Amph The Transformers. More than meets the eye!

That's what I've been saying all along. It is sad when a cartoon designed to sell toys does a better job of it than four live action films.

 

Is that all Red Letter Media is? I'm more entertained by this...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jmKo7US0Kw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoe1p_NrFwg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ORoPgZLeuc

Warning on the language.

 

I think the best take-down is from the Dissolve's review:

 

Glad I wasn't planning on seeing this movie in the first place, even before I heard about the ridiculous run-time of nearly three hours. Three movies was already two movies too much. First one wasn't great, but it was definitely better than everything since. Though those toy designs do look kind of nice, but that's probably because they're not the awful CG the live-action movie uses. Look at the Prime cartoon, they had influences from the movies in their designs but all of their characters are actually recognizable from each other!

I've been keeping up with MTMTE, although the "second season" hasn't been as fun as the first season was so far. Slightly annoyed to see some of the characters backsliding after the character development of the first season, but guess that's a continuing series for you. Funny how much stuff they packed into the Dark Cybertron crossover. The main plot moved along slowly, but it allowed a lot of characters to finally meet up, and Dark Cybertron's events definitely have a big effect on the Lost Light's current crew. Usually those kind of crossovers put most of the normal plots on hold (such as every event tie-in comic from Marvel or DC) then after the event its back to the (usually better) normal plot.

Its sad when a TV cartoon and a comic are more entertaining and higher quality than an explosion marathon like the live-action movies. The fact that they throw so much money at the movies (and they make so much money, considering the live-action franchise is still going) would leave me more depressed about people's tastes if I weren't already so cynical.

 

So presumably the "Transformers branded as fugitives" in the fallout from DOTM explains why Bumblebee is no longer with Sam? I had a feeling there wouldn't be any sort of explanation given onscreen.

 

You know the voice actor who does Optimus Prime is so old I bet he is a grandpa by now. I bet he must be the awesome grandpa. I mean what kinds of adventures and battles do you think kids will get into with Grandpa Prime leading the way.

I can only imagine what fun Saturday Night Live would have with him.

 

No use pointing out missed opportunites 2nd. The Transformers films are a missed opportunity altogether.

 

One of the reviews I read mentioned that. Although honestly, that's nothing new for the live-action movies. Long, dragged out affairs and while they supposedly throw in named characters from other parts of the franchise, they're almost unrecognizable. Like in DotM, Shockwave was there but aside from the one-eye, didn't do anything recognizable as Shockwave. No gun-arm, purple color scheme, I forget if he even talked or just made random noises while riding some giant monster.

Did the trailers already show all the Dinobots scenes? Which would be pathetic, but again, typical for the live-action series. I still remember Optimus spending half of final battle during the last movie tangled up in wires, rather than, you know, actually fighting.

Wait, there were legends? Ha, I feel sorry for IDW (do they still bother with comic tie-ins to the live action stuff? I mostly only pay attention to MTMTE and a little bit to the other two series in that continuity) if they try to retcon in more stuff into Transformers history. First it was the Allspark, then the Thirteen and the Fallen, then Sentinel Prime (all while making Megatron look more pathetic with each movie).

 

Don't even mention shockwave. Still hurts to much. Great character just completely and entirely wasted. His whole logical perspective on things could have made him a great villain for dotm. Sigh

 

Majority of it, yep

This movie, honestly is the worst movie of 2014 so far.

 

If I had to describe the pacing of this film in water terms, the first two acts are like a light spritz from a spray bottle, and the third act is like being sprayed in the face by a fire hose at point blank range.

 

Peter Cullen who voices Optimus Prime is nearly 73.
As for the film, i don't intend to see it . I hated the last one. I wanted to walk out of it less than half way through. These films are title "Transformers" but all the characters we get to know are the humans.....and they're complete morons. Seriously i 've heard for over a decade how terrible Jar Jar Binks is. Seriously? have you seen a Transformers movie?! The only character who wasn't Uber-Annoying was probably Josh Duhamel. Megatron is supposed to be the villain. How many lines did he have in 3 movies?! 4? Bumblebee didn't talk. Optimus was the only Transformer we remotely get to know. On top of that the battle's in the last two movies went on WAY WAY WAY too long.
Oh it made 41 million yesterday. Probably will out-earn Captain America: The Winter Soldier and X-Men. facepalm.

 

This is the greatest post I have ever read by you. Thank you for lightening up my day as always.

 

More than likely going to make $100 million

Doesn't deserve that.

 

Bay's so caught up in his idea of what they should look like that he misses everything by leaps and bounds. Both in design and characterization. I'd rather have Optimus and Megatron look like this than what's in the movies.

 

It would be a good movie if they had introduced the dinobots earlier. They could have had so much with them on the ship. Instead its five minutes of air time. It made the film from a movie into a transformers tv show episode. The Autobots meet the Dinobots.

oh and honestly they should have had the combaticons and the dino bots go against them and battle it out in China.

 

I'll see this eventually. Really, it depends on the word of mouth. I enjoyed DotM a lot actually.

 

The best time to introduce the Dinobots was in "Revenge Of The Fallen". They could have been guarding the Matrix and the Tomb of the Primes, but were in stasis for years and then are woken up, thus allowing them to help out against the Decepticons, particularly when the Constructicons form Devastator.

 

But they would have been dead. The combaticons should have been a creation of the company and Galvatron should have pushed them to form Devastor.

 

So is Unicron in this?