fenrir72 wrote:Proof in the pie is in the eating! I must say, despite despising the Bayverse franchise(most especially the toys! They suck!), the first movie was arguably the BEST. This "prequel" hopefully puts to a close to the last 4 with a bang(a good one at that)!
I will never understand why you people think TF1 was "the BEST." There was like 10 minutes of Transformers screen time versus 110 minutes of human nonsense. Most of which had nothing to do with the overall story. Optimus Prime was a cowardly douchebag. Ironhide was a wannabe murderer. Ratchet a bumbling fool. Megatron didn't know how to land. Starscream was, who even knows what he was. Sam was just plain weird (though to be fair, his parents were even weirder). Agent Simmons a complete freak. Sector Seven really played no role in the outcome. Bumblebee and Barricade were the only interesting bots (the chase scene was badass). And Mikaela the only interesting human.
ROTF rectified all that. All the characterizations were spot on. Sam, Mikeala and Simmons actually served a purpose. Sam's death/resurrection scene still chokes me up. Bee/Rampage fight: awesome. And the forest battle: epic. Ignore the slapstick twins, and it was damn near perfect.
Then came DOTM and the franchise pretty much went off the rails. But at least it was visually interesting, unlike the first movie.
But back on topic: Bumblebee does look awesome in pretty much every way. Then again, I said the same thing about The Last Jedi.