by Dagon » Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:13 pm
- Motto: "Ain't nobody got time fo dat....."
- Weapon: Null-Ray Rifle
If I can give something of a more thought out answer than to just dismiss the topic....
As far as the waiting five years part, I do agree with that. I'm not a fan of the movieverse, but that I don't believe really factors in to my answer.
I think that the overall Transformers formula is much too similar to roll out every two or three years; each of the three films does have the same basic plot of bad guy can't be allowed to get super item X. This is a pretty standard trope of all this type of fiction, so it's not like it's a bad thing that the TF universe uses it, regardless of that universe's medium.
Too many installments of any movie franchise tires out the general public; look at Saw, Fast & the Furious, PAranormal Activity, etc. etc. Too many movies that are essentially the same.
We've been chided repeatedly that the TF movies are for that same general public and not necessarily for us as a fandom. If we as a fandom don't have a unified front in terms of liking the movies and being positive about the release of each subsequent one, how can the general public be expected to? We've got a personal love of characters and story as pertains to the TF movies, the casual movie goer may not.
I think a longer time between TF movies is not a bad thing. You don't burn out the public on them, and as we're always told when we don't like a new TF movie, it's not us that the brand cares about, but the casual. So, if the casuals stop going, we fans certainly won't be able to support the new movies by ourselves to the degree that will make corporate continue to fund them.
I don't care about a 'new crew' at this point, because it's fairly apparent to me that these movies are just not going to try to work in a good story. But I'm apparently one of those strange types that doesn't need a human character to 'relate' to a fictional story. The movies are what they are to each of us, and after three movies, I doubt that too many of us will experience any type of seismic shift in the way we view the movieverse after another one comes out.
The movies don't tarnish my fond view of the franchise, mainly because there is still decent fiction in the franchise that I can enjoy if I don't like what's going on in the movies.
