Now with a movie a movie like “Transformers” the plot is basically giant fighting robots. If a person cannot suspend disbelief in order to enjoy it's probably best that they stay home.
Suspension of disbelieve though is dependent on the story itself. If I were to see “Superman” about a flying-superhero then everything is okay. I go into the theater knowing the movie is about a flying superhero. But let's say the movie I'm seeing is a James Bond movie and suddenly Bond is able to fly faster than a speeding bullet and leap tall buildings with a single bound. At that point my ability to suspend disbelief is shattered and I can no longer enjoy the movie as I'm stuck in “wtf mode”.
When I saw “Armageddon” and a space shuttle maneuvering like a jet fighter through an asteroid field, then trying to land on a moving asteroid covered with stalagmites I might just as well have been seeing James Bond using his X-Ray vision and superhuman strength to defeat the bad guys.
I’m not gonna defend Armageddon on a reality basis because the whole point of it is not really to show a realistic asteroid colliding with earth, I look at it more as a character study on how people react to a disaster. I get teared up every single time Liv Tyler talks to Bruce Willis for the last time. Music is great, drama is great, effects are great, cinematography is great. It’s a feel good movie. I felt good afterwards. Here’s the kicker, I AM a movie snob. I can tell you why a movie is good or is not good from a variety of perspectives and I know why TF2 is “bad” but I think that is missing the point. It’s like complaining that baseball is not basketball and you are an authority because you are a sports critic. But yeah, if an asteroid the size of Texas was coming at us, just get your house in order.