The world isn't fair. Micheal Bay fucks up everything he touches yet his movies make a kabillion dollars, while the Wachowski's brilliant but criminally underrated Speed Racer and the amazing Watchmen film struggled to make back their budgets. And the mindless Fast and Furious crapfest is the biggest hit of the year. And the television landscape is overwhelmingly worse still.
Can we just waste about a hundred million or so of the stupidest Americans? Or is that target number too low?
As to the announcement itself, I'm not sure what to think. Yeah, the movie will probably be almost unwatchable, but the merchandising should be good (lots of cool collectibles, yay!) and something good could be spun out of it's success, like maybe a new comic or better still a serious anime. I've long thought the property was ripe for a Batman style grown-up rebirth as something truly badass, maybe if this film makes enough scratch then it might attract enough interest to the property to make it happen.