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Originally Posted by flip
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.
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I think now more than ever, crappy movies are somewhat getting what they deserve at the box office. Wolverine, Terminator Salvation, Land of the Lost, Watchmen all were pretty crappy movies that pretty much bombed at the box office due to their crappiness. Up, Dark Night, Iron Man, Star Trek, The Hangover all exceeded box office expectations due to being well received by critics and fans.
Transformers 2 looks to be defying this trend, but that's mostly due to all the hard core fans who seem to be very attached to their favorite childhood toys (I think I am just about 4 or 5 years too old to understand this phenomenem).