6. We're Leaving Earth (To Some Degree) - Transformers: Age Of Extinction
The robots in disguise may be mostly indistinguishable from each other and speak in racist clichés or pseudo-profundity, but the human characters in Michael Bay's Transformers franchise aren't much better. The women are all there based solely on how curved their bodies look at sunset, while the protagonists are so unlikable you have to question whether we want humanity to win. Shia LaBeouf's Sam Witwicky is a stammering mess who can only deal with one character trait per movie, while Mark Wahlberg's Cade Yeager is loving, kind, nice, friendly, incompetent father who, after crushing an innocent bystanders car hurls abuse and necks a stolen Bud Lite. Product placement at its bemusing finest. Wahlberg is contractually obliged to star in two more movies, although if a final act development in Age Of Extinction is anything to go by his role may be severely downplayed; we're going into space. As is wont in the series, the film ends abruptly after a big fight, with the big bad defeated. But this time there's more than a 360 degree rotating shot; the film ends with Optimus Prime heading into space. To eighties kids who grew up with the cartoon this hints at the potential for something closer to those robot led stories, while for general audiences it's the first time in four painfully stretched films it's felt like there's actually going to be some proper development.
