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Post by Bomblast on Oct 3, 2015 19:04:06 GMT -5
So apparently there's going to be another 4 movies over the next 10 years. link
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Oct 4, 2015 11:51:40 GMT -5
How many will Bay direct?
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Post by Hoist on Oct 5, 2015 8:44:02 GMT -5
Hopefully not many, personally I feel they need to go in a direction as they're synonymous with bring in characters with little to no screen time and then killing them off or killing them in the next movie. They can't just keep repeating the same old formula. SO my opinion is these stories better be decent.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2015 14:05:40 GMT -5
Well, supposedly Bay isn't even directing the fifth movie. In fact, a lot of places seem to be saying he will only be helping putting in some ideas or some things with production but have no real direct say in what happens this time around. Whether this extends to future films isn't exactly clear.
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Post by Bomblast on Oct 5, 2015 14:30:21 GMT -5
According to the link I posted, Bay is doing the fifth movie, but no mention of the others. As for the writers, hmm, could be something. Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) is a favourite of mine, but how he'll do a TF movie is another matter.
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Post by Hoist on Feb 14, 2016 9:29:47 GMT -5
With filming in May I've watched a few videos on how to make the films better - now keep in mind I never bothered to see Extinction. I should look it up on Netflix and that'll decide whether I'm done with them or not. I'll also state that I just enjoyed them (Apart from ROTF) for what they are just 2 hours of entertainment. We all have ideas on how to make the films better but what are your thoughts. - No Bay - I didn't mind Dark Of The Moon but clearly Bay's done with Transformers from what I hear about Extinction it's not enough to make me want to see it. It'll be the same old stuff as will be mentioned in the next points again and again no matter what he promises. This really needs to be the very last Bay TF movie.
- Better Writers - This about says it all and does link in with Bay, but it's because of being just a 2 hour explosion film with babes and bad dialogue and character development that the writers do need to change instead of serving up the same old, same old. It needs IMO to be a bit more serious (Alot) that rather aimed at the teen-pop culture audience it's obviously aimed at just to make mega-money.
- Introducing characters/No Development/Killing them off - This is a biggie don't introduce a character and then give them little to no character development or let alone kill them of straight away or in the next movie where they're practically a background character. Q, Jolt Arcee & the bikers, the list goes on and on. Only bring in a character if you're actually going to see develop theme throughout the film.
- Humans with perfect anti-TF weapons/Humans killing off TF's - At least in the first movie Megatron was killed by "The cube", however even from the first film by the end of it there's military weapons that stop the TF's, by film three we get stupidity like the way Starscream was killed by Sam like a bad cartoon scene. It can be argued by TF2 (ROTF) and Sector 7 what was left of it they had developed anti-TF weapons but that's still pretty damn quick, too quick. Rockets and weapons with fire and the TF's go down if the humans so much as sneeze at the, at least in DOTM there was a bit more of a threat with Shockwave's giant worm thing.
- Repeating Megatron/Galvatron phantasm - How many times can they do it? I'd actually hate if they did bring in Unicron next because it's so expected, as well as over-done it'll be a disappointment in whatever guise he took. There's plenty of others they can use for villains.
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Feb 14, 2016 10:11:11 GMT -5
I think if there was more focus on actually Transformers and their lore, like the elements from the show and the comics, then we'll have better movies. Or just pull in the ppl making today's TF comics and games to do the story.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 12:54:47 GMT -5
I honestly think they did a bit better in Extinction and from what it looks like they are setting it up for the Quintessons to make an appearance in the franchise. Honestly, I think that would be a better course then Unicron, mainly because the idea was scrapped once since rumor was he was meant to be in DOTM but obviously that didn't happen and honestly I think our resident chaos-bringer has been overdone. Sure it's been done differently and so far my two favorites are the original Transformers series use of him with what little I've seen, still want to get my hands on the 1986 film, and the Prime version but still seems overdone.
Now, I still hear a lot that Bay might be dropping out of this franchise and someone else is taking over. Not sure if that's still true but guess we'll see and I honestly think with all the characters they've killed they are trying to set it up for characters who they think are actually major, although I think it sucks they killed off a lot of them without much development overall with the characters. But fully agree they need more focus on the Transformers then humans, especially all the innuendos. A few here and there is fine but just not every five minutes in the movie.
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Post by Hoist on Feb 14, 2016 13:51:17 GMT -5
I think if there was more focus on actually Transformers and their lore, like the elements from the show and the comics, then we'll have better movies. Or just pull in the ppl making today's TF comics and games to do the story. I think you right I saw one argument in favor of TF prime but another against saying they had more time. My thought was yeah maybe more time (Unsubstantiated) but probably a lot less writers than a film and I thought TF Prime was a really good series. I honestly think they did a bit better in Extinction and from what it looks like they are setting it up for the Quintessons to make an appearance in the franchise. Honestly, I think that would be a better course then Unicron, mainly because the idea was scrapped once since rumor was he was meant to be in DOTM but obviously that didn't happen and honestly I think our resident chaos-bringer has been overdone. Sure it's been done differently and so far my two favorites are the original Transformers series use of him with what little I've seen, still want to get my hands on the 1986 film, and the Prime version but still seems overdone. Now, I still hear a lot that Bay might be dropping out of this franchise and someone else is taking over. Not sure if that's still true but guess we'll see and I honestly think with all the characters they've killed they are trying to set it up for characters who they think are actually major, although I think it sucks they killed off a lot of them without much development overall with the characters. But fully agree they need more focus on the Transformers then humans, especially all the innuendos. A few here and there is fine but just not every five minutes in the movie. In response to both I have finally seen Age Of Extinction. Well it was better than ROTF but I don't think it was as good as DOTM IMO. 15 minutes in we have the whiny teenage daughter and I was already making up a "Fan Edit" in my head, and then there was what happened to ratchet. You're right TC for me too many innuendos teen humor and romance. The film did have some good merits but I can take or leave Lockdown, was bored of Drift within 5 minutes and was only really liking Hound. The Dinobots were them in name only other than that just non-speaking mechanical dino-robots. A major flaw was all the red clones in the ending battle it was almost hard to tell which was Stinger and which wasn't until the getting on "Swoop/not swoop"'s back. You're right they might be setting up for Quintessons but if fans wanted it you can bet it wouldn't happen. I would rather that than Unicron also overused in the toons (Also Armada and I'm not sure he was even needed in Prime), so done to death he has become stale. AOE had some good points but a lot was same old, same old. I think the only way the fans are going to get a non-Earth film is after Bay has left the Franchise.
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Post by Rail on Feb 15, 2016 18:12:05 GMT -5
I just want the Transformers to look like giant alien robots, not overly humanised like Drift, Hound, and Lockdown. The first two movies were best in that regard. And what the heck with OP's new armour look? Truk, not space knight. I'd almost prefer the G1 brick formers.
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Post by Bomblast on Feb 15, 2016 18:31:25 GMT -5
After reading up on the IDW comics, I would love to see a film about Rodimus and the crew of The Lost Light. But then it runs a risk of being labelled as "Star Trek with Transformers".
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Post by Bomblast on Feb 17, 2016 13:18:13 GMT -5
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Post by Jazzman Crothers on Feb 17, 2016 13:34:20 GMT -5
I wonder if Bee will actually start talking in tha movie.
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Post by Bomblast on Feb 17, 2016 14:01:35 GMT -5
Well, seeing as he started talking at the end of the first one, and Ratchet in ROTF said he wasn't talking because he was sulking (or something like that) I'm gonna guess no.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2016 14:26:21 GMT -5
Haven't they been talking about that spin-off for what a few years now? Thought I saw something about it back during when Revenge of the Fallen happened but can't exactly remember where.
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