Okay, so I've official seen this Transformers 2 about 4 times now, twice on IMAX and I'm not really sick of it yet. It's still entertaining. But I'm bugged by all the dumping people are doing on this movie. I have my issues with it and think it was half-assed in terms of the plot and continuities and some of the forced comedy sometimes gets a annoying and yeah, so the Twins are a walking stereotype, why should you fucking care?! They're robots who picked up what they say on the internet which is swimming in millions of stereotypes for them to pick up on. And what the most popular one that every race wants to emulate? Alien robots can't emulate rappers and gang bangers like every other dumbass on this planet does? And PROUDLY I might add. That in itself is racist. You racist bastards.
Anyway, my point is that this movie is bad in a number of ways, but it's good in other ways. If anyone was paying attention, I saw some of the most realistic looking CG in a movie in a couple select moments in the movie. Might have something to do with the environment they were in and not having real people in the same scene, but they look really good! The action is fun and exciting too and there are a few moments where the story actually is compelling. This movie isn't nearly as bad as some people think it is.
This really comes from the rating it's getting Rotten Tomatoes and some of the one sentence reviews I saw on that site. And from what I understand this is the site to follow when it comes to movies. My response to that over-hyped bullshit is this: Get over yourselves you fucking prudes!

20%

Really?

Are you that full of yourselves you can't sit down and enjoy a dumb movie once in awhile? Does everything have to artistic and sniffing it's own farts? Does everything have have some deep meaning that you can easily find without spending $11 on a ticket and $20 on snacks? So what if it's not! Doesn't mean it sucks. It just means you can't take the stick out of your ass and enjoy something for what it does good. Why anyone went to Transformers looking for anything more than alien robots beating the crap out of each other and random corny jokes thrown in often for no real reason is simply beyond me. I wasn't disappointed too much with the film because I wasn't expecting more than what I just mentioned. Granted, Michael Bay did try to package a "compelling" plot and characters, but who in their right mind would buy into that?

This also goes for movie like Terminator Salvation which is at 32% and X-Men Origins (which I would think would be behind Terminator and Transformers in audience approval) is at 36%. Seriously, how does that make sense.

Here's some FAIR ratings for these three movies:

Transformers 2: 50% It's good for action, excitement and some quirky comedy. NOTHING ELSE! And for those of you trashing this movie and pretty much killing your own experience just because certain characters weren't portrayed the way you wanted or the movies aren't exactly like the cartoons, go fuck yourselves. Buy a teddy bear, cry and suck your thumb and go watch it again with an open mind.

Terminator 4: 40-45% The second best of the series behind T2, far behind T2, but it's still decent. Some cool action and an nice look at the beginning of the war against the machines we all heard so much about from the previous movies and keep in mind, it's just the beginning. We haven't gotten to what saw in T2 with all the T-800s running around (very, very slowly ) with their energy weapons in a really dark and grim future.

Wolverine: 35-40% It's a comic book movie, but don't think of it as one. I knew from the get go that it wouldn't follow the back story many of us know of and some characters would be butchered, but the action was good and despite his being much taller then Wolvy should be, Hugh Jackman still plays him pretty well. And even though Deadpool gets butchered we still get a taste of the real deal and get the best guy to play the role in Ryan Reynolds and this movie has become the launcher for the Deadpool movie and there's nothing wrong with that. I'll also give this movie a higher rating because the video game that came out based around the movie was actually pretty damn good. A rarity for video games based off of movies.

Now is is that so hard? Can you at least try to take what you liked about the movies and balance them with what you didn't like. And if hate the movie and can't give it a fair shake, why did you see it? Because it sounds like it was the kind of movie wouldn't normally see.

So, finally (I'm sure you're all very grateful if you're still reading) I finish with this thought: Are we hyping ourselves up too much? Are we raising our expectations too much? I think so because I hear so much disappointment from someone with almost no moments of, "Well I did like ___" or "That was pretty cool" like the movie couldn't meet their expectations. It's like people's memories are so short term when it comes the reality of Hollywood and movies in general. Most movies are decent or bad (usually decent). Few movies are great. Almost nothing is better than great. Pick you favorite word you use to describe that: awesome, incredible, etc. So let's never expect a movie to be more than decent or maybe good and always be surprised when a movie IS great or beyond that. This is just advice. It's how I approach movies and I'm rarely disappointed and rarely see a really bad movie or think of a movie as one. Not that I don't have certain expectations or get excited, I just don't set the bar so high that anything short of perfect is a disappointment. I know you pay good money, but let's be honest, when was the last time you went to a movie and felt every dollar you spent was worth it and then some? And how far in between were those moments? So why be surprised a movie doesn't pan out the way you'd expect it to. If it's that much of an issue, just stop going. I'll be happy to sit in an empty theater to watch the movies all by myself. ^_^ Then I get to do my Mystery Science Theater 3000 impressions.