Still kind of meh. And that last scene in the trailer is pretty much the same as the one of the first ones in the first Transformer movie.
It's confirmed that it is indeed blitzing.Apparently the one that looks like Starscream isn't actually Starscream. It's... I want to say Blitzwing. That's weirdly disappointing on two levels.
Still, the flashbacky stuff from Cybertron with G1 accurate Optimus Prime, Shockwave (!), Soundwave (!!) and Ravage (!!!) actually looks kind of cool. Why couldn't we have a movie that was 2 hours of that instead of "ermagherd you need a human to be the 'heart of the story' otherwise you won't be invested"?
Also once again in a franchise with literally dozens upon dozens upon dozens of characters on which to base your Autobot/Decepticon casting choices, covering basically every flavor you can possibly imagine (and a general sense that the fandom is totally cool with you doing new takes on old secondary/tertiary characters as long as you don't screw up the core classics.), they chose to make new characters to fill important roles for... reasons. They could've been... I dunno... Slipstream and Octane or something. But no! Meet "Shatter" and "Dropkick" who you likely won't care about one bit until they inevitably get scrapped during the big slam-bang baysplosions finale.
Bay movies never looked like this.The trailer looks good, but I thought the same thing about most of the Bay movie trailers too.
It's an effective reimagining that also bears a knowing resemblance to classic youth-oriented films from Bumblebee executive producer Steven Spielberg.
"Bumblebee" is basically the movie that fans of the 1980s animated series wanted all along.
In a better, truer cinematic universe, Travis Knight would have been in charge of the Transformers franchise all along.
All shall be revealed.Why do they still have bumblebee not speaking.
Well, it was inevitable. As more reviews have flooded in (26 in total now), the tomato rating has plummeted from 100% to 96%. I'm now re-thinking whether it's worth seeing, after all.
don't live your life based on ratings
One thing I didn't get about the cybertron snippet above. They were already transforming to planes and cars but then Prime reveals Earth to bumble bee as a undiscovered hidden gem. I thought they had to scan things that they wanted to be able to transform into? I'm probably just overthinking the matter but its something that stuck out to me.
Ya I am just going to roll with it. I was looking back into the comics/tv series and the lore is just all over the place and contradicting lolEven in the cartoon pilot they were transforming into futuristic planes and vehicles. The Decepticon planes look just like the cartoon ones.
Almost all of the movie takes place on Earth, so the Cybertron scene is going to just be a small part of the movie. And really, this TF movie won't have the major fight scenes that the Bay ones did. There won't be a team of 6 Autobots going at it with about the same number of Decepticons.I still fear that the Cybertron bits are going to be like Jeff Goldblum in the last Jurassic World movie: Everything of them that's in the movie is in the trailer and we get marketed a glorified batch of cameos that don't amount to anything substantive. Trailers are almost never cut by the people involved in making a movie, so that's why they so often fail to actually resemble the movie they're supposed to interest you in.
It's enough to make the movie awesome and make me want moar!Almost all of the movie takes place on Earth, so the Cybertron scene is going to just be a small part of the movie. And really, this TF movie won't have the major fight scenes that the Bay ones did. There won't be a team of 6 Autobots going at it with about the same number of Decepticons.
What that Cybertron scene is just a blast from the past with Shockwave, Soundwave having speaking parts and you see a bunch of Seekers. For the Autobots, you have a few G1 bots with 1 line.