20 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The Transformers Franchise

20. Human Characters Actually Exist

Unfortunately, Hollywood has a fascination with the idea that audiences won't watch a movie unless it has an overwhelming human interest element, hence why films like Transformers, Alien vs Predator, Freddy vs Jason and so on, which would function perfectly fine with zero humans whatsoever, throw a bunch of meat shields into the mix. Transformers suffers particularly egregiously with this, for while having a human protagonist is an acceptable indulgence, does the movie really need to waste so much screen time on Sam Witwicky's (Shia LaBeouf) various romances and comic relief scenes involving his goofball parents? And for the first three movies, an inordinate focus is placed on a number of military characters (two of whom are played by Josh Duhamel and Tyrese) that nobody can remember the names of. Why bother? The sole appeal of these movies is watching a bunch of robots beating the living snot out of each other. Hiring so many human actors is just a waste of time and money. Nobody cares about them.