Yes god and heaven forbids people to watch a movie for, oh I dunno entertainment?
People get one or two Michael Bay movies every year, which, for some reason that seems beyond all critics, and pseudo intellectuals, makes a ton of money EVERY SINGLE TIME!
And each time people will just chalk it up to the human race being it's typical stupid self, or whatever random thought comes to mind.
Yes it totally couldn't be that they found a formula that keeps people entertained, that despite all the story flaws, Michael Bay in Co. have come up with a formula that not only works for movies, it works well.
We are into the fourth transformers film people. 4, four, quatro, shi, IV, and it continues to make mad amounts of money, despite people being "Disappointed" with the previous critical flops each and every time.
Isn't it time you admit, that for some people, it isn't about how great the movie should, or could have been, but more it's a matter of how entertaining it should be, and how entertained it can keep the audience?
We have a generation of people that grew up on stupid youtube videos and gave those youtube video millions upon millions of views.
A picture of a toaster cat running through space with a rainbow behind it garnered millions of hits on it's own merit of just existing.
Movies are about entertainment, it might not entertain you, but clearly it entertains people enough that it rolls to the tune of a 60 million opening weekend.
An old novelist friend of mine, who writes Star Wars novels, said the following.
It doesn't really matter how great you write something, if no one ever bothers to read it. I am paraphrasing that.
The goal of a writer, much like the goal of a movie. Is to entertain the audience. Make it worth the 10-15 bucks you spent per head to be entertained by it.
We can blame the audience, or we can blame the industry, but what it all boils down to, is that the most successful releases, seem to be the most stupid to critics. This has been going on for literally more then a decade.
It's time for people to admit that there might be a reason for that.
Now excuse me while I got watch the new Ninja Turtles movie.
