TheWiseGuy487
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Bay’s first Transformers is legit good. It definitely feels like a modern (well, 2007 modern lol) update of the 80s Amblin films with some Bay action thrown in.
The rest of the sequels suck as they removed any of that Amblin feel.
Bumblebee is good too. But as stated, smaller scale.
This looks like it could be a throwback to the first movie. Which would be a good thing. There was a lot of goodwill coming off it and why the lesser sequels did as well as they did.
The first film feels like a mash up of several different popular, sci-fi films. The first act is ET (main character befriends lost alien being) second act is Terminator 2 (antagonistic pursuer disguised as law enforcement, characters going on the run) and the last act is Independence Day (secret hidden underground base reveals secret history and alien find from which all human technology is derived from, ends in full-on alien invasion). It’s like if you took all of those things, gave it a bit of that Amblin magic, shot it like a oversaturated, sweaty porn film, and voilà, you get Transformers 2007.
The first film also definitely thrived on and benefited from the novelty of its groundbreaking special effects and seeing all of the cool transformations of the Transformers onscreen for the first time. The “Arrival on Earth” scene forever lives in my mind rent free.
After that, the novelty starts to wear off definitely and each subsequent film lacks those qualities, thus the diminishing returns and lowering quality of each sequel. Bumblebee definitely recaptures some of that magic, but more paired down and focused, and without any of the gross sexist and racist elements.