Mako Crab wrote:You know, to this day I still love part 1. What a great, stupid, fun movie that was. I bought the Barricade toy soon as I could. He was the only movie-toy I ever (and will ever) bought.
Should've bought his DOTM toy, it's way better.
Part 2 and 3 just didn't do it for me. But it's with part 3 that I feel we saw what Bay could do when he was at the top of his game. More robot carnage than ever before. More giant set pieces and explosions and a movie over 2 1/2 hours long to accomplish everything he wanted. But to me, the whole thing just felt hollow and soulless. I left the theater for the 2nd time in a row feeling underwhelmed by a Transformers movie.
I would be more impressed with the movies if they didn't always have very strange setpieces that seemingly had nothing to do with anything. Why were those parachute suit guys in the movie? They accomplished literally nothing. Most of them died on the way down! And that whole "falling building" setup (which NEVER gets resolved in any decent way) was pretty much entirely an excuse for Michael Bay to film scenes in a flipped around building because he saw it in Inception. (Seriously, am I the ONLY one who saw that for what it was?)
Maybe if someone would actually churn out a good script, Bay could make something worthwhile. Maybe. But now it's a reboot?? Why a reboot? Part 1 only just came out 5 years ago. What in the world do we need a reboot for? To try and get it right this time? Sorry, but that's not going to happen. It's another Michael Bay film. He's already had three tries. It's just not going to happen.
I think what they mean by "reboot" here is "soft reboot." Some film directors and producers take continuity to such an insane level that if Sam Witwicky isn't in the next movie, then it's not really part of the same story. For example, Terminator Salvation has been described as a reboot, even though it very clearly has ties to the original movies and, in fact, the entire Terminator mythos *relies* on the movies being tied together. (Also, the T-800 at the end has Arnold's face, squarely confirming that it's the same universe.) But because it's set in the future war, and not taking place in the "present day" (or 3 years in the future ala T2) and precisely *isn't* about a Terminator and another dude (sometimes also a Terminator) being sent back in time to kill John Connor (or John Connor's mother). It's about John Connor fighting Terminators in the future.
Likewise, all three Transformers movies are ostensibly about Sam getting involved in this Transformers conflict on Earth. If the new movie doesn't involve Sam at all, but rather involves Optimus Prime and Bumblebee travelling through space looking for Primus or something, then yeah, it's kind of a reboot.