Well we knew that, and I'm aware they not going to disregard everything from the previous films, but from him terming it a stand alone movie as opposed to the first in a new trilogy I'd take that to mean that as well as being different to TF1-3, it's also not going to be tied so closely to TF5 or TF6 in the way that the first 3 were closely connected by Sam's involvement and having Megatron as the antagonist throughout.

 

Just try and tell a decent story for this new trilogy. Stop making each movie so disconnected from each other. The first 2 movies had decent continuity but Rotf and Dotm had practically none.

 

rotf and dotm did had some continuity, like they mentioned Sam being in Egypt, that Sam saved the world twice, Megatron is alive and his blown up face. the Matrix of Leadership

 

Exactly.

The only "bad" continuity between the two films was the lack of mentioning previous characters, like Jetfire's sacrifice, the Acree triplets...

And Jolt, Skids and Mudflap just flat out disappeared.

 

I think Wahlberg is saying a bunch of random stuff (in regards to TF4) in these interviews that really mean nothing. Standalone makes no sense whatsoever considering everything we know about this movie so far.

 

Here are where many will be confused - by 'Standalone' he means it will stand on its own - so you wont need to watch the first three to understand what is happening.

Its still a sequel attempting to reboot the Transformer franchise by getting rid of weaker elements in the previous films (Sam) and it will still follow in the same continuity as the previous movies (Don't expect many mentions though - similar to how after the evens of ROTF very few acknowledged the existence of robots despite the Fallen being on TV) - however it will be able to be watched without previous knowledge of the other movies.

I'd probably liken this most to 'Terminator Salvation' which was stated as being a standalone reboot of the Terminator series - even though its considered a sequel.

For this same reason we can consider the other films in this franchise 'Standalone' as you need to know barely anything to walk into these movies and understand what is happening (Mostly helped by Prime's opening narrative)

 

Agreed, but considering this probably is having to do with Autobots in hiding, I really don't see how a standalone would work out.

 

IMO:
TF 1+2 were not bad. Not very good, but not bad.
Much BoomBoom rather than good stuff...
I actually own movies 1+2 but refuse to buy 3rd movie:

Decepticons can´t fly on their own??? Really? Man...

I´d prefer the story close to G1- Look at the Masterpiece Optimus Prime- WOW  - A G1 design engineered to the next millenium- Why do we have to get the weird headed (if that´s a word) Wheeljack and so?
Has Michael (Bay) ever had a TF toy?
Maybe he´s too old for TF?
He´s only 7 years older than me and I´m still a kid inside  
Certainly I´ll watch 4th movie,we´ll see. Hopefully number 4 is WAY better than 3. To be frank, I even could live without another movie of Bay, even sold all my toys...
But that´s just me

 

You can watch TF1 and DOTM without watching ROTF. I just tell people, Megatron was bright back online and got half his face blown off, that's all you need to know as to why he looks that way in DOTM.

 

exactly. I mean we've seen the "Remember Chicago" sign and we've seen Leadfoot (the other 2 were seen also but no pics) so......disinformation campaign  

 

Standalone doesn't mean reboot. Also, in the same universe as 2 and 3, how can anyone be surprised by a Decepticon attack at this point? How many major cities have been destroyed by them? They're like Godzilla if these are all the same universe. Seal off the city, Decepticons are back.

 

By standalone movie, he doesn't mean that it's not the sequel to DOTM, he's just saying that the way the movie feels is unlike the tone in the previous three

 

This may not be the best comparison but isn't an actor kinda like a floor employee at a department store? It's the one you see, the one you talk with, the one that helps you and appeases the consumers, but also isn't really privileged to the more important corporate information.

 

Apart from the fact that events from the previous movie has always been mentioned. Not quite standalone is it?

Just like how DOTM was going to be more have less toilet humour, more bot screen time, less filler and less parents.

No. Standalone means that the film works on it's own with a self-contained story that doesn't need to be elaborated by the previous films.

 

If it's a standalone then explain Remember Chicago?  

 

Reports show it's a sequel that follows the events several years after the last movie.

Marky Mark: "It's a stand alone movie."

Reports show it's got a lower budget than previous films.

Marky Mark: "It's got the biggest budget of them all."

Reports show Mark Wahlberg is in Transformers 4.

Marky Mark: "I'm having a blast making Go-Bots."

 

your last quote.  .

 

Seriously? You're still pissed about ROTF? What about Dark of the Moon and how it improved on a lot of the problems of ROTF? DOTM had many dark moments, no dog humping, no bud brownies, no farting robots, no racist twins, no robot balls etc etc.

DOTM was a big step in the right direction so this film's tone will probably be the most mature.

 

As long as it's not a new "origin story", I'm fine with it.

's what you get when Michael Bay feeds him answers.

 

A stand-alone movie would be best given how terrible the plot carryover is across the current 3.