The success of these films is really quite baffling.

Is it just the special effects that draw audiences? Because, other than that, they're all shitty movies.

It's like they're one half "American Pie" knock-offs, and the other half big robots beating the shit out of each other.

The storylines are incomprehensible.

But what really gets me is just how poorly done the Transformers characters are. They're all indistinguishable from each other. They all look like big anthropomorphic heaps of scrap metal; I can't really tell one from another. And, aside from Optimus Prime, they don't really have any kind of personality... they're just sort name-checked from the older cartoon and toy line.

And none of them have fucking faces... It's hard to make any kind of connection with the Transformers characters because they don't have faces. There's kind of a vague head and eyes and mouth to most of them, but to see any kind of actual face in them feels like looking for bunny rabbits and sail boats in clouds... it's sort of there if you squint and try hard, but all of the Transformers, even if they're "good guy" Autobots all look like monsters. They're what I would expect the Shrike from Hyperion to look like, not characters I'm supposed to feel some kind of bond with.

If they go in the direction that the end of the film seems to indicate , I am interested.

Last time the franchise went into space, it was Transformers: Energon, which didn't get a very warm reception.

Is that spoiler a joke? I didn't see the movie yet.

Wow. I think they are completely unwatchable and offer nothing other than sleep inducing tedium. Nothing interesting for me in these movies on any level.

Wow. That would suck. Nolan is the most overrated hack. I might stop watching movies entirely.

Wow, someone likes something you don't.

Wow.

I'm going to go take a shit now.