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Cool.

 

The future of Transformers movies is in their hands. Let us hope they do not fail.

 

Get to work!  

 

Not going to be a well remembered photo if they don't figure out a way to stop making terrible movies set in a ridiculously over-contrived universe.

 

I'm sure it can be done... With a lot of prequels and sequels...

 

Aw,the masterminds.Go for it,I have faith in you!

 

A room full of 18 people will once again, fail where their predecessors have: there is absolutely nothing they can possibly do to get viewers care about the male lead in these moves, ever.

People don't go to transformers movies to watch Shia Lebouef "act" or Mark Walhberg do whatever he does. They go to watch giant robots blow shit up and maybe, if you're an adolescent, some absurdly attractive woman.

We're in a post-lead actor vehicle time in hollywood. Nobody goes to see movies to see Tom Cruise act or whoever else. They go for the plot or more often, the franchise, lead actor be damned. So why do I expect that this room of 18 people will fail to speak truth to power and fill yet another Transformer movie with yet another male lead that the audience will never care about no matter what they possibly do. And the Transformers will get treated as spectacle as always, rather than characters.

What was Mark Walhberg's character even named again?

 

LOLZ, I have no faith that anything good can come from this cesspool "universe."

TIME FOR A REBOOT!

 

agreed its way past time for a reboot.

Make it easy on these writers just use the original concept and imagery and start over.

These movies are not engaging or interesting enough to watch over and over. Bay even made optimus prime boring.

The one thing Prime has always had was Charisma and they literally ripped his charisma's face off in every way. Give him some personality other than anger. ITs like Optimus Prime went from the good fatherly prototype every sat morning to the abusive father prototype who was quiet mostly and prone to fits of rage every so many years on screen

I hope to hell that Hasbro sees that the combiner wars recaptured a bit of the essence of what makes TF cool and that characters being more human like than alien is the way to go. BTW Hasbro considering how well the CW Devastator is going to sell how much do you wish the movie version wasnt that stupid BAY monstrosity lol

 

Totally agree with the above posts, especially StrifeZ's.

And they could get 18 people, but apparently not the right ones. There is a distinct, severe, and painful lack of Simon Furman in that room. Or Bob Budiansky. Or James Roberts/Nick Roche. Or Mairghread Scott. Or literally ANYONE who ever made a significant contribution to the universe.

This is like when I started my current job, and they immediately put me on the phones to answer customer questions without a minute of training. I literally had no idea what I was doing, and customers would call in with questions, and I'd say, "That's a great question, let me find out the answer and get back to you." Except in this case, that response is the equivalent of a three-hour-long, explosion-filled cinematic abortion, the end result of which is still, "I have no idea."

 

It's kind of positive that they're making this sort of effort, but it had to make me laugh that people have been remarking on how Spider-Man is rebooting yet again (though this is due to Marvel taking back the reigns) and how it's had three new beginnings in a single generation, yet Paramount/Hasrbo seem insistent on clinging onto the status quo with Transformers and trying to untangle a mess, when probably few people would complain about a fresh start with new designs that aren't randomly based on human archetypes and have more 'classic' resemblances to the characters, designs that are robotic rather just alien and have more than a fleeting connection to the alt mode, and bringing back the main players that have been already eliminated (not necessarily my own complaints but ones that I know are pretty popular and I can sympathise with).

Putting together a huge writing team and deciding to make a cinematic universe gives them an opportunity and the scope to plan things out and really make something coherent and compelling, but doing it the way they are they're just restricting and constricting themselves because of what has already gone before.

 

A lot of talent there I am getting a glimmer of hope

 

Kirkman isn't in the photo. Unless he shaved everything and lost a lot of weight...

 

I look at these people and feel fucking sorry for the fact that they're continuing an already failed "universe". Sure, the movies made money (accept for the fact the last one had to pander heavily to an whole other country to even get more than half that money), but it's obvious that the General public is becoming sick and tired of transformers movies. Worse still? No one gives a shit about the robot characters. Not even remembers them.

Paramount needs to remove the stick up their ass and just cut it off from the last movies and wait a few years, start a reboot, and never late Michael Bay anywhere NEAR it. This seriously is the only way future TF movies can be successful in the domestic market. Because as this year has proven thus far, the domestic box office is most certainly alive and well.

 

You know what they say about too many cooks...

Or for that matter, how an entire king's army couldn't fix that idiot egg that fell off a wall...

 

So how many people does it take to completely screw up the new movies? Let's count...1...2...3... oh the hell with it they will probably suck regardless

 

The only way to save these movies is either reboot or changing directors.

 

Cade Yeager (Yaeger).