Anyone care to explain the dinobots in a nutshell?

Why are they dinosaurs? Do they transform into anything else? Are they as intelligent as regular transformers? Are they more powerful?

About 90% of this board like the smell of their own shit too (probably the same ones).

New protoforms were shuttled in the ark, and they wanted something to combat the constructicons who trned into the combiner Devastator, and they found a deposit of dinosaur fossils and allowed the protoforms to scan them to create the Dinobots

In the comics, it was because the Ark landed on Earth millions of years ago when dinosaurs were alive, and the Ark created the five Dinobots (using the forms of the planet's natives) for its defense before it ran out of power.

It was, of course, a comic book, so the fact that they were from different epochs was irrelevant.

This summation is the continuity of the Beast Wars TV series

Not sure, it was a kids cartoon to start off with and kids love dinosaurs

Easy, toy sales

Like others have said....

It's giant ****ing Dinosaur robots that **** shit up.

How can anyone not enjoy that?

Dinobots were the shit. This is the type of movie you smoke a bowl to and go, "Whoa, that explosion was AWESOME"

On a side note I'm hoping the Ark ( the massive ship shown in the trailer)will some how turn out to be Omega Supreme

I was just about to add this. 80's cartoons were notorious for a constant cycle of New characters so they could sell more action figures and accessories. Plus, constantly 1 upping a certain character, so they'd have an updated look and outfit to go along with some increased power or New special ability.

It really was a $$$ grab, and back then with the absence of widescale computers and video games, there was a goldmine to make off this cartoon swag.

Dammit Michael Bay.


I'll see see. Sigh.

Why does he make such terrible good movies?

Another blow shit up movie that people will flock to see and bitch about how horrible it was later. LMAO

LMAO

I enjoyed the first two movies for what they were, mindless fun. The third one was so bad I've never been able to watch the entire thing. It's so bad my 7yr old son begged me to turn it off.

I thought the 2nd one was worse.

2nd one was far worse. 3rd one wasn't bad.

2nd movie just had too many plot holes to ignore.

None of them are "great", but I actually do think the 3rd one was the best of the 3, and 2 was just kinda shitty all around. The first for me was kinda a bore, simply because of the obligatory introduction story setup.

Yeah, I'd say the second was the worst. I really hated Sam's death scene and the Primes reviving him. So ****ing stupid..

One thing that pisses me off, not just specifically about Transformers although it seems a lot more noticeable in the franchise than most, is the varying degree of difficulty Optimus had in fighting the main villain in each movie. In 1, he struggled to beat Megatron alone and would have died had it not been for Sam and the All Spark. In 2, he takes on Megatron, Starscream and some random helicopter at the same time and later on anally rapes The Fallen, Megatron and Starscream together (albeit with upgrades). Finally, in 3, he literally slaughters everyone in the ****ing movie, including Megatron without one of his arms.

I know why they do it but it's something that annoys me.

I finally watched Juice for the first time the other day.

I'm anxiously awaiting the moment i can drop a well timed, "You got the Juice now".

LMAO

That's a tough one to throw out at a moments notice.

Doesn't help that i've had this song stuck in my head all week

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http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/04/1...hael-bay-says/

Interesting info on upcoming movie.

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Why are Transformers always twisting midair whenever they jump?

I feel like they learned how to fight hand to hand by watching / playing a lot of Street Fighter II.

They are getting extra torque of course.

lol. when you're pimping a band in your movie trailer you know it's gonna suck.

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Haha, wtf

It literally cannot be worse than the last two.

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Walhburgers says something like "You have never seen a truck like this before"


So after 3 movies of saving the world and blowing up cities, these kids would have never heard or seen Optimus or a Transformer on TV before?

It's a Michael Bay movie. Turn your brain off at the door.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2109248/...=tt_cl_sm#cast

Frank Welker is going to reprise Megs/Galvatron which is good news

Wahlberg is a good enough actor he will cover up some of the Bayziness that will happen. But, I really am excited for this movie.

Exactly, I don't go into a TF movie expecting too much, I just want to have mindless fun and the Bayformers movies have thus far delivered.

I would like to see them recapture some of the elements that made the first film as the first Transformers was actually a decent grade fim in my opinion.

They just announced that this POS is 2 hours and 46 ****ing minutes long. So now Bay thinks he's Cecille B. DeMille apparently. Because, you know, this story is so intricate that it needs to be three quarters of an hour longer than "Star Wars". This film could be about an hour long: slo mo explosion, over dramatic music, hot chick yelling inaudibly, more explosions, deep gravelly robot voice, overacting lead man, bigger explosion... Lather, rinse, repeat.

On the other hand they could've used Nimoy again, but Bay probably didn't want to ask his Step-Uncle for another favor.

Except Wahlberg is a good actor.

That's Bay for you. All his movies are looooooong. I think all the Transformers movies have been 2 1/2 hours.

IM just sort of "meh" on this.......its a sort of "been there, done that feeling" now similar to how the audience is starting to feel about Spider Man movies.

It's Bay's infamous ego bullshit which to him his explosions are dramatic poetry that needs to be milked.

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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tran...of_extinction/

16% on the tomatometer. :doh!:

2007 Transformers 57%

2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 19%

2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 36%

2016 Transformers: Please make it stop 0%

The variation in critic descriptions are pretty hilarious...

"Worst movie ever in the history of the universe. I would bash in my own mother's skull with a rock to escape the theater."

"Great action flick! Entertainment at its finest. Best Bay flick ever!"

Wow i expected around 50% ...mindless action is what this movie, i thought dark of the moon was better than 36%

LMAO I was just sitting here laughing out loud reading some of the reviews. Richard Roeper said it was one of the most relentless films he's ever seen.

There's really no point in debating how good a Bay film is, or especially these Transformers films. They are all basically the same.


We all know what Bay does. You are either into it, or you are not.

Three guys watch the first three movies at the same time.

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I just saw it.. I thought it was pretty good.

I just got back... Yeah, the plot's all over the place, some of the dialogue, blah, blah... But it's my favorite of the live action TF films... Of course part of that might be no Shia...

I am 100% on this.. Mark Wahlberg is much better than Shia.

I'm not sure how I should feel about it, the plot was as disjointed as TF2 but it had ****in Dinobots kicking ass!

Yes and NO SKIDS/Mudflap douchebaggery.

it still had that little ****er who was "translating" though

Yes, but very little of him.

So why is not everyone up in arms over the asian transformer?



Why the **** did optimus not use his flight at the beginning or middle?

Fun paced summer action movie.

Not bad I saw it yesterday. Long movie. I could have waited for the DVD to see it.

In all honesty the movie should've been condensed to 1 hour 45 minutes to 2 hours.

My son said he saw it today. He said it's the best one.

He's 15, so there's that. :)

DVD?

Did you just step out of a time machine?

:)

I agree.

I have a blue ray player but I still call them DVDs. Plus I have several hundred of DVDs that I still watch (I buy in bulk when all these stores go belly up). I even have some VHS tapes too. I don't like most new TV shows on today. I just upgraded to a 55 inch flat screen in the man cave.

About the new "bad" guys...

I thought it was the best one yet...simply because neither LeBouf or Fox were in it.

I thought about that too but then remembered I probably shouldn't be thinking about plot elements too deeply and just accept that it had to be that way.

I agree with others that it was too long. Both my wife and I were getting restless despite the constant action.

Yep, they could have cut at least 45 minutes from the beginning / setup alone.

did they even mention LeBeaufs character Witwicky? Wheres the continuity??

Weekend take $100M. I will never understand why these movies are always making so much money.

Its the strangest thing. its a film series that no one truly loves.

At least with a Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Twilight, Hunger games, etc.....there is a continuing storyline and die hard fans that truly love them. Can anyone say the same about these films?


Its like people just go to them out of a sense of obligation to watch stuff blow up. The mind boggles....

Transformers 4 will star Mark Wahlberg
 

Maybe they have good timing with the release dates. There is basically nothing new or recent worth seeing right now, nor has there been for a while, nor will there be soon as far as I know.

So people who haven't gone to the movies for a while are finally going back out because they know that at the very least they can be entertained by mindless action. They really aren't having to make choices right now.

Yea, thats some of it for sure. It feels like this summers slate of movies has been overall weak.

People love them because the adults and kids now grew up with transformers. People do not care about a plot for transformer movies, they want big ass robots battling.

Seriously? How to Train Your Dragon 2. 22 Jump Street. Apes will be out soon. I'm sure X Men and Godzilla are still playing in some larger theaters..

Anyway, I just saw it. I thought it was great for what it was. There are tons of explosions, lens flares, forced comedy, and awkward cursing. If you were expecting something different, that's probably your problem..

Something I really liked about this one: the Autobots. In the previous three, I never liked any of them outside of Prime and Bumblebee. This time, they had the badass green one, the fat tank John Goodman, and my particular favorite, the samurai helicopter. That one had a really cool design.

... And the dinobots were ****ing awesome.

I hope they bring back Josh Duhamel for the next one so he can work with the Autobots again. It will help interconnect the first 3 films with the 4th one.

I think a large portion of the people who were going so see X-men and Godzilla did so a while back. The other two just don't get the people out as easily as any large budget action movie, especially one with familiar characters.

I haven't been since X-men until this movie and I bet a lot are the exact same way. There just isn't a lot of competition right now.

You may be partially right, but movies don't make $100 mil because there was nothing else out that weekend.

... and over $300 million globally.

You're going to go see a movie about space aliens that come to earth in the form of shape shifting robots.

And then you complain about the plot?

I've never understood that one.