Transformers! (Merged)

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I never meant to insinuate that those who liked Transformers were stupid.Here's how I see what went down:- Many people posted that it was great even if you're not a fan of the brand.- Based on these and other raves, I took my wife to see it. We both hated it.- I shared that fact.- More LoT posts about how it was just shiny and robots and explosions.- I explained why I disagreed.- Erica (having not seen the movie) snipes that I somehow don't get the franchise.- I rebut in greater detail.Where's the snobbishness? If anything, it's in the attempts to invalidate any criticism of your beloved Transformers.Some of us liked it. Some thought it sucked. Like Nephy says, everyone is entitled to their opinion....and just for the record, I'm fairly sure that a handful of Spielberg's movies can be considered political - and even the New York Times has referred to Bay as "casually sadistic".

In the breakdown done in your original review (and somewhat in our offline conversation) I felt that you felt that I was dumb* for not getting a hidden message and not seeing beyond the shiny robots blowing stuff up. For not seeing a big deal in the bad guys causing havoc and harm to humans. For not seeing it for anything more than a summer blow-up fest.

*but that is what I get for presuming to know what other people are really thinking.