Well, I was actually just thinking the other day about what if the films were instead directed by the fellas that directed Independence Day or The Day After Tomorrow or maybe even Twister? You know, those films from the 90's and early 2000's that we know and love. The danger was usually a natural disaster approaching or an alien race invading. And yes, film tricks and big-budget visuals were still a pretty big part of their success but they also had a lot of charm because they were character driven too. I really loved Twister. I just thought it might be interesting what the outcome would be if they sacked Michael Bay and replaced him with a director more like that. But it'll never happen of course. Just thinking out loud here.
I'm thinking a "disaster director" would make the TFs seem even more alien and focus even more on the humans. The current TF movie trajectory has been involving the TFs as characters more and more...
I don't want a TF reboot now because it'll lessen my already nonexistent chances of being able to direct a TF reboot in the near future (and by near future, I mean at least 10-20 years)
I understand what your saying, totally agree with your thoughts on the toyline as there's no f**king Western Star Voyager Optimus Prime! I would love to see a G1 focused reboot that's maybe based on Cybertron just with very good Animation like the War/Fall of Cybertron games (would pay for a movie like them games) but to be honest, let's see it out first with this creator storyline and possibly TF6 as I thought AOE bought back a lot of character into the robots which has been missing since the first. But hey, this thread is have healthy debate! I think before a reboot, try a different director.
Not a fan of the live action films and would love a reboot, but it would be too early to reboot something so soon. Give the fans who like the movies tf5 and 6. Then in 35 years hope Paramount sell their rights to another studio, and Ehren has retired.
I would rather save my money now the fourth movie sucked and from what I keep hearing about what Bay intends to do with the 5th he can keep it I am not going to see it or anything else from him and that sucky writer of his.
For me I guess it would depend on how they did the reboot. I liked the Incredible Hulk because it didn't do the origin story all over again. While I liked Amazing Spider-Man, I didn't really care for the origin story. I would have preferred they did it more like the Hulk where they kind of picked up the story from where the last movie left off but more or less retconned things. For TFs, though, I'm loving the movies and would prefer they just continue the story.
Well with or without Bay his ending for Age of Extinction is setting up for Transformers 5 and 6. It maybe Bay or a new director but either way the story is going to continue, remember this is the start of the new trilogy. Here's the interview about it: 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' will set up a new trilogy | Inside Movies | EW.com
Stopped reading after this. Although I caught the last part... People say this as if it is the solution to all problems. What capable director on this earth is a hardcore, passionate Transformers fan? I sure can't think of any. Now imagine if we have a mediocre director that is in absolute love with Transformers. They might put a lot of goodies in there but as a movie it will suck.
I think they had a chance at a reboot before AOE, now it's too late. Even with a new director I don't think critics and general film buffs want to have to sit through anymore Transformer movies. Even though they are probably going to have to anyway. Even with a better, less hated directer, the overall concept isn't cool anymore. Bay successfully killed it for a lot of people like myself. They'd have to put out a crazy super Geewunnie goof ball Transformers movie set in the 80s, for anyone to be able to look at it differently then they do now, and I'd rather not see that happen, cause that'd just be stupid in a completely different way...People would probably eat it up though.
