When I first heard they were making a live action Transformers movie, I was like YEEEES!!! I watched all 3, sure I didn't care for some of the designs, but they were LIVE ACTION TRANSFORMERS!!!! you can't get any cooler than that! Just watch the movies and let them take you to that wonderful, magical fantasy land. They are movies about giant alien robots, just enjoy!

 

The good thing about film making is since no one has ever made the perfect film things can always get better. Several times it has felt like a superhero film has reached the height of superhero films and it's all down hill from there only to some other superhero movie reach new heights.

With Transformers I feel the only two limits are the imagination of a production crew and budget.

 

Amen!

 

That and they're re-booting much more often. With more forms of entertainment Hollywood likes going for tried things with more built in brand recognition rather then risk something new getting caught under the avalanche of other things competing for people's attention. This leads to them wanting to reboot more, but people tend to go "What your rebooting already?" so that also plays into the "What no! This is totally not a reboot!" advertising.

 

Well. I'd say that their good taste is also a limitation. I mean, you gotta have people who can properly handle such a goofy fucking premise and not just fill it with milporn, male gaze and racism.

 

Except reboot usually means a story starts over all over again and no story or movie before has happened. Like batman, spiderman etc. Which is why Bay is trying to say even though it's a new cast new designs to keep things fresh, events of first three films happened = not a reboot same universe

 

I just want to ask why make a reboot of what worked in the first place? Last TF movie was not that long ago was a major HIT, why not continue with the franchise, only maybe slightly change design, maybe slightly modernize AND keep the beloved characters? Its not a freakin Humphrey Bogart movie from x years ago to need reboot. It needs a good CONTINUATION not redesign. WAY too early for that. Redesign of the bots we got used to and loved would just make them appear strange and make the film a flop. Same with completely new human/ mech characters with the earlier ones not shown like Sam, Megatron to name a few. Even if its the same universe its like your whole family was replaced with other people and youre supposed to believe its them or see theyre not and adjust. Adjust does not mean enjoy, quite the opposite . Same universe doesnt mean the same good film and that equals way less ppl in theaters, way less cash for Mr Bay. It could still be bots, decepticons, humans but in a way that SUCKS. The more I hear about this film the less I feel likely to go see it and so do my TF loving friends. (Unless Megatrons baack haha )

 

If vehicle and robot modes change would make sense story wise after what happened after the last film. Keeps the autobots hidden from distrusting humans, and any future decepticons. Wonder if Bee will be a new car or just a new camero with reversed colors

 

I guess it's made even crazier with the concept of Hollywood will acknowledge some films in franchise while ignoring others. When I was watching Iron Man 3 it seems like there was a good bit of connecting to the first film but other than the wreckage of the Formula One car in the background the movie just sort of ignored the second film.

Even with Transformers it seems like Dark of the Moon tried to connect to the first movie while hardly touching on Revenge of the Fallen except for Sam saying things like he saved the world twice.

 

I definitely want Bay out of this franchise after TF4