10 Movies Which Refused To Give Fans What They Came For

I have to say, moviegoers were quite hopeful back in 2007 when the trailers dropped for Transformers. The world didn't know how bad the films would get later on down the line, but fourteen years ago, there were crossed fingers that the feature wouldn't be bad.

A live-action robot brawl is what audiences came to see, and what they got was not that. Instead, the first hour of the film world-builds by showing audiences how badly Shia LaBeouf fancies Megan Fox. When the Transforming robots make their debut on screen they're reduced to a cartoonish band of misfits here to remain in their vehicular forms and spring to life when LaBeouf had some stammering improv to spew on screen.

Nearly all the Transformer fights happen in the background of whatever the humans are doing. With fight sequences hidden by so many obscure camera angles and dust-clouds, it's like the movie was censoring metal-on-metal violence. When audiences get the heroic moment of Optimus Prime going up against Megatron, the film cuts away so we can see LaBeouf climb a tower with a Gamecube under his arm.

Admittedly the films do "correct" themselves in later entries, but by that point faith was lost and fans knew a decent live-action Transformers wouldn't happen in their lifetime.