Its threads like these that remind me why i hang out in the 3rd party forum (thankfully hidden in a labyrinth of sub forums. So much speculation and hatred from a single image. this is transformers 4 this isn't a reboot. why would you expect the designs to be so drastically different? i was thinking today about Dr Arkeville, if he was ever in the live action films, how close would you really want him to G1? with his ridiculous metal dome. no one would take the franchise seriously. This movie is going to take a long time to arrive and you guys are going to piss and moan all the way to the premiere. don't you ever get tired of complaining? "I hate his beard" "Not robotic enough" "Too much humans not enough bots" You guys represent a vocal minority. that vocal minority is people on a forum who care enough about a beard to say so. the general audience eats that ISH up 3 times a day breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Beards:
Beards are not a human specific feature. why do Autonomous robotic being have them? who knows? maybe its a part of the cybertronian culture. maybe it represents status. maybe the junkions saw it on their TVs and tried to emulate it. Cybertronians are not robots. they are an alien race that happens to be robotic. Do they share physiolgy similarities like humans do? No. God No. Consider this. everything you see on a Transformer is part of their BODY. Thats not armor. thats their naked body staring at you. Shining in the sun. Twerkin' at yo face. Any beard you see, consider it armor. or just get over it. Their an alien race that has beards, so are humans.
Faces:
Can't win with you guys. It's either too human or not humanoid enough. for the bodies their given, they work perfectly. They have eyes and mouths to comunicate through. What else do you need? Looking at the image in this thread we have a 2D 3D image that is printed in greyscale, sideways, at an angle. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT! You want robotic, you can go in 4 directions: Wall-e, iRobot/Sentinels(XMen DoFP), G1 or what we're getting. You would hate Wall-e faces on these bots(i'm calling that right now), You would hate how little the iRobot/Sentinel faces resemble anything you've ever called Ironhide, Megatron or Grimlock, G1 is just human faces with helmets and square features( HOW BAD WOULD THAT TRANSLATE TO LIVE ACTION? SO BADDDDDD!), What we have is perfect for this medium.
Screen time:
These movies bring a lot of new interest and capitol to the franchise we love. The new blood for the most part would not be able to follow or get into the rich lore of the transformers mythos. for those people we need eye candy like Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, And the guy that played Sam's dad in the first 3 movies. "AFTERSHOCK! AFTERSHOCK! I hate those." HILARIOUS. stuff like that sucks them in. It works. A List actors add credibility to a film that has the name HASBRO at the beginning. Directors like Michael Bay and Producer's like Steven Spielberg Get the budget needed to prevent this film from looking like:
Be happy with what we got. it could be so much worse. These movies are blockbusters. you want story and character development? get the prequel and sequel comics that bridge the gap and explain things like Starscream's tattoos. AND FOR THE MOST PART ARE BOT-CENTRIC! they even include characters like the Target exclusive scout class figures from the first movie!
But seriously, please don't complain about the same stuff in every thread that has anything to to do with the movies. Please.