Even while the main draw will always be how much chaos can take hold of the story when the action kicks off, there has to be something human underneath it all. While there was a persistent complaint about the human element of the prior films, with some saying that it should just shift to focus solely on the robotic characters, we have now seen that the better solution has been to actually put some care into the characters beyond the bare minimum. Even though they aren’t the most rich of character studies-especially in the final act where the smashing and crashing comes to the forefront-we get a strong narrative foundation beyond just the basics. While the latter is not quite as good as the former, both of these movies are miles above what their predecessors managed to achieve. However, as we've now seen with Bumblebee and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, this doesn't have to be the case. While these movies are always about building towards the main event of seeing robots beat each other to literal pieces, there was a general sense that everything to do with its humans was disposable at best and distracting at worst. Never once did you really care about either of them as you just went for the spectacle that soon revealed itself to be empty without any emotion to give it weight. Then, it was Mark Wahlberg's Cade Yeager who was a controlling dad, who we were assured was an inventor, with few other dimensions to his character otherwise.
Originally, it was Shia LaBeouf's consistently grating Sam Witwicky, who went from being an annoying teenager to an annoying college student and beyond until stepping aside.
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Though it has been years since this was the case, there once was a time when watching a Transformers movie was defined by the experience of spending time with characters who were a distraction you had to put up with rather than get invested in.
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