Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

ianh said:
I had no idea they were still pumping out this dross :D

I think I stopped with the 2nd one when it was obvious that the 1st was the peak and it was all down hill from there but I'm sure I saw Bumblebee on TV maybe, not too sure.
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My guess is that these films are a huge success with the kids.
 
As a kid like most of you lot, I dreamt of seeing what Unicron would look like in a live film...however the trailer really didn't do a thing for me.
 
rp2000 said:
Or adults who are sucker's for nostalgia who grew up with the cartoons and toys of the 80s and 90s..... :D


rp2000
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I think Bumblebee was the closest I got to that so far, as without Peter Cullen and Leonard Nimoy in the Bay Transformers I wouldn't have really recognised them as such, but I was and am a Gen 1 fan, I haven't seen beast wars in years.

Kainz said:
As a kid like most of you lot, I dreamt of seeing what Unicron would look like in a live film...however the trailer really didn't do a thing for me.
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I'm reserving judgement, he won't sound anywhere near as iconic though.

I just want "You've got the touch" to blast mid fight y'know.
 
VincentHanna said:
Just quoting an old post.

So you do remember films were bad for other reasons, as opposed to now when it's often blamed on "wokeness"? :D
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Films have always been rubbish for a mix of the same reasons - poor writing, poor acting, poor directing and/or studio interference - people are just using the term "woke" nowadays as a short-hand to describe those things when they're attached to progressive films but the reasons are still the same irrespective.
 
If anyone's going to this to finally see Unicron..you're gonna be pretty disappointed. I'd guestimate that in the entirety of the movie Unicron has maybe 2 minutes of screen time tops? The whole gimmick behind this is Unicron is stuck in a dead galaxy after having consumed so many planets, but there is a "transwarp key" (which becomes the maguffin for the movie) that Unicron has his stooges out hunting for so he can get to other galaxies and consume their planets. It reminds me a lot of dark of the moon where we had the spacebridge pillars that pull cybertron into orbit then when they get deactivated it gets pushed back. Same gimmick here essentially.

Prime in this is very distrusting of humans which changes as the movie goes on, unusual to see him without a robo-boner for humans for once.

But Unicron basically does a big zero in terms of Unicron stuff like planet munching unless I missed something, you don't see it consume anything, you see it hovering at the edge of the maximals planet as in the trailer, then you see it start to come close to earth only to get pushed back at the end. But they basically say Unicron is still out there and prime and his team will destroy him if he returns, and we round the movie off with Optimus giving his standard self masturbatory speech.

Mirage had a few good one liners that got some laughs

Overall wasn't bad, just nothing really new.
 
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Gerard said:
If anyone's going to this to finally see Unicron..you're gonna be pretty disappointed. I'd guestimate that in the entirety of the movie Unicron has maybe 2 minutes of screen time tops? The whole gimmick behind this is Unicron is stuck in a dead galaxy after having consumed so many planets, but there is a "transwarp key" (which becomes the maguffin for the movie) that Unicron has his stooges out hunting for so he can get to other galaxies and consume their planets. It reminds me a lot of dark of the moon where we had the spacebridge pillars that pull cybertron into orbit then when they get deactivated it gets pushed back. Same gimmick here essentially.

Prime in this is very distrusting of humans which changes as the movie goes on, unusual to see him without a robo-boner for humans for once.

But Unicron basically does a big zero in terms of Unicron stuff like planet munching unless I missed something, you don't see it consume anything, you see it hovering at the edge of the maximals planet as in the trailer, then you see it start to come close to earth only to get pushed back at the end. But they basically say Unicron is still out there and prime and his team will destroy him if he returns, and we round the movie off with Optimus giving his standard self masturbatory speech.

Mirage had a few good one liners that got some laughs

Overall wasn't bad, just nothing really new.
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But, but, things go boom and there are robots. Who actually cares about the story?
 
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