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This is a normal post Transformers was utterly awful
Objectively you can't see where robots begin and end when they fight. The plot and dialogue are like a seven year olds. The camera work is like a porn film (following peoples arses around in crowds, peering down tops etc.) it's bad. High School Musical is cheesy as fuck and aimed at young girls, but it's objectively a lot better than Transformers ....let alone the four sequels.
 (I helped save b3ta! DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 12:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post So you're saying 'corny film targetting young girls' = outstanding contribution to cinema.
'corny film targeting young boys' = apalling waste of time.

Yep, that's about the gist of his case too.

And just to clarify, you're saying one of those films should also be judged on its endless parade of tired sequels and the other shouldn't?
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 14:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post I got the impression that HSM is considered "Good, if you like that sort of thing."
whereas Transforms isn't good, even if you normally like that sort of thing.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 14:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm not sure how one self-identifies as 'normally liking that sort of thing'
When one doesn't like the 'thing' in question.

By what category do you classify a thing you don't like as thing you normally would like?

Personally I think the two films are roughly on a par, with obvious hooks for the target audience (in the case of Transformers, flash, bang, wallop, tits, and High School Musical has shallow social drama, perfect coreography, and unattainable late 20s boyfriends). Their success and sequels are almost perfectly matched. To laud one over the other is simply the bias of inauthentic liberalism.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 15:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post You might be someone who normally likes
big budget action films with lots of special effects, or someone who just digs the work of Michael Bay generally, and then hate Transformers because the effects were uninterpretable garbage and because Bay massively over-indulged himself.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 18:30, , Reply)