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One of the joys of the five movies is Optimus's progression into psychopathy.
Oof, this looks pretty bad. And a poor copy of a Michael Bay movie without any of what made those movies successful. You either get the whole package of Bay or you don't get it. The good and the bad. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Really bad framing of the robots, generic looking action, and characters that are trying to copy the Bay characters without any of the sociopathic glee and contempt for its audience that made those movies so endearing in the first place.
Where is psychopath Optimus Prime? It all looks so flat and boring. Like another franchise driven into the meat grinder that is current media. Safe, inoffensive, but copying the past's homework.
Seriously, people need to go back and watch those three movies, particularly 2 and 3. They are hilariously fascinating. Watch Revenge of the Fallen with a few drinks and some friends and laugh your ass off. A Bayformers resurgence is coming like the prequels!
As if I need to watch a guy with his pants down ask for toilet paper again.
Save that stupidity for a Tom Green movie. We don't need it in Transformers. That toilet humor is not what made Transformers popular.
We all know it's stupid. We're past the point of this sort of thing. This isn't 2010. It's like still talking about Jar Jar Binks. It's more about looking at them for what they are and just analyzing it and having a sense of humor in a fascinating, detached ant farm sort of way. If you that's not your thing, fine. But it looks like they're trying to chase a similar dumb thing in this movie.
I am still pretty amazed that Prime has some very obvious cues to how his original toy transformed during his transformation.
As a G1 fan I never got into Beast Wars. But the CGI show on Netflix got me interested in the characters a bit. I actually really enjoyed that trailer. This looks a good mix of what made Bumblebee so great and what made the Bay movies so epic at times.
Also it seems Mirage is the main bot this time? I love Bumblebee but glad to see another bot, ahem, bee the focus.
I’d really recommend BW. The animation is dated, but it has great characters, writing, voice acting, a kick ass theme music, and lots of references to G1 especially in S2 and S3.