Transformers 4: 10 Things That Sucked

7. Transformium

Transformers Age Of Extinction Stanley TucciParamount PicturesRemember when Avatar came out and everyone heckled James Cameron for naming Pandora's valuable mineral Unobtanium? Though the word has roots in both science and science fiction, the point was that whether or not it had any real-world applications, it sounded stupid, and most audience members weren't graduate-level scientists who might both know and care about its true nature. It may have taken almost 5 years, but we've finally found a more ludicrous term to topple that one, and it's the name of the element that allows the Transformers to exist. Its name? Transformium. Just let that sink in for a moment. At least Unobtanium did have some real world roots, whereas Transformium doesn't just sound stupid, but was also plucked out of thin air by Ehren Kruger and was seemingly the best thing he could come up with. Trans...formium!? He really wasn't trying when he came up with that little chestnut, and though it does result in one of the movie's most hilarious moments, it's also the most ridiculously unimaginative thing we've seen in a film in a long time.
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