Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

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I seriously enjoyed this! I went into only knowing Unicron was a thing, and that was my main reason however I thought this was some M.Bay affair and from the outset I realised I was wrong. CGI was very off putting in places and a certain suit was just godawful. The audio for this film was superb.
 
I enjoyed the movie and it was a decent followup to Bumblebee.
I feel like they need to somehow market this film and Bumblebee that they are a soft reboot of the "live-action" movies and it has no relation to Shia Labeouf movie timeline or the timeline that starred Mark Wahlberg as well.
They have not introduced Megatron yet in this new reboot yet, which I am going to guess we may see him in the sequel or even Galvatron if they continue with Unicron.
There is a rumour of a Transformers&GI joe cross-over as well, it may work and bring some fresh new ideas into the franchise.
 
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kurosagi01 said:
I enjoyed the movie and it was a decent followup to Bumblebee.
I feel like they need to somehow market this film and Bumblebee that they are a soft reboot of the "live-action" movies and it has no relation to Shia Labeouf movie timeline or the timeline that starred Mark Wahlberg as well.
They have not introduced Megatron yet in this new reboot yet, which I am going to guess we may see him in the sequel or even Galvatron if they continue with Unicron.
There is a rumour of a Transformers&GI joe cross-over as well, it may work and bring some fresh new ideas into the franchise.
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Megaton hasn't been brought in as it follows the lineage of the first movies, so in the tineline megaton is on ice under the dam as on the original 2007 movie.
 
Gerard said:
Megaton hasn't been brought in as it follows the lineage of the first movies, so in the tineline megaton is on ice under the dam as on the original 2007 movie.
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If going by that logic, are you saying after the events of Bumblebee Sector7 discovers Megatron? That is assuming the arrival of Bumblebee and the 2 Decepticons are the 1st Transformers to have made contact with humans which is what they have shown in Bumblebee.
That is also assuming then Megatron has landed after the Prime maximals as well?
Megatron in the 2007 movie is only on Earth to find the all-spark/power source for Cybertron, where as in this soft reboot they have not mentioned any source apart from the source discovered in ROTB.
 
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kurosagi01 said:
If going by that logic, are you saying after the events of Bumblebee Sector7 discovers Megatron? That is assuming the arrival of Bumblebee and the 2 Decepticons are the 1st Transformers to have made contact with humans which is what they have shown in Bumblebee.
That is also assuming then Megatron has landed after the Prime maximals as well?
Megatron in the 2007 movie is only on Earth to find the all-spark/power source for Cybertron, where as in this soft reboot they have not mentioned any source apart from the source discovered in ROTB.
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He wasn't in bumblebee due to Hasbro wanting to keep continuity with the bay movies, despite the director wanting him to appear. So seemingly this is also the case for this movie as this continues on from the bumblebee movie.


With Transformers: Rise of the Beasts set to premiere in June 2023, many are wondering whether Megatron will appear in the film. Throughout the Transformers franchise, Megatron has always been one of the core antagonists as the leader of the Decepticons. The same can be said for the Transformers film series, with all five Michael Bay movies including Megatron as a main villain in each entry.


However, this changed with Bumblebee, a prequel to Bay's series. Bumblebee did not feature Megatron despite the wishes of director Travis Knight, due to Hasbro opting to keep continuity with Bay's earlier films. With Transformers: Rise of the Beasts set to be the sequel to Bumblebee, and its place in the wider Transformers continuity in doubt, the question of whether Megatron will make an appearance is certainly valid.
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Gerard said:
He wasn't in bumblebee due to Hasbro wanting to keep continuity with the bay movies, despite the director wanting him to appear. So seemingly this is also the case for this movie as this continues on from the bumblebee movie.
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I could have sworn they said or i've read that it was a "soft" reboot of the franchise, a bit of a shame then.
I wish it has no relation to the Bay movies then as the flow of the events doesn't really sync in with the events of Bay movies that well.
Where were the Maximals during the events of Dark of the moon?
Were the Maximals around during the events of the great war between all the "primes" vs the fallen?
Maybe i'm delving into the lore a bit too much.
 
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Not a prequel, they are on different continuities. In the Bay movies earth itself is Unicron whereas in this one it wasn't.
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Longtime producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has taken a more explicit stance, repeatedly denying that the film is a reboot and stating that it is a prequel that shows how Optimus Prime grows to become the character seen in the Bay films.

Also Wikipedia says:

It is the seventh installment in the Transformers live-action film series and serves as both a standalone sequel to Bumblebee (2018) and a prequel to Transformers (2007).

But Wiki isn't always right.
 
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Optimus Prime:
"Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life.

That is how our race was born. For a time, we lived in harmony, but like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war, a war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space.

We scattered across the galaxy, hoping to find it and rebuild our home, searching every star, every world.

And just when all hope seemed lost, message of a new discovery drew us to an unknown planet called Earth."
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So no, they're not related. Unless Prime left earth, forgot about it, forgot how to speak English, was then surprised that Bumblebee was still there and then took on the same form as he did before.
 
Penfold101 said:
So no, they're not related. Unless Prime left earth, forgot about it, forgot how to speak English, was then surprised that Bumblebee was still there and then took on the same form as he did before.
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I wouldn't put much stock into that monologue as subsequent movies in the series totally dump on Earth being an 'unknown planet', we have the primes sacrificing themselves on earth so that the fallen wouldn't get control of the superweapon to take out the sun in the second movie, then the third movie there's that decepticon Jetfire who's been there many years along with spacebridge parts and Sentinel being on the moon. Then it gets even worse with Arthur and Merlin being in league with Transformers hundreds of years back, right back to the creation of transformers with Earth being used to harvest the metal they're made from, which is also how the Dinobots got their form millions of years ago.

Basically Earth is an intergalactic whorehouse for transformers, and everyone was clued in and getting a turn, besides the autobots it seems.
 
I enjoyed it, but it was very forgettable and it's a complete waste of the maximals.

Also they need to stop using Pearlman as Primal, he already phoned it in once for Netflix and they went and used him again for this, and that just doesn't cut it when it's side by side with Peter Cullen.
 
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