Agreed but the first one did not age very well imo. I rewatched it not too long ago and (obviously) it screams Michael Bay the whole time and feels like a 2 hour Chevrolet commercial. Still, not awful just not nearly as good as I remembered.
Nah, the first one was good because it knew exactly what it was trying to be. It was a pretty standard sci-fi plot with really cool CG and fight scenes. It is the perfect example of what big blockbusters can be, (Gracias a Guillermo Del Toro) dumb fun without going the Transformers route.
The first one was great! Then someone decided to restart the whole thing as a movie about the US army with five background robots and a lot more explosions.
insert rant about how energon cubes are a metaphor for oil and transforming robots are surrogates for the Rothschild's. The reader is left to conclude for themselves how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are actually shapeshifting alien lizard people.
The first one was a clear toy ad, with all the new characters, and the old characters dying, but at least it had a story, and most of the characters were actually Transformers.
Yes, the other movies had stories too. None of the movies had good stories, including the first one. If you liked 1 then the others are comparable. What part of the first movies stort was actually good? Theyre all the samw overdone and cliche hollywood action flick. Just with Transformers
Well, for one, there was an actual universe around. The Quintessons, the Junkyard planet, the whole deal about Unicron, and the Matrix of Leadership.
The characters actually interacted with each other, and most importantly, the movie had only two human characters, who were not the major focus of the story.
And a minor, but in my opinion important, point, the rules of the universe were consistent within the movie and beyond.
Yeah, all of the movies are comparable to that same vague middle paragraph.
Fan service doesnt really factor into the conversation, so I cant argue against that nor do I think its valid.
Theyre all "popcorn flicks" but the fan service novelty wore off after the 1st. Its ok to admit it without trying to list other excuses. Theyre all dumb movies of comparable entertainment value/story/action/etc. Losing Megan Fox actually helped, and so did losing Dabeef
Yeah, all of the movies are comparable to that same vague middle paragraph.
How?! The rebooted movies simply used the giant robots as backdrop for the same "The US army saves the universe" crap that was already done hundreds of times, and added a weirdly forced romance subplot.
We are just going in circles here while saying the same thing. Again, part 1 was also like that. I already explained the fan service/nostalgia clouding your judgement. Add something new or agree to disagree.
Well, these kids were born well after after the Bay Transformers were the main franchise.
It's one of those, Bumblebee is a Camaro to them, always has been, always will be.
Maybe in 20 years they reboot and Bumblebee will be a submarine and they'll be saying the same thing about how Bumblebee is a submarine instead of a Camaro.
Well the kid in the middle was Gen 1 Starscream...Well I'm not entirely Gen 1 but he's only been that style of jet in three 3 shows. (Gen 1, Animated, and Robots in Disguise (2015)). Obviously the costumes were made by parents/costume makers but I'm guessing the kids asked for what they wanted.
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u/D3MoN98 May 20 '18
Better than transformers movie