I’ve had awhile to sit and stew and mull over the steaming cow turd that is Michael Bay’s Transformer movies and I have a few other quick things to say about it.

These movies are not about Transformers. They are about humans. In a movie named Transformers, the Transformers themselves are secondary characters. I can understand having Shia and the other leading humans in there, if anything for general audiences, but the main focus should be on the robots.

It took me literally years to realize how bad the Star Wars Prequels were. Those prequels ruined the entire franchise for me.  I don’t think these Transformer movies have gone that far, but I can safely say they strike nothing but hatred, contempt and disgust in my heart.

I re-watched GI Joe: Rise of Cobra two nights ago, and while it’s not a very good movie, and it’s a movie widely considered horrible and awful, it is still a more successful adaptation of the source material than Transformers. GI Joe, despite it’s bad acting, writing, and special effects, is, at the end of the day, ABOUT GI Joe and Cobra. It’s a movie I’ll always defend despite it’s downfalls. I will never defend these Transformer movies. Ever.

-Ethan