Sad news: There will be a Transformers 4

[Sideswipe]

Your not an Apple consumer are you?  Because the majority of China would be wiped out. so no one will be able to make your iShit anymore.

[NRRork]

No, I'm not. But even if I was, if it meant no more Michael Bay movies. . .

Woo, that'd be a tough decision.

[Ben]

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.

Dude. It's just. A movie.

Just. A. Movie.

[NRRork]

Dude. It's just. A joke.

Just. A. Joke.

I mean, I know I didn't pepper it with LOLs, smileys and <sarcasm> tags, as required by internet law, but I guess I'm just something of a rebel.

[Ben]

Oh, I knew it was meant to be a joke. But making casual puns about exterminating a large portion of the populace over a dumb film just strikes me as somewhat more hateful than the usual nerd snark.

I'm sure the idea of Jews being sent en masse to concentration camps and gas chambers would have been considered the height of absurdity in the 1910's/1920's. Just saying.

[NRRork]

Well, I can't really argue comedic tastes because those are too subjective. But I will say these kinds of jokes are made with the presumption that none of us actually approve of slaughtering millions of innocents over something as trivial is a movie, and with the further presumption that it would never actually happen.

If the Transformers Genocide ever actually happens, I guess that'll be me retroactively looking like a bit of a dick. But I'm willing to roll those dice, I guess.

[Sideswipe]

Haha, not if, when the Transformers Genocide happens you bastards are all screwed.

[RoninFox]

Easy there, social justice warrior... and 1910's/1920's? What?

When you're re-reading this thread in 2030 you'll be happy he was specific.

[Sideswipe]

Transformers 4 gross hits 1 billion.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/box-office-milestone-transformers-age-of-extinction-93699472882.html

[NRRork]

And you think of all the other things that billion dollars could've gone toward:

The poor, the hungry, the sick, a better movie. . .

[Miku Fan]

I thought about you Rifftrax forum people this weekend.  Drove past a theater and noticed that Transfomers 4 was playing.  Made me laugh, thinking about the forum.  I was surprised that I thought of the forum before thinking of the Riff-guys.   

[Darth Geek]

I do hope Rifftrax does this movie. Previously I would have thought it was a given, but with MP3s so rare nowadays, you never know.

[Miku Fan]

I do hope Rifftrax does this movie. Previously I would have thought it was a given, but with MP3s so rare nowadays, you never know.

I still consider it a given, because they, especially Mike, make so many Shia Lebouf and Transformers jokes.

[Sideswipe]

Shia Lebouf is not in Transformers 4.

[RoninFox]

Which can actually freshen things to being "The absence of Shia Lebouf" jokes. I imagine several opportunities where stupid Mark Wahlburg lines can lead to a "I miss the crisp dialog of 'nononononono' " etc.