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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Honestly, I'm blaming Bay.
Why?
Because a friend summed up the Transformers comparison perfectly. "The last 3 giant robot films I saw were total crap. I think I can skip this one."

It's not that some are thinking it's another Transformers movie, it's that some are thinking it's going to suck, like the Transformers movies.

This doesn't make sense though. Transformers did extremely well in the box offices. Based off that alone, your friend should go see it. Not the other way around.

Yeah, people can think Transformers sucks and compare that to parallels for Pacific Rim, but those are closed minded people. Much like the people who insult our fandom because we have grown ups in brightly colored spandex fighting rubber monsters while their own genre also has grown ups in brightly colored spandex fighting occasional rubber monsters or you know, giant clouds, which is even worse. Or fighting other grown ups in brightly colored spandex but all the while it's okay because they wear their underwear outside of their costumes.

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Originally Posted by Locke

The sad thing is, as nerd became mainstream, all the bad parts of being a nerd became mainstream as well.

Michael Bay's Transformers films may be bad adaptations which is frustrating but as far as blockbuster films go, they did their job in both entertaining the masses and making millions but as all the elitism that comes with nerdom has crossed over into the popular culture, so people hate films like Transformers, Battleship etc etc before they've actually seen them because that is the cool thing to do. And then otherwise fairly terrible popcorn flicks, like say The Avengers, become huge because the nerds deem it okay to like that popcorn flick.

I never thought we'd come to a point in cinema history where we'd have to remind mainstream audiences that liking a film just because it's fun is okay to do.

Bingo. It's very okay to leave your brain at the door in these sort of films. I did it with Transformers and found them all enjoyable.

There's just no real place for giant robots that don't transform in Western culture though, as sad as it is.