# Transformers movie series is worse than I imagined

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**Created:** [February 21, 2013, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transformers-movie-series-is-worse-than-i-imagined/650954 "2013-02-21T09:09:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transformers-movie-series-is-worse-than-i-imagined/650954/21 "2013-02-22T03:12:08Z")

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What about the gross and twisted racism. Does that also count as the worst thing?

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transformers-movie-series-is-worse-than-i-imagined/650954/22 "2013-02-22T07:14:43Z")

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I have yet to experience even the slightest impulse to watch the live-action movie series. The robots look like enormous piles of garbage … that talk. A groundswell of good or even decent reviews might have tempted me to change my mind, but as far as I can tell, I think sticking with the fond memories of the brightly colored cartoons of my youth is the right call. You never know, though; when G.I. Joe got the live-action treatment, it took me a long time to want to see it, and once I did, I have to say that … boy, that Rachel Nichols is hot.

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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transformers-movie-series-is-worse-than-i-imagined/650954/23 "2013-02-22T07:23:29Z")

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I am in the camp of

Transformers 1 was fine for what it was… and wasn’t even that bad. I didn’t feel like it wasted my time or anything.

Transformers 2 was an utter load of awful crap, I had absolutely no desire to see the next one.

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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transformers-movie-series-is-worse-than-i-imagined/650954/24 "2013-02-22T09:22:02Z")

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> [@drewtwo99](#):
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> I am in the camp of
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> Transformers 1 was fine for what it was… and wasn’t even that bad. I didn’t feel like it wasted my time or anything.
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> Transformers 2 was an utter load of awful crap, I had absolutely no desire to see the next one.

This. Except I turned #2 off after just 20 minutes. It was offensive that it was so cliche and head bangingly stupid.  
They are making a fourth movie with Mark Wahlberg in it, due out next year.

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