TFW Age of Extinction User Reviews (Post all reviews here) (Assume SPOILERS)

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  1. Starscreamownz

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    Iunno we never had generic bots before. Why start now.

    Leadfoot may have been killed before KSI started cannibalizing their parts to make new transformers.
     
  2. TFSLC

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    Saw it Sunday night. Some major issues:

    Leadfoot: No way Leadfoot goes out like a punk. The Wreckers are ornery SOB's. He would have taken out the humans instead. "no please, I'm an Autobot". No way he says that. He just kills them all. I can see how and why Ratchet died the way he did... but not a Wrecker like Leadfoot.

    Hound: Even though everyone has already said this... should'a been Bulkhead. That wasn't Hound in any way. And although he was fun, totally cliche stock character.

    Galvatron: Sucked about as bad as the original did. Just a Megatron knock-off.

    Optimus/Grimlock taming scene... did anyone really buy that?

    One last thing...

    Lucky Charms car: Did they or did they not allude to him being a Transformer? He looked like he leaked energon in his opening when he flew through the air, and Lucky Charms says at one point something like "I don't know how I'm driving this well." Seriously, wasn't his car a TF?!?!?
     
  3. MasterZero

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    Lockdown could have been blasting him just off camera. And Lockdown was tough enough to nearly kill Prime.

    After having seen the movie, I really don't feel he matched with Bulkhead either. The military alt mode was a bigger version of Hound's old jeep mode, and Bulkhead has never had a military alt mode, and never did Hound show to have super strength (at least, no more than a normal Transformer), a necessity when being Bulkhead.

    That, and Hound was much more focused on guns than hand to hand stuff that Bulkie does.

    What do you mean?
     
  4. JackWheel

    JackWheel JackWheel FTW

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    I enjoyed it. I felt like it was way too long however. It was nice to see the Autobots interact with each other, but there was a lack of Decepticons in this one(I actually miss Starscream?!). I'm excited for the next one, and I'm hoping that it takes place in space, and departs from the human storyline that's been set up.

    Side note: I wish bumblebee would have at least mentioned Sam W., considering he began crying in ROTF when Sam left for college
     
  5. Wheeljack30

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    Went to see TF4 last night, and my little nephew almost cried when they killed Ratchet, he even whispered "Ratchet NOOOOOO". But has anybody else noticed that Galvatron looks like TF Prime Predacons Rising Megatron?

    Also what happened in that 4 year gap between DOTM and AOE, what turned the humans against the Autobots, but yet they don't shoot at Lockdown. Even Attinger says "The Age Of The Transformers It's Over" but still lets Lockdown walk free
     
  6. Snoopy Magnus

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    yup, that was one of my major erks of the final fight scene. it just seemed like it was thrown togheter for the sake of it being what it was. if it was a time thing, they could have easily went back, took out many parts of the movie that did not need to be there (lucky charms and the annoying daughter) and give more of a story/reason for the alliance of optimus and the dinobots. but all we got was optimus bitch slapping grimlock and the riding him off into the sunset. weak
     
  7. Cro

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    The female character is given a chance to be more of a complex character. The other characters feel like real people and not caricatures, and so many are actually given a good lot of screentime to develop and show off actual individual plotlines. Even small-time characters are given personality in the middle of everything else - such as the scientist who is irreverent enough to eat donuts and do what we all know scientists actually do and have fun with his creation when nobody's looking.

    The offensive humor has finally been toned way down, and the writing made less reliant on things people would already know from other franchises. Things which are not explained now have it made clear that they are hooks for explanations that will come in the next film/s. We got to see little bits of Cybertronian life that are not generally given a chance in other movies because they don't directly relate to the war on Earth, such as the strange beasts on Lockdown's ship, and to have hints about just how wide and populated by other species the movie universe really is.

    They spent a hell of a lot more time on the robots and the inside of the ship, bringing more of an equilibrium to the movie and having it be less of a "humans are the show while the robots just slap each other around in the background" kind of deal. Yes, the effects suffered a little bit in places in response because of the need to balance budget against everything they wanted to give screentime, but I am no less happy for it. The Cybertronians themselves finally have a chance to become real characters as well, interacting and showing us who they are at length.

    They approach the after-effects of the Chicago battle in a way that we understand to be very possible in our modern age based on how we have reacted to other events and take quiet jabs at said era of paranoia in the process, which I thought was interesting as well.

    There are some editing errors or some things that could have been tightened up/explained a little better. I'll grant that.

    But on the whole I enjoyed watching this film far, far more than I did any of the other three - and that's taking into account that most of my favorites were in the third.
     
  8. Razorbeak7

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    Finally saw it. I think I had higher expectations than I should have, this is Bay after all. It probably doesn't help that I kind of zoned out during several parts of it and may have missed some plot points. My main problem with it is that I totally agree that it was waaay too long.

    On the other hand, though, the parts that were awesome were awesome. The Dinobots had a smaller role than I had hoped, but that doesn't matter too much to me because they were every bit as cool as I was expecting. I also wasn't expecting them to leave so much unresolved at the end, but I guess it makes sense since TF5's already been confirmed.
     
  9. Wheeljack30

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    The scene where Optimus goes to join with the other Autobots in the canyon, it looks like the same place where the Autobots had the base in Jasper, Nevada in TF Prime
     
  10. Decepticons

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    Another reason I love those scenes.
     
  11. RustyPrimeTF4

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    Actually I can tell you (assuming no one has said this before), the transformation made it clear that something was wrong with Optimus as pieces are falling off of him he is violently waving his gun around in the barn and the fact that he is not trusting the humans at all, think Jetfire from ROTF except way more violent.
     
  12. RustyPrimeTF4

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    I'm a new user by the way, but yeah I totally agree with that, I mean I understand why they did it but I hope in the next movies that Galvatron and any other Decepticons transform the normal way rather than the molecular teleporting that it was here but you have to admit, it did lead to a pretty funny scene where Bumblebee shoots Galvatron and is just dumbfounded by how he merely just teleports away after falling to pieces.
     
  13. Rusty24

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    I don't think Lockdown ever intended to stay on Earth. He just wanted to collect his bounty and leave. To get that bounty, he had to do what Lockdown does best; hunt down and terminate other Transformers. Attinger didn't want the Cybertronians on our planet, and Optimus pretty much called it home at the end of the last movie.
     
  14. Cyber Star

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    I loved it! I thought I was going to hate it with all the flack the critics were saying about it. My favorite of the four films, slightly beating out the 1st.

    Likes:
    • The human cast. They all did a great job. I didn't find any of them annoying or useless for once.
    • The 5 autobots. They showed up early in the film and all got enough time to really get know them. Previous films didn't give that much focus to the others besides Bumblebee and Optimus. Hound, Drift, and Crosshairs were great picks and I love their voices/personalities.
    • The darker side of Optimus and the major character development he got. I'd be pissed off too if my comrades were being killed off one by one after all that work to protect the humans.
    • The humor didn't seem forced or excessive. No more potty humor such as the dog humping (TF2), weird bathroom scene (TF3), etc. I laughed a lot during the film.
    • The autobots not really being all that disciplined for once.
    • Lockdown I think is the best villian we've had so far. Loved him a lot.

    Indifferent:
    • The dinobots seemed like an after thought, but I didn't like or hate them.
    • The film had scenes that could have been cut to make the film shorter, but they weren't bad and didn't ruin the movie.

    Dislikes:
    • That bum Galvatron.
     
  15. RustyPrimeTF4

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    The humans turned against the Autobots after the Chicago battle, you see while the Autobots did indeed succeed in taking down the Decepticons, the Chicago fight left thousands of humans dead and thousands more without jobs and homeless due to all of the property damage, and keep in mind that the Autobots were still on their way back to the surface inside the Xantium's fuel cell, so needless to say the humans stopped trusting the Transformer so the military ended the alliance with the Autobots but they were only supposed to make them leave, (SPOILERS FOR AOE BEYOND THIS POINT) From what I can gather, Harold Attinger made a deal with Lockdown, a bounty hunter that was neither Autobot or Decepticon, to help them hunt the Transformers on Earth and in return they would help him capture Optimus Prime and that the inventor Joshua Joyce would get the Seed, a device that could allow him to make more cybertronian metals, Lockdown agreed and said that he would only leave when he has Prime. Attinger wouldn't attack Lockdown because he was aware of how he was already intending on leaving once the deal is done and when he said that the age of the Transformers is over he actually means that the age of the Transformers from Cybertron are over and that after this he was going to retire from the CIA and make soulless drones with Joyce at KSI in order to pursue "world peace", hope this clears the problem up :) 
     
  16. GogDog

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    No.

    Attinger didn't attack Lockdown because he had the Seed. Attinger wanted the Seed to give to KSI. KSI would then make tons of Transformium. KSI would make tons of Drones. People would buy a lot of Drones. KSI makes a lot of money. Attinger sits back on Millions for the rest of his life.

    Also you do realize they aren't actually supposed to be hunting Autobots, right? That's why they didn't want the Yeagers to leak the story.
     
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    What did Lockdown intended to do with Optimus once he captured him and had him in a cell on the ship? Bring him back to Cybertron and let him face justice?
     
  19. MasterZero

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    Cybertron's destroyed.

    He wanted to bring Prime to the Creators. For what for? Watch Transformers 5
     
  20. Sound Blaster

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    Why do people hate Galvatron???

    After all of the complaining that Welker didn't get to voice Megatron we get Frank now and people think he sucks...In almost Every TF comics,cartoon etc. Megatron has gone on to become Galvatron so what's the problem?