Topic: The Movie Thread

@RogerRoger Yeah
And just the brilliant, recognisably G1 influenced designs all round really.

Soundwave is probably the best G1 Decepticon.

Paramount seem to be in some sort of quagmire of how to 'sort out' Transformers following the critical mauling of Last Knight and disappointing financial performance of Bumblebee. It's perfectly obvious - make a live action Transformers: The Movie - they can even just run a 'soft reboot' to the design work to G1 everyone up and follow in from the Last Knight!

That would make all the money in the world!

@RogerRoger
Ha! Seriously though, for all of the iterations of Transformers, in various media and especially the toys (and the rabid fan base for the toys) - everything revolves back around to G1 in some way, at some point and does better than before.

Bumblebee 'only' made £465m - which is half of what Revenge of the Fallen made and even less than The Last Knight - which is just as awful. So yeah, bit of a failure for the franchise despite the promising marketing campaign.

@KALofKRYPTON I was thinking something similar when watching the stuff on Cybertron from Bumblebee. I would absolutely make a trip to the cinema to watch that!

@KALofKRYPTON Wow I didn't realize that Bumblebee did that bad at the box office. I guess by the time that came out people were just done with live action Transformer movies.

@JohnnyShoulder it would make so. Much. Money! 😂😂

@Genrou I think people were skeptical.
Making a separate Bumblebee film was entirely cynical; the begrudging G1 fans were showing signs of checking out of the film franchise after The Last Knight and since Bumblee had become the go-to kids Transformer, that was where the money should've been. All of the best trailers in the world and even the best film in the franchise so far can't always overcome the general feeling of being taken for a mug.

@RogerRoger It is a shame it underperformed at the box office. I guess the hive mind didn't like it

(I'm so sorry, I can't let this go)

@Gremio108 @RogerRoger I’m surprised there wasn’t more cross-pollination between the fans of the other Transformers movies.

@Th3solution @Gremio108 @RogerRoger You lot need to buzz off with all the bad bee puns.

@DonJorginho Definitely one of the standout films of the year. Amazing cinematography, and DaFoe's manic performance is just wonderful.

Pattinson was great, too. Hopefully people stop mentally connecting him with Twilight at some point.

@JohnnyShoulder Ouch, that stings!

@Ralizah @DonJorginho I thought Pattison was very good in The Rover. I didn't realise he was in The Lighthouse, may have to bump it up the watchlist with all the shout-outs it's getting on here

@Gremio108 Go for it! The Lighthouse is a fantastic movie and both leads are brilliant in it.

@Gremio108 The Lighthouse is a fever dream, and I mean that in the best sense possible. The B&W cinematography is moody and frequently gorgeous. Watching it alone makes you feel like you're going mad along with the characters, but it's also fun to sit and laugh about and pick apart with friends.

The Lighthouse does look very good, I’m gunna get to the cinema to see that in the next few weeks.

@kyleforrester87 It's still playing in theaters where you live?

EDIT: nvm, didn't realize the UK release was so belated. My bad.

@Ralizah yeah I thought it was out already based on what you were saying.

@RogerRoger lol When people heard the news, I imagine most of them (me included) just pictured Edward Cullen in a batsuit.

But the truth is he's an actor with incredible range, and, judging from The Lighthouse, he's one of those "chameleon" actors who can be virtually unrecognizable in distinct enough roles.

@Ralizah @kyleforrester87 Yeah I had to look up the release date too. Thought maybe I missed it at the cinema and it might be streaming already. Why is that US-to-UK delay still a thing??

@RogerRoger Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction both did over a billion 😲

While DOTM is easily the best of the regular series, and AOE refreshed the cast, added (near unrecognisable) fan-favourites the Dinobots and briefly feature Optimus as a proper (G1) Peterbilt truck - neither are great films.
Bumblebee fared much better critically but only bought back 3 times its budget.

I think Pattinson will do a fine job as Batman.

@RogerRoger Twilight is terrible!

I don't think a bad role necessarily reflects on someone's acting ability. If the script and direction is poor then there's not really much an actor can do. I have to admit that when it was announced I couldn't really picture Pattinson as Batman, but the same was true of my initial reaction to Daniel Craig as Bond, so I'll keep an open mind. He's been pretty good in the few other things I've seen him in. Now quite interested in seeing The Lighthouse .