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MFrontier
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 Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 4:25 pm
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I hope the box office picks up.
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Cryten
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 1:29 am
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Its sad to think that Michael Bays Explosions and super hot cat walk models instead of actors held far more general appeal then the two movies I liked after the first. Bumblebee and this one.
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Southkaio
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 2:33 am
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The movie already got positive critical reception. Enough to warrant sequels.
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Beatdigga
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 6:56 am
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| Cryten wrote: | | Its sad to think that Michael Bays Explosions and super hot cat walk models instead of actors held far more general appeal then the two movies I liked after the first. Bumblebee and this one. |
Everyone is doing the post-mortem on what critics and audiences have called a very good movie (I saw it and thought it was great). The problems stem from the brand itself pumping out a lot of subpar efforts on film and television (we're only a year removed from Rise of the Beasts and less than six months removed from Earthspark), the general issue with switching from live-action to animation, a very confusing continuity thanks to the last two films not wanting to disconnect from the Bayverse completely, and a first trailer that made the movie look more immature than it was.
It is a shame because it's a good film that doesn't ask you to have seen a bunch of other movies first. But given the oversaturation of the brand, I kind of get why the box office was so soft.
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Evan Wu
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Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 3:13 pm
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| Southkaio wrote: | | The movie already got positive critical reception. Enough to warrant sequels. |
Sequels are greenlit when a movie is profitable, not if critics like them.
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Silver Kirin
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Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2024 5:20 am
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| Cryten wrote: | | Its sad to think that Michael Bays Explosions and super hot cat walk models instead of actors held far more general appeal then the two movies I liked after the first. Bumblebee and this one. |
I never liked Bay's Transformers movies, though I saw the third and fourth ones in cinemas, so I was part of the problem, but in certain aspects I can understand why they were popular, they had a certain charm to them, there weren't many films like them from 2007 to 2012, that offered tons of CGI characters and action, no matter how incomprehensible the action or how annoying the characters could get. But I think audiences got tired of watching the same thing and the majority of audiences moved to other actions franchises like the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the Star Wars sequels. Even movies that were much better received like Bumblebee couldn't repair the damage The Last Knight caused. It's kind of funny to think that Hasbro, Paramount and Bay had plans to make even more Transformers movies thay would form some sort of Cinematic Universe, only to scrap all of those ideas when The Last Knight underperformed.
I doesn't help that the Transformers brand isn't as popular as it used to be some years ago, I mean, I have some young relatives that are fans of the series and still buy the toys, but I think there's a excessive amount of sub-series and it gets kind of confusing, my nephews like the movies, but they haven't seen Earthspark
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