At this point, Michael Bay's Transformers franchise is the epitome of cinema excess. After a mostly well received first entry, the Transformers movies went off the rails immediately. Though one moment specifically cemented the Michael Bay Transformers as Hollywoods biggest joke, the following installments did nothing to quell that notion. Should Michael Bay have passed the torch after the first Transformers? Or would they have turned out to be a bloated mess anyway?