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Ok, I'm definitely in the iSm camp. As I said in my review of Ratatouille there were issues of verisimilitude but because I was entertained they weren't important. Suspension of disbelief is easy when the movie makes it easy. Transformers did not make it easy.
In the climactic fight I really was confused about whether they were supposed to be in "Mission City" or in Los Angeles. If it wasn't Los Angeles but another huge city close to Hoover Dam (I guess destroying Las Vegas is too cliche now) why put so much focus on downtown Los Angeles landmark buildings and at least digitally edit the street signs prominently visible. I'm sorry but if you are in a city that looks like LA, having a big fight in the middle of Wilshire Blvd, then you're in LA.
I'm not so with mousepod on the moral repugnance of it since Transformers is hardly unique it its mass slaughter of innocents. I'll save that for movies that seem to actually endorse it (such as two recent Mark Wahlberg movies, Four Brothers and The Shooter which truly were morally repugnant to me). But I see his point.
When Megatron finger flicked that innocent passerby into a nearby car I was appalled at the people in the audience who laughed.
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