Transformers

I hate being so A.D.D, I started to write this post over a week ago and just never finished it.  So here is the less poetic version of what I want to say. 

These are the problems I had with Transformers: (In no particular order)

• There were about 10 scenes from Transformers that you could cut and paste out of any one of Michael Bays movies. Shia LaBeouf arguing with his parents or the cops you could almost pop in Bad Boys or The Rock and get the same dialog verbatim.  And those worked when the dialog was between Will Smith and Martin Laurence or Shawn Connery and Nicolas Cage, but Shia LaBeouf and veteran character actors just wasn't doing it for me.  I don't know, maybe it's just too much like arguing with my brothers but I really don't want to pay 11 bucks to see it, I can get it at home for free.
• The Transformers (while still bad-ass) were totally non-human looking.  It seemed so much cooler when in the cartoon they were like mid-evil knights that had lasers and could turn into cars while waxing philosophically.  Now they just seem like they huge impersonal monsters, like they should be hunting down Robocop instead of being trying to save our fledgling race.  It was almost like they had a fight going on through design as if they were supposed to be advanced or post apocalyptic.  They still looked cool during the fight scenes, I think I almost would have had them be not called transformers.
• I didn't like that they could turn into anything.  Also I didn't like how when they were in Robot form their guns and what not were dependent on what they were transformed from ... yet they could change into anything by just scanning it.  So it would seem like there was a disconnect somewhere in there.  Plus why wouldn't the Autobots figure out that GM cars probably weren't going to beat the army vehicles that the decepticons were rocking.
• I think I wanted too much out of this movie.  I was hoping maybe whoever was doing Transformers cared and maybe had watched the new Spiderman movies where they actually made Spiderman a human being, you know with thoughts and feelings and all that junk.  According to Entertainment Weekly the whole movie was supposed to be about a "boy and his car" ... I would have been down for that, you can't tell me that can't have the same fight scenes accept with an actual plot.  Instead it was a bunch of random violence.  In the same interview with Entertainment Weekly Michael Bay says that he really didn't car about the Transformers past, he wanted to make something he thought was cool not necessarily something that was consistent with ... you know ... Transformers.
• What an incoherent plot line.  I mean why did they throw in the part about the girl having a record and then do absolutely nothing with it? that was a waste of a good 14 seconds.  Why didn't they do anything with Fergie's boyfreind? They said that he had a wife and kid and then sent him places to fight.  They didn't make him seem like he just wanted to get home or anything like that, which is thin and overplayed anyway but still it at least would have made sense.  Why couldn't that time be used for more fighting between robots?? I mean seriously.

What I did Like:

• The fight scenes were absolutely bad ass.
• The girl who played Mikaela.  She was pretty.