10 Blockbuster Movies Way Too Desperate For A Sequel

8. Transformers: Age Of Extinction

For all its crimes against cinema, Michael Bay's Transformers films at the very least tried to stand-alone. Admittedly very easy when the plots are as complex as salt water, but we were never subjected to a constant babble to justify sequels. How things changed with Age Of Extinction. To dissect a Transformers film for its narrative problems may seem a fruitless effort, but sadly in this case it's necessary. Two interesting concepts, man-made Transformers and organic creators of the original robots in disguise, are raised and given prominence in the film's middle act. Then, as everything devolves into the usual crash-bang-crash, these are both thrown aside with teasing hints they'll be properly explored in the fifth film. Oh joy. It's a new kind of bad for a series that looked to have hit rock-bottom two movies ago. The teasing ending, with Optimus Prime leaving Earth, only serves to highlight how much time was spent on something that'll mean nothing until the inevitable sequel. Did it work? Transformers will continues as long as audiences are happy to eat at the slop bucket of cinema. So quite way any attempt to tease another film was done is perplexing.