I can't remember who I was talking to at the Parra fair, but someone mentioned that ROTF was officially the most critically panned film to ever make as much money as it has. That is, no movie has made as much money ($826,889,137) with such bad reviews (about a two-star average, I think.) I don't know where that idea originated, but I think they're great statistics if they're accurate.

As a Transformers franchise, the 200X movies save me a lot of money. I don't buy a year's worth of toys, DVDs, merchandise, comics - heck, for ROTF I didn't even have to pay to see the film or for my popcorn or drink. The entire movie universe is a triviality to me - unlike Beast Wars or Generation 2 it's not a part of the G1 universe I love (basically the Marvel Comics and Anglophile toy Tech Specs profiles), and unlike Animated or Masterforce or Shattered Glass it's not even an 'alternate' universe in which I enjoy the stories. I don't appreciate the aesthetics or the laborious transformations and have-bits-fall-off-in-your-hands nature of the toys. No sir, I don't like it.

For me, ROTF is not even an evil, let alone a necessary one. I think evils are things that cannot be ignored and if it were truly evil I'd actually care about it enough to fight against it. As it is, the movies mean nothing to me.

Although I do like Alice.