Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
That propably was the worst thing that happened in enitre movie.I knew they were gonna be mistreated as soon as I saw Optimus swat Grimlock away like a fly in the 1st preview.
Actually, I don't see anything spectacular in Grimlock fighting scenes. He was onwned easily by Optimus , then he was reduced to some king of horse. He mybe jawed few drones, but it's just not enough for a Legendary Cybertronian warrior of this size.I can easily imagine G1, FoC, and Animated Optimus getting into yet another heated argument with their respective Grimlocks, losing it and punching him to next week.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Their design was pretty good. Character development? Non-existent. But that's nothing new.
I knew they were gonna be mistreated as soon as I saw Optimus swat Grimlock away like a fly in the 1st preview.
Noideaforaname wrote:Terrible.
They advertised the hell out of them, but they only show up for the last ~15 minutes in a 3 hour movie. They don't talk, don't have names, the backstory is a jumbled mess in a jumbled mess of a movie and added in long after I gave up on new plot points, and ultimately do nothing but give Optimus a ride. Really, they could've used (and may originally have done exactly that) just the "silver knight" upgraded Optimus for the Dinobot's parts.
And what was the point of the real dinosaurs, anyway? Organic Dinos --> Bombed by Creators --> "Transformium" Dinos... lost in the Arctic, was totally setting up for a Dinobot origin, but they didn't do anything with it and so all of that felt pointless.
The designs... meh. Too cheaty, spiky, and homogenous. Although Strafe and Scorn were kinda interesting, though not enough for me to grab their toys.
"Dinobot Charge" is alright, though, and Scorn's backflip-of-death was pretty amazing.
Oh, and I do love how the film was able to imply just how monstrously HUGE they were, at least in their introduction.
Noideaforaname wrote:Terrible.
They advertised the hell out of them, but they only show up for the last ~15 minutes in a 3 hour movie. They don't talk, don't have names, the backstory is a jumbled mess in a jumbled mess of a movie and added in long after I gave up on new plot points, and ultimately do nothing but give Optimus a ride. Really, they could've used (and may originally have done exactly that) just the "silver knight" upgraded Optimus for the Dinobot's parts.
And what was the point of the real dinosaurs, anyway? Organic Dinos --> Bombed by Creators --> "Transformium" Dinos... lost in the Arctic, was totally setting up for a Dinobot origin, but they didn't do anything with it and so all of that felt pointless.
The designs... meh. Too cheaty, spiky, and homogenous. Although Strafe and Scorn were kinda interesting, though not enough for me to grab their toys.
"Dinobot Charge" is alright, though, and Scorn's backflip-of-death was pretty amazing.
Oh, and I do love how the film was able to imply just how monstrously HUGE they were, at least in their introduction.
SlyTF1 wrote:I don't see how people can be disappointed with their role in the movie. In every trailer, the only Dinobots to make an appearance were Grimlock and Strafe. Minus a couple of TV spots. And they always showed the same shot of Bumblebee jumping into Strafe's feet, and literally about 4 or 5 shots of Grimlock, total. They weren't the focus of the movie's story, at all, so why anyone would expect them to be in the movie any longer than they were is beyond me. Hell, I'm surprised they got as much screen time as they did. They served their purpose, and kicked more ass than every Transformer in the first movie combined. They probably even had more screen time than every Transformer in that movie, combined.
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:I don't see how people can be disappointed with their role in the movie. In every trailer, the only Dinobots to make an appearance were Grimlock and Strafe. Minus a couple of TV spots. And they always showed the same shot of Bumblebee jumping into Strafe's feet, and literally about 4 or 5 shots of Grimlock, total. They weren't the focus of the movie's story, at all, so why anyone would expect them to be in the movie any longer than they were is beyond me. Hell, I'm surprised they got as much screen time as they did. They served their purpose, and kicked more ass than every Transformer in the first movie combined. They probably even had more screen time than every Transformer in that movie, combined.
Considering a LARGE chunk of the advertising/media was about the Dinobots showing up, maybe more than twenty minutes at the end of a three-hour long slog of crap?
Because AOE makes me appreciate the 1986 movie more, and that takes some doing.
SlyTF1 wrote:They showed up, didn't they? It doesn't matter how damn long they were there. Be glad they showed up at all.
Rodimus Prime wrote:You can't make me disappear. I am not feet.
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:They showed up, didn't they? It doesn't matter how damn long they were there. Be glad they showed up at all.
That's something Michael Bay would say.
SlyTF1 wrote:OptimalOptimus2 wrote:SlyTF1 wrote:They showed up, didn't they? It doesn't matter how damn long they were there. Be glad they showed up at all.
That's something Michael Bay would say.
Because it's the truth.
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