kaijuguy19 wrote:Even if they did come out with a reboot there's still going to be people who are going to complain and have problems with it one way or another even if they're better made. We'll still have people who'll gripe on about how they're not as blocky or G1,how they don't have alt modes that are accurate to G1 and in some instances we'd still have critics who'll still scoff at the idea of giant robots leading the movie I mean from what I've read it happened before in the 86 movie. Also keep in mind that the people behind the reboot may make it not any better then the current ones or else even worse. As much as Bay gets a lot of flak from the movie industry in America and the geek fandom in general there are FAR worse directors out there.
Besides the spin offs may not even happen for the current movies since the current series seems to be losing steam. Yeah China's move goers were able to help AOE but that doesn't mean it'll be the same for the fifth and sixth installments. If they do have plans to do a spin off series it would be best to save it for the reboot series.
Just because it might be worse or people will complain doesn't mean we can't hope for something better in the future. People complaining, as I'm doing now, is a universal constant, which doesn't mean they shouldn't try again. If we're going by that logic, why bother making any movies in the first place? They do have the power to control what it is people complain about, though. Me in particular I actually don't mind a lot of the robot designs, aside from mudflap and skids. My gripe is that the movies aren't actually about the transformers, and that we can't have a fight scene without cutting to Marky Mark.
Also, today's climate is a lot more accepting of this kind of thing than they used to be. Dubious source material is no excuse for poor quality, and we're getting a Marvel movie where a man in a robot suit, super patriot, green monster, purple robin hood, scarlette johansson, and sam jackson team up with a talking racoon, space wrestler, green lady, an ent, and chris pratt to fight over some magic rocks. If a talking raccoon can woo critics I have faith that a sentient robot can at least make them ambivalent.