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After pondering if I should or shouldn't see the movie, on the basis that these are poorly written pieces of garbage, I realised how much the first film was a guilty pleasure and that, despite its flaws, I still had some fun watching RotF (However, that fun only lasted for the duration of the film because I was left scratching my head afterward). I saw the first two in theatres I may aswell do the same for the last(?) one.

So, anybody else had a last minute change of heart about DotM? Sure, its probably going to suck and make fanboys scream that it ruined transformers forever but whatever. I'll just accept that its a stupid pop corn flick and enjoy it accordingly.

My mind has been made up ever since I saw the first film. To this day it's one of my top 10 favourite movies of all time. Revenge of the Fallen was a HUGE letdown though as it was pretty terrible.

I understand the hatred hardcore TF fans have towards the movies but I like them. I'm not about the toys - I only read the comics and watch the cartoons, (I don't own a single TF toy).

I hope we get more movies after this one to be honest.

Well, that wouldn't be the first time a serie suffer from a "trilogy creep" but the problem with that is that each movie attempt to out do the other in term of special effect (such as ever bigger robots and explosions).

I'd be curious to see other people handle an hypotethical fourth film, if only to see if a movie with more solid writing would still be appealing as a summer blockbuster. I know its futile to hope for a movie with a quality closer to Beast Wars, Animated or TF Prime but hey....fanboy dream, I guess? Alternatively, they could just reboot it. Hollywood seems into reboot these days.

Nico wrote:Well, that wouldn't be the first time a serie suffer from a "trilogy creep" but the problem with that is that each movie attempt to out do the other in term of special effect (such as ever bigger robots and explosions).

How is that a problem?

SlyTF1 wrote:

Nico wrote:Well, that wouldn't be the first time a serie suffer from a "trilogy creep" but the problem with that is that each movie attempt to out do the other in term of special effect (such as ever bigger robots and explosions).

How is that a problem?

The problem is that if that eventually it will be hard to top the previous ones if a movie attempt to be smaller in scope. To give examples, once you stand on galaxies or crush the sun with a huge hammer, its hard to top stuff like that.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Nico wrote:Well, that wouldn't be the first time a serie suffer from a "trilogy creep" but the problem with that is that each movie attempt to out do the other in term of special effect (such as ever bigger robots and explosions).

How is that a problem?

some people prefer less explosions more plot.

I havent changed my mind yet, im cautiously optimistic, false positive if you will. I hope its better than the previous two, the law of diminishing returns would suggest otherwise though.

Thye fact bay is a liar is always off putting, if he was to make the movie he said he has, then i would be more confident.

but bnothing will stop me from seeing it. And adding to its takings, giving people who enjoy the movies a stick to beat me with if i complain about the movie

I'm totally biased. I'm going to love it, like I did the previous two. And yes, I expect it to be stupid popcorn entertainment.

Until I saw a few TV spots/trailers and read an early review of it, I didn't care much about DOTM at all. I had figured that I would see it, but purely because I'm a TF fan. Now, I think it looks quite epic, and I'm excited about seeing it. I'm expecting it to be at least as good as the first one (which I though wasn't a great movie, but was entertaining).

nope, no change yet the scenes we've seen already has persuaded me enough to watch dotm

shamone wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

Nico wrote:Well, that wouldn't be the first time a serie suffer from a "trilogy creep" but the problem with that is that each movie attempt to out do the other in term of special effect (such as ever bigger robots and explosions).

How is that a problem?

some people prefer less explosions more plot.

For what purpose? What do you get out of a plot? You can't see a plot. So why come watch a movie if that's all you want?