I'm going to enjoy disneys falling out with Hasbro. When this movie, makes more than Avengers and Star wars for no other reason than bays magic formula that has enamored global appeal.

I mean technically age of extinction I think was the most entertaining of the four. Its just too long, All the china scenes diverge attention from resolveing anything and
the details of the space knights and dinobots are revealed and resolved too quickly at the end.

We already knew we were getting another transformers movie and it would be in the style of those bay movies anyway. Better the devil you know than the one you don't.

 

Delusion comes in all flavors today.

 

Soooooo, you're predicting TF5 will be the biggest grossing film of all time?

 

I know the new Star Wars hasn't actually claimed this honor yet, but it's now shattered domestic records and may well be on it's way to claiming that title.

 

This will be without a doubt the most hilarious statement I read all day. Kudos.

 

arrr... what?  

 

Specificly that 2017 will be the year of Transformers 5, Guardians of the galaxy 2, Thor Ragnorok, another spider man movie, and Star Wars Episode 8.

Its going to really be interesting if Hasbro can maintain the toy licenseing for all that. On top of GIJoe 3 going for 2017 as well.

And by "going to enjoy the falling out with Hasbro" I meant that sarcasticly. That would be pretty tragic if marvel legends and star wars toys stopped happening from the guys who have been doing it for so long. But more of Disney being so big right now off of star wars. That they forgot what a juggernaut even the terrible transformers movies have been in selling movie tickets and merchandise. That Disney does not have a perfect monopoly. Hasbro and Paramount in this instance is a competitor. That can put a major big budget culturally recognized brand in theaters.

 

Get outta here with your optimism and reason. There's no room for any of that noise in this thread, I tellsya!  

Admittedly AOE was a chore to sit through and my wife, upon hearing the news that Bay was returning for TF5, blatantly told me that she'll refuse to watch it in theaters so if I wanted to watch it, I'd have to do so alone. Can't say I blame her for her reaction (she's a fan herself and really loved the first film but hated each sequel more and more). Guess I'll wait for it to come out on DVD, in that case. But no hard feelings against Bay. I'm more interested in the toys anyway.  

 

Perhaps it's Igor? He was originally one of the Long Haul troopers, until he lost his body, the cloak could be Megatron's DOTM one, perhaps he's a headmaster?

Your attitude's not much better, tbh.

 

and so my boycott continues.

Fine for those that like these movies but "Directed by Michael Bay" is high on the list of reasons I don't watch the live action Transformers movies. As long as he is at the helm I shall be voting with my wallet. I know they didn't need my money and the movies contribute towards the health/wealth of the brand, and for that I'm thankful, but is it too much to ask for them to be good?

 

watch the 6th transformer movie come out and him say for that one "well this is the last one"
Buts seriously these movies are getting really old, really fast

 

bay Bay is Back
You Know he is Gonna Go Over the the top with the
BAVERSE  
A can see it now, a entire city block transforming into a BAVERSE Metroplex with explosions and all  
New writers a bigger budget the next transformers movie will be the greatest movie of all times  

 

Another few years of bay taking shots at fans and making crap  

 

Define "fast." It's been a decade.

 

Bay returning can only mean 1 thing:

Time to stay out of the movie forums.

 

Just do a reboot already. Will the dinobots be back for more than ten minutes of the film or will gigantic robotic dinosaurs still just be roaming the planet free

 

I along with some am not surprised. I mean, let's face it - Michael Bay is the Emerson, Lake and Palmer of filmmakers. Pompous, bourgeois, overblown, hamfisted. But he's honest about it with a heart on his sleeve and a bulge in his trousers...

... Actually lets not go there.

Anyway, whether I'm disappointed or not, bring it on.

 

I think for the movies the big question is not if they are on par with a rushed cartoon series from the 80's made to sell toys or even on par with any of the comic books. Being like the cartoons or being like the comic books is the nostalgia factor not the what's the over all quality factor.

Where Transformers is falling short is comparing what Paramount is doing compared to what all the other studios are doing. When you get comparing the new big films from other studios to Transformers, GI Joe, Star Trek, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at least to me it feels like other studios are doing better stuff.

I think fatigue is getting to be a factor as well. I loved reading the Hobbit from childhood and even as an adult I'll go back to the book. I loved Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies. But I just couldn't love the three Hobbit movies because it was just too much of the same. I think the only reason I've stuck with the super hero movies is they aren't all too much alike.

 

Fair enough. But the most common complaint I see is that the movie's are sh*tting on someone's childhood, by not being close enough to x or changing something from y.

And the "rushed cartoon series" (or one of the rushed following series) is the reason a very large portion of us -- I'm going to go out on a limb and say the majority of us -- are here and fans of the franchise in the first place. So why be forgiving of things in one place but unforgiving of the same things in another? Yeah, lots of explosions with wafer-thin characters and overarching plots that don't really quite hold together. Sounds like just another day of Transformers to me.

 

Sigh...

 

I don't hate them, nor Bay, but they're terrible films with some some really, really questionable material (the guy that keeps a statutory rape card in his wallet, for instance). I can accept that some people can enjoy them as dumb popcorn flicks, but they're as formulaic as the Final Destination series, and drag on way, way too long.