10 Iconic Characters Without A Single Great Movie

6. Optimus Prime

It says a lot about Michael Bay's Transformers film franchise that the best Transformers movie so far released is the animated feature from 1986. And though that catoon boasted huge talent in the voice-over booths (including Orson Welles and Eric Idle), it's far from a great movie.

Transformers are one of those properties that absolutely deserve great movies, mostly because there's huge appetite in audiences for some robots in disguise-based action on the big screen. If there wasn't, Bay wouldn't have been able to make so many horribly made blockbusters under the Transformers banner.

Sadly, Bay has never really understood the appeal to fans and has instead gone with action and spectacle (to the thunking soundtrack of grinding, clunking metal) over depth and real character development. And while it's made the studio and Bay lots of money, none of those movies have been in any way great.