Disappointment and Waste

Rating: 3/10 (24 August 2008)

I DVR'd this in high def and was really looking forward to a cool movie with good transformers in titanic battles against the bad transformers. It just seemed like I was watching another one of those movies like Independence Day where they just couldn't help but try to inject corny lines and ruin the movie by making it seem unrealistically staged and I just could never immerse myself into the plot. It was another formula "teenage" movie (and I hate to use that term because it has nothing to do with teenagers, but rather has to do with writers and producers and directors talking down to teenagers thinking this is what they want).
I hate it when Hollywood takes a multi-million dollar budget and a cool subject and then turns it into schmaltzy crap like this. Why not make it more "realistically staged" with a more serious tone the way people would really be acting like if Transformers really did start a huge battle on our planet? If I was a director of a movie like this, I would let the plot and story breathe in an atmosphere of serious realism. Be subtle with humor and effects. Don't just start blasting it at the audience with both barrels for the entire duration. Thanks for screwing up another potentially great movie Hollywood.