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Re: Transformers Franchise: Has it Run It's Course?

The success of these films is really quite baffling.

Is it just the special effects that draw audiences? Because, other than that, they're all shitty movies.

It's like they're one half "American Pie" knock-offs, and the other half big robots beating the shit out of each other.

The storylines are incomprehensible.

But what really gets me is just how poorly done the Transformers characters are. They're all indistinguishable from each other. They all look like big anthropomorphic heaps of scrap metal; I can't really tell one from another. And, aside from Optimus Prime, they don't really have any kind of personality... they're just sort name-checked from the older cartoon and toy line.

And none of them have fucking faces... It's hard to make any kind of connection with the Transformers characters because they don't have faces. There's kind of a vague head and eyes and mouth to most of them, but to see any kind of actual face in them feels like looking for bunny rabbits and sail boats in clouds... it's sort of there if you squint and try hard, but all of the Transformers, even if they're "good guy" Autobots all look like monsters. They're what I would expect the Shrike from Hyperion to look like, not characters I'm supposed to feel some kind of bond with.

Re: Transformers Franchise: Has it Run It's Course?

If they go in the direction that the end of the film seems to indicate

Spoiler:

, I am interested.

Last time the franchise went into space, it was Transformers: Energon, which didn't get a very warm reception.

Re: Transformers Franchise: Has it Run It's Course?

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Originally Posted by N2DVD (Post 12156591)

If they go in the direction that the end of the film seems to indicate

Spoiler:

, I am interested.

Is that spoiler a joke? I didn't see the movie yet.

Re: Transformers Franchise: Has it Run It's Course?

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Originally Posted by Iron_Giant (Post 12153468)

I have enjoy they Trans movies, except for a few minutes in the 2nd movie.

Looking forward to seeing the movie with my son. The last 2 movies were panned by the critics, after watching them both in IMAX, my son and I turned to each other and said "What were the talking about".

I go to movies to be entertained, and that be many different forms: Action, comedy, Sci-Fi, Time Travel (My fav), romance (wife loves to go to these with me), animation...
-Transformers gives me Action, Sci-Fi, little comedy and a little romance (with Fox, not that other blond...she was the worse part of the 3rd movie).

Some, not all, get on the band wagon of hating a movie because it is popular and they let their views be known. All that is OK, but their seems to be a ton of people that still enjoy TF movies.

Wow. I think they are completely unwatchable and offer nothing other than sleep inducing tedium. Nothing interesting for me in these movies on any level.

Re: Transformers Franchise: Has it Run It's Course?

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Originally Posted by DaveyJoe (Post 12154127)

And I hope that Hollywood enacts a new rule where every film must be directed by Christopher Nolan.

Wow. That would suck. Nolan is the most overrated hack. I might stop watching movies entirely.

Re: Transformers Franchise: Has it Run It's Course?

Wow, someone likes something you don't.

Re: Transformers Franchise: Has it Run It's Course?

I'm going to go take a shit now.

Re: Transformers Franchise: Has it Run It's Course?