>>6402512>>6402520Speaking as someone who has a genuine distaste for how obnoxious modern cinema is, I still find the first movie to be far more tame and cohesive than the sequels. Sure, it's still a dumb blockbuster made for the masses that obviously doesn't hold up as some sort of erudite piece that will be studied by academics alongside Kubrick and Tarkovsky films, but at the very least I can watch it and feel like my crave for a giant goofy morning cartoon made into life action was satisfied.
>>6402507>It was always bogged down with crude sex jokes and human focus.The human focus was necessary in the first film. You have to introduce your alien robots somehow, and doing so through a simpleton relatable teenager is almost screenwriting 101 for how basic and effective it is. As for the sex jokes, the only mildly crude one I can remember was that incredibly awkward masturbation discourse from Sam's mother, but even that wasn't anywhere close to humping dogs or two characters debating their sex life for a full minute or a cybertronian artifact inside Marky Mark's pants or any of the other cringe-worthy shit in the sequels. All the humor was incredibly tame and sometimes even surprisingly effective in comparison to the originals, there's nothing genuinely horrifying about it.
