10 Downright Ridiculous Excuses For Terrible Movies
7. Mysticism/The Writers' Strike - Transformers 2
The Excuse: We made some mistakes. The real fault with is that it ran into a mystical world. When I look back at it, that was crap. The writers strike was coming hard and fast. It was just terrible to do a movie where youve got to have a story in three weeks. I was prepping a movie for months where I only had 14 pages of some idea of what the movie was. Its a BS way to make a movie, do you know what Im saying? - M. Bay
Remember back in 2011 when Bay came out with this excuse and everyone immediately forgave him for how poor Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was, because his other two Transformers movies were just so darn good? I mean, any auteur can put a foot wrong, and one snow-flake doesn't make a blizzard... Now, come on - the Transformers franchise as a whole was terrible - an explosive mess of blurry special effects that the director openly called "spectacular" that might have made a boat-load of money, but which were poor excuses for movies in almost every possible definition of the medium. It's not like the lack of writing time on Transformers 2 made its script so much more noticeably poor than the other two, or that the characters in the first or third were more fleshed out, and ideas were better executed, or that the mystical storyline was any more idiotic than the other ones. But at least we now know how long it takes to create a couple of completely racist robots, or to come up with the "hilarious" idea of including giant robot testicles...
