Nico wrote:I had a fun discussion days ago when me and a bunch of people came to the conclusion that RotF was possibly one of the worst film ever made. Big shock *sarcasm*. However this made me wonder why the hell I was stupid enough to actually want to see Dark of the Moon.
The plot is going to be weak, characters non existent, humans annoying, american patriotism will be loudly flashed (no offense to americans, just stating a fact here), the plot will be moronic and chances are we will get a ton of juvenile jokes. Robo-scrotum, anyone?
So suddenly I realised: why the hell would I want to see something this stupid? Am I the only one who suddenly had this realisation?
Not the only one
I think the issue with the bay movies and people of my generation (kids when g one came out) is that the movies were created at an opportune time, the perfect nostalgia age. Its a precise marketing strategy, where franchises are revitilised at a time to catch the original fans as they become nostalgiac about their youth
Now while transformers continued through other generations, armada, beast wars, energon, etc, the original fans had grew out of the franchise and cast aside our childish toys and only knew transformers through g1 comics and cartoons.
When the new movies are created the original fans have preconcieved notions of how the bots should look and act, which is G one era. Despite the constant changes in character and look, we only know these bots as g one.
therefore when we saw the movies, we couldnt accept, what we believed, were inaccurate portrayals of much beloved characters. We didnt have current generation view, who had see many incarnations of the same bots through the different comics and cartoons.
that is perhaps why we are so stringent by saying that this isnt prime, this isnt wheeljack, etc, because they arent our prime, wheeljack, etc
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