As my first online review, I'm going to start with the one movie that will always have a special place in my heart. Transformers. Now, this is not because it's a movie for the ages or anything like that. The reason why this film will always stay with me is because it is the definition of a Hollywood sellout. In a way, this is a good thing, because without something so chalk full of stupidity, mind numbingly bad acting, and paycheck minded direction, we may not have had such a good example of how bad a movie can be.
Filled to the brim with flashy special effects, mindless displays of female...features, and explosions of that to rival the equally as horrifyingly bad 2012, Transformers is a prime example of what today's movie world really has no use for anymore. For director Michael Bay, a cash in, popcorn movie teeny bopping kids can crowd to is enough, but for people with half a brain, and any regard whatsoever as to what they're hard earned money goes to, Transformers is something to stay away from. Besides the dim witted idiocy of the movie, the most depressing thing about it is the way it hogged the spotlight from movies that really deserved it.
Films such as the brilliant Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez collaborative satire of 1970's B Movies, Grindhouse, and Paul Thomas Anderson's criminally low grossing There Will Be Blood were among the movies overshadowed by Transformers' undeserving reign over box offices across the world.
One thing that I can only hope film makers around the world will learn from this, is to never, ever make the same mistake again. Unfortunately for myself and every other avid movie-goer, my far fetched dream of a world without Transformers will continue to be as such. God help us all.
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