The sign of bad things to come

Watching “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” the first go-around was a sick chore. I thought maybe Michael Bay had inadvertently made a 150-minute torture porn flick, it was so awful.

But four months later, I was ready to give it another chance – and my God, it’s even worse. The smaller screen might curb possible seizures caused from watching a beyond-words amount of robots smashing together, but it also makes things even harder to follow.

It turns out the DVD cut of the film still includes the ridiculously racist twin Autobots, terrible acting from nearly everyone in the cast and no lack of LeBeouf yelling “No!” (didn’t Bay see the YouTube video?), meaning “Revenge” is still the worst movie of 2009.

I am far from a film snob, but what this film’s success means for the medium’s future is troubling. Always eager to one-up the previous year’s big-time box office bait, Hollywood is bound to go even dumber and even bigger in the coming years – meaning we are screwed.