The selling out, the "hot girl falls for the nerd because she has a heart of gold" angle, and the completely awful and inconsistent characterization had me so angry when I left the theater that I almost felt like I just didn't want to go to the movies ever again.

You went to see a movie based on a cartoon series that was created to sell toys and you expected something
better than a product placement advertisement with something better than conventional and not terribly cohesive plotting and this has killed cinema for you? 

Maybe it could be edited down to one good 20 minute episode...

The good comedy parts were far too few and there wasn't really anything interesting to fill the gap between them. 

Marge for roughly 23 minutes at a time. Maybe in a few years it will be broken down into four episodes sort of like the Family Guy straight to DVD movie in reverse. 

I felt like I didn't want to go to theatre movies or blockbusters anymore after seeing the crap that was Transformers.

"I'm never giving you this allspark!"

it seemed to encompass EVERYTHING that is wrong with hollywood blockbusters, all at once. Even the music in the background consistantly pissed me off. Fuck you Michael Bay. 

that movie must really be the ass end of Satan.

But if you give up on Cinema,

Michael Bay wins. 

so I deserve to be upset if my expectations are any higher than "crap"? 

If your expectations of any Michael Bay movie are higher than "crap?"

Probably, yes. 

 

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Started off very promising, wonderful soundtrack and very well created post-apocalyptic/nuclear atmosphere.
Well, it's a b-movie so I should have expected less.
The style is very very nice but the story becomes bad.
Watch it if you like such movies. At least the intro and the shown content (as machinery, gimmicks, stuff) is worth it. 

see, everyone's trying to invalidate my opinion of this movie predicated on whether or not I went in the first place.

This movie offends me by existing. I'm almost glad I did see it so I know it needs to be hated. 

hating an insignificant kids movie? 

I don't care if Mel's anti-semitic. This was a damn good movie. 

See it for the tiananmen square illustration.

You'll know. 

it seemed to encompass EVERYTHING that is wrong with hollywood blockbusters

Definitely. This movie could have been a solid cartoon adaption, but wtf? To me it almost seemed to have been deliberately made stupid.

Starbuck: word! 

One could say it was a proper "sigh-fi" movie... 

I deliberately chose to go and see Transformers out of my own free will.

It was very mildly entertaining nonsense.

And yes deliberately stupid. 

some one needs to edit the hell out of it leaving only the robots and the action scenes.
then it would be really nice movie :)

I enjoyed the action and pretty much looked away during the idiotic 'human' parts 

The other thing that pissed me off about it was the fact that the camera was always way to close to actually see wtf was happening half the time!

If the rest of the movie had been shot in the same great way as the 3 or 4 slo-mo shots you see throughout then it would have been so much better! 

Transformers was cool, last movie i saw was last week and was disturbia very nice movie :) 

yes! i agree completly! it's an often overlooked (or not even noticed, surprisingly) thing, but the ridiculous use of close shots without any far shots to orient yourself and see where things are taking place was extremly irritating.
at the last big fight, i pretty much just started rolling my eyes at the stupidity of it. 

A woman moves to a new environment, meets a handsome man of high standing but they can't be together, something tragic happens to the woman and she leaves for good, the man loses some of his status in a hardship, the woman unexpectedly inherits a huge fortune, the couple meet again and all is different and love can blossom ever after.

Produced with good actors and style, often making and enjoying watching. There are variations of course, depends on when the books were written and how classical they are, and there are varying amounts of subplots. 

I exactly and completely agree with you. Like I wrote earlier, the zoomed in camera sucks because you can't orient yourself at all and can't build any anticipation or sense what is where. 

i mean "i have no fucking idea what just happened"-fast - like in tomb raider - suck ass, too. 

even the one scene where all the autobots meet up and transform near the middle of the movie, the camera is ridiculously close to optimus, and then pans by so fast from one to the other that you barely see anything.

seriously, i think they just realised that it would be possible to make proper transformation, so they just fudged it to look ok, and blew the camera by so fast so no one would notice...

of course, i've noticed this 'extreme close up' technique a lot for a few years now, so i *should* be used to it by now, but what can i say; it drives me nuts. :P 

you guys do know that Michael Bay sucks, right?