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7 Franchises That Hollywood Needs To Stop Milking

Look, we all love the movies. They're a place for passion and creativity to go at it on the big screen, giving us plenty of eye candy and entertainment to relax to for two hours. Heck, with streaming services like Netflix and Hulu providing original content now, we may not even have to drive all the way to the theaters to catch a flick in the future.

1) Transformers

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It’s easy to hate on Michael Bay’s Transformers series, but he doesn’t exactly do much to inspire excitement. As each film is released, it genuinely feels as though Bay has stopped caring to the point where the most recent one, Transformers: The Last Knight, was riddled with inconsistent aspect ratio problems. Those that think that these movies are not his fault need only look at the behind-the-scenes features for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wherein Bay insisted on one of the Transformers having wrecking ball testicles.

Unlike that aforementioned film, however, which managed to be a box office success in spite of its horribleness, Transformers: The Last Knight was an indication that audiences have grown tired of the repetitive animations and trash dialogue. Not only was it the worst reviewed, but also the lowest-grossing in the entire series.

Despite this, Paramount intends to start up a Transformers cinematic universe, starting with the upcoming spinoff Bumblebee next year. As Bay will remain on as a producer (like he did with the critically-derided Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows), the change in directors does not give us much hope. In short: this franchise needs to end.