Transformers cannot be awesome until someone explains it to me, and no one will explain it to me. Why will no one explain things to me? I just want to understand.

There's these alien robots that turn into cars and trucks and things explode.

What's not to get?

I don't think any live action rendering...without that voice could ever do the character justice in my mind.

Wait, are you saying that Prime's voice was different from the cartoon to the movie?

Because Peter Cullen did the voice of Prime for both.

Optimus Prime is Eeyore???

Eeyore is Jewish????

Well hell, I knew he was Jewish. And a grandmother!

"Don't mind me, I'll just live in the wet."

"Don't mind me, I'l just be hungry."

"Don't mind me, I'll find something to do."

is there such a thing as bad art?

That is, if it's bad, does it count as art?

If so, doesn't that render the label "art" as practically useless?

I'll risk a definition of "art" as "anything created for nonfunctional purposes." By that definition (and I won't say it's definitive), anything that's intended to be nonfunctional and (unintentionally) poorly executed counts as "bad art."

Because Peter Cullen did the voice of Prime for both.

I didn't know that...which says something about how different my ears are now than they were then...or the resonance has taken on epic proportions in my memory.

Not that I didn't like the voice in the film, it just didn't make me all wibbly like it used to.

I'm just old and crusty I guess.

I tend to think of most of those Michael Bay movies (as listed by P-C) as Bruckheimer movies. And, the ones I've seen, I liked fine. Except Transformers. Transformers was just not spectacular enough, it did not wow me like I expected to be wowed.

Optimus Prime is Eeyore

Eeyore is Jewish

And Val Kilmer is Moses.

QED

I think I thought Armageddon was fine.

3 words: Animal. Cracker. Scene.