One of the first major Intellectual
properties I got caught up in when I was young was the Transformers franchise,
I watched the cartoon, played with the toys, listened to the movie soundtrack, and
I read the comic books. I even had to
have the lunchboxes, pencils, notebooks, and collectable cards. Yeah, I pretty much ran the gamut on all
things that were ‘more than meets the eye’. So back in 2007 when they released
the first “Transformers” movie that wasn’t animated, the child in me was ecstatic. Yeah it was Michael Bay, who at the time was
all flash and no substance, and they were very pointy-looking which made all
the Decepticons look the same. But
again, it was a Transformers movie, Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime
and big robot knock-out-drag-outs in the cities. Unfortunately after two sequels they have
gone the way of the Batman movie franchise as steered by Joel Schumacher. In an attempt to right the ship Bay is
directing the fourth installment “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and here is
the new trailer for it.
Looks like
they want to go the “Godzilla” route here, with this trailer focusing on the
human ordeal and the giant robots beating the crap out of each other is just a coincidence. Though that probably won’t be the case given
Michael Bay’s track record. But cool-looking
action can sometimes trump a weak story, but not often. However with this one we got dinobots, and
that can overrule everything, or just make this franchise extinct.
--Robert L.
Castillo
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