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Through the Wormhole (2010)
Very poor - visually OK but intellectually dishonest and weak
Circular reasoning, tautologies, you name it - all in the name of walking 'a line between' science and religion.
The claims, suppositions and assumptions of the scriptwriters are puerile to say the least.
The entire series pushes people towards the possibility of the 'intelligent design' theory of creationism rather than expressing the wonder of the universe through truth - scientific progress and knowledge from the ancient Greks and Egyptians, through Copernicus and Newton to Einstein and Hawking.
It was definitely scared of offending those whose minds are hobbled by religion - so much so that it makes no mention of the fact that basic evolutionary theory and proof (e.g. the evolution of the eye) destroys the creation and the intelligent design fallacies.
Also it avoids the destruction of creationism (a universe <7000 years old) through basic astronomy, the visible universe and the nature of light and its speed.
All of these are irrefutable but the entire series avoids anything like this in favor of puerile Disneyland New Age mysticism, intellectual cowardice and pseudoscience.
The graphics were nice and that is the only thing that got it 1 mark out of 10 - otherwise it would be a zero.
With TV science programs like this I can now understand why evolution is not taught in American schools - pathetic.
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
don't pay for this
Clichéd, formulaic, moronic.
Even the action sequences and the transformation animations are very old hat.
Sitting through it was actually painful.
Far and away the worst of as poor series.
Evil government guys and evil corporate guys in league with bad robots (at least this is plausible - little else is)
Bad robot wants to destroy the Earth.
Good robots stop them.
We all live happily ever after.
Wow - really challenging story-line.
No sad old tropes wheeled out here, eh?
NOT
Save your money, unless you have an IQ lower than that required to use cutlery (in which case you should really enjoy this movie).