The Energon Pub

Transformers does have one of the worst fan-bases

I can't say I'm suprised. Hell, we've seen a bit of it here. I love this franchise like everyone else here, but it's a hobby, and nothing else. What bothers me is that the fanboys who are levying the death threats are probably grown men. Grown men with families, and they want to jeopardize all of what they've worked for over this, that's all kinds of pathetic. It's people like that that make us all look like a bunch of assholes.

Can someone explain to me why a bunch of people who have been here for ages are now suddenly amazed at this news? Was I the only one seeing the death threats and "Michael Bay raped my child hood" comments on this forum a few times each week for the past year and a half?

Asderiphel wrote:

Geekee1 wrote:
Thank you, I was a little apprehensive about posting that.

No problem. I wish you could at least make people re-read their posts before they hit the submit button, and I didn't think you were aiming that comment in my direction anyway.

...or were you? (Vader's Imperial March music plays)

Not aimed at you at all. And I just changed my ring tone to the Imperial March the other day.

this is a message to ALL the people snding death threats.


I was watching FIght CLub the other day when I relized that the main character was right, he was talking about how he is anti-consumerist because he is afraid that everyone becomes self relyant on the product and they take over, he had atheroy that the deep space programs would be named after major corperations like "Planet Starbucks" for example, and that we should try to accept that we are not perfect and that we are all eventually going to die one day, once you get over that fear, you relize that you dont own yourself anymore, and that your possesions own you.

the point i'm trying to make is that, I may be one of the biggest Transformers fans out there, but I will know when to stop and say, "Hey, its just a toy or cartoon", your life dosent depend on it. so in the end i have to say is,


STOP WRITING DEATH THREATS!!!!

a) He's a celebrity

and

b) There are a lot of people who hate his work with a passion and blame him for everthing they consider wrong with Hollywood films


While sending death threats to anyone is ridiculous, I find it really hard to believe that this is something new for him. I mean, he's responsible for the 'Got Milk?' campaign. Did that not anger the militant vegans?

Who could be pathetic enough to protest or even issue death threats. Get a damn girlfriend.

Unless he received the death threats personally, he shouldn't take things said by the passionately stupid on fan forums seriously. Given that anonymity makes people feel more secure in dropping the shallow façade of basic human decency that they must assume when out in public, they thus feel free to act like the savage animals online that they merely pretend not to be in the real world. The Internet is the place where a middle-aged, God-fearing, Republican, loving father of four will threaten to rip the arms off of an eighty-year-old woman because he disagrees with her knitting techniques in an AOL forum. Any Internet veteran knows this and meets any actual threats with the laughter that the absurdity deserves.

I believe that death threats were made towards the makers of Beast machines from what I've read and heard in the past. If I remember well that this was the reason why they didnt make Transtech. Death threats are stupid! These people need to grow up.

keeknuts wrote:I believe that death threats were made towards the makers of Beast machines from what I've read and heard in the past. If I remember well that this was the reason why they didnt make Transtech. Death threats are stupid! These people need to grow up.

They didn't make Transtech because Beast Machines was a retail failure that was cancelled early and they wanted to reconsider their market approach.

This has just confirmed it i no longer want to be in tact with the fan base(I am idividual i do not match my self with all others in the fanbase.). Wtf people sending death threats to real live person over A CARTOON THAT IS NOT REAL. Well im expecting to hear some douches send death threats to cartoonnetwork a to.

Death threats? Come on fandom, give it a rest, its a cartoon about robots...

Cyber-Kun wrote:Death threats? Come on fandom, give it a rest, its a cartoon about robots...

I know its fake not real. Wtf some people are just insane. I wishe people would relize transformers are not real.They treat it like a god or somthing thats just so....

I know this may be harsh... but... THAT'S TOTALLY FLIPPIN' AWESOME!!! Way to go o'psychopathicoftransfandom!

let's face it: we would like the movie to be nicer in many ways (more traditional designs, Scorponok not being a drone, etc...) but sending him death threats is going overboard. Sure, we'd all like to flame Michael Bay but i dont think we'd go so far as to kill him!

I think the Transformers movie will be the best movie this year & anyone who say's other wise need's there ass kicked!!!!

When I first saw the designs, I was pissed like most of the fandom, for the designs weren't like G1.

But then I started looking at the designs more and more, and started realizing how practical they were. The blocky G1 designs, yeah they will always be awesome since that is what we grew up with, but from a animation standpoint, they just don't work.

So yeah, I was pissed at Bay, talked about how in his movies, like Armageddon, the only reason the movie was good, is because it had a damn good assortment of actors behind it.

So like most people I've warmed up to the designs. However, if the story sucks(I haven't read the script), well the story as it's told in the movie, if they do a bad job at that, I'll be pissed.

Not pissed to the point of issuing death-threats, as that is just damned retarded.

However, if Bay got death-threats from people, do what anyone would do, slap their e-mails or whatever online, and let the fans dispense their justice in the form of spam and what not.

Dynamax wrote:I wonder if the Star Wars fans did this over Jar Jar?

Not sure about Jar Jar, but R.A Salvatore received a number of them when he wrote the death of Chewbacca in the Vector Prime novel. It wasn't even his decision to do it, he just had to write it in to the book.

As for threats against Bay (I have not read all the posts in this thread, so this may have been mentioned already) in this thread on DM.net Iceforest (aka Nelson from shootfortheedit.com) states:

The freaky thing is I would be the first one to get these emails and some of the were so descriptive that I though these guys wrote the Saw or Hostel movies.

This is just absolutely disgusting to hear. I find it deplorable that people have to take this hobby this seriously.

I find it very believable, given the present situation of our world, that stupid morons who think Uncle Jesse was a god and who just know Optimus rolled in truck mode right past their shack in po-dunk Appalachia the other day would send death threats to Michael Bay. I'm surprised they had the brain capacity to figure out how to contact him, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were the same ones that petitioned for Paris Hilton's pardon...

I side with Bay on this one. Even if he had decided to use paper cut outs pasted to popsicle sticks and use little girls to voice the characters, that would still be no reason to send death threats. C'mon morons. There's more to life than movies.

Ratman_tf wrote:
Actually, I'm surprised Bay hadn't gotten threats about Armageddon. That movie sucked worse than Battlefield Earth.

Ok bud, them be fighting words...



I, for one, really like the designs of the characters (I'm still wishy-washy on Megatron, but I will easily get over myself) and I am glad Michael Bay is/was the director. My 2 cents.

My 3rd cent is that some people need to find themselves a new hobby. Death threats? Very lame.

Lunar_Convoy wrote:Thanks alot guys. Now the TF comunity is gonna be looked down upon. But then again I bet lucas may have gotten a few death threats too

I am sure Lucas did, especially for those abominations called Episodes I, II, and III.

But back to Bay: It wasn't me!

Death threats are just stupid, IMHO.

Those who stated a thing like that should be 'man' enough to step out now... I am sure somebody (probably more than one) will teach those guys a thing or two about real life and how a punch in the face (or two) can hurt so bad...

Do I hear mental institution anyone?

You know, I don't condone death threats, naturally, but I have to admit, if Michael Bay was killed by a rabid Transformers fan... that would be absolutely hilarious.

I'm talking falling-down laugh-out-loud funny.

But maybe that's just me.

Also, if you view the current quality of Hollywood cinema as an average of both the best and the worst films (and everything in between), then his death would immediately raise that quality average just a little bit.

I'm just saying, there'd be a bright side, is all.

Plus, all future TF movie directors would really, really, really listen to the longtime fans. Maybe even buy them all ice cream.

Yours in comedy,

Botch

Botch wrote:You know, I don't condone death threats, naturally, but I have to admit, if Michael Bay was killed by a rabid Transformers fan... that would be absolutely hilarious.

I'm talking falling-down laugh-out-loud funny.

But maybe that's just me.

Also, if you view the current quality of Hollywood cinema as an average of both the best and the worst films (and everything in between), then his death would immediately raise that quality average just a little bit.

I'm just saying, there'd be a bright side, is all.

Plus, all future TF movie directors would really, really, really listen to the longtime fans. Maybe even buy them all ice cream.

Yours in comedy,

Botch

Wow, that was really sick.

I'd take it in stride

Maybe Bay could issue death threats back at them - like "See my Movie or die!"

Or better yet; if I was Bay, I'd respond like "Hah! Yes I DID kill your childhood! And just wait until you see what I have planned for the sequal!! Your life is OOOVER!!"

Then again - it's always hard to know how to react to stuff like this... outrage....distance...humor... nothing seems adequate...

The fanbase should apologize to Bay for some of its' members...

Of course no one will hold us ALL accountable for the comments of a few dumbies... but it would just make the rest of us ever so much more serious, mature and cool looking to apologize anyways

Skids