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A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

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A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby El Duque » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:02 pm

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Weapon: Gattling Gun
Thanks to this Google upload we have a nice clear look at the bladed weapon that has been seen several times on the Transformers: Age of Extinction set. The weapon has been seen being carried by both Mark Wahlberg and Jack Reynor, and may also have a ranged weapon function. This image gives us our best look to date at the mysterious weapon and all it's intricate markings. Check it out below.

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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby SlyTF1 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:29 pm

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I want one.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Ultra Magnus » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:35 pm

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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby SKYWARPED_128 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:37 pm

Weapon: Null-Ray Rifle
Strangely, it reminds me of the snake dagger that was used in the 1982 Conan movie:

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Ranged weapon function and intricate markings?

I suspect this sword might be a link to some ancient alien conspiracy thing, like a Chinese equivalent of Excalibur. There's this old Chinese legend regarding a so-called Sword of Kings. There's a chance the AOE story might allude to it.

I mean, they hid a sun harvester in a pyramid, and stored space bridge pillars on the moon. These Cybertronians treat our planet like some storage unit, except they don't pay any rental fees.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Ultra Markus » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:43 pm

Motto: "“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” - Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight"
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Ultra Magnus wrote:#Star Saber :michaelbay:

i was thinking that too :KREMZEEK:
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Twitchythe3rd » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:45 pm

Motto: "Embrace the coming oblivion."
Weapon: Black Magic
It reminds me more of Frostmourne. I suppose the question we should ask here is "does it hunger for Sparks?".
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby T-Macksimus » Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:19 pm

Twitchythe3rd wrote:It reminds me more of Frostmourne. I suppose the question we should ask here is "does it hunger for Sparks?".


Second question we should ask is "Will it fall prey to the mass shifting effect that Bay swore up and down wouldn't be in the movies and yet pulled that trick with the Allspark?
Are we going to see this thing go all 'Super-sized' in some spectacular flash of light when it's dropped into Primes hands?
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby njb902 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:27 pm

It reminds me of Ka D'Argo's gunblade from Farscape.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby griftimus prime » Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:40 pm

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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Midnight_Fox » Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:01 pm

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njb902 wrote:It reminds me of Ka D'Argo's gunblade from Farscape.


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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Sabrblade » Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:52 pm

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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby nemesis primus » Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:56 pm

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I thought of this when I saw it, merely for the split in the blade.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Rated X » Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:59 pm

Motto: ""Assumption is the mother of all screw ups.""
Weapon: Saw-Edged Pincer
Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Manterax Prime » Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:34 pm

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Rated X wrote:Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:


Dude, the guns were their main weapons in ALL 3 movies. They used melee weapons sparingly.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Megatron Wolf » Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:44 pm

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looks cool and all but im sick of artifacts, first it was the allspark then it was the matrix and harvester then the space bridge. This isnt including all the other TF continuities out there. All i want is autobots fighting decepticons in a war setting with a good plot line thats it. I want a war movie but with giant **** robots instead of human soldiers.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby SlyTF1 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:51 pm

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Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be boring as hell.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Sabrblade » Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:57 pm

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SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby SlyTF1 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:04 pm

Motto: "If my first sacrifice wasn't enough, maybe you would prefer to pay with your funky blood."
Weapon: Sword
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Rated X » Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:06 am

Motto: ""Assumption is the mother of all screw ups.""
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SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


A whole movie of swordfights...meh. Watch Conan. Don't you see the anti-gun lobby and parents influence here ? If some nutcase runs up in a school with a machete and starts slashing everyone, there wont be anymore sword fights in transformers movies/cartoons. They'll be fighting like Pokémon.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Sabrblade » Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:10 am

Motto: "Can't do a job halfway. What's worth doing is worth doing well, I say."
Weapon: Saber Blade
Rated X wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


A whole movie of swordfights...meh. Watch Conan. Don't you see the anti-gun lobby and parents influence here ? If some nutcase runs up in a school with a machete and starts slashing everyone, there wont be anymore sword fights in transformers movies/cartoons. They'll be fighting like Pokémon.
Alright, no weapons at all! Solid hand-to-hand close quarters combat all around! 8-}
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby njb902 » Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:15 am

SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


I couldn't disagree more. Just as an example look at Saving Private Ryan. You didn't feel any impact from the combat shown in that movie?
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby SlyTF1 » Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:34 am

Motto: "If my first sacrifice wasn't enough, maybe you would prefer to pay with your funky blood."
Weapon: Sword
Rated X wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


A whole movie of swordfights...meh. Watch Conan. Don't you see the anti-gun lobby and parents influence here ? If some nutcase runs up in a school with a machete and starts slashing everyone, there wont be anymore sword fights in transformers movies/cartoons. They'll be fighting like Pokémon.


Sword fights have always been my favorite types of fights in movies. But human sword fights =/= giant robot sword fights. Giant robot sword fights > human sword fights.

njb902 wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


I couldn't disagree more. Just as an example look at Saving Private Ryan. You didn't feel any impact from the combat shown in that movie?


Dudes were getting blown up and having their guts spilling out all over the damn place in that movie. While I would like to see that happen in Transformers, there's just no way they'll go that far. For a story like Transformers, where most characters have fight scenes that play off of each other, a gunfight would do nothing but leave me disappointed. Imagine Optimus and Megatron fighting a war for centuries, and their final battle consists of just shooting at each other and Optimus just gets lucky and blows Megatron's face off a mile away. Nothing happened there, but a gunshot. After all that time, it all ends with a lucky shot. That's cheap. When Optimus rips Megatron's spine out in DOTM, I could feel his anger and desperation. You don't get that with a simple gunshot.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby Rated X » Tue Dec 10, 2013 9:27 am

Motto: ""Assumption is the mother of all screw ups.""
Weapon: Saw-Edged Pincer
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


A whole movie of swordfights...meh. Watch Conan. Don't you see the anti-gun lobby and parents influence here ? If some nutcase runs up in a school with a machete and starts slashing everyone, there wont be anymore sword fights in transformers movies/cartoons. They'll be fighting like Pokémon.


Sword fights have always been my favorite types of fights in movies. But human sword fights =/= giant robot sword fights. Giant robot sword fights > human sword fights.

njb902 wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


I couldn't disagree more. Just as an example look at Saving Private Ryan. You didn't feel any impact from the combat shown in that movie?


Dudes were getting blown up and having their guts spilling out all over the damn place in that movie. While I would like to see that happen in Transformers, there's just no way they'll go that far. For a story like Transformers, where most characters have fight scenes that play off of each other, a gunfight would do nothing but leave me disappointed. Imagine Optimus and Megatron fighting a war for centuries, and their final battle consists of just shooting at each other and Optimus just gets lucky and blows Megatron's face off a mile away. Nothing happened there, but a gunshot. After all that time, it all ends with a lucky shot. That's cheap. When Optimus rips Megatron's spine out in DOTM, I could feel his anger and desperation. You don't get that with a simple gunshot.



While swords make a battle a little bit more “epic”, was the 1st instalment of Michael Bay’s franchise (with guns) not epic ? It had fight scenes, but it also had some good trigger action as well to balance it out. In Star Wars, light sabers make sense because the characters that actually use them are made of flesh and bone. I would rather watch something that is more likely to happen if it was real, then something that was included just to make it “epic” on the big screen. But that’s just me. A long time ago, Renderform put a survey on his website if fans prefer arming their Transformers with guns or melee weapons. Guns won by a long shot.
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Re: A Closer Look at the Transformers: Age of Extinction Bladed Weapon

Postby SlyTF1 » Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:00 am

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Rated X wrote:
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Rated X wrote:
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Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
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That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


A whole movie of swordfights...meh. Watch Conan. Don't you see the anti-gun lobby and parents influence here ? If some nutcase runs up in a school with a machete and starts slashing everyone, there wont be anymore sword fights in transformers movies/cartoons. They'll be fighting like Pokémon.


Sword fights have always been my favorite types of fights in movies. But human sword fights =/= giant robot sword fights. Giant robot sword fights > human sword fights.

njb902 wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not that it doesn't look cool but I'm so sick of swords, axes, shields, spears, etc. Bring back the guns Michael, I beg you ! :michaelbay:

All these damn sword fights in Transformers is kind of like having gunfights in The Hobbit. :HEADHURTS:


Transformers have been carrying around guns for years. It grows tiresome. Swords are much more badass than guns, anyway. What, you want a whole movie with Autobots and Decepticons standing miles away shooting at each other? That would be Transformers: Armada/Energon - The Movie.
Fixed. ;)


That's why I'm glad Animated did away with most of the guns. I'm hoping the movies will start doing that, too. I want up close and personal fights like the forest battle in ROTF or Optimus vs Sentinel in DOTM (short as it was). There's no impact to a fight that happens at a distance; no connection. It feels cheap.


I couldn't disagree more. Just as an example look at Saving Private Ryan. You didn't feel any impact from the combat shown in that movie?


Dudes were getting blown up and having their guts spilling out all over the damn place in that movie. While I would like to see that happen in Transformers, there's just no way they'll go that far. For a story like Transformers, where most characters have fight scenes that play off of each other, a gunfight would do nothing but leave me disappointed. Imagine Optimus and Megatron fighting a war for centuries, and their final battle consists of just shooting at each other and Optimus just gets lucky and blows Megatron's face off a mile away. Nothing happened there, but a gunshot. After all that time, it all ends with a lucky shot. That's cheap. When Optimus rips Megatron's spine out in DOTM, I could feel his anger and desperation. You don't get that with a simple gunshot.



While swords make a battle a little bit more “epic”, was the 1st instalment of Michael Bay’s franchise (with guns) not epic ? It had fight scenes, but it also had some good trigger action as well to balance it out. In Star Wars, light sabers make sense because the characters that actually use them are made of flesh and bone. I would rather watch something that is more likely to happen if it was real, then something that was included just to make it “epic” on the big screen. But that’s just me. A long time ago, Renderform put a survey on his website if fans prefer arming their Transformers with guns or melee weapons. Guns won by a long shot.


BAHA! Hell no, the first movie wasn't epic. You could barely even see the fight scenes, with the camera man having a seizure during every action scene. And the fights only ever happened in the background, anyway.
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