[quote=Jerkchicken]
Also I find your complaint about a franchise made to sell toys( especially one from the 80's where they were really unsubtle) being shallow in the movies amusing.
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Whatever it was made for in the first place or not, does not detract from my reasons for disliking it - I'm not obliged to like the movies if they don't fit what I've enjoyed about the franchise in the past. Whether that amuses you or not is up to you. You don't have to like Transformers for the same reasons as me. 

If you want a more 'legitimate' reason for my dislike of them, I think they're just shitty in their pacing, writing, character, dialogue and consistency. But that's secondary to the fact that I don't like them because they don't have what I like in them.