This sounds awesome. Predator but with robots...especially The Dreads designs being an homage to the greatest hunter ever....I'd dig it.
I've never minded properly armed humans being able to fight Transformers in the live action movies, because it's established in the first movie that much of modern human technology is supposed to have been based on what humanity could learn by examining and reverse engineering Megatron's body during the decades Sector 7 had him in the deep freeze. If modern weapons are supposed to have been derived from Cybertronian tech, it only makes sense they can work on Transformers. At least in the movieverse. And at the time, it was a nice change from humans being good for little more then being kid sidekick or helpless victims and hostages. It was go to see the Autobots fighting side by side with the human military against the Decepticons, and actually being a help. It kind of makes the events of AoE all the sadder to me.
I like the previous trilogy, and I still think that this is what they should have been. Save the human kid and Bumblebee shenanigans for the cartoons, and it would be a dramatic improvement.
I think the humans have generally been handled well and "work" just fine. The problem is that the robots don't tend to work so well...
One thing I've often decried is how it seems there's like 1 good human for every 30 bad humans in the Transformers films. It seems so odd that after all that time the Transformers were on earth, every other person still just think of them as 'big dumb war machines,' or maybe that's just Michael Bay's mentality permeating into each of them. I was just thinking of what 'whats-her-face' said to Cade: "Metal...just metal...that's how I always saw them..." That's like looking at a human being and just going: "a sack of meat...that's all you really are..."
metal that's all they are, hm but isn't that exactly how we would feel about them humans have always had an extreme lack of empathy for anything that wasn't us you don't think most would feel the same way about aliens especially aliens that resemble machines which we always looked at as nothing but a tool to help us the humans are portrayed very realistic almost any teenager would act the way Tessa did, scientist would only see the transformers as a massive experiment to be examined, time wouldn't change this dolphins are highly intelligent but we just see them as another animal monkeys and apes have the potential to be as resourceful as we are we still treat them as simple animals why wouldn't act the same towards an alien species we can't comprehend what they are so we look at them as just machines pieces of technology that is exactly how many would see them that's not a flaw that's very realistic. Bay seems to understand the more nasty side of humanity and has no problem depicting it more often than not more than we would like to see but that is not a bad thing and should not be seen as one aren't the people the exact same way with the heroes in Marvel years in and the government only sees them as tools to be used to their ends why else are we heading for civil war, the same holds true for transformers. While we do have some over the top ones like Judy, Leo, Simmons, Glen, joshua and to an extent Sam, (watch the second half of every movie and you'll notice Sam is very restrained) but others like Lennox, Epps, Galloway, Mearing, Mikela, Carly, Dylon, Attinger, Cade, and Tessa are perfectly normal people in dylon and Attingers case evil people but restrained, even shane acts as i would expect a recently out of high school guy to act i don't like him but he acts like i would expect. So in conclusion i think the humans have worked just fine with each film they are getting rid of the over the top humans and bringing more grounded and relatable ones not always likable but realistic people aren't always likable are they, no neither are these characters but they are especially more recently more relatable.
