Transformers
4 out of 10 For any normal movie, I'd say this was terrible. Truly awful. And less forgivably so than the original cartoon movie . But... he wasn't really trying , was he? Michael Bay wasn't trying to make a good movie, right? I figure there are two approaches you can take with a film (and franchise) like this: Really invest some time and effort to understand what people loved about the original, then reward them with an intelligent, modernised interpretation, OR Forget all about what people liked, forget about dialogue, forget about acting and forget about intelligence. Just focus on a bit of blockbuster CGI and throw in some lame clichés. Let's face it: he took the latter option. Lazy bastard. Even the CGI was disappointing, though. I wanted to see transformations more like what my toys did, not this million-moves-a-second nonsense that was too quick to follow. I wanted to feel like the robots were my friends brought back to life. But, no. Instead, it was n...