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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Of course, aside from Wall-E (which I'd argue doesn't fit with the more teen-adult themed movies), those top movies have very notable stars who have done a lot of more "conventional" movies.
Christian Bale, Robert Downey Jr, Tobey Maguire, Heath Ledger, Jeff Bridges, Alfred Molina, etc. are well known actors with top end drama credits. But of course, they are playing iconic roles. Transformers, aside from Jon Voight in the first one, is really made up of relative unknowns, b-listers, and few with anything resembling an impressive resume anywhere close to the principal casts in Dark Knight, Spiderman 2 or Iron Man. The stars of Transformers are Optimus Prime and Megatron, and their comrades. The humans are secondary. Those stars happen to be CGI robots mixed with human supporting cast, which due to their complexity, is jarring. I actually wonder if this movie would have had better reviews if they swapped out the human actors for something a little more A-List even with the paper thin plot.
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It doesn't matter who stars when the characters are so poorly written. Spiderman (seems to be the common ground here) 3 had all the big names too but was nowhere near as compelling as the first two. Why? Because Peter Parker, Sandman, and Venom were terribly written. No matter who starred in it, seeing the protagonist dance around in a piano bar with an emo hair cut isn't going to cut it for anyone.
That being said, it is hard to have a robot as a compelling character, which is why I didn't like much of Transformers to begin with