Michael Bay.Transformer will still go on no matter how bad you think his movies are. The Last has help lead to the decline and eventual fall of the Naruto franchise.
I agree with you one hundred percent on that for Transformers since the movies aren't the only source of their existence given the tv shows and video games that come out. Which helps people choose their preferred version of Transformers where as with Naruto there's only the manga and anime which are kinda just adaptations.
Plus I don't actually hate the Transformer movies in fact I adore the first Michael Bay Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen while I understand people hated it to me it was rather entertaining and kinda of a guilty pleasure of mine. Finally we have Dark of the Moon and that is actually my second favorite film in the series. As far Age of Extinctions go there were some neat ideas like seeing a darker side to Optimus Prime, how the dinosaurs were extinct, and seeing Mark Walberg playing the role of a father, but I don't think that's enough to save the movie.
No question, Age of Extinction.
At least I'm able to turn off my brain and simply enjoy watching the (robot) characters and I actually did like that Optimus had lost his hope in humanity after all that's happened because it made him a bit more realistic as a character, and at least Cade actually got deeper into the action with actually fighting with that blaster or fighting the CIA agents rather than simply always running away or standing off the side, yelling names.
The Last? Even the brain-dead would not be able to ignore the travesties that take place in it.
I've really enjoyed that too when it comes to Age of Extinction, things like that in the story really got my attention and kept me interested, but I think my distaste for the film might be the amount of action that was thrown into the movie I kinda feel like it was a bit overkill.
Ya i'm going with Age of Extinction hell i'll Dark of the Moon over the Last at least Age and Dark there is some entertainment with them. Optimus and Cade were the best parts of Age of Extimction and Hound was pretty cool but i'm still prefer Ironhide. I'd even take Plan 9 form Outer Space over the Last. I want to see an MST3K version of the last and bolt.
Hmm that's a really good point even though it's kinda obvious when comparing to the last, and Optimus and Cade were the interesting things in Age of Extinction.
i enjoyed age of extinction more the other transformers sequels. at least here they SORT OF tried. optimus actually has an arc!!! Marky mark is a way more likable protagonist than shia's sam. When optimus got mad over ratchet, you felt for him. holy ship this movie got an emotion out of me that wasn't "i dont care. im bored."
were the daughter and boyfriend annoying? to an extent. but they were plot devices more than characters.
you could tell which bot was which and their characters showed despite being stereotypes (werent the og transformers stereotypes as well? i didn't watch g1, i grew up with beast wars) they even looked smoother and not just some clobbered messy blocks of parts you cant make out
the villain is someone megatron/galvatron WISHES he was. threatening, badass. had a longer lasting appearance unlike megatron who appeared in the 3rd act of the first movie, he wasn't someones lacky where he bowed (revenge of the fallen) or was someones b*** (dark of the moon). he's a bounty hunter who gets paid for killing.
and last but not least, the father and optimus's stories were the same. both tried the best they could for what they cared about (cade for his daughter, optimus for the earth) and they didn't get that much in return. cade and optimus could relate to eachother. their moment together though super short, was touching.
oh and the dinobots were every inner 12 year old boys wet dream you couldn't help but tear up. it was beautiful and worth it despite being short XD
You bring up a great point when it comes to Optimus and I've really liked that aspect; although you can say that Optimus Prime kinda had an arc in Dark of The Moon with Sentinel Prime (his master) about making the tough decisions and you can see him struggling with that when it came to the progression of Dark of The Moon.
I can understand the criticism of Sia Labouff's character, but again like Optimus Prime in Dark of the Moon, I do like where his character went in that movie and seeing how the first two movies brought him to a point where he said "I just want to matter" and that's something I think alot of people can relate to. Plus for Sam you kinda see this progression where he was in the first film as a high school kid to the adult he's become in the third film (though you could argue there wasn't much of a progression with his character in two but that's a different story).
As far as the daughter and the boyfriend I could honestly care less about what happens to them! It would've been cool to see their characters fleshed out, but they really came off as a bland and pretty dull. Like you said of the humans Cade is the one who's gone through a lot of development within the story.
Here is the thing when it comes to Megatron/Galvatron when it comes to the movies and it's something I've come to accept. The movie version of Megatron has vast differences from his other counterparts from the cartoons atleast with the sequels. I can give Megatron a pass when it came to the original film because you saw little glimpses and refferences to his character and it was a gradual buildup so it really paid off. Now did I like the fact that he got killed off at the end of the original movie no not really, but I had a feeling he would return with the remnants of the allspark at the end. Sure enough he showed again in Revenge of The Fallen and that was one of my favorite scenes where he gets back to Cybertron and has a total fit with Starscream. The moment where you find out he had a master did make me go like "Um no that's not Megatron", but then I was like since this a different take on the character lets see where it goes. My girlfriend told it that it kinda reminded her of how Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine are from Star Wars, and kinda taking a concept with Galvatron serving Unicorn. I could see her point on that with the concepts, but the execution I feel with Megatron in Revenge of the Fallen could've been handled better. Now Megatron in Dark of The Moon is one I actually really appreciated compared to Revenge of The Fallen. You can tell that he was in control of the situation until Sentinel Prime shows up, but to him he was more like partners with Sentinel Prime rather than his apprentice like the fallen. However as a viewer I was like he doesn't realize he's being used, and when Carly brings up that fact of how he won't be control and instead be at the mercy of Sentinel Prime is where he finally realized what to do. Granted it took a while, but I appreciated the fact that He took matters into his own hands to be the character he set out to be before getting killed by Optimus Prime. Now when it comes to Megatron being ressurected as Galvatron I actually really didn't care all that much. Don't get me wrong it's cool to see Galvatron finally, but it's the fact that Megatron had already come back to life once before in Revenge of The Fallen and that scene is something I still remember to this day. Now this might sound weird when I say this while I didn't really care about Galvatron all that much I did and what he did, I really did love the fight between him and Optimus Prime.
Agreed on the story between Optimus Prime and Cade, but this might be a weird way to put it there some similar concepts to the first one where Sam gets a rusty car turns out to be bumblebee and you kinda see this connection in the first movie and that's something you can connect with in Age of Extinction with Optimus being in a similar position but also a different one as where Bumblebee was Sam's Protector and Optimus was really skeptical about the humans after what went down.
