Meanings
- derogatoryoftenslanguncountablebroadcastingFrenetic and fast-paced action characteristic of the films of Michael Bay.
Con Air is Bayhem without the vision—something that was already becoming the prevailing Hollywood action film aesthetic.
2022, Keith Phipps, Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career, unnumbered page2 more examples
Michael Bay’s second Transformers saga delivers full-bore “Bayhem” like a brick to the forehead, with some tender love on the side, making this either the biggest blockbuster of summer ’09 or history’s loudest romance.
2009, review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Metro (Edmonton, AB), 20 October 2009, page 17Typical of Michael Bay's manic “Bayhem” style (discussed earlier), Armageddon focuses more on the masculine heroics of the crew sent to blow up the asteroid.
2019, Kevin L. Ferguson, Pop Goes the Decade: The Nineties, page 46
Origin
Blend of Bay + mayhem, after American director Michael Bay.
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