Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 5, 2017 15:16:17 GMT
Because G1 childhood cannot lock them out of my guilty pleasure zone with a hint of hate watching... I've them all on dvd not blu as some last form of self respect.
I recently watched them all in a row within the month of September...
TF1 C+
TF2 C
TF3 C-
TF4 B-
TF5 B
While I don't think they are bad films, they aren't very good either. I'll admit there are some nice highs, alas they're countered by many more smaller lows.
Things which stood out all in a row include Peter Cullen has a lot of random soliloquies that he probably didn't even know wtf meant in the recording booth. Come to think of it, he/Optimus doesn't have all that much dialogue at all - easy money for him.
Each film pretty much has the same repeated arc - Transformers in hiding, humans find them, bond together, Decepticons emerge, feds go after everyone, Autobots save the day, & Optimus Prime sends a message into space for more Autobots to 'come home'. I guess in a way, as much as they deviated from G1 cartoons, the movies are like repeated tv serial shorts.
Part 4 & 5's second halves set in China & UK respectively offer fun change of pace. Alas, they both start in the US, & instead of streamlining, they're both 2.5hrs. Cut the US mumbo jumbo & they'd have been finer films.
Nice to see also the latter 2 in somewhat of their own trilogy departing from the first which were much more pretentious. TF1 I remember wanted to be its era's Jurassic Park lols. TF4 & 5 throw that dream away & simply put some G1 tv stuff on steroids, namely dinobots, Quintessa, Earth-Cybertron connections, & even Unicron.
I know the Earth-Cybertron stuff seems hokey, & yet that's straight from G1. We all as kids probably assumed Transformers were populating the universe. No, not really, just Earth.
I recently watched them all in a row within the month of September...
TF1 C+
TF2 C
TF3 C-
TF4 B-
TF5 B
While I don't think they are bad films, they aren't very good either. I'll admit there are some nice highs, alas they're countered by many more smaller lows.
Things which stood out all in a row include Peter Cullen has a lot of random soliloquies that he probably didn't even know wtf meant in the recording booth. Come to think of it, he/Optimus doesn't have all that much dialogue at all - easy money for him.
Each film pretty much has the same repeated arc - Transformers in hiding, humans find them, bond together, Decepticons emerge, feds go after everyone, Autobots save the day, & Optimus Prime sends a message into space for more Autobots to 'come home'. I guess in a way, as much as they deviated from G1 cartoons, the movies are like repeated tv serial shorts.
Part 4 & 5's second halves set in China & UK respectively offer fun change of pace. Alas, they both start in the US, & instead of streamlining, they're both 2.5hrs. Cut the US mumbo jumbo & they'd have been finer films.
Nice to see also the latter 2 in somewhat of their own trilogy departing from the first which were much more pretentious. TF1 I remember wanted to be its era's Jurassic Park lols. TF4 & 5 throw that dream away & simply put some G1 tv stuff on steroids, namely dinobots, Quintessa, Earth-Cybertron connections, & even Unicron.
I know the Earth-Cybertron stuff seems hokey, & yet that's straight from G1. We all as kids probably assumed Transformers were populating the universe. No, not really, just Earth.
