Michael Bay's Transformers franchise symbolizes cinematic excess. After a mostly positive reception for the first movie, the subsequent Transformers films quickly derailed. One particular moment solidified Michael Bay's Transformers as a Hollywood joke, and the later movies only reinforced that image. Would the series have been any different if Michael Bay had handed over the reins after the first film, or was it destined to be a bloated mess regardless?

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