Why is "2001: A Space Odyssey" considered such a good movie?

[Kitten Champion]

Bay's Transformers movies aren't aimed at kids. They're aimed at +20 year old men with 80's nostalgia boners and, of course, China. The entire way they're written and shot -- the crude adult humour, the sexualization of their female characters regardless of age, the military pandering and expensive car masturbation, Sam Witwicky as the late-teen-come-20-something-douche-bro protagonist -- these are not indicative of a franchise aimed at children.

TMNT was, presumably, but Bay didn't direct that, it was left to a hack who apes his style under his production company.

Maybe Transformers should have been kids movies, ya'know, like Iron Giant but with a Vietnam allegory at its heart, but they ain't.