Breakdown of First Screening for Transformers One + Runtime Confirmed and New Poster

This looks very, VERY promising.

And damn, having pop songs in the movie would have been very immersion-breaking. So I'm glad that the director decided to skip them, or he stood his grounds against corporate inference.

I was pretty excited for this movie both as a Transformers fan and as a dad. I took my daughter to the theater for the first time last year to see The Super Mario Bros. Movie (the Dreamworks one, of course ) and she had an absolute blast and loved it. She got super psyched when I showed her the trailer for TF One.
All this positive press is extremely promising and getting me even more excited for it. I cannot wait!

Quantum Surge wrote:"best film in the franchise so far" guess that means the 1986 movie isn't good anymore then lol

To be fair, the 1986 movie is pretty bad. The movie is awesome from the start until the final battle between Optimus and Megs. But once that battle is done, we're back to the regular Sunbow shenanigans.

Glyph wrote:Anticipation cautiously building...

-Kanrabat- wrote:And damn, having pop songs in the movie would have been very immersion-breaking.

Yeah, imagine if the movie was in the middle of a pitched battle or something and a rock anthem suddenly started blaring out!

Yeah, that took me by surprise. A Hollywood-made non-Disney family film in this day and age having no pop songs whatsoever is super rare.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, I'm taking all that with a whole shaker of salt. I'm still going to see it, but I was hoping we would get a detailed view of life on Cybertron before things went bad, but if "the downfall of Megatron" is already included, it sounds like they're just rehashing the story in the same manner that's been done repeatedly. So my expectations ate tempered. Still looks better than RoTB, but that not a high bar to clear.

The "life on Cybertron" at this point in the story is probably "The Quintessons rule everything and oppress everyone, so life kinda sucks for most."

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, I'm taking all that with a whole shaker of salt. I'm still going to see it, but I was hoping we would get a detailed view of life on Cybertron before things went bad, but if "the downfall of Megatron" is already included, it sounds like they're just rehashing the story in the same manner that's been done repeatedly. So my expectations ate tempered. Still looks better than RoTB, but that not a high bar to clear.

The "life on Cybertron" at this point in the story is probably "The Quintessons rule everything and oppress everyone, so life kinda sucks for most."

Well that wouldn't be my top choice, but I guess it's different than "Pax and Megs are friends. They disagree over who should be leader. Megs gets in his feelings and becomes a petulant child. Rinse and repeat."

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, I'm taking all that with a whole shaker of salt. I'm still going to see it, but I was hoping we would get a detailed view of life on Cybertron before things went bad, but if "the downfall of Megatron" is already included, it sounds like they're just rehashing the story in the same manner that's been done repeatedly. So my expectations ate tempered. Still looks better than RoTB, but that not a high bar to clear.

The "life on Cybertron" at this point in the story is probably "The Quintessons rule everything and oppress everyone, so life kinda sucks for most."

Well that wouldn't be my top choice, but I guess it's different than "Pax and Megs are friends. They disagree over who should be leader. Megs gets in his feelings and becomes a petulant child. Rinse and repeat."

The Aligned backstory that this movie seems to be deriving it's story from originally had "the rule and overthrow of the Quintessons" and "the friendship and breakup of Orion and Megs" be two different events separated by several ages of Cybertron history (the Quints originally ruled during the "Age of Wrath", then after they were kicked off the planet came an era of peace and prosperity called the "Golden Age", then came the "Age of Rust" that started with a rust plague that ended the prosperity and required a stricter sense of rigid order to end the chaos and panic brought about by the plague, leading to the caste system taking over), so it seems this movie decided to merge the once two different events together to make them one single event, with Orion and Megs opposing the Quints together instead of opposing the caste system together, and their falling out coming off the backs of the Quints' defeat instead.

It's also possible that they wanted to make this movie less political by having Orion and Megs overthrow oppressive evil aliens instead of an oppressive corrupt government, since overthrowing evil aliens is a more fantasy concept that all viewers can understand better and enjoy more than overthrowing a corrupt government.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Glyph wrote:Anticipation cautiously building...

-Kanrabat- wrote:And damn, having pop songs in the movie would have been very immersion-breaking.

Yeah, imagine if the movie was in the middle of a pitched battle or something and a rock anthem suddenly started blaring out!

Yeah, that took me by surprise. A Hollywood-made non-Disney family film in this day and age having no pop songs whatsoever is super rare.

That just means I'll have to stand up in the theater and start singing, loudly.

Mind if I join you? We can make it a duet of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". They'll love it!

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, I'm taking all that with a whole shaker of salt. I'm still going to see it, but I was hoping we would get a detailed view of life on Cybertron before things went bad, but if "the downfall of Megatron" is already included, it sounds like they're just rehashing the story in the same manner that's been done repeatedly. So my expectations are tempered. Still looks better than RoTB, but that not a high bar to clear.

I agree especially with some of the idiots on reddit.