (2003, dir by Michael Bay, Columbia, 35mm, 147mns)

1030pm PAIN & GAIN (2013, dirby Michael Bay, Paramount, 35mm, 129mns)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***ALL AUDIENCE will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. PLEASE HAVE YOUR VIRTUAL OR PHYSICAL VACCINATION CARD READY BEFORE ENTERING THE THEATER. If you have an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level COVID test within 3 days of the screening.

***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.

***EVERYONE WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING CONCESSIONS IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS.

HOW TO:

1)PLEASE BRING AND WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING INSIDE THE THEATER AS A SAFETY PRECAUTION.

2)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS OR MOVIE MERCHANDISE you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions & merchandise at our tables in our lobby prior to the screening.

We will be able to sell concessions & merchandise at the theater. But it will make everything much quicker and easier if you pre-order!

3)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer your complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. Let’s all do our part to beat this thing so we can go back to the complete movie going experience!

Today we kick off a 2 day series RE-EVALUATING MICHAEL BAY.

The line on Bay is usually "clearly ridiculously visually talented but horrible at telling stories and way too jingoistic".

I'll be damned if there isn't a shot with a setting sun through an American flag as red-blooded (presumably conservative) Americans walk in slow-mo in almost every Bay movie.

But over the years, an honest cinephile has to admit that Michael Bay has made some pretty damn fun movies. And even, on occassion, REALLY GOOD ONES.

So we're going to give Bay his due and re-evaluate him through the lens of 4 of his most re-watched or acclaimed movies. ALL ON 35mm!

First up is Bad Boys 2. Yes, Bad Boys 2.

This follow-up to the surprise hit finds our favorite Miami buddy cops Mike and Marcus having to investigate and take down an ecstasy smuggling ring.

Somehow the whole thing ends up with a ridiculous car chase in Cuba crashing into Guantanamo Bay(!?!).

Bad Boys 2 may have been the first time Bay slyly said directorially "F' it. I know what I do well and I'm gonna turn it up to 11!". This movie is filled with ridiculous shots, ridiculous performances, ridiculous stunts and. . .well. . .it's awesome.

Somehow here Bay turns his signature excess into an actual wink and nod to the audience.

He may even surpass this with his "indie" (by his standards) surprise Pain & Gain. Often cited as Michael Bay's Fargo or A Simple Plan, it follows three, none so bright, but ambitious shredded gym trainers (played with glee by Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie) who kidnap a wealthy man to get the cash.

To everyone's surprise, Michael Bay actually interrogated the assumptions of his earlier movies: is it always good to be so goal-driven, so materialistic, so unquestioningly "American" in terms of defining success as material success.

There's still Bay style and excess to burn but it may (at least as of this writing) be Bay's best and most complex yet enjoyable picture.

So let's re-evaluate Michael Bay. Behind all the Transformers movies stands an Art Center School of Design grad after all who knows how to blow sh*t up and turn the camera 270 degrees better than all his peers.

And. . .you know what. . .he is talented.

Best always,

Craig Hammill

35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR IN-DOOR THEATER SCREENINGS

REFUNDS:

We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.

However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write us at: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening.

HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:

We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.

We will have a staff member on duty to monitor all cars parked in the street-art alleyway at our entrance.

There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.

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