I’ve written a good bit on Transformers, and last week touched in passing fashion on the idiocy of its ending, but it’s worth pointing out again the extraordinarily stupid lengths to which Michael Bay goes to preserve the prerogative of a sequel in which Transformers still somehow exist in secret. He does this — after
destroying huge swathes of a city, including a scene in which planes fly through buildings, killing, conservatively, dozens of people — via an utterly jaw-dropping coda which asserts “the president ordered Decepticon
leader Megatron’s body dumped into the ocean, where the pressure destroyed
it.” So this is what allows the Transformers to remain on Earth and live in secrecy
among us. What a cover-up… brilliant, just brilliant.