Yea, Michael Bay has decent enough pacing. It's the characters, the writing, the dialouge, the retarded minority robots and plots that make no sense that bother me. Give Michael Bay a solid script and direction to take an action film and he'll nail it.
For me, Bay is not the issue. He's made creative choices I don't like, but I still wouldn't have enjoyed TF1 if Ridley Scott was the director. The slapstick script sucks, and that's on the writers, and the muddy design of the robots suck, which is probably a mishmash of fault between the film's concept team and edicts from…
Those aren't really good examples. Dinosaurs can't talk. And yet despite this, the CG creations of Jurassic Park were far more menacing than any of the villains in Transformers. The Terminator didn't have a great deal of character development, but then he wasn't really supposed to. Moreover, the rest of the characters in…