Model with no acting experience is the new Megan Fox

Some people watch movies like this as escapism - for two hours away from the relentless drudgery of responsibility and the recession and miserable fucking weather. In that respect, I understand why they get made, and why people go.

But there are popcorn movies, and then there are inexorable noise-fests like this. Sometimes I want to watch Lebanon or The Killer Inside Me or The Road, but sometimes I just want to kick back and watch a movie about fighting robots or Will Smith saving the world from aliens - it doesn't have to be big or clever, just... keep my attention.

But yeah, this is something else really.

Edit: In fact, they very fact that the director has cast a lingerie model with no acting experience as his female leadtwo weeks before shooting should tell you everything you need to know about the quality of his art.

Edited at 21:00 on 30/05/10

It's probably a bit of film snobbishness from me. I think the last summer blockbuster I saw in the cinema was PotC 3 and that was only really saved by Johnny Depp. I don't really enjoy these films anymore, it might be because my expectations have gotten higher as ticket prices have gone up.

Actually it was The Dark Knight, which was awesome.

I quite liked the first one... I'll get my coat.

It's not even the "oh, summer blockbusters are beneath me" snobbishness.
I love the Pirates of The Caribbean movies, and you don't get much more frothy & daft. Spiderman 1 & 2? Yes please.
But Bay & Giant Robots are offensively empty & attempt nothing more than burger-meal toys and another Ferrari for a
bloke that made somebody wash his car??

Fuck off Transformers and Megan Fox, Shia Le Boef & lazy racial stereotype characters.

In my opinion, movies like this are made for internet piracy. Apart from the giant screen, why would anyone pay to see this in the cinema? There's literally no reason. It's not going to teach you anything, you're not going to experience anything new, you're not going to come out of the cinema discussing the plot. It's cinematic porn. Purely aesthetic, shallow, brainless and in no way worth your money. I say with all seriousness that I'd rather watch Sex and the City 2.

Edited at 01:39 on 30/05/10

It gives me sadface to know that Transformers 3 will make millions of dollars.
As will 4 & 5.
Please, I beg of you - even just the people here..don't pay to watch a transformers film. They have absolutely no redeeming qualitites whatsoever.

If the fourth transformers isn't called transfourmers I'll purchase and eat a hat

No, Luke, I'll have eaten that - best bit the sole. All the nutrients live there.

The sole of your shoe?

Sure.

Any takers for my soul? I sure as hell won't be using it.

If you are, can I have your brain?

Aye, Number Six is awesome (she helmed canada's next top model after all), but that doesn't immediately make any other pretty girl who'll bend over for Bay an "actress".

I'll eat my shoes if she's good, and I'll take sexy sexy pictures.
Maybe I'll be in Transfourmers.

Model with no acting experience? I want to instantly dismiss it, but part of my brain is just nagging away saying 'Tricia Helfer is awesome'. As a model with no acting experience (short of fist eatingly embarrassing computer game cut-scenes) I think she is an absolutely gob-smackingly amazing actress. The other part of my brain just thinks Bay is a massive goit though. And anyone who can pose seriously while being attacked by rod hull-less emu deserves a chance. There is a possibility my penis wrote this though.

Maybe, but I doubt Bay is intelligent enough to try and subvert anything. I spy a coke-fuelled fetish being displayed.
But Victoria Secret obviously signed off on it, I'm just uncomfortable around sexual violence regardless of gender stereotypes.

It's a damn good reason to avoid yet another Robots-that-turn-into-shit movie and that's enough for me.

Well, the thing is, I'm sure this photograph is supposed to, in someway, subvert generally accepted steretypical gender roles.

But she's the one with her arse hanging out, so it doesn't really work.

Sexual equality doesn't apply when it's a woman beating on a man, obviously.

She needs a couple of kebabs or something. And some pants.

Brain is asking me this: how is that ad ok? What if it was a bare-ass man looming over a tied-up woman with his fist raised?

I don't understand that photo. Has she misunderstood Casual Friday? Is she punching him in the throat because he stole her clothes?
In the banner photo, is that a muppet in the backseat with her? Or Bernie Clifton's ostrich?