Why Transformers will suck AND be awesome at the same time.

So Transformers 2 comes out tomorrow. This might not be important to those considered normal, but to me... I couldn't be more excited. Not that I'll be able to see it tomorrow... probably by this weekend. But still. Excited.

The thing is that it's getting hammered all across the board. The best review I could find is that it's dazzle for dazzle's sake, which isn't really a huge compliment in of itself. But the thing considering all these reviews is that each review that pans the film subsequently makes me all the more giddy to watch it.

I liked the first one... kind of a lot. And it's not one of those things where I'm going to say that I left my brain at home and just enjoyed the film for the popcorn factor, because it isn't the case. I enjoyed it simply for its sheer audacity to do everything in the book to make the film as "entertaining" as possible. Which might mean a severe lack of taste for some, but... I mean, how do I say this?

OK. So there was a scene in the first movie where a Mountain Dew vending machine turned into a Decepticon (or whatever... it isn't important). Now, everyone else in the world might take that as a shameless form of advertising (which it is), but I can't help but imagine that the reason this took place in the film is that Michael Bay woke up one day and said to himself "you know what would be cool? A Mountain Dew machine turning into a KILLER ROBOT."

And that's why I sort of like Michael Bay (or at least from what I've seen... haven't seen Pearl Harbor or anything like that). Although his stuff might scream "mass Hollywood blockbuster product," it seems as if he's less of a corporate tool wanting mass profits and more like someone who honestly believes the mass Hollywood blockbuster is the best form of entertainment one can aim for. Which makes it seem bizarrely more honest than the typical blockbuster fare...

This might sound stupid, and it might make him out to be stupid (which is not what I'm trying to do, because I'm not so certain he's not some form of crazy genius.) All I know is that articles like this one make me all the more excited about the stupid thing when it should be turning people away. I might be weird, but I'm OK with that.