by First-Aid » Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:10 pm
- Motto: "This won't hurt me a bit."
- Weapon: Laser Scalpel
Lets face it. A lot of us grew up with Transformers as animation (cartoon), so for us this isn't a big jump. Two generation though know Transformers through the live action movies so they saw this as a deviation from their norm (think of Geewunners when Beast Wars came out, that type of deviation). ALmost 20 years of live action, CGI Transformers rather than animation. And before you say "There WAS Transformers animation!", the ratings say that virtually no one watched it. Earthspark was being outwatched by Golden Girls reruns at its PEAK...so no one was watching it (this data was presented on another thread).
I feel like this movie, if it had come out after the original TF in 2007, would have done much better. Now, after 7 established live action movies where people aren't going to watch the characters, they are going to watch the CGI and see what can be accomplished next, this seems like a step back in technology. The movie is outstanding, and only the whiniest die-hard Geewunners are going to disagree because Geewun. But the launch date was poor, the marketing was atrocious, and the general public (NOT the fans, the general public) were expecting something different. This is not THEIR Transformers, it's OUR Transformers. And it simply points out that we are not as influential as some people would like to think and our take on the franchise is probably outdated.
It finally happened. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series. Yes, I cried.
-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.