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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
I guess it's all a matter of what you consider crappy and what isn't. Transformers was mindless and silly, but I wouldn't consider it crappy. It was a lot of fun. When I watch Transformers or Terminator or any kind of movie of that ilk, I put it into its own category.
I felf the best movie of last year was The Reader, but I think I enjoyed Iron Man the best but I would never compare the two or even say Iron Man was better.
I find it damn near impossible to compare movies that are so far different.
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Iron Man is actually a good example of a fun, good movie. Not great but good.
Now even compared to Iron Man I thought Transformers 1 was ######ed. I get not having huge expectations for a movie but there is somewhat mindless, fun, things blowing up etc and just plain bad.
Transformers could have easily been fun, silly etc without being bad and stupid. I just don't get it. And the whole "i want a movie that is fun and silly" doesn't work as an answer because it doesn't explain why it is stupid. You can just as easily turn off your brain watching Iron Man, it is just that unlike Transformers it doesn't actually hinder the functions of your brain.
To each his own I guess though. Only reason it bothers me is that movies like Year One and Land of the Lost and Transformers doing so well ruins the quality of movies for the rest of us because then movie studios don't put in the effort to actually hire writers.