Sad news: There will be a Transformers 4

[RandyMistie]

LOL! Yes, Swipe, I think I freaked out like this before and you talked me off of the ledge... I get it!

For me it was Batman.... and Dracula.... I really get it.

Your pedagogical myths are no less silly than mine.... We all have these things...

I just need to breathe until the NEXT Transformers movie comes out.... And then, I cannot promise you I won't freak out again!!!

HAHA!

[Sideswipe]

Yeah, it wont be the last time I explain that.  I pretty much feel the same way about this Power Rangers reboot people are talking about trying to make.  I watched it a bit as a kid but never really stayed with it, I moved on and didn't look back.

[RandyMistie]

POWER RANGERS!!!!! NOoOOOoOOOOOooooooo!!!!!

[Darth Geek]

Here, Randy, maybe this will help you like Transformers better:

[RandyMistie]

NOOOoooooOOOOooooooO!!!!!!!

[Sideswipe]

Thats a Springer repaint from the Generations line.  He is a triple changer.

[Darth Geek]

Yes. But I do like that he turns into something that really looks like the Batmobile.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-customs/946061-batman-transformer-crossover-batformer.html

[RandyMistie]

Oh my goodness! That you know that, is.... really quite remarkable!

I love the show, Comic Book Men, especially when the folks bring in something like that; a collectable, or a comic, and an expert can look for just a second and deconstruct the entire history of the object and give a valid estimate of it's value. It may be a useless skill compared to, say, astronomy, or Quantum Physics, but it is much more interesting to me, most times!

Although, I do study Astronomy and Quantum Physics, there are times I just wanna read some Batman comics, know what I am sayin'?

Ah, for fun....

[Sideswipe]

I happen to have one of those figures.

[RandyMistie]

Amazing! You rock, dude!

[Trekker4747]

It didn't feel like a three hour film.  It's surprisingly well paced with few few slow points.

I agree, it felt like a four-hour film.

I guess it was *terrible*, probably the better of the franchise all things considered as it toned down a lot of what made the other movies so painful (comic relief, annoying human characters) and surprising anti-tropes and character twists (what happens with Tucci's character.)  But *dam* this thing still is a mess.  There's not enough story to sustain a movie this long considering the whole story is just about the Autobots trying to recover another MacGuffin that'll destroy the world, or whatever.

Really seems like a lot could have been done to make the story tighter and shorter which, really, Bay *is* capable of, at least to some small degree.

I will give him *some* credit that the fight scenes were a bit more comprehensible and at least the Autobots used has distinct personalities and were in it a whole lot more than in other movies, and it's hard to dislike the idea of Optimus Prime riding a giant fire-breathing robotic dinosaur.

Cut this movie down to inside of two-hours and it would have been pretty... "decent."

At the very least, no Sia LeBeouf antics, his parents' antics (with his mother getting another lobotomy) and the fight scenes were a bit more comprehensible. Just a bit.  And there were some nice thrilling set-piece (like the high-wire crossing to the Sears Tower.)

But, god, this movie is still a wreck.

[Darth Geek]

So by this pace we'll get an actually good movie by, what, Transformers 12?

[Toyland Chairman]

Saw this last night, and it's better than the first three. Still needs work, but it's a step in the right direction. Nice to hear Frank Welker is back as Galvatron, even if the character feels tacked on. They probably should've saved him for TRANSFORMERS 5.

[Sideswipe]

He wasn't intended to be the big bad in this one.  Just an intro for him.  Like he said, we haven't seen the last of him.

[NRRork]

It's already made $600 million. Who keeps paying to see this man's movies? And, more importantly, how can we find out so we can round them up and have them killed humanely?

. . .

I'm kidding about that last part, of course.

I don't care if it's done humanely.