Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
I think that it’s very fascinating how everyone who’s seen this movie are saying the same thing. Most people are saying that this film was entertaining but was missing something without <PERSON> but it’s good that he’s gone.
Now as an actual Transformers Fan, I feel very partial toward both arguments. However overall, I do miss some elements of the <PERSON> formers films.
I think that the element that the new transformers movies are missing is the overall tone from the previous films. Now it’s true that the scripts and acting were awful in the previous films, but at the very least it treated these large characters like they were forces of nature.
The Transformers aren’t superhero’s and shouldn’t be treated as such, they should be treated just like how the dragons are treated in GoT or how the Titans are treated in AoT. These beings are powerful extraterrestrial forces of nature which can completely hide themselves in plain sight due to their technologically advanced alien society which has completely destroyed itself. 952
They are an enemy the likes that humans haven’t ever experienced before and have absolutely no chance at fighting. It’s that fear which I think <PERSON> encapsulated perfectly in his first three films.
It’s nice that at the very least, the transformers had some actual characterization this time. however it was scenes like mirage literally telling us how <PERSON> feels which need to be improved upon in the future. A good script uses a scene of action to allow the audience to infer on why a character acts a certain way which is completely missing in this film as well as the previous ones.
Overall I’d say that paramount is working on changing the transformers image in cinema for the better, but the whole reason they were successful in the first place was because of the blockbuster disaster movie feel to the previous installments. I’d say that it’s that mysterious and eccentric tone coupled with better writing which can make a truly remarkable transformers film in the future, but this superhero feel really isn’t it. 796