Transformers Fanboy-Free Breakdown

[ShadowHand25]

"Transformers are a secret in the first film - 'robots in disguise' and all that"

Maybe Michael Bay heard it as "robots in de skies," that would make a whole hell of a lot more sense.

 

[Netrigan]

Brace for apologist fans whining about how you're thinking too deep, you're supposed to turn your brain off, etc and other excuses for terrible movie-making.

I'd say people make up their mind when they turn off their brain, as MovieBob has demonstrated in his positive reviews for films such as G.I. Joe, The A-Team, and Sucker Punch. Three movies which were never skillful or entertaining enough to me for me turn off my brain and enjoy them on the level MovieBob did. G.I. Joe strikes me as a particularly bad bit of film making, which even MovieBob's enthusiastically positive reviews seems to realize, as he talks about it coming across like kids on a playground just making up whatever came into their mind and screw coming up with a logical reason for it.

But Michael Bay managed to get me to turn off my brain with Transformers 2 and 3. I even made a point of catching both on IMAX because I wanted the full force of the spectacle. It's big, loud, and stupid... and, for whatever reason, those two movies just clicked with me, even if I can point out numerous plot holes big enough to float Cybertron through.

 

[Netrigan]

Michael Bay is selling explosions and "romance". And god help you if you try and get in his way. Because that's all he knows.

And that's wht sells the trailers and that's what gets the morons in eating popcorn troughs and coke lakes.

And NO...I'm not sying tht anyone who watches it is a moron, I'm just saying that morons watch it. Lots of them. Millions of the mouthbreathers.

Big, dumb action movies are designed to be enjoyed by just about everyone. It's rare that one of them fails to break even because the formula works well enough even if the action is sub-par and there's no particularly notable performances in the movie (see Green Lantern as it limps its way to a slight profit). Bay doesn't earn $200 million in a week by playing only to morons. He makes $200 million in week by hitting just about every demographic who enjoys watching shit 'splode.

Even MovieBob has highly recommended movies that had shit plots, but just 'sploded shit good. See G.I. Joe and The A-Team for movies he recommended solely for that reason.