7/9/17 Transformers Forced On Me?

    I did not plan on seeing Transformers 4 or 5 or whatever version the 2017 is.  First of all, the commercials were very light, and I think the series is rather weak, when the characters don't really die.  They "jumped the shark when Optimus Prime died in the second movie but was brought back to life.  Megatron the big bad Decepticon keeps getting killed only to find him alive in the next movie, and that just screams a lot of meh.
    This one started in the King Arthur era and apparently the Transformers showed up on the planet around that time instead of when we were taught in the first movie, so they are attempting to make this an origin story.  According to this movie, the Transformers have been around and hidden and even fighting with the side of right all along.  There was a story about Bumblebee helping to fight in World War II, and then Sir Anthony Hopkins gave them a history lesson and showing how the Witwicky line goes back centuries in dealing with Transformers.
    I could get behind this line of thought, but then we have to accept another premise, Optimus Prime has left the planet, went back to Cybertron, his home planet looking for answers or something that did not make sense.  Some flying angel Transformer acting like a god saying I created you is introduced.  She puts Optimus in a trance, and suddenly he is a bad guy.  He heads back to Earth and somehow the planet Cybertron is coming and then we have to believe that Cybertron and Earth have some connection.  Earth growing claws to connect to Cybertron and at some point Earth's molten lava energy is going to be taken by the other planet.
    There is also a staff of highly trained human killers who constantly are taking new Transformers and attacking them.  And for some reason Earth is receiving more Transformers than it can handle.  The whole movie was just too much.  Mark Wahlburg is still the human of interest.  He is about the only one fighting for the robots until he runs into a young girl who turns out to be 14 years old.  Again, what was the point of introducing this character, she's cute, but at 14, who cares?  Mark Wahlburg just has to worry about her and a black kid who is trying to be his assistant, but these characters are just distractions from the story.
    Wife got pissy at me because I kept getting drowsy and according to her, falling asleep.  The story was rather long and all over the place.  The theater in Corpus is not Alamo Drafhouse.  They apparently went to reserved seating without explaining it very good.  We bought tickets and the idiot in the window said all that is available is front row.  We said OK, he didn't say you are seat so and so, we walk into the theater room with 5 minutes left and most of the room is empty.  Wife went up and sat in the middle of the room, since the chairs were fat loungers, I figured I wouldn't mind if someone sat next to me.  Eventually, a lady and her kid came in and made us move, showing us where the seat location was at, on the tickets.  The front seat was way too close to the theater, it made it hard to enjoy the movie.