I agree about G.I. Joe, to the degree that what I've seen has got me interested, but a part of me hates myself for it. As far as Transformers goes, it was okay for what it was: a summer blockbuster. I tend to grant most movies that traffic in giant robots a wider margin of error, them being the precious rare commodity they are, but it just scrapped too much of the backstory that made Transformers so cool to me (the ark, et al.). The character of Optimus Prime was waay off the mark (when your main character is the world's most beloved Robot Jesus, you don't mess with the forumla), and most of the human characters were just too slapstick for the tone they seemed to be trying to set. I didn't hate it... uneven but entertaining is how I'd describe it.
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