Transformers

Rating: 1/10 (5 August 2007)

My wife and I walked out after 40 minutes. This was a huge disappointment to me. When I first heard they had made a movie our of a bad 20 year old cartoon (and toy) I dismissed it but when i saw the ratings on IMDb for my demo(Males over 45 rated 7.3) I figured this would be a Pirates of the Caribean pleasant surprise. it wasn't. And here's the thing: I like almost any movie with Sci Fi, Robots, or military action and this had all three. Yet it was offensively boring. Am i completely out of touch or have the super reliable IMDb ratings lost their way? there have been plenty of times when I liked a movie a lot more or a lot less than my peers, but never a case where I give a movie a 1 then got a 7.3 from everyone else.
The transformers CGI was cartoonish. The comedy was silly and not funny. The plot was non-existent. Maybe it got better after the 40 minutes i saw (there were 100 minutes to go) but I can't imagine it would've saved my opinion. I'm not a movie snob. I loved comedies like spaceballs, Austin powers, and Waynes world. I ate up Sci Fi like I Robot, Solyaris, blade runner, etc. All of these had a plot or well written comedy. what am I missing here? One or two other films this year were much worse (in my opinion) than their ratings. Rattatouille comes to mind as one of the only Pixar offerings I didn't love and somehow it got a 8.3 from my demo (I'd give it a 4 or 5). Please someone tell me have I lost my mind?