T-Macksimus wrote:First off, I hope the Movie franchise ends with Dark of the Moon. No reboot, no one else taking the helm and continuing with TF4, nothing. Kill the live action films right here and now!
This bull**** needs to come to an end! Keep making the cartoons for the kids and NOTHING MORE!
And this is why...
The "fans" DESERVE exactly 2 things: Jack...and Sh**, and guess what? Jack just left!!
Yeah, the fans may WANT stuff but we don't deserve a damn thing because were are going, by choice, to see a movie we don't NEED to see and buy toys we don't NEED to have. We choose to enjoy this hobby, we choose to collect toys and watch shows that were meant for young children and we choose to pay tribute to something that we adult (and teen/young adult) collectors love and enjoy from our youth but that's IT! Mickey Mouse doesn't owe me sh**, neither does Bullwinkle and Optimus Prime doesn't owe me anything either and most certainly Hasbro and Paramount don't owe me a damn thing and they don't owe the fandom either and I'd sure love to see how ANY of the fans can justify making such a selfish, baseless, egotistical claim. Hasbro doesn't NEED us, there's a heck of a lot more children out there than there are TF fans. They did fine before the fandom got so huge and they'll still survive even if we all fall off the face of the Earth tomorrow.
I'm not trying to start a fight, this isn't a G1-vs-Movie squabble like before, this is me trying to figure out where everyone's thinking got so horribly misguided and exactly at what point I became ashamed to be lumped into the same category as my fellow collectors and followers of everything Transformers. The target demographic for the toys, the movies, the amusement park rides...they behave better than the majority of the people that actually comprise what is considered the basis of "Transformer Fans".
Give this franchise back to the children where it rightfully belongs because the grown-ups have turned this whole thing into a farce, a fiasco and a complete nightmare. The very essence of the Transformers, the heart and soul of 20+ years of magic is effectively dead and it was the fan base that killed it and I sincerely hope that each and every one of you out there is pleased with yourself over your own selfish behavior. I would be less pissed off if Bay had put a bullet in Optimus Primes spark core at the end of TF3 than I am with our entire fan community right now.
I disagree.
Sure its meant for kids, yada yada whatever you just said, but the older fans helped hasbro realize it can be a larger franchise than it already is (adults pay for movie tickets, botcon tickets, etc etc). When adults wear TF merch, or mention anything about TFs, it is taken a lot more serious than if kids mention it. Thats marketing right there. Anyway, all of this still doesn't matter, coz when we say we deserve, we don't really mean we feel we are OWED somthing, thats retarded. I'm sure when he said "deserve", he meant it as in how tantalizing its been to have 3 2-hour movies, and still not have enough of what you wanted in it (he is speaking out of his love for the franchise, and how he would pay to have it made for TF fans, not for the general public who need a buncha other crap to get them in the theatre). I don't think any heart has left the franchise, TF Prime is awesome, and Animated really surprised me. As someone else mentioned, let them do as many movies as they need to get it right.
Its the fact that we feel that the movies missed out on appealing to the TF enthusiasts, who wanted more ROBOTS than humans in a TF movie... even kids would probably agree. Taking this whole "its meant for kids, be pleased we're getting anything" is a really stupid attitude. We are the market; a potential target audience. By voicing our wants, we JUST MIGHT GET THEM, since if theres enough money to be made from somthing we want, AWESOME. On top of that, its a forum, let people bitch and whine all they want, as long as they are saying what they liked, and what they didn't like. Who knows, maybe someone who wants to make more money will read those comments and appeal.