I'd been meaning to put this in words, and finally did.

I've determined I'll never see Transformers 2, because the trailer showed the terribly quick and easy destruction of a U.S. supercarrier. Nevermind that a nuclear bomb had trouble sinking a WW2 carrier (Saratoga sank after 8 hours on a near direct hit, but Independence held up to *two* hits from only a few hundred feet further away), but there's that whole personnel factor.

To a teenage kid, a carrier blowing up is "lots of cool action".

To me, the son of a 22 year Navy Commander, and who has spent considerable time on carriers himself as a child, a carrier blowing up is twice as many deaths as 9/11.

I simply can not and will not put that statistic out of my head.

The whole Transformers theme: the bad guys are so totally immune to everything we have that the U.S. Military is just cannon fodder, is quite simply one I refuse to see. I turned the first movie off after the first "battle". Seeing troops slaughtered right and left does not thrill me at all; it sickens me.

For whatever reason, I can "cartoonify" it and deal with it in Anime, and when rediculous death statistics happen in Dr. Who the character of the Doctor (or, say, Jack Harkness in Torchwood) is enough to get me past it.

But Shia Labeouf, while a nice guy, isn't a strong enough actor nor does he play an interesting enough character, to compensate.