I don't care what people say about ROTF, I'm a die hard TF fan since the 80's and I loved it, the plot (yes there was one) was easy to follow, the twins weren't that bad as critics made them out to be (Jar Jar Binks is worse), I don't think the humans dominated too much of the film there was an equal balance between the two.
People are making it out like TFROTF is the worst piece of cinematic experience when I can cite other movies that are really bad.
I'm not a fan of all of Michael Bay's films but he's done a decent job with TF and eagerly await for TF3.
I agree, tho I wasn't a fan of the twins in ROTF in the least.
I've been a fan of TF since G1, and I enjoyed both movies. I went in expecting a good popcorn flick, and I got it. I never expected it to be a masterpiece of cinema. Were there things I would have like to have seen added, or different? Sure, but that doesn't mean the experience was ruined just because it didn't follow my image of how a Transformers movie should be. Then again I seem to disagree with a lot Hype members (even if I'm not vocal with it) on what an enjoyable movie is. I'm not typically a fan of mindless Hollywood CGI fests, but I enjoyed the Spiderman movies, Wolverine, Watchmen, the Matrix trilogy,and Transformers, yet according to many on the Hype they were the biggest failures of all time despite their sales. Even tho I agree all of those movies could have been better, they were still fun movies to watch. Then at the same time I didn't think TDK and Avatar were the greatest movies of all time like so many here did.
A lot of TF fans get stubborn when it comes to these movies (same with any fandom I guess really). Where certain things are untouchable. Like the complaints of Prime having flames, Bumblebee not having horns, and so on. Yet everyone seems to forget that G1 isn't the only version of TF's. There has been G1, 3 or so unreleased in America Japanese G1 cartoon's (Headmasters, Victory, and Masterforce or something like that), the Beastwars ones (including the anime Neo versions), RID, the Unicron "trilogy", Animated, comics, games, and so on. In each one we've seen popular characters get completely reimagined in form, transformation, and personality. Yet only with the movies is this considered a game breaking disaster for some reason.
On top of that, everyone seems to attack it as if all Transformer series were great novels, and only the movies could be shallow. Gotta tell ya, as much as I loved the G1 cartoon...it wasn't the deepest of series. Sure, it had a great setting, characters, mythos, and it did from time to time give good stories. However it also gave us a bumbling apron wearing Grimlock, Transformers pretending to be knights in a kids dream, a planet with a brain that's basically a big psychologist, a robot who falls in love with a human and shows it by opening his chest panel and a LED heart shape showing, and so on, and so on. The Transformer series have been chocked full of shallow moments, and a lot of episodes were very action heavy and explosion filled. Yet it was still a great series, and very enjoyable to watch despite it's hiccups.
While I agree that the movies could be improved (character personalities, story, robot designs), that at the same time does not mean the movie is unwatchable. Dragonball was unwatchable. That Will Ferral Land before Time was unwatchable. Transformers is more light on story than a Star Wars, but it's also a flashy, fun, enjoyable movie. If you go into it looking for things to nitpick on you probably won't enjoy it no matter how good or bad it actually was. I see ppl listing problems I didn't even notice in the films like, "1 hour 37 minutes and 24 seconds in there was a graphical glitch where character x was missing a finger!". It's like ppl take a notepad into the theatre with them with movies like Transformers, or Wolverine just to look for things they don't like so they can bash it.
Edit - Reread and it did seem kinda harsh. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with not liking it. Like I said, I feel some things could have been improved on as well. I guess it just bothers me when certain movies are targeted before they even get released as being THE movie to hate on. Movies like Transformers seem to be a place for haters to gravitate to. Despite a lot of ppl actually liking it, you'd never believe it was even watchable without inducing vomiting if you read online opinions.
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