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mirageandjazz1197 wrote:cruizerdave wrote:"It's not good when I'm not involved."
What an @$$hole. Bay is a complete and total @$$hole. I've come to terms that we'll never see a decent Transformers adaption in our lifetimes thanks to him, but I find it amusing that people still eat up the garbage he puts on their cinematic plates.
With that kind of attitude do you think the fandom really deserve a movie pandering to the whiners?
You do know why fans don't write movies or have much impact right?
And what's wrong with people liking the movies there are worse movies and those people are not you they have different opinions so next time think before insulting people who enjoy something you don't.
cruizerdave wrote:mirageandjazz1197 wrote:cruizerdave wrote:"It's not good when I'm not involved."
What an @$$hole. Bay is a complete and total @$$hole. I've come to terms that we'll never see a decent Transformers adaption in our lifetimes thanks to him, but I find it amusing that people still eat up the garbage he puts on their cinematic plates.
With that kind of attitude do you think the fandom really deserve a movie pandering to the whiners?
You do know why fans don't write movies or have much impact right?
And what's wrong with people liking the movies there are worse movies and those people are not you they have different opinions so next time think before insulting people who enjoy something you don't.
I'll sum it up for you with two lists.
List one, things I don't ever want to see in a Transformers movie, but I have:
•Crass "humor" aimed squarely at slack jawed idiots.
•Discussions about masterbation
•Robots peeing on people.
•Dogs peeing on robots
•Nonsensical plots about conspiracies concerning Transformers affecting humanity's past.
•Plot points wherein characters explain why its okay for them to have sex with an under-aged minor.
•Porny shots of faked baked women in skimpy outfits.
•Weird racism.
•Blatant racism.
•Recycled footage from The Island.
•Chicago getting destroyed more than once.
•Marky Mark playing an inventor.
•Robots that don't transform as much as dissolve into thousands of tiny pieces and reassemble.
•High school boy being put off by ridiculous past of hot girl whose dad stole cars. Or something.
•John Turturro's underwear.
•Editing that looks like it was done by a bunch of interns all high on cocaine.
•Shaky camera for every action scene mixed with random bits of slow motion.
•Characters who act like douchebags, which accounts for all of them.
•Childhood icon Optimus Prime portrayed as a cold blooded killer of both Decepticons and humans who piss him off.
•Divergent story lines and characters that have nothing to do with the rest of the movie.
•Evil government/business conspiracy organizations ... again and again and again.
•There's only one way to defeat this giant evil robot — call the United States military!
•An evil sex bot with a 20-foot long tongue.
Now for list number two, things I'd like to see in a Transformers movie that we haven't seen yet and likely won't as long as Bay is involved —
•Robots besides Optimus and Bumblebee who are actually discernible from each other at a glance.
•Plots that in a broad way, make some kind of sense.
•Appealing characters, both human and robot.
•Transformers treated as characters and not just special effects in the background of Shia's attempts to get laid.
•Plots not driven completely by some type of bullcrap McGuffin.
•Dialog that sounds like regular people and not drunk college frat boys during rush week.
•Character development.
•A basic understanding of story structure.
Look, I didn't say you couldn't enjoy these movies. If you can enjoy these movies, then good for you. I'm not insulting you, but I've hated Michael Bays' style of film making ever since Armageddon.
To me watching these films (well the first one's not as bad as the others) is the cinematic equivalent of slamming my head into a metal door repeatedly. They're loud, every character is obnoxious, they have no theme, they make no sense and their story structure is nonexistent.
If you think my problems are those of a whiner, pull up Rottentomatoes sometime and read some of the reviews there. My problems with these films aren't fanboy Transformer problems, they are fundamental storytelling problems.
SlyTF1 wrote:[
cruizerdave wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:
Who gives a damn what you want? A filmmaker's job isn't to submit to your every whim and plea.
Not only that, but there was character development in AOE. And the US military was never called. Get over yourself.
Yeah, who gives a damn about making GOOD movies.
Except Marvel seems to be doing it pretty consistently.
Like I said, if you like it, good for you. As for me, I'll never pay to see any Transformers movie made by Bay again, nor will I buy the toys or merchandise.
Just out of curiosity, what do you consider character development in AOE? A dad's acceptance of a college-aged man having sex with his teen-aged daughter? Instead of giving a mono-log to no one in particular, Optimus flies into space to give his closing narration?
SlyTF1 wrote:cruizerdave wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:[
Marvel's movies are literally everything people accuse the Transformers movies of being, yet no one ever realizes that. The fact that Optimus went from wanting to abandon humanity to risking his life to save it again is character development, whether you realize it or not. The fact that Optimus was willing to abandon human kind in the first place is development in itself.
cruizerdave wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:cruizerdave wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:[
Marvel's movies are literally everything people accuse the Transformers movies of being, yet no one ever realizes that. The fact that Optimus went from wanting to abandon humanity to risking his life to save it again is character development, whether you realize it or not. The fact that Optimus was willing to abandon human kind in the first place is development in itself.
No, they're not. That's ridiculous to say.
Marvel has appealing characters. Transformers has obnoxious idiots running around pretending to be characters.
Also, Marvel has never had to make a cheap piss, masterbation or statutory rape joke.
ZeroWolf wrote:As I said a lot of character changes were done to keep the character most recognisable to the current toy incarnation..as long as its part of the generations line.
EDIT:Cruisrdave, can you cross off the items on your list which actually are the fault of Bay and not the fault of scriptwriters or producers or editors.
SlyTF1 wrote: The fact that Optimus went from wanting to abandon humanity to risking his life to save it again is character development, whether you realize it or not. The fact that Optimus was willing to abandon human kind in the first place is development in itself.
cruizerdave wrote:
Also, Marvel has never had to make a cheap piss, masterbation or statutory rape joke.
Stuartmaximus wrote:http://movieweb.com/transformers-5-underwater-alien-scene-dump-truck/
ZeroWolf wrote:Technically it's only a statutory rape joke when viewed through the lens of America as in the UK the age of consent is 16 so had the film be set in the UK, cade at of been unhappy but that's it.
SlyTF1 wrote:cruizerdave wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:cruizerdave wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:[
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1. Marvel doesn't have any damn appealing characters. There isn't a single one of them, besides Ultron, and maybe, just maybe Captain America that have any appeal to me.
2. Rape joke? There's no damn rape joke in any of the Transformers movies. Not only that, but I'm sure Guardians of the Galaxy had a masturbation joke.
Not when you look at the bigger picture. Before AOE, Optimus was already in a state where he was risking his life to save humanity, then in AOE he's changed his mind, only for him to then return to how he was before AOE by the movie's conclusion. Character development involves having a character's personal growth taken in forward direction to progress it. What happened with Optimus was that his character progressed in one direction between DOTM and AOE, and then AOE had him revert backward to how he was before that movie's beginning. He went from wanting to save humanity to not wanting to and then back to wanting to. That's not development, that's taking one step forward then one step back and then one step forward again, staying in the same place as he was originally. That's what's called a static character, not a developed character.SlyTF1 wrote:The fact that Optimus went from wanting to abandon humanity to risking his life to save it again is character development, whether you realize it or not. The fact that Optimus was willing to abandon human kind in the first place is development in itself.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
william-james88 wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:http://movieweb.com/transformers-5-underwater-alien-scene-dump-truck/
Come one man, we already newsed all this, thats how we got this conversation started in the first place. but its ok, maybe you didnt read our news story on the front page. In case you didnt here is the link:
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... bed/34489/
You posted a news story that was already news'd, and is the present topic of the conversation currently going on in this thread.Stuartmaximus wrote:william-james88 wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:http://movieweb.com/transformers-5-underwater-alien-scene-dump-truck/
Come one man, we already newsed all this, thats how we got this conversation started in the first place. but its ok, maybe you didnt read our news story on the front page. In case you didnt here is the link:
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... bed/34489/
whatd'yamean C'mon man? i've only just yesterday came back on the site after having logging on technical issues! or hasn't Burn told you? &/or don't the Seibertron Staff talk to each other?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
william-james88 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:cruizerdave wrote:
Also, Marvel has never had to make a cheap piss, masterbation or statutory rape joke.
1. No but they dont miss an opportunity to show us Thor topless. They also called infertile women monsters, that sure was nice of them
2. Also, that mcguffin statement claimed earlier is hypocrytical for anyone who would attempt to compare the TF franchise to any good action adventure film. I am not saying I love mcguffins, its obviously interesting to see a story attempt to exist without one. But anyone who says TF movies are bad since they rely on mcguffin should also say the same for Star Wars A New Hope, Star Wars The Force Awakens, every single Indiana Jones film and the Maltese Falcon (you know, only one of the best movies of all time).
Also, the original 1986 TF movie also relied on a mcguffin.
mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Mr_Autobot411 wrote:
brother, i so kindly disagree with u, it took a massive step backwards for me, it didnt adress anything better then the first 3. u stated urself the writing was terrible, that alone speaks volumes as to how bad it was. the dino were mis used, the acting all around was brutal esp the daughter, though markey mark prolly started in his worst acting role ever. it was all over the place as a film, galvatron well.......ill just stop here.
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So it's a faithful adaption to the awful G1 cartoon just with swears and slightly adult content like all blockbuster movies these days.
G1 cartoon was horrible let it die and stop limiting imagination in Hasbro's storys due to fans hating everything not G1.
Part of why mtmte is good only thing G1 is robot design.
Sabrblade wrote:Not when you look at the bigger picture. Before AOE, Optimus was already in a state where he was risking his life to save humanity, then in AOE he's changed his mind, only for him to then return to how he was before AOE by the movie's conclusion. Character development involves having a character's personal growth taken in forward direction to progress it. What happened with Optimus was that his character progressed in one direction between DOTM and AOE, and then AOE had him revert backward to how he was before that movie's beginning. He went from wanting to save humanity to not wanting to and then back to wanting to. That's not development, that's taking one step forward then one step back and then one step forward again, staying in the same place as he was originally. That's what's called a static character, not a developed character.SlyTF1 wrote:The fact that Optimus went from wanting to abandon humanity to risking his life to save it again is character development, whether you realize it or not. The fact that Optimus was willing to abandon human kind in the first place is development in itself.
What would have been development would be if Optimus had not returned to his wanting to save humanity and instead continued further on his dark path of vengeance and hatred. But since this is Optimus Prime we're talking about here, the main hero of an iconic children's toy franchise, they couldn't do that.
Optimus's change of heart at the start of AOE would have been a great beginning for a new villain character or an anti-hero character, one whom a different character playing the role of the good guy hero would have clashed ideals and philosophies against, making for some potentially excellent/interesting drama and character interaction. But since the idea was used for the role model hero who must remain a good influence for children, it wasn't allowed to be followed through, and rather than being further developed was instead just undone.
Not saying that I wanted Optimus to become more of a bad guy in AOE, mind you, but that because this character idea was used for Optimus instead of someone who could have been allowed to let it play out for, the idea was wasted on someone who couldn't let the idea be realized to its full potential, instead only having the idea merely erased and undone. And because the idea was wasted on Prime, they really shouldn't have tried to do it to Prime in the first place since it just ended with his character stuck in the same place that it's always been in the long run.
Stuartmaximus wrote:whatd'yamean C'mon man? i've only just yesterday came back on the site after having logging on technical issues! or hasn't Burn told you? &/or don't the Seibertron Staff talk to each other?
cruizerdave wrote:william-james88 wrote:
1. No but they dont miss an opportunity to show us Thor topless. They also called infertile women monsters, that sure was nice of them
1. Um, so what a topless man. Also, they, whoever you think "they" are didn't call Black Widow a monster, that was her expressing feelings about herself due to her insecurity, because she went through with being sterilized so she could become an assassin. The monster comment wasn't because she couldn't have kids, it was because of the dark path she chose as a young woman that resulted in her not being able to.
Mr_Autobot411 wrote:Kinda like how TF prime to me was the perfect update to what the g1 was, it was fresh, new story arc and wicked upgrades to arcee, wheeljack, and just when u though megs couldnt be more a bad ass, he did in prime. Anyways thats just imo. Peace
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william-james88 wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:whatd'yamean C'mon man? i've only just yesterday came back on the site after having logging on technical issues! or hasn't Burn told you? &/or don't the Seibertron Staff talk to each other?
Our weekly brunch is on sundays, I am sure he will bring it up then.
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
cruizerdave wrote:
•Porny shots of faked baked women in skimpy outfits.
To me watching these films (well the first one's not as bad as the others) is the cinematic equivalent of slamming my head into a metal door repeatedly. They're loud, every character is obnoxious, they have no theme, they make no sense and their story structure is nonexistent.
If you think my problems are those of a whiner, pull up Rottentomatoes sometime and read some of the reviews there. My problems with these films aren't fanboy Transformer problems, they are fundamental storytelling problems.
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
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