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Jetfire
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I'll stick with Transformers Prime. 
Rebooting Transformers
- Thread starter Whofan
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Here's what they need to do.... TELL A GOOD STORY!
Just because it's based on a toy commercial from the 80s doesn't mean you can't take it and use the material to explore the implications of things like good vs. evil, the struggle to do right or complex relationships. It doesn't have to have dog humping and dick jokes!
Oh, and some actual focus on the Transformers as characters would be nice - instead of spending 90% of the movie focusing on human characters we simply don't care about. Seriously, almost every time I've heard someone defend the Bayformers movies it has been with this argument - "Well, Optimus Prime does some awesome shit and I like watching giant robots fighting." To that I say - fine, let's have a movie that focuses on that instead of giving us bits and pieces of it spread through mounds of intolerable shit! If you're watching a Transformers movie to see the Transformers do awesome stuff, then why are you tolerating movies that hardly do that?!
Just because it's based on a toy commercial from the 80s doesn't mean you can't take it and use the material to explore the implications of things like good vs. evil, the struggle to do right or complex relationships. It doesn't have to have dog humping and dick jokes!
Oh, and some actual focus on the Transformers as characters would be nice - instead of spending 90% of the movie focusing on human characters we simply don't care about. Seriously, almost every time I've heard someone defend the Bayformers movies it has been with this argument - "Well, Optimus Prime does some awesome shit and I like watching giant robots fighting." To that I say - fine, let's have a movie that focuses on that instead of giving us bits and pieces of it spread through mounds of intolerable shit! If you're watching a Transformers movie to see the Transformers do awesome stuff, then why are you tolerating movies that hardly do that?!
C'mon. You don't want to see a 90-pound, below-drinking-age girl singlehandedly kill Megatron with a rolling pin? Because he was too amazed with her tap-dancing skills to attack?
Or you could, you know, hire actors, do the above, and use the tens of millions that would otherwise go to fancy computer purchases to crafts, prop, set and costume designers, and maybe even donate some dough to charity while you're at it.
I'll stick with Transformers Prime.
No, no, no no no nonononononopnono0nononononopn.
Why not a sort of "Back to the Future" TF. Use new actors for the 4th movie and they find some 'time-plot-device' that sends the transformers back to 1950's Earth where they have to find the other 'time-plot-device' that will take them all back. In order to blend in, they look like 50's models cars. Bumblebee, for example, looks like a 57' Chevy. They find the device in the south west where they find decepticons shaped like...... you guessed it, giant ants and giant spiders! 
C'mon. You don't want to see a 90-pound, below-drinking-age girl singlehandedly kill Megatron with a rolling pin? Because he was too amazed with her tap-dancing skills to attack?
Only if it's Summer Glau doing it. Or Eliza Dushku I suppose.
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Jetfire
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I'll stick with Transformers Prime.
No, no, no no no nonononononopnono0nononononopn.
I will continue to enjoy the show.
I'd just make "Beast Wars". If they can make "Jurassic Park" movies then I see no problem with a Beast Wars movie.
^Only if Gary Chalk was the voice of Optimus David Kaye is the only one I would accept for Megatron II ahhhh yessssss.
David Kaye is the only one I would accept for Megatron II ahhhh yessssss.Nowhere Man
Commodore
I would just make the robots more recognizable. Give them a face would be a good start. I like what they did with Optomus for the most part, so just go with that as a model and give them a closer resemblance to G1. Add some Dinobots and Have Megatron look like something other than walking scrap metal. Have the alt modes be like in the cartoon. ie. Bumblebee should be a yellow VW beetle and Starscream an F-15. I wanna see something closer to the show where there is a war on Cybertron, Autobots escape, they accidentally crash on Earth, they spend thier time on Earth trying to repair the ship and eventually return to Cybertron to end the war. It's simple and can envolve lots of action and fighting. Have less humans involved. I thought the first one was pretty cool, but I always had a problem with the scrap metal look and the way to fast camera action. It wouldnt take a whole lot to redeem Transformers in my opinion.
Or you could, you know, hire actors, do the above, and use the tens of millions that would otherwise go to fancy computer purchases to crafts, prop, set and costume designers, and maybe even donate some dough to charity while you're at it.
Good point, actual good actors do help.
BUT, even good actors can't elevate a movie with a horrible script, director, etc. Just look at some of the cast that Michael Bay had in Dark of the Moon.... John Turturro, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Hugo Weaving and LEONARD FREAKIN' NIMOY! He essentially had a Coen brothers movie cast and look what he did with it.
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