by T-Macksimus » Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:29 pm
I must say that it has been quite the entertaining read going through the majority of the last 40 pages from the start and reading these comments. It's been no secret that during the last few years I've been quite the vociferous...a**hole...(and an unapologetic one at that) on here, bashing the vast majority of the fandom for it's behavior and narrow-mindedness and I have to admit that I'm honestly surprised that I haven't been tossed out on my exhaust pipe and told never to return. As a bit of a shocker, I'm going to behave myself this time around and just give a broad opinion of the vehicles so far...well, I'm going to try to behave anyways. Wish me luck...
New Prime... sucks! That's not a truck, that's a tricked out lump of fiberglass with less balls than my Taurus Wagon. As was mentioned many pages back, say hello to "Mid-Life Crisis Prime".
New 'Bee... 'bout damn time they started using "Muscle" cars. That's the best Camaro they've had on the set of ANY of the TF movies.
The rumored "Grimlock"... keep the rusty silver truck, make it Kup. Grimlock is either a Dinobot or a tank ala War Within continuity. Anything else is an insult even when you take into account that Bay got his hands on it. Otherwise, I'm digging the truck itself.
Hound... Hell yeah. Keep it.
Drift... Yeah, I'll accept it without too much bitching.
Blur... All I can say is they better have John Moschitta Jr. voice him again if they want to do ANY justice to the character. Aside from that, I can totally handle the alt mode choice and cant wait to see how they handle the character.
The rally cars and such... yeah, I would love to see most of the other vehicles they listed at least make it to toy form but I'm also not going to hold my breath since there was all the hype made of "Rollbar" being in DotM and even pics and yet it never once happened so yeah, we'll see. I like 'em so that means that I'll probably be disappointed and they'll get cut or have maybe 20 seconds of screen time at most.
The one thing I will say that I am extremely happy for is that so far there is NOTHING indicative of Unicron having anything to do with this film and that actually gives me just a faint glimmer of hope for this film. Those of you wishing to see Unicron in TF4, you may want to consider psychiatric help because honestly, that idea is just f'ing NUTS! I'll still maintain that TF4 should never have been started to begin with and that DotM was a perfect place to leave off and let the entire TF franchise take a different direction and focus (a better one for certain) BUT... Hasbro had to whore it out one more time, at least I hope it's only one, and so now we have to deal with the consequences. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the other films (at least 2 out of 3 anyways) and I will probably see this new one too but I'm just of the opinion that they are making a mistake taking it past 3. They are trading respect for a given property for the all-mighty dollar and while that doesn't surprise me one bit in this day and age, it does offend me greatly.
Ok, I mostly behaved and I did state that this is just my opinion. I know I pissed off at least 1 person out there and I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't so there you have it...
"That which does not kill me...had better run pretty damn fast!"