6. Brainless Action
So there's this group of people who believe that as long as the movie entertains with explosions, adrenaline pumping action sequences and hot women running around in shorts every other sin is forgiven. Bay cashes well on this sort of idiocy by giving the world just that; he even once quipped 'I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.' Ironically, Bay doesn't seem that that isn't what the crime is: the problem's this movies need to be a lot more. Movies need to have some depth where the action at least has a reason and it isn't like the Street Fighter arcade games where people are hitting each other just because. Movies need characters that aren't just two-dimensional caricatures but have a holistic, human persona. Movies require audiences to associate, and if possible even attach, with these characters so that they can feel a part of the film too. Movies need rationale behind the action and not just explosions stacked on top of explosions.