The trailer was better than expected, I don't want to see too much of bad acting girls because they have big boobies and are there to appease the male members of the audience - but I accept that that's how Mr. Bay and Hollywood as a whole operates.
I don't like the idea of humans having created Grimlock or whoever. I'm hoping they've build exo-suits sort of thing in the same vein as what was in that awful GI Joe movie - that plot point could bridge into a cross over, maybe?
I don't think its realistic to say "oh ten years have passed and look humans have built fully sentient/easily controlled giant robots to fight Autobots/Decepticons". They might be good at reverse engineering the tech, but not that good, and if it took them 130+ years of twinkering to get a cellphone, can't quite see them building fully functionally robots.
I like the theme of the trailer, I like the feel, Wahlberg looks like he'll fit into this universe well I think. There's too many versions of Grimlock to make judgements on his alligence at this time, though I'm more slanted towards him waking up, Prime trying to seek him out to convince him to wear the little red face, they have robot fisty cuffs, then Megatron/whoever does something that makes Grim jump to teh Autobots. The rest as to characters and deaths my eyesight ain't good enough to tell from teh trailers.
Overall, I'm quite happy with it, I'm not horrified or worried like I was between two and three. I've gotten past my outrage at ROTF - still hate it though, but this is what we have. I still think that we deserve a decent movie, and that over the top potty humour and racist jokes are stupid. That is something all movie fans should hope for, not just old geezers gewunners such as myself long for.
The skill is in HW to make good movies, to write good stories, to build good plots. Wanting a decent TF movie isn't about being a stubborn grumpy 30+er, its about being a movie fan.
And to add to the debate, huge box office results doesn't mean good movies, it means good marketing whch gets people in the door. The majority of a movie's income comes from opening weekened, before there's really been enough people to spread word of mouth. Plus, its giant robots, explosions and half naked undies modles who can't act their way out of a wet paper bag - that's always going to pull a certain audience demographic, especially if the other options are a chick flick and some animated disney crud.
So that's my old lady Transformer fan rant of the day. Now I"m going to do 30+ things like drink coffee and read the obits looking for people I know.
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:31 am
If Grimlock is so weak, what is the point of riding on him anyway?