So I saw transformers last night. Special effects: awesome. Acting: surprisingly good, from the main characters, at least. Storyline: god awful.
Particularly, anything in the storyline which had anything to do with A. computer networks, B. military technology or C. military structure was almost entirely laughably, unbelievably back-ass-wards fucking wrong. The 'hacking' crap was so hilariously wrong that I actually started laughing out loud in the theater. The UAV capabilities they demonstrated were similarly absurd. The 'Sector 7' thing is so over the top that I just let it slide - I hope and presume that that has something to do with the actual Transformers storyline from the cartoons, which I don't remember much of.
I really appreciate movies which take the extra time to make a story at least remotely plausible in that parts where they deal with things that actually exist.
The only props I'll give them is for trotting out the AC-120 (cargo-plane-turned-gunship), which does exist and is pretty fucking cool.