6. You Don't Need Attractive Women To Sell Tickets
Sex appeal sells films. We get it. You know what else sells a film? An interesting premise, an engrossing narrative and a convincing world in which your characters live. There's nothing wrong with having attractive women in films (duh), but when said women are present for the sole reason of their attractiveness, without any prior explanation of who they are or where they came from; it's time to stop. Megan Fox was arguably a better lead character than Shia Labeouf was in the first two films, and while the presence being important to the overall narrative is questionable, her character was far more important than her replacement in Dark Of The Moon. Rosie Huntington-Whitley's casting in the third film is when the role of Sam's girlfriend went from one of vague importance to that of a full-blown token character. Her existence within the film literally hinges on the fact that Megan Fox was dropped due to her public comments about Bay, and serves no purpose in the film's narrative other than to give Sam another woman to fawn over. The Transformers franchise may have been born from cartoons and toys, but that doesn't mean audiences and fans of the live-action films should be treated like prepubescent boys. At the very least, it's borderline insulting to women.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
