Giving up on a filmmaker soley because he has done one movie you didnt like makes you look like an idiot.
This is probably true (harsh, I would have used less harsh words, but c'est la vie). I generally don't take a great deal of notice of who the director is as by the time I realise who has directed it I will have made my mind up whether I will see it or not. I would probably recognise the style and choose to not see one from the shorts, but woudln't categorically not see a John Woo movie again.
Michael Bay on the other hand...
Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001) - both are atrocious movies. I have seen and enjoyed The Island (2005), but it did become rather yawn worthy during the chase sequences. I think it was Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson and Djimon Hounsou that saved the movie though. The last movie of his I've seen is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and I haven't seen anything by Michael Bay since, and probably won't see anything by him again unless it was something rather special.
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