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Bumblebee Is Excellent. This Looks Like a Step Backwards

posted 2 years ago by HarveyManFredSin (4877)
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I kind of enjoyed the first 2007 Transformers movie at the time, but ultimately, the ONLY Transformers movie that has aged well is 2018's Bumblebee. Most of the other instalments were atrocious from the get-go.

So, it's a shame to see from the trailer that the makers of this franchise learned NOTHING from the relatively small-scale and coherent Bumblebee, which was akin to a great 1980s teen movie, and have decided to go big and bombastic again. Idiots.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17745) 2 years ago

I still like the 2007 movie quite a bit and Bumblebee was fine. Not a big fan of the rest though The Last Knight is so ott stupid I kind of dig it. Back to your OP, this first looked cool with the teaser but now I'm kind of worried since they're already introducing Unicron.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) a year ago

BUMP.

Why didn't they build on the goodwill generated by the, quite rightly, acclaimed Bumblebee, instead of regressing to the OTT bombastic nonsense of the Michael Bay movies? Planet-eating Transformers? Transformers that can change into giant animals apropos of nothing? WHY?!? FFS! Keep it simple!

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17745) a year ago

This looks like there's a movie between this and Bumblebee missing. Except it doesn't exist. Like perhaps the Maximals should have had their own movie then Optimus appears in the next one with Unicron.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) a year ago

True.

But I'm not sure I'd want that movie either. I'd prefer that they proceeded with more smaller-scale Transformers films, by all means getting bigger with each instalment, but not going straight from a sweet and relatively low-stakes coming-of-age style story to some bombastic 'planet-eater' style apocalypse story.

[–] Rorikon (17872) a year ago

Is it the same director? I noticed the director for this movie is black so he obviously hiphopped it up to the max and smacked a black actor as the protagonist. Also, what happened with the chick in Bumblebee anyway? I forgot.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) a year ago

Hailee Steinfeld is part Black, part Jewish, obviously a woman, and, thus, ticked off a lot of boxes, apart from the fact she was EXCELLENT as the human lead in Bumblebee.

As great as she was, I didn't need her to come back for a sequel. It feels like her story was completed. But I don't like the look of the new film. It seems like a regression to the Michael Bay movies.

[–] mikeflatley (761) a year ago

Fugly Camaro no BB