5. Absence Of Humanity
You know a movie has done well when it makes you sad from the inside when a character you felt deeply attached to meets an untimely demise. It's a characteristic of all great films The Godfather, Lord of the Rings, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Saving Private Ryan - films connect you with the characters at such a personal level that when Maximus is stabbed in Gladiator, you feel like a part of you has been wounded too. The absence of humanity is another thing that Bay would do well to avoid in the upcoming Transformers flick. It's amazing how this man took something as tragic as the incident at Pearl Harbour and created an emotionless travesty from it by making it into a two-guys-fighting-for-one-girl rom-com out of it. Instead of creating characters that are merely soulless mediums for explosions and mindless action, he would do well to create real humans. Drive them with a strong character motivation, make them react as real humans would, perforate them with the same flaws that human beings actually have and then we'd have something closer to how people actually are.