The fact that the new Transformers has made such a disgustingly huge amount of money is making me nervous.

What I'm worried about is this effortless kind of film, that's making all this money (and by effortless I mean no effort was put in to make this a solid film, i.e a film that makes it's own rules and follows them) will only open the door to MORE of this kind of stuff. More explosions and characters who lack substance, more films with incoherent plots that are overshadowed by "hot" lead actresses and an epic movie score.
Americans, or maybe just people in general, are essentially lemmings...we don't want to fall behind the pack, but we don't want to be told we want to be part of the pack. That's what we struggle with. We BEG and love and long to be told what to do, buut don't tell us that's what we want.
All I want is for some Hollywood producers to try a little harder. I really don't think it's asking for too much. Bad movies might make a lot of money, but so do great ones.

And I hate the argument, "oh, well it's a movie about robots fighting, based on toys why does it need a plot? it's just mindless entertainment.."

WELL,

If I can have a movie about a guy who puts on a bat suit to fight crime make sense, then Transformers should too. (tdk) If I can have a movie about a billionaire weapons industrialist who flies around in metal armor and shoots laser beams from his palms make sense, then Transformers should too. (iron man) And if I can have a movie about the last robot on earth falling in love with a different robot and getting hurled along through space make sense, then Transformers should too. (walle)

HELL, ALL OF THESE MOVIES MADE MONEY and did NOT compromise the integrity of the film, unlike michael bay's movie.
and what really saddens me is that so many people loved this movie. honestly, it's really fucking sad.

/rant over..