8 Bad Movie Franchises And How To Fix Them

8. Transformers - No More Human Characters

What's The Problem? While there are MANY things wrong with the Transformers film franchise, one of the biggest problems in the series is how the franchise uses its characters.

As the stakes ramp up in each film, the danger our heroes face grow bigger but there aren't any real emotional stakes because the heroes of the film flip so often.

At the start of every interval, new Autobots and Decepticons are introduced with barely any character development besides their name and a zingy catchphrase.

What's The Solution? While "Kill All Humans" isn't the healthiest statement to make, perhaps a film that has zero fleshy characters in it is what's best?

When people pay for tickets to see a two-hour Transformers film, there's a strong possibility they're not there for Josh Duhamel and Mark Wahlberg. Every Transformers film has had massive chunks of the runtime dedicated to meandering, pointless melodrama of human characters - time that could have been spent developing the actual Transformers themselves.

It's been six live-action films since they first debuted, and despite Bumblebee and Optimus Prime appearing in all of them, I could tell you very little about them as characters. But I know every little detail about Cade Yeagar's family dynamic for some reason.