im sure you got replies like (i could easily read the thread, but im lazy) "it's about fukkin monsters and robots, who cares about the main character?" like giving him any semblence of character wouldn't improve the movie in any way. I hate that mindset when it comes to movies like this. What harm is there to make the characters great? People will forget about the constant mayhem and just look at it as a character piece? the fukk?
and fukk it, I'll say it, Shia was pretty funny in Transformers 1. His dad was kinda funny. His mom was kinda funny. Yeah, they were corny, but it added to the movie. They did the wooden lead right by making that the super hot chick, not the shy boring asian girl who needed subtitles.