Transformers

[DonTadow]

I think its the opposite. As a long time fan I liked the movie more because I did know the backstories of the individual deceptocins. For an audience member I worried that they wouldn't find the villians engaging enough to care about.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I know most of my friends, and myself as well, are quite intrigued by "Cloverfield." Godzilla from the PoV of the extras sounds like it could be a pretty cool concept.

Godzilla?

Cthulhu.

 

[Shayuri]

*cringe* After having to deal with about a years worth of people saying that 'True fans' must only like things a certain way, I REALLY wish you had worded this differently as it invokes an immediate gut reaction that I doubt you meant. Fans of the material come in a wide spectrum, and this incorporates the various changes that have occured to the franchise over the years. Some people like it, some people wont. As a long time fan of Transformers, no I dont find it an insult. I find the idea that someone gets to decide whether I'm a 'real fan' or not based on a particular change to be the true insult. I find something like TF Masterforce to be FAR more offensive to the line then the movie is.

I should clarify. Nothing in what I said was intended to single out "real fans" or "true fans" or anything of the sort. I was just saying that in my opinion the movie was terrible and I was surprised so many people who loved Transformers so much still liked a movie that I thought demeaned and devalued the franchise. I wasn't making a judgement against those people (though I was against the movie)...just expressing my surprise.

That's all I meant by it.

 

[Halivar]

Cthulhu.

Oh, you're one of those orthodox cultists. I can't wait for the Kthulhut to return from R'lyeh to consume you heretics.

La! Shub Niggarath! La! La!

PS: One of my favorite story arcs from the TF comic was kind of Lovecraftian, where an carrion-eating insect got a hold of the Prime Matrix and turned into an evil spectral entity that hung out in dark places and ate Decepticons. It was cool.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

It's a movie, based off a toy-line made by a notorious over-the-top director who likes lots of patriotic cheese in his movies along with huge explosions.

Yeah.

Apparently there is some small subset of folks who are both too smart to appreciate the writing, and yet too slow to follow the action.

This movie is not for them.

Stuff blowing up and a few catchphrases do not a movie make.

Yippee ki-yay.

 

[Grog]

Apparently there is some small subset of folks who are both too smart to appreciate the writing, and yet too slow to follow the action.

This movie is not for them.

Or maybe we just thought that the movie would be about Transformers.

If the movie had been accurately titled, for example had it been called "Sam,Mikaela, Captain Lennox and the Secretary of Defense, guest starting the Transformers," I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with it. And I also never would have seen it in the first place, so hey! Everybody wins.

 

[DonTadow]

Yeah.

Apparently there is some small subset of folks who are both too smart to appreciate the writing, and yet too slow to follow the action.

This movie is not for them.



Yippee ki-yay.

Or too many people have fandom colored glasses on.

I liked the movie, because it beat my expectations (heck all I wanted was it to be better than Masters of the Universe and Spiderman 3) . But I can definately see the gripes of the people whom didn't like it.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Or too many people have fandom colored glasses on.

Too old to be a Transformers fan, actually. Never seen a single episode. Prior to the movie I could identify only Optimus Prime by sight.

Maybe that explains why I enjoyed the movie (and also why it is doing so well).

 

[John Crichton]

Too old to be a Transformers fan, actually. Never seen a single episode. Prior to the movie I could identify only Optimus Prime by sight.

Maybe that explains why I enjoyed the movie (and also why it is doing so well).

Or you simply got what they were going for and had a good time.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

The TF Geek in me cant let this go uncorrected.

Corrected it myself back in #115.